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08. Dec. 2020

Mission: better and cheaper batteries

Tag along as this year's Grundfos Prize Winner and her associates and students create and test new materials to make oure rechargeable batteries more effective - and more sustainable.
Safe water to Mozambique (closed)

Combatting Covid-19 with clean water and handwashing

The Poul Due Jensen Foundation has been working with WaterAid Mozambique to combat the spread of Covid-19 with innovative and powerful hygiene behaviour change messaging and clean water in Mozambique. Focusing on high traffic areas such as markets and healthcare facilities, WaterAid’s work has put clean water and soap in the frontline against Covid-19.
Community Engagement Grant

Developing a water quality-based COVID-19 surveillance tool for non-sewered settlements

South Africa’s Water Research Commission and the Grundfos Foundation have partnered to develop a water quality-based surveillance tool for non-sewered settlements as part of city-wide approach that will complement the wastewater surveillance programme and in turn provide support to other means of tracking disease outbreaks.
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12. Nov. 2020

Battery scientist wins 2020 Grundfos Prize

Jens Maaløe, Chairman of the Board of the Grundfos Foundation and Chairman of the Grundfos Prize Committee, presented the Grundfos Prize 2020 to Associate Professor Dorthe Bomholdt Ravnsbæk at an informal event in Bjerringbro on Thursday 12 November.
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05. Nov. 2020

New Vice-Chairman of the Foundation Board

The Board of Directors elected Professor of Global Health Flemming Konradsen as its new Vice-Chairman at an extraordinary meeting on 4 November.
Community Engagement Grant

Community Grant secures drinking water in Baseco Compound, Philippines

With more than 60,000 inhabitants in a 53-hectare land area, the Baseco Compound is one of the largest and densest slums in the Philippines' capital, Manila. The congested community suffers from poor sanitation and access to safe and affordable drinking water. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to strike on businesses and other livelihood sources, families in Baseco need immediate help in alleviating their worsening condition.
Community Engagement Grant

Support for California Wildfire Relief Efforts

Hand in hand with Grundfos Americas, the Foundation supports the relief work being done amidst the Central California wildfires.
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02. Oct. 2020

Grundfos Philippines wins 2020 Social Responsibility Award

On 30 September, Grundfos Pumps Philippines was able to hand over a donation from the Foundation of 20,000 EUR to the Asia Society for Social Improvement and Sustainable Transformation (ASSIST). The sales company won the Poul Due Jensen Social Responsibility Award for their project, SOLution (Solar-powered Irrigation System for Farming Communities).
Water and sanitation for Gambella (SunWASH)

New partnership to bring clean water to the world’s refugees

PlanBørnefonden (Plan International) and the Grundfos Foundation (Poul Due Jensen Foundation) team up with Water Mission to bring clean water to the many refugees in Ethiopia. The ambition is to create a sustainable model that can be used in refugee camps around the world.
Community Engagement Grant

Water for Zhytomyr

A grant from the Grundfos Foundation will ensure drinking water for the city of Zhytomyr in Ukraine.
Living Systematic Review

More trials needed to back up evidence on coronavirus treatment

The first edition of a living systematic review of randomized clinical trials comparing the effects of all treatment interventions for participants in all age groups with COVID-19 is out.
Community Engagement Grant

Helping out in Sao Paolo, Brazil

A new Poul Due Jensen Community Engagement Grant will sponsor 100,000 meals for vulnerable people in Brazil. Local Grundfos staff will volunteer to help distribute the meals.