Rockwool Fonden

Name

Rockwool Fonden

Legal name

ROCKWOOL Fonden

Website

https://rockwoolfonden.dk

Company type

Private

Founded year

1981

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Welfare Research Foundation

NAICS

Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities (54172), Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities (541720), Scientific Research and Development Services (5417), Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations (813)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Research & Science Grantmaking Foundations (BPAGAKAI)

akta.pro secondary industry

International Grantmaking & Development Foundations (BPAGAKAH)

Keywords

• Welfare research
• Social policy analysis
• Empirical labor research
• Social intervention programs
• Peer-reviewed publications

Headquarters

HQ city

Copenhagen

HQ country

Denmark

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Rockwool Fonden is an independent Danish research foundation that generates and disseminates evidence-based knowledge on welfare society challenges. It operates a Research Unit producing publications (knowledge overviews, analyses, research reports, books, debate articles) and an Interventions Unit that designs and evaluates social intervention programmes, most notably the NExTWORK youth employment initiative. Outputs are published free of charge via the foundation's website, podcast, and peer-reviewed scientific journals.

Product overview

Rockwool Fonden is a Danish research foundation organized into two main units: a Research Unit and an Interventions Unit. The Research Unit produces comprehensive publications including knowledge overviews, analyses, research reports, books, and podcasts covering welfare topics such as labor market and employment, school and education, family and social conditions, and health and well-being. The Interventions Unit develops and implements programs like the NExTWORK initiative for youth employment. The foundation also operates ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin for international research. The organization is not a technology product company but rather generates independent knowledge to support the welfare society's social and economic sustainability.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• ROCKWOOL Fondens Forskningsenhed: The foundation's research unit conducting welfare society research
• ROCKWOOL Fondens Interventionsenhed
• NExTWORK

Products and services

• Research Publications

Quantifiable outcome

• The NExTWORK employment initiative evaluation shows participants who find jobs earn 12% higher wages than control group
• +1 more outcomes

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), LondoncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIFS conducted the randomised controlled trial (RCT) evaluation of the NExTWORK employment initiative, comparing outcomes for participants versus control groups over 2.5 years.
• Aarhus University (Aalborg Universitet)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearchers from Centre for Development of Citizen-Involving Employment Initiatives (CUBB) at Aalborg University conducted qualitative analysis of the NExTWORK programme, including interviews and observations across municipalities.
• Rambøll Management ConsultingminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerRambøll conducted the implementation evaluation of NExTWORK, including over 100 interviews with 240 participants across all nine municipalities.
• Aarhus University - Department of EconomicscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborated on research examining neighbourhood effects on refugee children's outcomes, with researchers including Anna Piil Damm, Ahmad Hassani, and Trine Skriver Høholt Andersen from AU's Department of Economics.
• Kellogg School of ManagementminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborated on research examining female entrepreneurship and early exposure to entrepreneurs, working with researchers Maddalena Ronchi and Viola Salvestrini.
• Bocconi UniversityminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborated on research examining Ukraine's labour market resilience during the war, alongside researchers from the Rockwool Foundation Berlin.
• Danish municipalities (Roskilde, Fredericia, Horsens and others)coreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerNine Danish municipalities partnered on the NExTWORK employment initiative for youth aged 18-29 not in education or employment. Municipalities provided programme implementation, case workers, and workplace internship placements. Five municipalities continued with NExTWORK after the pilot.
• ROCKWOOL Foundation BerlincoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSister organisation conducting research from Berlin office on migration, labour markets, and integration topics. Publishes discussion papers and network papers in collaboration with the Danish foundation.
• DTU (Technical University of Denmark)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearchers Jeppe Elholm Madsen and Jacob Ladenburg from DTU's Department of Technology, Leadership and Economics collaborated on eldercare market research published through the foundation.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• Arbetsförmedlingen / IFAU (Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy): Swedish government-funded research institute evaluating labour-market and education policies using Swedish register data. Closely mirrors Rockwool Fonden's register-data research approach and NExTWORK-style intervention evaluations.

Direct peers

• CEPR (Centre for Economic Policy Research): Pan-European network producing independent economic research and policy analysis. Overlaps with Rockwool Fonden on cross-country empirical welfare, labour, and migration research and shares a multi-channel publication strategy.
• Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS): UK-based independent economic and fiscal research institute that conducts rigorous empirical welfare and labour-market analysis. IFS is directly comparable as a research foundation producing independent evidence for policymakers and has explicitly partnered with Rockwool Fonden on the NExTWORK RCT evaluation.
• NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research): US-based leading economic research organisation producing working papers and policy studies. Comparable on methodological rigour, labour and education research agenda, and use of large-scale administrative datasets.
• IZA Institute of Labor Economics: Germany-based international research institute focused on labour economics, publishing working papers, journal articles, and policy reports. Comparable to Rockwool Foundation Berlin's work on migration, minimum wage, and labour-market mobility.
• ifo Institute (ifo Institut – Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung): Munich-based economic research institute producing empirical analysis on labour markets, education, and migration. A natural German counterpart to Rockwool Foundation Berlin given shared focus on rigorous policy-relevant empirical work.
• Bruegel: European think tank specialising in economics, with research on labour markets, AI adoption, and migration. Comparable to Rockwool Foundation Berlin on cross-country empirical policy research and media-driven dissemination.
• SFI (Det Nationale Forskningscenter for Velfærd): Danish national research centre for welfare (now rebranded VIVE) conducting applied social-science research on labour market, education, family, and health. Closest geographic and thematic peer to Rockwool Fonden, sharing policy-relevant research mandate on the Danish welfare model.

Broad incumbents

• RAND Corporation: Large US policy research organisation operating across health, education, labour, and criminal justice. Comparable to Rockwool Fonden on empirical social-science research with policy translation, though much broader in scope and geography.
• Brookings Institution: Major US public-policy research organisation producing independent analysis on economic, education, and social-policy topics. Overlaps with Rockwool Fonden on evidence-based welfare research aimed at policymakers and media.

Market position

Strengths1 record

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles17 records

Funding overview

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