Research Organisation and Think Tanks

Denmark cooperates with research institutions and think-tanks to enhance the developing countries’ own research and to generate new knowledge that can be applied in the development assistance.

Denmark supports agricultural research as here where research is being carried out on rice at Cuu Long Delta Rice Research Institute in Vietnam.
Photo: Jørgen Schytte

Development research makes an important contribution to Denmark being in a position to supply top-quality development assistance and to the developing countries being able to reduce poverty and create development.

Cooperation with research institutions and think-tanks has two objectives:

• To strengthen the developing countries’ own research through graduate training and PhD programmes and to ensure that developing countries have access to knowledge and methods that e.g. can be applied to diagnose and treat disease, inspect food or assess air quality in large cities.
• Create new knowledge that can be applied in development assistance, for example new knowledge about climate change, sustainable energy, the use of mobile phones in terms of mothers’ health, or value chains in the private sector.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs also supports international research institutions, for example in the fields of agricultural and health research and in the social sciences.

The Ministry of Foreign granted support amounting to approximately DKK 244 million for development research in 2012.

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You can read more about research projects funded by Danida on:

Danida Research Portal

Environment, climate and sustainable development – support for think-tanks

Denmark supports four different think-tanks and organisations working with applied research in the areas of environment, climate and sustainable development.