The Independent Research Fund Denmark, until 2017 known as the Danish Council for Independent Research (Danish: Danmarks Frie Forskningsfond, formerly Det Frie Forskningsråd; DFF)[1] of Denmark funds basic research and gives advice to government and parliament.
The Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation (DASTI) oversees its activity.
The DFF annually awards around 400 research projects of well over 1 billion DKK.
[4] Independent Research Fund Denmark consists of a Board of Directors, with nine members, and of five scientific research councils:[5] As of 2021, the DFF has following major funding schemes, along with some smaller ones:[6] The council signed the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities in November 2011.
[7] In 2014 the DFF initiated a controversial "experimental one-year government research-funding scheme specifically for women.