DKK 10.5 million for projects focusing on the true state of the marine environment

08.16.2017

VILLUM FONDEN and VELUX FONDEN have granted DKK 10.5 million for five new projects focusing on the balance of the marine ecosystem. All five projects gather and combine existing knowledge about the marine environment - across research disciplines and stakeholders and across diverse interests.

A national map of the Danish sea forests. An overall plan of the sea. An overview of coastal zone turnover from sale of wastewater. Overall knowledge about different types of micro-plastic and the impact on the marine environment. A better understanding of how storms affect coasts.

These are the headlines of five so-called synthesis projects that received a donation of DKK 10.5 million from VILLUM FONDEN and VELUX FONDEN.

A common feature of the projects is that they are short-term (1-year) projects that aim to gather and combine existing evidence and data about the state of the marine environment across research disciplines and stakeholders and across diverse interests such as environmental conditions, nature restoration and conservation of natural capital and also socioeconomic and commercial interests.

The projects are expected to be completed during the fall of 2018.

What we have done so far

VILLUM FONDEN and VELUX FONDEN aim to contribute to a solid knowledge base, that will provide better possibilities to strengthen the balance between use and conservation of marine resources.

Applying for support for projects

Do you have an idea for a project that can improve the Danish marine environment? We are curious and open to new ideas, so please contact us.

For inspiration, we invited 70 researchers and advisers on the marine environment in the spring of 2017 to a workshop to clarify where and how it is possible to gather existing knowledge and analysis of the ocean across research fields and interests.

This resulted in several concrete ideas for projects. The ideas developed into applications, and now we have granted DKK 10.5 million for the projects. The projects are five exciting cross-disciplinary projects that can help collect the pieces of the big sea puzzle.

Read more about our support for the Danish marine environment

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