Besides the Daylight Academy there are other places that emphasize the importance of daylight:
The Velux Stiftung supports research projects with a focus on daylight, healthy ageing and ophthalmology.
The Daylight Award is awarded biannually for Research and Architecture on Daylight. Since 2025, The Daylight Award is presented by the Daylight Academy (DLA).
The VELUX group organizes a Daylight Symposium which brings together the more applied aspects of daylight around building technology. A lot of information can be found on the Daylight Site where a library also features standards & guidelines for lighting and energy in buildings.
Daylight & Architecture is VELUX magazine to architects, designers, building professionals and everyone else with interest in daylight in architecture. The magazine started in 2005 and has been published three times per year since then.
The website aboutdaylight.org was founded with the development of the initiative “24 Things I (should have) learned about daylight” by Dr. Renate Hammer, Paula Longato, Prof. Björn Schrader and Prof. Mathias Wambsganß. The aim is to communicate knowledge about the subject of daylight.
The Society for Light, Rhythms, and Circadian Health (SLRCH) is an international scientific non-profit organization devoted to promoting research and knowledge about the effects of light on the organism and the chronobiology of psychiatric as well as other medical disorders..
The international Society for Research on Biological Rhythms (SRBR) promotes the advancement and dissemination of basic and applied research in all aspects of biological rhythms, enhances the education and training of students and researchers in the field, and fosters interdisciplinary communication through the organization of biennial meetings and informal gatherings.
The BioClock Consortium is funded by the NWA-ORC programme of the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and shares its research on the biological clock on the website Bioclock Project | The impact of light on our biological clock.
The International Academy for Design & Health is a leading global, interdisciplinary knowledge community dedicated to the stimulation and application of research concerning the interaction between design, health, science & culture.