Big day ahead for this year’s award winners

Watch as the Otto Mønsted Foundation honours research talents with the ‘Bright Idea 2021’ award and DKK 500,000.

You can also watch when the chairman of the Otto Mønsted Foundation, Bo Stærmose, takes the stage and reveals the winner of this year’s ‘The Bright Idea’ award and DKK 500,000. The award ceremony will take place at the anniversary of MADE (Manufacturing Academy Denmark), which will be held as an online event on 19 May.

Do you want to attend the award ceremony virtually and hear presentations from top leaders and foundations? Then sign up for the anniversary here.

The Bright Idea Award is awarded annually to honour innovative students and researchers at Danish universities and give them a financial backing to further develop their ideas.

The Bright Idea 2021 competition targets research ideas at different stages of development. There is an Early-stage category, where ideas are still diamonds in the rough but need to show potential to shine commercially, while the second category of Late-stage submissions includes mature ideas that typically also have a prototype or a well-defined service to showcase. The winners of the two categories will each receive DKK 250,000.

All this year’s entries are judged by a jury consisting of:

Kigge Hvid, Partner, JA studio
Ole Kring, partner, VF Venture (Vækstfonden)
Bjarne Kjær Ersbøll, Professor DTU Compute and member of the board of the Otto Mønsted Foundation
Jesper Højberg Christensen, adjunct professor at CBS
Nis Alstrup, Medical Director, Aleris-Hamlet and member of the board of the Otto Mønsted Foundation
Karina Bergstrøm Larsen, Director, Q-Consulting
Christian Brix Tillegreen, Senior Business Developer, Bioinnovation Institute
Nigel Edmondson, CEO, MADE
Bo Stærmose, Chairman of the Board, Otto Mønsted Foundation