Click here to watch the live stream of The Bright Idea award ceremony today at 12.30pm

Nis Alstrup med skulpturer

Join us today at 12.30pm when we livestream the unveiling of this year’s winners of the Bright Idea award, who will take home DKK 500,000.

On 25 May, the Chairman of the Otto Mønsted Foundation, Nis Alstrup (photo), will reveal the winner of this year’s Bright Idea Award and DKK 500,000. The Bright Idea Award is awarded annually to honour innovative talents at Danish universities and give them a financial backing to further develop their ideas.

The Bright Idea 2022 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.

You can watch the awards ceremony when we livestream the ceremony at 12.30pm via the Otto Mønsted Foundation Facebook profile. You can sign up for the video event here. When you enter here, simply search for the event “The Bright Idea 2022 Award Ceremony”.

You will also have the opportunity to hear guest speaker Karina Bergstrøm Larsen – investor, mentor and owner-manager of Q-Consulting, which specialises in satellite technology. She is one of Denmark’s most successful entrepreneurs as co-founder of Satcom1, which was sold in 2015, and she is a member of the Bright Idea jury.

You will also hear a presentation by Timothy Jenkins, Assistant Professor at DTU Bioengineering and 2020 award winner, who will talk about his further work on the winning idea.

“The winding staircase expresses the struggle and the long road to get to something,” explains sculptor Stine Ring Hansen about the winning sculpture she created. This year’s winners will be honoured for their efforts on 25 May.
  • The jury behind The Bright Idea Award consists of:
    Kigge Hvid, partner, JA studio
  • Ole Kring, partner, VF Venture (Vækstfonden)
  • Bjarne Kjær Ersbøll, Professor DTU Compute and board member of the Otto Mønsted Foundation
  • Jesper Højberg Christensen, adjunct professor at CBS
  • Nis Alstrup, chairman of the board of the Otto Mønsted Foundation
  • Karina Bergstrøm Larsen, CEO of Q-Consulting
  • Christian Brix Tillegreen, senior business developer, Bioinnovation Institute
  • Nigel Edmondson, CEO, MADE and
  • Vibeke Svendsen, board member of the Otto Mønsted Foundation.