CBS receives significant PhD grant
DKK 23 million for research
The Danish Councils for Independent Research under the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation have granted CBS DKK 23 million in the form of 11 PhD studentships. The grant is the result of CBS applying for the so-called mobility and collaboration grants. Especially the distribution of the mobility grants has been awaited anxiously as they constitute a significant portion of the Ministry’s research grant. They total just under DKK 500 million.
CBS Vice Dean of PhD Education Peter Lotz is satisfied with the grant and believes that it bodes well for the future.
- A share of just under 5% of the total amount may not seem like much, but considering that CBS has had difficulties getting the approx 3%, which is CBS’s share of the basic research grant, it is a truly encouraging result. We have shown that we are now able to compete with all the PhD research environments, Peter Lotz says.
Financial risk and open innovation research
The studentships are divided into three separate grants: two grants of five mobility grants each and a single collaboration grant. The Department of Finance has gotten five studentships for the study of financial risk, including risk measure, trade and pricing.
The Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics has also been granted five studentships. These studentships are intended for the study of open innovation, i.e. the businesses’ inclusion of external parties in the innovation processes, and entrepreneurial activities.
Both grants are given to the two departments’ so-called 'world class research environments' dealing with the two areas of research. The Danish Councils for Independent Research have given the grants to research groups consisting of several persons, which means that the research degree students are part of a strong research environment and have the opportunity to have more supervisors and a wide range of PhD courses.
The single collaboration grant was given to the project ’North America Facing Central American Migration – Undocumented Migration and Securitisation of the Southern Mexican Border’ at the Center for the Study of the Americas, the Department of International Culture and Communication Studies. Their collaboration partner is the Danish Institute for Human Rights.