Pilot Projects

We want to engage researchers from all UCPH disciplines – from PhD to professors - in developing and consolidating our new Living Lab. We hope that researchers will use our data and Nordhavn as a case for Urban green transition in their courses and bring new data and perspectives to the lab.

Funded pilot projects

Small-scale funding for cross-disciplinary projects focusing on urban green transition

In our Living Lab, we offer funding for small-scale pilot projects for researchers and external partners.

Researchers can also get help in order to reach out internally to colleagues from other disciplines and to external partners and collaborators. Furthermore, we continuously get inquiries from companies and other external partners interested in collaboration. In these matters, we always reach out to relevant researchers across UCPH.

Green Solutions Centre Living Lab, with a focus on Urban Green Transition, provides funding for small-scale pilot projects where the main activity is to develop and test specific solutions within the transition to more plant-based food production.

Development of solutions (technical, products, ideas, concepts, etc.) must be based on cross-disciplinarity and co-creation with one or more end-users. The amount obtainable per pilot project is DKK 100-300,000. The max project period is 1½ years.

A small-scale pilot project can be based on the following

• An existing research project that can be boosted with the development and test of a solution - and a cross-disciplinary approach
• A collaboration between UCPH and external partners – e.g. as a pre-project for a research application based on co-creation with external partner(s) and focused on the development of a plant-based solution
• An ambition to make a diverse partnership based on academic commitment and extern partners, for example, around existing UCPH infrastructure or existing data

The funds can be used for salaries (from research assistant to researcher) of the staff carrying out the tasks in the project and for other project-related costs. The project must be managed and run by one or more researchers, but the actual execution can be carried out by, for example, a research assistant or other UCPH employees with competencies within the field.

The most important aspect is the specific content: development of the specific solution(s) in a cross-disciplinary and user-inclusive set-up, as well as learning from the process and having the opportunity of testing the solution.