Brewer Jacobsen's life's work

The Carlsberg Foundation is one of the world’s oldest industrial foundations. Here, ambitious brewing enterprise blossoms side by side with research and support for the finest science, art and culture. Since 1977, the Chairman of the Carlsberg Foundations has also been Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Carlsberg A/S. From 2022 the Chair of the Foundation has become the Deputy Chair of the Supervisory Board of Carlsberg A/S.

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The Carlsberg Foundation supports visionary and innovative basic scientific research. Research that makes us smarter, addresses global challenges, produces growth and welfare, and is universally beneficial. That is how it has been ever since 1876, when the Foundation was established by J.C. Jacobsen.

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New director for the Museum of National History at Frederiksborg

07/09/2022

The Board of the Museum of National History at Frederiksborg has appointed Ulla Tofte as the museum’s new director. Ulla Tofte, who comes from a position as CEO of the M/S Maritime Museum of Denmark, will take up the new role later in the year.

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FIND-IT: Carlsberg Research Laboratory develops ultrafast crop improvement technology

26/08/2022

Scientists at the Carlsberg Research Laboratory have unveiled a ground-breaking technology for ultrafast conventional plant breeding that has huge potential to improve global food security. With this new technology, dubbed FIND-IT, specific genetic variants that increase the quality and performance of all kinds of crops under different climatic conditions can be identified in record time – just two to three weeks.

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Carlsberg Foundation contributes DKK 5 million to fellowship programme for Ukrainian scholars

25/08/2022

The Carlsberg Foundation, the Novo Nordisk Foundation and the Villum Foundation have teamed up to finance a new fellowship programme enabling displaced Ukrainian scholars to continue their research at Danish universities. Applications for the Fellowships for Scholars at Risk from Ukrainian Universities (SARU) programme are now being accepted with a deadline of 30 September 2022.

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The Carlsberg Foundation awards Internationalisation Fellowships to 18 promising research talents

09/06/2022

For the first time, the Carlsberg Foundation is awarding fellowships to talented, promising postdocs in a separate spring call. A total of 18 grants of just over DKK 13 million have been awarded for stays at leading international universities with the aim of strengthening opportunities for the young research generation to gain important international research experience.

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The Carlsberg family comprises a global brewing group, three grant-awarding foundations, two internationally acclaimed museums and a ground-breaking international research laboratory. The Carlsberg Foundation is the parent foundation for the Carlsberg family.

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