Danish Funding Programmes
Annually, Denmark invests almost DKK 20 billion in research and development. A part of this amount is invested via national funding programmes with different thematic focus and support for different phases in the innovation cycle.

InnoBooster
InnoBooster boosts great innovation ideas with clear and ambitious goals such as new products, services or improvement of a process to increase competitiveness. Applying for InnoBooster is also relevant if your company needs new knowledge, e.g., through collaboration with knowledge institutions, a private development company or new staff with specific competences.
InnoBooster invests in knowledge-based innovative projects from SMEs, startups and scientists. Depending on your need and perspective, an InnoBooster grant can add up to DKK 5 mio.
Apply for an InnoBooster grant
Grand Solutions
Grand Solutions projects are often characterised by high risk profile. They focus on ambitious results with high value creation in Denmark in terms of new knowledge, growth, employment or solutions to societal challenges.
Most projects entail a collaboration among companies, universities and research institutions. Often they have a high degree of research and innovation activities – albeit projects can cover every stage from strategic research to implementation. Most projects get a grant of DKK 5-30 million and have a duration of 2-5 years.
Apply for Grand Solutions
EUopSTART
EUopSTART aims to intensify the internationalisation of Danish research. Moreover, the programme wants to strengthen the interaction between research institutions and businesses within research and innovation.
Through EUopSTART, organisations can apply for small grants for the preparatory work of developing proposals to selected European research programmes. As such, EUopSTART is a pre-funding scheme that alleviates part of the risk and the resources needed for developing, e.g., a proposal for a Horizon 2020 funding scheme.
Apply for EUopStart
EUDP
The Energy Technology and Development and Demonstration Programme supports the development and demonstration of energy technologies. Research activities can, to some extend, also be supported if they are part of development and demonstration projects.
Support is given to both companies and universities. Energy technologies are defined broadly and covers, e.g., renewable energy technologies, energy efficiency technologies, conversion technologies (fuel cells and hydrogen), integration of energy systems including storage, more efficient methods for recovery of oil and gas and storage of CO2, etc. There is no fixed grant size. EUDP has previously funded small as well as large projects adding up to DKK +50 million.
The Danish programmes give funding to many different start-ups

Substy got an InnoBooster grant
CaseThe further development of the algorithm to find subs more easily was enabled by the funding from InnoBooster.
Substy
InnoBooster grant to Fatima AlZahra'a Alatraktchi
CaseA great privilege to work with the founder & CEO of PreDiagnose. Her ground-breaking nature of her research has been highlighted in various international and Danish media. She received the Lundbeck Foundation Talent Prize 2017 for her “brilliant outstanding research talents in medicine and health science under 30”. She won the PhD dissertation of the year award at DTU and was on Forbes' list "30 under 30 – Europe, Science & Healthcare 2019". A true source of inspiration!!
PreDiagnose
International recognition
CaseExSeed got funding from the Market Development Fund. They want to change the fact that 40% of infertility is due to male factors.
ExSeed