Funding opportunities

January 14

• Forte (Swedish Research Council for Working Life, Social and Public Health)
  • Challenges in Working Life 2025
• Horizon Europe (EU)
  • ERC Consolidator Grant
• Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF)
  • Postdoc in Japan

January 15

• Formas (Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development)
  • Sustainable, circular and resource-efficient built environment

January 28

• RJ (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond)
  • RJ Project 2025
  • RJ Programmes 2025
• Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF)
  • CO2 Capture, Transformation and Utilization

January 30

• Forte (Swedish Research Council for Working Life, Social and Public Health)
  • International call: Healthcare of the Future 2025 (THCS) – pre-proposal

February 4

• Formas (Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development)
  • The future and development of forests and the forest sector in a global context
• The Knowledge Foundation (KK-stiftelsen)
  • Synergy

February 5

• Formas (Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development)/Vinnova (Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems)
  • Smart Built Environment: Digital spatial planning in practice
• Horizon Europe (EU)
  • Marie Skłodowska Curie (MSCA) Staff Exchange
• The Swedish Energy Agency
  • Pilot and demonstration 2025-I

February 12

• The Swedish Energy Agency
  • Tomorrow's transport policy decision support

February 13

• Forte (Swedish Research Council for Working Life, Social and Public Health)
  • Mental ill-health and suicide prevention 2025
• STINT
  • JSPS short-term Postdoctoral Fellowship

February 15

• Wallenberg Foundations (KAW)
  • Wallenberg Academy Fellows

February 18

• Swedish Research Council (VR)
  • International postdoc within natural and engineering sciences
  • International postdoc within medicine and health
  • International postdoc within humanities and social sciences, including educational sciences
  • Grant for clinical study within therapy research
  • Tage Erlander visiting professorship (in Natural and Engineering Sciences)
  • Kerstin Hesselgren visiting professorship (in the social sciences or humanities)
  • Olof Palme visiting professorship (with a focus on areas of importance for the understanding of peace and conflict in a broad sense.)
  • Visiting researcher grant in research into the Holocaust, victims of the Holocaust and anti-Semitism

February 20

• NordForsk/Forte (Swedish Research Council for Working Life, Social and Public Health)
  • International call for proposals on sustainable health and social care systems for elderly

February 27

• Forte (Swedish Research Council for Working Life, Social and Public Health)
  • Project grants 2025

March 4

• Swedish Research Council (VR)
  • Research project grant within humanities and social sciences
  • Distinguished professor grant within medicine and health
  • Project grant within artistic research
  • International post doc within artistic research
• Vinnova (Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems)
  • Rules and instruments for cutting-edge technology
  • Strengthened Swedish aviation technology research and innovation - NFFP8: Call 3
  • Advanced digitalization: System-changing initiatives, pre-study project 2025
• Forte (Swedish Research Council for Working Life, Social and Public Health)
  • International call for poposals within JPND 2025 (EU Joint Programme – Neurodegenerative Disease Research. Two-stage application, pre-proposal due March 4, 2025)

March 5

• Vinnova
  • Planning grant for international proposal

March 10

• ÅForsk foundation
  • Young Researcher
  • Industry-Academic Collaboration Project
  • Research Project

March 18

• The Swedish Energy Agency
  • Create new solutions for an energy-efficient everyday life with the help of design and behavioural science

March 19

• Swedish Research Council (VR)
  • Starting grant within medicine and health
  • Consolidator grant within medicine and health
  • Research project grant within medicine and health
  • Research project grant for development of methods to replace, reduce and refine animal experiments (3R)
  • Grant for research time in a clinical environment
• Formas (Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development)
  • Career Grant for Early-career Researchers, career age 0–3 years
  • Career Grant for Early-career Researchers, career age 4–7 years
• Vinnova (Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems)
  • Transport and mobility services - FFI - spring 2025
  • FFI Accelerating the transition to sustainable road transport - spring 2025
  • Circularity - FFI - spring 2025
  • Traffic-safe automation - FFI - spring 2025

March 20

• Forte (Swedish Research Council for Working Life, Social and Public Health)
  • Starting grants
  • Conference grants

March 25

• Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF)
  • Instrument, Technology and Method development

April 1

• Wallenberg Foundations (MMW)
  • Project grants in Youth Psychology/Psychiatry and research of relevance to forest management and conservation
• Wallenberg Foundations (MAW)
  • Project grants in Youth Psychology/Psychiatry and research of relevance to forest management and conservation
• The Wallenberg Foundations (PWS)
  • Project grant in economics and technology involving collaboration between Swedish and Finnish researchers
• Wallenberg Foundations (SRF)
  • Author Grants (Law)
• Swedish Research Council (VR)
  • Project grant for research into cyber and information security
  • Network grant within educational sciences
  • Project grant for research into crime: crime prevention, gender equality and domestic violence
  • Project grant for research into the social consequences of digitalisation
  • Network grant within educational sciences focusing on digitisation and STEM education
  • Research project grant within educational sciences
  • Starting grant within educational sciences
  • Research environment grant within educational sciences
  • Research project grant within natural and engineering sciences
  • Starting grant within natural and engineering sciences
  • Project grant for research collaboration between Sweden and USA on sixth-generation wireless systems (6G)
  • Project grant for research into societal security
  • Project grant for research into segregation

April 9

• Vinnova (Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems)
  • Advanced digitalization - Industrial innovation 2025
• The Swedish Energy Agency
  • Energy communities and energy sharing

April 10

• Formas (Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development)
  • Policy Lab: Sustainable land use to meet climate goals

April 15

• RJ (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond)
  • RJ Sabbatical 2025

April 23

• Vinnova (Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems)
  • International Collaboration for Health Innovation, IHI Call 10 (Two-stage application, pre-proposal to be submitted 23 April)

April 25

• Erling-Persson Foundation
  • Project grants for applied research primarily in medicine and/or related to the vulnerable situation of children

April 29

• Formas (Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development)
  • Enabling financing and investments for a sustainable climate transformation
• Vinnova (Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems
  • Actor-driven international innovation collaboration within health – IHI Call 9

April 30

• Vinnova (Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems)
  • The interaction between humans and technology - Swedish Metals and Minerals (Impact Innovation)

May 8

• Vinnova (Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems)
  • 6G - Research and innovation 2025

May 13

• Formas (Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development)
  • A chemical-safe future -- explorative project
• NordForsk/Forte (Swedish Research Council for Working Life, Social and Public Health)
  • Responsible use of Artificial Intelligence 

May 14

• Swedish Research Council (VR)
  • Starting grant within viruses and pandemics
  • Consolidator grant within viruses and pandemics
  • Project grant for employment of postdocs for cross-sectoral collaboration in medicine and health
  • Project grant for research into knowledge gaps in viruses and pandemics
  • Network grant for collaboration in the area of viruses and pandemics
• Vinnova (Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems)
  • Planning grant for international proposal 2025

May 15

• The Swedish Energy Agency
  • Contribute to resource-efficient buildings

May 21

• Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ)
  • RJ Flexit 2025

May 27

• Swedish Research Council (VR)
  • Project grant within psychiatric research
  • Doctoral programme grant for teacher educators
  • Project grant for research into democracy and societal resilience
• NordForsk/Formas (Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development
  • Sustainable Futures of Forests

June 24

• Horizon Europe (EU)
  • Marie Skłodowska Curie (MSCA) COFUND

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August 19

• Swedish Research Council (VR)
  • Grant for planning of clinical study in therapy research (see also previous calls for information)

August 26

• Forte (Swedish Research Council for Working Life, Social and Public Health)
  • Research on person-centred and integrated care

August 28

• Horizon Europe (EU)
  • ERC Advanced Grant

August 29

• Afa Insurances
  • Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research on Health and Reducing Sick Leave

Preliminary/expected

• The Swedish Energy Agency
  • Pilot and demonstration 2025-II

September 2

• Forte (Swedish Research Council for Working Life, Social and Public Health)
  • Research Centre Grant (Thematic priorities: Women’s health and diseases, Health care and social care for people living with dementia, Return to work, Severe mental illnesses)

September 10

• Horizon Europe (EU)
  • Marie Skłodowska Curie (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship
• Vinnova (Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems)
  • Planning grant for international proposal

September 16

• Swedish Research Council (VR)
  • International post doc within medicine and health (see also previous calls for information)
  • International postdoc within humanities and social sciences, including educational sciences (see also previous calls for information)
  • International postdoc within natural and engineering sciences (see also previous announcements for information)

18 September

• Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU)
  
  • 2025 calls in EU portal (see also the CBE JU homepage)
• Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking (6G SNS JU)
  • 2025 calls in EU portal (see also the work programme on the 6G SNS JU homepage)

Preliminary/expected

• Horizon Europe (EU)
  • 2025 Pillar 2 calls (The 2025 work programme is expected to be released in March/April 2025. Most calls are expected to close in September 2025, but some topics will have deadlines as late as April 2026)
• STINT
  • International Postdoc
• Swedish Research Council for Sport Science (CFI)
  • 2025 calls (project grants, postdoc grants)

October 1

• Wallenberg Foundations (MWS)
  • Grants for symposia, seminars and summer schools at postgraduate level
• Wallenberg Foundations (SRF)
  • Author Grants (Law)

October 5

• Wallenberg Foundations (KAW)
  • Mathematics Programme
    • Postdoctoral Scholarship Program in Mathematics for researchers with a Swedish doctors degree
    • Postdoctoral Scholarship Program in Mathematics for researchers from outside Sweden
    • Guest professor in mathematics

October 8

• Horizon Europe (EU)
  • Marie Skłodowska Curie (MSCA) Staff Exchange

October 9

• Clean Energy Transition Partnership (CETPartnership)
  • 2025 calls (see also the work programme on the CETPartnership website. Two-stage application, pre-proposals to be submitted October 9)

October 15

• The Knowledge Foundation (KK-stiftelsen)
  • Research profiles

October 31

• Wallenberg Foundations (SRF)
  • Post-doctoral positions (Law)

Preliminary/expected

• Horizon Europe (EU)
  • ERC Starting Grant
  • ERC Synergy Grant

12 November

• Vinnova (Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems)
  • Planning grant for international proposal 2025

14 November

• Wallenberg Foundations (KAW)
  • Postdoctoral Fellowships at Nanyang Technological University Singapore
  • Scholarship Program for Postdoctoral studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Broad Institute
  • Postdoctoral Scholarship at Stanford University

15 November

• Wallenberg Foundations (TMW)
  • Postdoctoral scholarship program at Georgetown University

25 November

• Horizon Europe (EU)
  • Marie Skłodowska Curie (MSCA) Doctoral Network

Preliminary/expected

• The Knowledge Foundation (KK-stiftelsen)
  • Prospekt (the call is expected to open in September 2025)
  • Hög (the call is expected to open in September 2025)
  • Recruitments (the call is expected to open in September 2025)

Preliminary/expected

• Horizon Europe (EU)
  • ERC consolidator grant