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)
  • Project grant for planning or pilot study for a future clinical study in therapy research
  • Excellence Clusters for Groundbreaking Technologies: Network grant for planning future excellence clusters

August 26

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

August 27

• Impact Innovation - Net Zero Industry (Energimyndigheten, Vinnova, Formas)
  
  • Project calls 2025

August 28

• Horizon Europe (EU)
  • ERC Advanced Grant

August 29

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

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)
• Vinnova (Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems)
  • Advanced digitalization - Industrial demand-driven innovation 2025
• Impact Innovation - Swedish Metals and Minerals (Energimyndigheten, Vinnova, Formas)
  
  • Research and development projects within Social Action Areas
  • Research and development projects within Techological Action Areas
• Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF)
  • Resilience for AI systems

September 3

• Impact Innovation - Waterwise Societies (Energimyndigheten, Vinnova, Formas)
  
  • Transition labs
• Impact Innovation - Swedish Metals and Minerals (Energimyndigheten, Vinnova, Formas)
  
  • Urgent challenges

September 4

• Vinnova (Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems)
  • Excellence Clusters for Groundbreaking Technologies: Visions for world-leading research and innovation in strategic technology areas
• EUREKA / Vinnova
  • Eurostars 2025

September 9

• Formas (Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development)
  • Biobaserade produktionsprocesser för en hållbar och konkurrenskraftig bioekonomi
• Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF)
  • Strategic Mobility

September 10

• Horizon Europe (EU)
  • Marie Skłodowska Curie (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship
• Vinnova (Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems)
  • Planning grant for international proposal
• Impact Innovation - SustainGov (Energimyndigheten, Vinnova, Formas)
  
  • Preparatory project for a reformed public sector
  • Implementation project for a reformed public sector
  • Change alliances for a reformed public sector

September 11

• Impact Innovation - Waterwise Societies (Energimyndigheten, Vinnova, Formas)
  
  • Realise innovative solutions with customers

September 12

• STINT
  • International Postdoc

September 15

• Swedish Research Council for Sport Science (CFI)
  • 2025 calls (project grants, postdoc grants)

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)
  • Starting grant within primary care (see also this similar previous call for information)
  • Consolidator grant within primary care (see also this similar previous call for information)
  • Grant for research time within primary care

September 18

• 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)

September 22

• The Knowledge Foundation (KK-stiftelsen)
  • Capacity building
• MISTRA
  • Research Programme: Corruption and environmental crime – obstacles to sustainable development

September 23

• Vinnova (Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems)
  • Scaling up for a sustainable battery value chain
• Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF)
  • Individual Grants 2025: Ingvar Carlsson Award – Across the Atlantic

September 30

• Swedish Research Council (VR)
  • Doctoral programme grant for teachers within health care education
• Kamprad Family Foundation
  • Research Projects: "Entrepreneurship for a living contryside" and "Improved quality of life for the elderly"
• EUREKA/Vinnova
  
  • Circular Value Creation

Preliminary/expected

• Horizon Europe (EU)
  • 2025 Pillar 2 calls (See the 2025 work programme. Most calls will close in September 2025, but some topics have deadlines as late as April 2026)

October 1

• Formas (Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development)
  • Explore – Formas' open call for research projects
    
• Wallenberg Foundations (MWS)
  • Grants for symposia, seminars and summer schools at postgraduate level
• Wallenberg Foundations (SRF)
  • Author Grants (Law)
• Vinnova (Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems)
  • Accelerating Strategic Vehicle Research and Innovation (FFI): Preparatory Project
  • Accelerating Strategic Vehicle Research and Innovation (FFI): Transport and mobility services
  • Accelerating Strategic Vehicle Research and Innovation (FFI): Zero emissions
  • Accelerating Strategic Vehicle Research and Innovation (FFI): Circularity
  • Accelerating Strategic Vehicle Research and Innovation (FFI): Traffic-safe automation
  • Accelerating Strategic Vehicle Research and Innovation (FFI): System Demonstrators

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 10

• The Knowledge Foundation (KK-stiftelsen)
  • Research profiles (Two-stage application, pre-proposals to be submitted October 10)

October 14

• Horizon Europe (EU)
  • ERC Starting Grant

October 15

• Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF)
  • Grant for writing an EU application

October 29

• Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ)
  • Visiting scholar Tokyo College 2025

October 31

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

November 3

• Swedish Research Council (VR)
  • Needs inventory of research infrastructure of national interest

November 4

• Swedish Research Council (VR)
  • Strategic Research Areas

November 5

• Horizon Europe (EU)
  • ERC Synergy Grant

November 7

• European Biodiversity Parnership (Biodiversa+) (Formas/Naturvårdsverket)
  • Restoration of ecosystem functioning, integrity and connectivity (BiodivConnect) (Two-stage application, pre-proposal due Nov 7)

November 11

• The Swedish Energy Agency
  • Bioenergy for the fossil-free energy system of the future

November 12

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

November 14

• 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

November 15

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

November 25

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

November 26

• The Knowledge Foundation (KK-stiftelsen)
  • Early academic career (for researchers with less than three years post-PhD research experience)

November 28

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

December 1

• The Knowledge Foundation (KK-stiftelsen)
  • Associate senior lectureships

December 2

• Forte (Swedish Research Council for Working Life, Social and Public Health)
  • Applied welfare research - sustainable social services 2026

December 3

• Horizon Europe (EU)
  • Marie Skłodowska Curie (MSCA) Choose Europe for Science

December 8

• The Knowledge Foundation (KK-stiftelsen)
  • Capacity building

December 11

• Formas (Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development)
  • Blue transformation – coast and sea

Preliminary/expected

• The Swedish Energy Agency
  • Pilot and demonstration projects

January 13

• Horizon Europe (EU)
  • ERC consolidator grant

January 27

• The Knowledge Foundation (KK-stiftelsen)
  • Synergy projects

January 29

• Formas (Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development)
  • Collaboration-driven innovation for the food of the future

February 9

• The Knowledge Foundation (KK-stiftelsen)
  • Industrial graduate schools

Preliminary/expected

• Forte (Swedish Research Council for Working Life, Social and Public Health)
  
  • Visiting researcher grant USA 2026

Preliminary/expected

• Forte (Swedish Research Council for Working Life, Social and Public Health)
  • Starting grants 2026
  • International call: Healthcare of the Future 2026 (THCS)

April 28

• Formas (Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development)
  • Business-oriented research for socially beneficial change

Nothing here yet.

Nothing here yet.

Nothing here yet.

August 27

• Horizon Europe (EU)
  • ERC advanced grant