Five of the new AU Connect grants went to Tech
A total of five research projects from Tech were awarded funds when Aarhus University's special pool for researchers, who wish to develop or expand collaboration with private and public companies, was distributed in December. The university expects a new application round for AU Connect during 2025.
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AU Connect. That is the name of the funding opportunity launched in the autumn, aimed at supporting researchers at Aarhus University who wish to initiate new or develop existing collaborations with public and private enterprises. In the first application round, five of Tech's research projects were awarded funds.
Among the recipients is Lotte Bach Larsen from the Department of Food Science. She has received funds for a project where she will establish contact and explore potential collaboration projects with small companies in the production of cultured milk and microbial milk protein in both Germany and France.
"The AU Connect funds enable us to spend some time visiting various players within cell-based milk. It is an area with a lot of current activity, and the grant allows us to explore opportunities for both national and international collaborations with the aim of establishing new projects," she says.
In addition to the five research projects from Tech, a further five projects from Aarhus University have received funds from AU Connect. Each grant amounts to approximately DKK 150,000.
The university expects to offer a new application round during 2025. You can read more about the funding opportunity here.
Tech projects that have received funds from AU Connect:
- Lotte Bach Larsen (FOOD) with the project CellMilk: Contact and project development with start-up companies within cell-based milk
- Jens Vinge Nyggard (BCE), Sweta Agarwala (ECE), and Charlotte Suetta (KU) with the project Identification of dermatological effects of neuromuscular electrical stimulation
- Steffen Petersen (CAE) with the project Integration of LCA calculations in the early (transformation) design process
- Stig Skrivergaard (FOOD) with the project Blue Harvest Connect
- Valentina Beatini (CAE) with the project Development of modular and adaptable masonry gridshell facades