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Nikoline Sauer receives “Her Royal Highness Princess Margrethe’s scholarship for scientific studies at the Danish Institute in Rome”

On 16 April, research assistant and PhD Nikoline Sauer received “Princess Margrethe’s scholarship” in order to continue her scientific studies at the Danish Institute in Rome.

Photo: Nikoline Sauer received “Her Royal Highness Princess Margrethe’s scholarship for scientific studies at the Danish Institute in Rome” on 16 April.

Nikoline Sauer is awarded “Her Royal Highness Princess Margrethe’s scholarship for scientific studies at the Danish Institute in Rome" (in Danish: Hendes Kongelige Højhed Prinsesse Margrethes legat til videnskabelige studier ved Det Danske Institut i Rom) of 20,000 DKK by the Carlsberg Foundation.

Since 2011, Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II has been a patron of the Danish Institute in Rome. Every year, on the occasion of HM the Queen’s birthday on 16 April, the Carlsberg Foundation awards the scholarship. The purpose of the scholarship is to enable qualified persons to carry out scientific studies at the Danish Institute in Rome in the areas of Classical Archaeology, History, and Classical and Romance languages.

Nikoline Sauer produced her PhD dissertation at the Centre for Urban Network Evolutions (UrbNet) at Aarhus University from 2018 to 2021, where she also took part in the ongoing Caesar's Forum project in Rome. Her dissertation reconsidered the narrative of Archaic Rome (6th– early 5th century BCE) in archaeological terms. She is currently working as a research assistant in the project Archive Archaeology: Preserving And Sharing Palmyra’s Cultural Heritage through Harald Ingholt’s Digital Archives project at UrbNet.

The scholarship will allow Nikoline Sauer to continue her studies on Early Rome within close proximity of pertinent archaeological sites and artefacts. 

Read more about the the scholarship at the Carlsberg Foundation’s website here.

Read more about Nikoline Sauer here.