About RESEARCH2015

The initiative is to result in a catalogue of proposals containing especially promising themes for future strategic research, which are to inspire and inform the coming negotiations about the fiscal act 2009 and forward.

As part of the agreement to implement the 2006 globalisation pool, the parties to the agreement (Denmark’s Liberal Party, the Conservative People’s Party, the Social Democratic Party), the Danish People’s Party and the Social-Liberal Party decided that the basis for the political prioritisation of funds for strategic research should be improved. At the same time the Folketing (Danish Parliament) is to be presented with a catalogue of important future strategic research themes every four years.

This is the basis and the purpose of the FORSK2015-initiative. It is the first time such a catalogue is drawn up. The catalogue’s proposals for strategic research themes are focused on the long-term challenges - both on opportunities and problems – areas in which Danish research and new knowledge may be the driving force in the economic development or contribute to implementation of significant policies of Danish society.

RESEARCH2015 has been put into action in three phases:

1. A broad-based mapping of the of the strategic research needs created by societal and business development
2. Identification of a number of defined and coherent research themes, which may form the basis of  goal-oriented strategic research investments
3. The preparation of the final proposal through dialogue with interested parties from society at large.