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Local Community Engagement 2020-06-17

The Foundation awards 10 new Community Engagement Grants

On 4 June, the Board of Directors of the Grundfos Foundation awarded 10 new Poul Due Jensen Community Engagement Grants for local project partnerships involving Grundfos companies around the world . The donations of 2.7m DKK mean the Foundation has now allocated 4.3m DKK of the 20m DKK grant framework agreed earlier this year.
Disaster
response 2020-06-15

Support for COVID-19 prevention in Ghana and Niger

The Foundation has granted 2.4m DKK (USD 350,000) to support World Vision's Global Health Emergency Response activities in Ghana and Niger.
News 2020-06-10

Smart Water Infrastructure Lab to rethink automation

Aalborg University (AAU)'s Smart Water Infrastructure Lab (Swift) has received a new grant from the Foundation to support research leading to robust design and optimized water infrastructure solutions, including development of new technologies to secure infrastructures.
Water for pastoralist communities in Turkana 2020-06-03

Protecting vulnerable communities from coronavirus

A partnership improving water access for pastoralist communities in Turkana, Kenya will now work with the most vulnerable to help protect them from the threat of coronavirus.
Local Community Engagement 2020-05-06

Four local Grundfos projects receive Foundation funding

Three projects in India and one in the Philippines have received funding via the Foundation's new Community Engagement Grant. In both countries, vulnerable population groups are at risk because of various lockdown measures.
Disaster
response 2020-05-01

COVID-19 relief for refugees in Lebanon

The Grundfos Foundation supports Doctors without Borders' work to protect the many refugees in Lebanon from COVID-19.
News 2020-04-30

Playing chess with coronavirus

Researchers at the Department of Computer Science at Aalborg University are developing a model that predicts whether specific COVID-19 restrictions have any effect. The system will be used as decision support for the public authorities when determining how much and how long to close down activities in society to avoid exponential virus growth.
News 2020-04-25

Mapping global research on COVID-19 treatment

An international research group, led by the Copenhagen Trial Unit at Copenhagen University Hospital, will monitor and evaluate medical research publications regarding coronavirus to identify the most effective treatment methods.
Microflora Danica 2020-04-24

Coronavirus DNA-sequencing

A group of Danish researchers are contributing important knowledge about how the DNA of COVID-19 evolves - in close collaboration with Danish and international partners.
Disaster
response 2020-04-22

More grants to fight the spread of COVID-19

Almost 9.2m DKK (1.3m USD) have been granted towards a number of projects that fight COVID-19 and its consequences. The grants bring the Grundfos Foundations' contributions up to almost 39m DKK (5.6m USD) in total.
Local Community Engagement 2020-04-17

New Community Engagement Grant

The Foundation has created a Community Engagement Grant (20m DKK) to help the companies of the Grundfos Group reach out locally.
Disaster
response 2020-04-06

More COVID-19 support from the Grundfos Foundation

The Grundfos Foundation (Poul Due Jensen Foundation) allocates further 17.5m DKK to various emergency initiatives to limit the damages of the COVID-19 pandemic. More donations are in the pipeline.