Velux Stiftung

📢 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻! In 2025, our foundation will revisit and refine our funding strategy. As part of this strategic review, we are pausing funding activities for Healthy Ageing and Daylight Research. No applications will be accepted in these areas until 2026.   🗓 What’s next? Ophthalmology and Forestry: Calls for proposals will proceed with a deadline in September 2025. Stay tuned for the official call for proposals in spring 2025.   This pause allows us to conduct a thorough analysis and ensure our funding strategy aligns with the current needs and priorities of the research community. It’s been over a decade since our last major overhaul, and we are committed to adapting to the evolving context and refining our processes. https://lnkd.in/dktq5Xqh   📩 Transparency and communication: Updates and developments will be shared openly. Sign up for our newsletter, if you haven't already! --> https://lnkd.in/d95-sd4C   Thank you for your understanding as we work towards enhancing our impact!   #ResearchFunding #HealthyAgeing #DaylightResearch #Ophthalmology #Forestry #StrategicReview #Transparency

Hello #Basel! The documentary "𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘆𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻" will premiere this Saturday, 9 November Stadtkino Basel the Global Science Film Festival.   𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗰𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗼𝗻 𝗮 𝗴𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗷𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘆 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝘂𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴-𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗴𝘆 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝘄𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗗𝗲𝗻𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝘄𝗶𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗚𝘂𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗮, 𝘄𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘃𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁.   From 7-10 November, the film festival in Basel shows 11 of the 985 feature films which were submitted. More Swiss screenings in Zurich, Bern and Lugano, and thanks to Swissnex global screening will also happen in Australia, Canada, India, Japan, Korea and Shanghai.   Coordinated by the DLA – Daylight Academy, a Velux Stiftung initiative. #DaylightResearch

The annual #DaylightAwareness Week can be enjoyed in person this year, at the Berlin Science Week or online. The various events deal with different aspects in which #Daylight is overlooked in our daily lives. More information about this activity and other events of the DLA – Daylight Academy can be found here https://lnkd.in/e4bGDdF6 The DLA – Daylight Academy is a Velux Stiftung initiative, as natural daylight is at the heart of the foundation’s activities.

Two events to explore why daylight matters - for us and the planet: I. "𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘆𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻" documentary will premiere on Saturday, 9th November in Basel, Switzerland at the Global Science Festival! More info: https://t.ly/p9CMH II. “𝗗𝗮𝘆𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱” is the topic of several live and hybrid events at the Berlin Science Week from 28 October to 2 November! More info: https://t.ly/We04_ Both activities are coordinated by the Daylight Academy. The DLA – Daylight Academy is a Velux Stiftung initiative, as natural daylight is at the heart of the foundation’s activities. Follow the DLA – Daylight Academy if you want to learn why daylight matters!

Integrating rehabilitation within health systems as a core component of healthy aging requires more attention: At the the Fakultät für Gesundheitswissenschaften und Medizin – Universität Luzern, two assistant professorships were funded with partial support from Velux Stiftung, to establish a research agenda on #Rehabilitation and #HealthyAgeing. This initiative aims to create synergies at the intersection of diverse disciplines that focus on healthy ageing research and has made significant progress after four years. In August, Carla Sabariego has completed her tenure and became the first full professor for Rehabilitation and Healthy Ageing recognizing her broad expertise and contributions to the field. We warmly congratulate Professor Sabariego on this promotion which is an important step to sustainably anchor research on healthy ageing and rehabilitation in health systems at the University of Lucerne.   Read more about the project on our website: https://lnkd.in/gjrAR-4c

Another opportunity to learn and discuss how to integrate natural daylight into our built environment. #DaylightInArchitecture Knowledge about daylight needs to be applied in architecture and associated experiences discussed and developed further. Three events with this mission will take place (in German) at the Architekturforum Zürich: 1: 12 June: Incidence of light 2: 26 June: Daylight and density 3: 20 November: Daylight and art

It is fantastic to see the DLA – Daylight Academy grow its aspirations and its reach! It has become a unique international #DaylightResearch platform where daylight experts from many different fields mingle, exchange their knowledge and experiences to co-create and initiate new interdisciplinary topics in daylight research.

We are leaving charming Trondheim and its sunset at 11 p.m. after an exciting, vibrant and as inspiring as productive annual conference of the DLA – Daylight Academy ! The creative launch of a participative process to identify 3 societal topics, the DLA will address in the future benefitted of the unique expertise of more than 90 present scientists, architects, professionals and artists. The broad interdisciplinary exchange led once more to new promising contacts and collaborations. A great thanks to all contributors, speakers, DLA-members and participants, our host from NTNU Barbara Szybinska Matusiak for your engagement and the wonderful DLA-office for organising this! Manuel Spitschan PhD Judit Solt Debra Skene Jean-Louis Scartezzini Mariëlle Aarts Professor Brian Norton Velux Stiftung

Alberto Campo Baeza is this year’s laureate of #TheDaylightAward for Daylight in Architecture. An internationally recognised and widely published Spanish architect, Alberto Campo Baeza is also a passionate teacher. Aside from holding the position of Professor at the Escuela Technica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid from 1986 to 2017, he has lectured at various universities around the world. The architectural projects of Alberto Campo Baeza are restrained and silent examples of sensuous, mental and poetic qualities in the architectural articulation of daylight. His works can be described as celebrations of the silent miracles of daylight in buildings of widely differing functions. Campo Baeza’s buildings exemplify the spiritual qualities of daylight and thus expand the understanding of the values of daylight beyond the current scope of science. While diverse in their intended purpose, his buildings all share the same intention of ennobling the architectural experience through abstraction and reduction. Watch the architect speak about his style of work and his famous designs, such as The House of the Infinite in Cádiz, here: https://lnkd.in/dcRAHqP5 You can also read more about the laureate on the website of The Daylight Award: https://lnkd.in/dUekhtSU The Daylight Award honours and supports #daylightresearch and #daylight in #architecture. It acknowledges and encourages scientific knowledge and practical application of daylight, which interlink disciplines that are usually addressed in separated, monocultural spheres, professional circles, or practices. The Daylight Award strives to raise a holistic understanding of daylight and increase its positive impact on life. The Daylight Award is established by the philanthropic foundations Villum Fonden, VELUX FONDEN, and Velux Stiftung and is conferred biennially.

Till Roenneberg is this year’s laureate of #TheDaylightAward for Daylight Research. The Emeritus Professor of Chronobiology at the Institute of Medical Psychology at the Ludwig-Maximilan University in Munich, Germany, Till Roenneberg has been a leader in his field for decades. His research has led to an improved understanding of the many-sided qualities and impacts of daylight. He has also become notably influential as the creator of the “social-jetlag” concept – the difference in sleep timing between work and free days – and demonstrated its connections with obesity, depression and substance abuse. Till Roenneberg’s fundamental research findings have been both highly cited and influential and, significantly, applied to multiple branches of society, spanning medicine, public policy and architecture. 🔗 Watch Professor Roenneberg speak about his research and learn more about human’s internal circadian clocks and what influences them: https://lnkd.in/dKRVUwsV 🔗 You can also read more about the laureate on the website of The Daylight Award: https://lnkd.in/dkW4Xn7F The Daylight Award honours and supports #daylightresearch and #daylight in #architecture. It acknowledges and encourages scientific knowledge and practical application of daylight, which interlink disciplines that are usually addressed in separated, monocultural spheres, professional circles, or practices. The Daylight Award strives to raise a holistic understanding of daylight and increase its positive impact on life. The Daylight Award is established by the philanthropic foundations Villum Fonden, VELUX FONDEN, and Velux Stiftung and is conferred biennially.