The Vissing Foundation supports three different purposes

The Vissing Foundation supports

MEDICAL RESEARCH

Near-patient research in disease prevention, diagnostics and treatment, mainly related to cancer and diabetes.


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The Vissing Foundation supports

ENERGY RESEARCH

The Vissing Foundation supports sustainable energy for everyone. Applications can be submitted on this site and through Venture Cup for support for knowledge-based start-up companies.

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The Vissing Foundation supports

MARGINALISED CHRILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Projects and activities that support marginalised children and young people.



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Medical research

The Foundation supports near-patient research in disease prevention, diagnostics and treatment, mainly related to cancer and diabetes.

Energy research

The Foundation supports research in sustainable energy.

Marginalised children and young people

The Foundation supports projects and activities that support marginalised children and young people.

Applicants whom the Vissing Foundation supports will be contacted by email approx two months after the application deadline. If you do not hear anything within that period, your project has not received support. Read more

The application deadlines are
28 February, 31 May, 31 August
and 30 November.

Children with high-risk leukaemia
“Bone marrow transplantation is an effective treatment for children with high-risk leukaemia, but there are often severe side effects. We hope to develop a blood test to diagnose these side effects, so that they can be prevented at an early stage.”

Rigshospitalet
Complications after a bone marrow transplant
"Bone marrow transplants are an effective treatment for a several forms of blood cancer. Our research project is investigating the importance of an immunity marker with regard to developing complications after a bone marrow transplant."

Rigshospitalet
Rare forms of cancer
“T-cell lymphomas are a group of rare cancers, where the prognosis for patients is poor. In our research project we will investigate small sections of DNA in the blood to check for relapses in these aggressive cancers.”

Aarhus University Hospital
Support for a workshop
“It really makes a positive difference to the youngsters that the Vissing Foundation is supporting us in setting up a workshop. We hope that the workshop will also help to arouse their interest and perhaps give them the confidence to take a professional training for a trade.”

Fonden ConCura
Setting up a room for children and young people at a hospice
“With the help of the Vissing Foundation we can set up a room for children and young people at Søholm Hospice which will help to make a positive change for children and young people who come to visit relatives at the hospice.”

Søholm Hospice
Sailing trips for young people with ADHD
“The ADHD Association arranges sailing trips for vulnerable teenagers with ADHD. Here they get an insight into their own ADHD, which makes a big difference. We are delighted that the Vissing Foundation has decided to support these young people.”

ADHD Association
Support for the Fulton
“We have received a grant from the Vissing Foundation, which will be spent on purchasing a workshop in Hvide Sande, and machines, tools and safety equipment. We will have really good facilities for the winter maintenance work together with the young people. It makes a big difference.”

Fulton Fonden
Childhood malignancy - treatment
“The funding from the Vissing Foundation helps us examine the best strategies for monitoring maintenance treatment for the most common type of childhood malignancy based on collected blood samples.

Rigshospitalet
High-risk breast cancer
“With the funding from the Vissing Foundation, we can test a more accurate method of evaluating cancer spread in women who have been diagnosed with high-risk breast cancer. The objective is to minimise the need of unnecessary and invasive procedures among the patients”

Odense University Hospital
Cervical cancer and diagnostics
“We expect that the research project will, among other things, enable us to prevent cervical cancer by optimising diagnostics for the approx. 30,000 women who are examined for precancerous cervical lesions in Denmark each year.”

Aarhus University