A handful of social innovation projects

VELUX FONDEN supports initiatives that allow socially disadvantaged people to participate in constructive communities. Five projects will now receive a total of DKK 10.6 million to develop and test new methods for creating inclusive communities for selected target groups – from vulnerable young men and children with hearing loss to lonely senior citizens and citizens with retardation of development.

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VELUX FONDEN supports initiatives that allow socially disadvantaged people to participate in constructive communities. Five projects will now receive a total of DKK 10.6 million to develop and test new methods for creating inclusive communities for selected target groups – from vulnerable young men and children with hearing loss to lonely senior citizens and citizens with retardation of development.

Communities for all

This is the ambition behind VELUX FONDEN’s support for social initiatives in Denmark. In 2021, a total of DKK 55 million has been granted for method-developing social initiatives in Denmark that allow socially disadvantaged people to take active part in social communities.

Read more about the grant area for social initiatives in Denmark. 

Pandemic times with fewer communities set the tone for the projects:

“The communities of society have been put under pressure due to COVID-19. This has especially impacted children, young people, adults and senior citizens in socially disadvantaged positions. We have therefore requested project ideas that can include these groups in constructive communities. The selected projects provide innovative proposed solutions to current issues and point towards new methods and ways of creating and organising communities,” says Head of Programme Vibeke Lybecker from VELUX FONDEN’s area for social initiatives in Denmark.

Late summer start

The five projects reflect a wide range in both target groups and methodological approaches. A nationwide project aims to ensure that children and young people with hearing loss are better included in social and educational communities. In Herning, a project will activate volunteers for the social services offered by the municipality and thus contribute to creating more presence and better quality of life for disabled people. In Aarhus, a project will use nature as a setting for strengthening young men’s abilities to build up communities and get jobs and an education. Finally, two projects will support that lonely senior citizens from throughout Denmark can meet in digital communities. 

The projects will start in late summer.

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