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. The Foundation’s Chairman is not just head of the Carlsberg Foundation, but also Chairman of the Supervisory board of Carlsberg A/S. It has been this way since 1876, when Brewer J.C. Jacobsen established the Carlsberg Foundation.

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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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Greenland could advance economic prosperity through sand

11/02/2019

Researchers funded by the Carlsberg Foundation argue, that due to the melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet huge deposits of sand along the coast appear and offer a new and unforeseen economic opportunity for the Arctic people.

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The Carlsberg Foundation offers postdoctoral fellowships for research into Danish-Estonian history

The Carlsberg Foundation offers two ‘HM Queen Margrethe II Distinguished Research Project on the Danish-Estonian common history’ with an April 15, 2019 deadline. Her Majesty the Queen has given her consent to handing out the scholarships as part of the 800th anniversary of “Dannebrog” in Tallinn on June 15, 2019.

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Flemming Besenbacher receives The Circulars Award for circular economy leadership 2019

21/01/2019

On Monday evening in Davos, Switzerland, the Chairman of the Carlsberg Foundation and Carlsberg A/S, Professor Flemming Besenbacher, received The Fortune Award for Circular Economy Leadership 2019.

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Leading Danish researcher receives the Niels Bohr International Gold Medal

08/10/2018

One of the world’s leading researchers on catalysis, Prof. Jens Kehlet Nørskov from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), received the Niels Bohr International Gold Medal yesterday. The medal was founded by the Danish Society of Engineers, IDA, and presented by HM Queen Margrethe at a special event at the Carlsberg Academy in Copenhagen.

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The Carlsberg Family

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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