The Danish Gambling Committee (Dansk LudomaniKomité), a new initiative established to increase research into gambling addiction, has secured funding from a group of gambling operators.
Kindred Group, Danske Spil, Spilnu.dk, Mr Green and Betsson Group committed a total of DKK12m (£1.4m/€1.6m/$1.8m) to the committee, which will be based at the Department of Clinical Medicine at Aarhus University.
Jørgen Frøkiær, head of the department at the university, will chair the committee, while the University of Copenhagen, University of Southern Denmark, Aarhus University Hospital and Aalborg University will also be represented on the board.
The committee will focus on four key areas: Treatment of gambling addiction, prevention of harm among children and young people, preventing addition within online gambling and general knowledge gathering.
