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Synthetic Biology grants in Denmark

Explore Synthetic Biology grants for companies in Denmark. This list brings together funding for engineered biology, biomanufacturing, biofoundries and bio-based materials from Danish innovation agencies, research funders and foundations, EU and international programs open to applicants in Denmark, and competitions any company can enter, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing. Grants aimed at Synthetic Biology in Denmark come first.

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Novo Nordisk Foundation logo
Open

Challenge Programme — AMR Diagnostics for LRTI

🇩🇰NNF · Denmark

Supports diagnostic innovations for antimicrobial resistant respiratory infections in Danish consortia.

MedtechBiotech+1
DKK 30M – DKK 75MOct'26
Novo Nordisk Foundation logo
Open

Challenge Programme — Earth-Abundant Materials

🇩🇰NNF · Denmark

Supports interdisciplinary teams developing earth-abundant materials for climate and heavy industry technologies.

Advanced MaterialsEnergy Tech+2
DKK 30M – DKK 75MOct'26
Novo Nordisk Foundation logo
Open

Challenge Programme — Hybrid Bio-Electrocatalysis

🇩🇰NNF · Denmark

Supports interdisciplinary teams exploring bioelectrocatalytic processes for sustainable materials and chemistry technologies.

Synthetic BiologyAdvanced Materials+2
DKK 30M – DKK 75MOct'26
Innovation Fund Denmark (Innovationsfonden) logo
Open

Innobooster Grant

🇩🇰Innovationsfonden · Denmark

Funds Danish small businesses and entrepreneurs for knowledge based technology development with co investment support.

AgritechAI+15
DKK 200K – DKK 5MOct'26
Innovation Fund Denmark (Innovationsfonden) logo
Open

Grand Solutions Grant

🇩🇰Innovationsfonden · Denmark

Funds Denmark-wide flagship consortia tackling difficult science and engineering problems through shared-stage support.

AgritechAI+15
DKK 5M – DKK 40M
Innovation Fund Denmark (Innovationsfonden) logo
Open

Innomissions — Green Research and Innovation Partnerships

🇩🇰Innovationsfonden · Denmark

Funds Danish companies and research partners conducting mission-driven green research and innovation through multi-actor Innomissions consortia.

AgritechBiotech+5
Novo Nordisk Foundation logo
Between cycles

Data Science Investigator Programme

🇩🇰NNF · Denmark

Supports Danish data science leaders in advanced computational and AI research.

AIBiotech+2
DKK 14.7M
Novo Nordisk Foundation logo
Between cycles

Exploratory Interdisciplinary Synergy Programme

🇩🇰NNF · Denmark

Supports high-risk interdisciplinary research ideas before strong early-stage data exists.

BiotechSynthetic Biology+3
DKK 6.8M
Novo Nordisk Foundation logo
Between cycles

RECRUIT — Grants for International Recruitment

🇩🇰NNF · Denmark

Supports Danish institutions recruiting international academic talent across major career stages.

BiotechSynthetic Biology+3
DKK 22M – DKK 55M
European Innovation Council logo
Open

EIC Transition Open

🇪🇺EIC · European Union

Supports European deep-tech ventures advancing laboratory research toward validated prototypes and near-market technologies.

AerospaceAgritech+22
€500K – €2.5MSep'26
European Commission logo
Open

Horizon Bioeconomy: Industrial & Environmental Biotech

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds three €4M lump-sum grants for industrial and environmental biotech — synthetic biology, gene editing, biofoundries — not health biotech or biofuels.

Synthetic BiologyBiotech+1
€4MSep'26
European Commission logo
Open

Horizon Bioeconomy: Marine Bio-Based Products

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds two €5M projects turning marine organisms — algae, fungi, invertebrates — into safer bio-based replacements for adhesives, coatings and chemicals.

BiotechSynthetic Biology+1
€5MSep'26
European Commission logo
Open

CBE JU: Nutritional Food Ingredient Resilience

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds one €20M innovation project that scales alternative proteins, oils, fibres or specialty carbohydrates into safe, accepted food ingredients.

Food TechBiotech+1
€20MSep'26
European Commission logo
Open

CBE JU: Safe Bio-Based Ingredients for Home & Personal Care

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds one €20M project that turns bio-based chemicals and ingredients into safer, sustainable home and personal care products at industrial scale.

BiotechAdvanced Materials+1
€20MSep'26
European Commission logo
Open

Horizon Bioeconomy: Biotech Biorefineries

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds one €20M industrial project that scales biotechnology into sustainable biorefineries and market-ready bio-based products.

BiotechSynthetic Biology+1
€20MSep'26
European Commission logo
Open

Horizon Bioeconomy: Residual Biomass Biotech

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds two €7M projects that turn farm, forestry, aquatic and urban bio-waste into market-ready chemicals, materials and ingredients.

BiotechSynthetic Biology
€7MSep'26
European Innovation Council logo
Open

EIC Pathfinder Challenge: Biotechnology for Healthy Ageing

🇪🇺EIC · European Union

Supports translating decades of ageing biology into biotech or pharma proofs-of-concept that prevent, delay or revert age-related disease.

BiotechMedtech+1
€4MOct'26
European Innovation Council logo
Open

EIC Accelerator Challenge: Biotech for Regenerating Agricultural Soils

🇪🇺EIC · European Union

Supports scaling deep-tech for soil health, sustainability, and resilience of EU agriculture.

AgritechBiotech+3
€1M – €12.5MNov'26
European Commission logo
Open

Horizon Civil Security: Bioterrorism Prevention

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds a €3M project that reviews how synthetic biology could be misused for bioterrorism and pinpoints where monitoring and regulation fall short.

Synthetic BiologyDefense
€3MNov'26
European Commission logo
Scheduled

Horizon Bio-CCU: Carbon to Products

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds two €6M projects that use biotechnology to purify captured carbon and turn it into sustainable feedstock for industrial products.

BiotechSynthetic Biology+2
€6MSep'27
European Innovation Council logo
Between cycles

EIC Accelerator Open

🇪🇺EIC · European Union

Funds late stage deep tech start ups and small businesses with combined non dilutive and growth support across technology fields.

AerospaceAgritech+22
€1M – €12.5M
Netherlands Enterprise Agency logo
Between cycles

Eurostars Call 12 for projects

🇪🇺RVO · Netherlands

Funds innovative SME-led international R&D consortia through the Eurostars Call 12 grant process.

AIBiotech+15
European Innovation Council logo
Between cycles

EIC Pathfinder Open

🇪🇺EIC · European Union

Funds bottom-up research for breakthrough deep-tech, any field of science.

AerospaceAgritech+22
€4M
European Commission logo
Closed

Bioprospecting and optimised production of marine/aquatic natural products in the omics & artificial intelligence era

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds biodiscovery projects that use AI and digital tools to find and sustainably produce new natural compounds from marine and freshwater organisms.

BiotechSynthetic Biology
€6M

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