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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Eske Willerslev recieves Semper Ardens grant for research into ancient rice genes

31/08/2018

The Carlsberg Foundation awards DKK 19m to Professor Eske Willerslev from the GeoGenetics Group at Cambridge University and the Centre for GeoGenetics at the University of Copenhagen for the Semper Ardens project “Uncovering the genetics of rice resilience to environmental stressors: An ancient genomics approach.” The project, which is carried out in cooperation with, i.a., Carlsberg Research Laboratory, will map the genome of past rice with the intention of identifying genes that can be used to make the rice of today stronger and more resilient.

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Nature: ALPHA-team takes antimatter to the next level

27/08/2018

Professor at Aarhus University, Jeffrey Hangst, who leads the ALPHA collaboration at CERN in Geneva, has publishing groundbreaking results in Nature along with his research team. The results take our understanding of antimatter to the next level and contribute to our knowledge of the construction of the universe.

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The Carlsberg Foundation offers research funds together with VolkswagenStiftung and Compagnia di San Paolo

27/08/2018

Together with German research foundation VolkswagenStiftung and Italian Compagnia di San Paolo, the Carlsberg Foundation announces the call “Challenges for Europe”. The call offers funding for researchers within social sciences and the humanities aiming to explore long term perspectives for the challenges of the European continent and the European Union.

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Computer games to combine human and artificial intelligence

28/06/2018

Physicist and professor mso, Jacob Friis Sherson, of Aarhus University, receives a Semper Ardens grant of DKK 15M from the Carlsberg Foundation for the project “Beyond citizen science: hybrid intelligence”. By combining human intuition with computer powers, the project will provide new opportunities to shape the artificial intelligence of the future.

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