Strengthen your network – apply for funding to promote interdisciplinary collaboration
We want to support bottom-up networks. That’s why we’ve set up a funding pool for networks and made it super easy to apply.
"From the Dean’s Desk" – a column in Inside Health
Shortly after a meeting in the Academic Council at which we talked about involvement, I received an email from one of the members of the council. She had thought about our discussions and suggested that I write directly to employees at Health in the faculty's newsletter. She suggested that I could write about some of the initiatives currently on my desk, so that all employees can keep abreast of some of the things we’re working on at the faculty.
I think it's a brilliant idea - thank you! I intend to continue this column once a month from now on.
As the dean, I often speak with researchers at Health, and one topic in particular comes up time and again – the importance of the networks that emerge across our departments as a result of researchers' own initiatives. These networks help create new partnerships, stimulate knowledge-sharing and ultimately strengthen our research across disciplines.
Therefore, we’ve set up a funding pool for networks, and I encourage you to apply.
The funding is a financial contribution for small networks wishing to arrange academic activities such as seminars, annual meetings, series of meetings or symposia. We want to support your initiative because we believe that bottom-up networks are important.
As you know, Health has set up six strategic research networks. But we also want to support networks formed at the initiative of researchers themselves. Networks with ambitions to stimulate professional development and collaboration.
The funding pool will help with up to DKK 15,000 to cover the costs of your event – and it’s up to you whether you want to organise a guest lecturer, a workshop or something completely different. The only requirement is that the event has to strengthen collaboration across research groups and fields at Health.
One of the new networks is a network for sustainability, which is being established at the initiative of Professor Kari Tanderup from the Department of Clinical Medicine and Professor Lene Warner Thorup Boel from the Department of Forensic Medicine.
The network will hold a kick-off meeting on Wednesday 30 October, and I encourage everyone interested from the faculty to show up and support work to create more sustainable solutions and reduce our climate footprint.
I also encourage those of you who already have established networks outside the six strategic research networks at the faculty to apply via the website, or if you’re thinking of arranging something with colleagues across specialist groups.
We process applications on an ongoing and a first-come-first-served basis. So hurry and find out whether this is an option for you and your colleagues.