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The application period for The Bright Idea 2025 is open until August 15th.
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Stories
Lifelong memories of life-saving help
For two months in 2024, ten engineering students had the unique experience of combining a study abroad programme with extraordinary…
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Europe’s largest conference for the microscopic
Can we imagine a future where diseases are detected before symptoms appear? Will we be able to observe how cancer…
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Sustainable aviation gets a ride in the helicopter
How will we fly in the future? Can we go on holiday without impacting the climate? These are some of…
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Granting policy 2024/25
The Otto Mønsted Foundation’s Granting Policy for 2024/25 can be read here
About the Foundation
Otto Mønsted (1838-1916) started the first margarine production in Denmark in 1883. In 1909, he founded Otto Mønsted A/S. As the Mønsted couple were childless, Otto Mønsted and his wife Anna Sophie Mønsted decided in 1916 that their fortune should be included in a foundation bearing the name Otto Mønsted. After the death of Mrs Anna Mønsted, the foundation charter was drawn up on 18 June 1934 and received royal ratification on 21 June 1934. Today, the foundation owns all shares in Otto Mønsted A/S.
Our projects
Lifelong memories of life-saving help
For two months in 2024, ten engineering students had the unique experience of combining a study abroad programme with extraordinary…
Read more
Europe’s largest conference for the microscopic
Can we imagine a future where diseases are detected before symptoms appear? Will we be able to observe how cancer…
Read more
Sustainable aviation gets a ride in the helicopter
How will we fly in the future? Can we go on holiday without impacting the climate? These are some of…
Read more
