Cecilie Thøgersen-Ntoumani has successfully obtained a research grant of about 7 million kroner (about 940,000 Euros) from TrygFonden. The 3 1/2 years project, starting in autumn 2025, will investigate whether ballroom dancing can be used as an effective intervention for older people with subjective memory complaints.
Co-investigators include Kamilla Woznica Miskowiak from the University of Copenhagen, other DRIVEN members Nikos Ntoumanis Peter Krustrup, Trine Kjær and Kristina Pfeffer (named post-doc), and SDU colleagues Pernille Tangggaard Andersen and Liza Sopina. Partners are various municipalities, dance schools, Ældre Sagen and DGI. For more information, see the news story
In collaboration with various national and international colleagues, DRIVEN co-director Cecilie Thøgersen-Ntoumani has received a research grant of about 6 million kroner (about 800,000 Euros) from the Danish Heart Foundation (Hjerteforeningen) and the Steno Diabetes Center in Copenhagen to develop and test an intervention designed to increase Vigorous Intermittent Lifestyle Physical Activity (VILPA) in physically inactive women aged 40-65. The project, due to start in spring 2025, is an important part of a larger international programme of research focusing on VILPA.For moreinformation, see the new story
DRIVEN members Nikos Ntoumanis, Tina Dalager and Madalina Jäger, have received a grant of about 3.3 million Kroner (about 450,000 Eruros) from TrygFonden to develop and test a new digital platform that trains individuals in self-enactable behavior change techniques (BCTs) aimed at encouraging them to engage in more physical activity. The project started in autumn 2024.
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DRIVEN is part of an EU-funded Horizon project, called ARCADIA. This project involves 52 academic and non-academic partners and has received funding of about 134 million Kroner (17,5 million Euros). ARCADIA is seeking to mobilise 8 European regions and communities to accelerate nature-based solutions adoption across these regions. In collaboration with the Department of Biology at SDU and several international partners, Profs Nikos Ntoumanis and Cecilie Thøgersen-Ntoumani in Work Package 7 will use behavioural sciences approaches to understand and promote such solutions within relevant citizen groups and policy makers.
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A 4-year grant of almost 7.4 million Kroner (about 1 million Euros) has been awarded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation to DRIVEN members Profs. Peter Krustrup, Nikos Ntoumanis and Cecilie Thøgersen-Ntoumani to study motivation for physical activity and healthy lifestyles in youth. The project started in 2023.
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DRIVEN awarded in late 2022 two projects that examine the use of performance enhancing drugs in sport. Both projects have been completed and relevant publications can be found in the Publications section of DRIVEN.
The first project, funded by the Partnership for Clean Competition, reviewed the psychological literature regarding the influential predictors of doping intentions/willingness and doping use in sport and other physical activity domains.
The second project, awarded by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), developed an assessment tool to help national anti-doping agencies to evaluate the effectiveness of their anti-doping education.