Idagaardfondens specialpris
Idagaardfonden – forskningsstøtte og priser
Støtte til udvikling af dansk landbrug
Idagaardfonden arbejder for at fremme forskning, der kan styrke udviklingen og bæredygtigheden i dansk landbrug. Gennem målrettede priser og støtteordninger ønsker fonden at skabe bedre viden om produktion, effektivitet og fremtidens landbrugsstrukturer.
Idagaardfonden – formål og støtteområder
Idagaardfonden (founded in 1929 by Jens Hvidbjerg) supports agricultural research, including but not limited to research on crop production, and with the specific aim of supporting research that can improve the production conditions and the profitability of Danish agriculture.
Idagaardfonden invites submissions of Master’s theses written on topics related to these aims, where up to 3 theses each year will be awarded a “Gold Medal” and 50.000 kr. The conclusions from each nominated thesis should be relevant for practitioners and must be made publicly available, and thus cannot contain confidential material. For inspiration, some relevant overall topics, all focusing on Danish agriculture, could be:
- Competitiveness Adaptation to climate change
- Optimization of output value Industry structure
- Ownership and/or financing structures
- Succession planning
- Efficiency improvements
All relevant university departments, including but not limited to the Department of Food and Resource Economics as well as the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences from the University of Copenhagen and the Department of Agroecology as well as the Department of Animal Science from Aarhus University are encouraged to each select up to 5 of their best theses from a given academic year, written on topics relevant to this prize and which must have been awarded a mark of 10 or 12. For GDPR reason the student must give written consent before the thesis is nominated. The nominated theses from the past academic year should be submitted to Idagaardfonden (post@idagaardfonden.dk) by October 1 each year.
Idagaardfonden – vurdering, pris og tidligere vindere
The theses will be assessed by a panel consisting of the following members:
Mette Asmild, Idagaardfonden & Professor, Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen
Poul Erik Jørgensen, Landbrugsdirektør, Nykredit
Klaus Kaiser, Erhvervsøkonomisk chef, SEGES
Morten Andersen Linnet, Forskningspolitisk chef, Landbrug og Fødevarer
Birte Boelt, Senior Scientist, Department of Agroecology – Crop Health, Aarhus University
The prizes will be awarded at a ceremony where the winners will also present their main findings.
The theses can be written in either Danish or English.
Past winners:
Specialeprisen 2025
Anders Gjern
Optimizing the Plant Nutritional Value of Struvite through Nano- and Micro-Sizing
Anna Marie Lund
Intercropping between legumes and cereals: Do plants help each other by sharing defence compounds?
Sammendyrkning af bælgplanter og cerealer: Hjælper planter hinanden ved at dele forsvarsstoffer?
Specialeprisen 2024
Der blev ikke uddelt nogen specialepris i 2024.
Specialeprisen 2023
Amalia Egholm Midjord-Kudsk
Improving the effect of xylanases in feed based on wheat (Triticum aestivum) and barley (Hordeum vulgare).
Nadja Fuglkjær Bloch
Main Crop Effect on the Carbon Input and Biodiversity Expression of Spontaneous Flora in Cover Crop Mixtures
Hovedafgrøders indvirkning på kulstofinputtet og biodiversiteten af spontan flora i efterafgrødeblandinger.
Specialeprisen 2022
Simon Andreasen & Mathias Jürgensen
Input Use, Yield, and Economic Indicators for Conventional Farmers in a Danish Context
Specialeprisen 2021
Niels Frederik Vestergård
Status on Emerging Resistance to Succinate Dehydrogenase Inhibitors in Zymoseptoria tritici in Denmark and Sweden
Kirstine Mose Schade
The Effect of a Strategic and Managerial Focus on Productivity among Danish Farmers
Specialeprisen 2020
Julie Skovgaard Hansen & Amanda Prehn Henriksen
Estimating Abatement Costs of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Danish Agricultural Sector Using Non-parametric Efficiency Analysis