Culture and society

Under Villum Foundation’s grant area, Culture and society, projects are supported for the benefit and enjoyment of the general public, with a particular focus on initiatives that bring daylight and fresh air into people’s everyday lives and contribute to a healthy environment.

In the Western world, we spend the majority of our time indoors, even though it is well documented that fresh air and daylight benefit both body and mind.
The Villum Foundation supports innovative ideas and agenda-setting projects that contribute to breaking down the barriers between ‘indoors’ and ‘outdoors,’ fostering the shift of indoor activities to the outdoors for the joy and inspiration of others. This grant area encompasses two programmes:

Daylight and fresh air – calls for large and small projects
Every year and for a limited time, we open for applications under the call Daylight and fresh air.
We welcome both large and small project applications from all environments, including ordinary citizens, associations, volunteers, institutions and organisations within the construction sector.

The call will next open in January 2024 and close for applications in May 2024. Read more in last year’s call below.

Other projects
Under the Culture and society programme Other projects, you can apply for funding throughout the year for large cultural projects aimed at bringing benefit and joy to the general population. The foundation prioritises projects that have a strong focus on daylight and fresh air and contribute to a healthy environment.

The grant area is targeted at Danish projects. In a few relevant cases, projects abroad are also supported.

Programmes

Daylight and fresh air

Do you have a project that can bring more daylight and fresh air into everyday life?

Current calls
1

Other projects

Under the Culture and society programme Other projects, you can apply for funding throughout the year for large cultural projects aimed at bringing benefit and...

Current calls
1

The Villum Foundation has established several working groups and committees to contribute to ensuring that the foundation’s distribution activities are conducted on a professionally sound and otherwise exemplary basis. The purpose of these working groups is to assist the board with strategy development and review and recommendations for decisions regarding applications and projects within the foundations’ grant areas and asset management.