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Research Services provide support on project applications and nominations that require central management. This includes most applications to the Wallenberg Foundations, as well as e.g. several programme nominations from a variety of funders.
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Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW) project grant 2022
Please note that the first step of the LU internal application process - the Letter of Intent to faculties - is to be completed on the 20th of September.
Read the LU internal management rules with a full time plan: Swedish or English
Read the call text on the KAW website
Contacts at Research Services: Johanna Mellgren (johanna.mellgren@fs.lu.se) and Sara Naurin (sara.naurin@fs.lu.se)
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Management Rules for MMW and MAW project + special grants 2022
Marianne & Marcus Wallenberg Foundation (MMW) + Marcus & Amalia Wallenberg Foundation (MAW) this year opens for applications to special grants aimed at a sustainable society. The regular project calls will run as usual.
The Management Rules dictating the Lund University internal application process are now available. Note that the deadline for Letters of Intent is 5 January 2022.
Read the full call text at the MMW and MAW web pages.
Contacts at Research Services: Johanna Mellgren (johanna.mellgren@fs.lu.se) and Sara Naurin (sara.naurin@fs.lu.se)
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The ÅForsk Foundation announces new grant - Repatriation grants in 2021
The ÅForsk Foundation announces repatriation grants for researchers who want to re-establish themselves in Sweden as independent researchers after an international stay at postdoctoral level.
The application is open to researchers who have defended their dissertations in the past five years and who have conducted research abroad for at least one year as an academic or industrial postdoc, or as an employed industrial researcher.
Read the full announcement
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Highlighted calls & fellowships
A selection, sorted by deadline.
Please also visit Research Professional for the latest opportunities
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International postdoc - Swedish Research Council
Grant period: 18–36 months. Grant amount: 1 150 000 SEK per year. A further total of 50 000 SEK per year may be applied for, for one or more accompanying family members. Further information:
Humanities and social sciences including educational sciences
Natural and engineering sciences
Medicine and health
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The Sweden-America Foundation scholarships
Scholarships 6-12 months, for post docs, PhD students and graduates, for studies in the USA och Canada. Applicant must be a Swedish citizen. Application open to all study/research fields. Scholarship size is normally in the range of 50 000 SEK – 400 000 SEK.
Deadline: 15 September 2021
Further information (in Swedish)
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Opportunities with KLSA (Royal Swedish Agricultural Academy)
The Royal Swedish Agricultural Academy offer research funding opportunities in the green sector. The below calls all have deadline 15 September 2021. Info in Swedish.
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Swedish Research Council for Sport Science
- Project funding
- Post-doctoral researcher
- Associations, collaboration and networking
Sport science may include all areas of research and all applications must be clearly relevant to sport. Two areas of special interest are research projects focusing on sporting excellence and research into sports for children and young people.
Deadline: 15 September 2021
Further information
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Funds for research on wildlife, the environment and society
Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (Naturvårdsverket) invites proposals that help develop the scientific knowledge needed for a sustainable wildlife management. Proposals may come from the natural sciences, the social sciences or the humanities. Project funding is max 3 years.
Deadline: 15 September 2021
Further information
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Research grants – diabetes
The diabetes foundation invites applications to their project grant, relevant to both basic research and clinical research of high scientific quality. Grant sums are in the order of 100 000 – 500 000 SEK. Granted researcher must be employed in Sweden.
Deadline: 15 September 2021
Further information (in Swedish)
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Åhlén Foundation: Medical Research
Funding are granted projects dealing with
- Parkinson’s disease
- ALS
- Psychosis
- Dementia
- Substance abuse (excluding alcoholism)
- Perinatal brain injuries
Normal size of a grant is max 250 000 SEK.
Deadline: 15 September 2021
Further information (in Swedish)
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Åke Wiberg Foundation
Medical research
Funding is available for max 3 years to group leaders that has defended their PhD thesis within the last 8 years, and that have developed their own independent line of research. Basic as well as clinical research may be supported. Normally sums of 200 000-300 000 SEK are granted.
Deadline: 15 September
Further information (in Swedish)
Humanities and Social Science research
Deadline: 15 September 2021
Further information (in Swedish)
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Jan Wallanders & Tom Hedelius Foundation, and Tore Browaldh Foundation
(Business & Economics)
The Wallander Scholarship (15 September 2021)
Intended for excellent younger researchers that have just earned their doctoral degree in an economic discipline. The scholarship is 3 years / 1.725.000 SEK.
The Hedelius Scholarship (15 September 2021)
Available for doctoral student intending to make a research stay of max 10 month at a well-renowned foreign university.
The Browaldh Scholarship (31 January 2022)
Intended for 3 years funding of an excellent younger researcher that has been recruited in international competition. Application is made by the Head of department.
Further information (in Swedish)
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Opportunities with NordForsk
NordForsk currently has two open calls for proposals in collaboration with countries outside the Nordic region.
Nordic-Russian call for networks for risk and crisis management: Deadline 15 September
Japan-Nordic Frontier Research Projects for Healthy Longevity: Deadline 7 October
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The Asthma and Allergy Association
The Asthma and Allergy Association's Research Fund annually distributes research grants for scientific research on asthma, allergies and other hypersensitivity. Applications from all fields of science are welcome, as is clinical patient research. The grants are worth approximately SEK 200,000–250,000 per year, over 1-3 years. Applications must be in relation to the size of the grants.
Deadline: 16 September
Further information
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Media research funding
The Wahlgrenska foundation invites applications to a total of 6 scholarships worth 100 000 SEK each. Applications from younger researchers with well-defined projects will be prioritized.
Deadline: 17 September 2021
Further information (in Swedish)
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Project funding from Swedish Water (Svenskt Vatten)
Swedish Water was set up by the municipalities in 1962 to assist with technical, economic and administrative issues and to represent the interests of the municipalities in negotiations with authorities and other organisations on regulations. SVU – Swedish Water Development – supports research, innovation and development. This year, research funding will be prioritized for projects on Effective VA-organizations, Circulatory Systems and Digitization.
Deadline: 21 September 2021
Further information (in Swedish)
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AFA: Post doc funding – preventing mental illness
The purpose of the funding is to provide early career researchers with opportunities to perform post doctoral studies and research. Award sum is 2 MSEK for research focused on the prevention of mental illness.
Deadline: 22 September 2021
Further information (in Swedish)
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STINT: Mobility Grants for Internationalisation
The aim is to strengthen Swedish research and higher education by developing and establishing international partnerships. Projects may last for up to three years. The proposed project must encompass at least one Swedish and at least one foreign party. STINT wants to encourage new collaborative patterns and will not prioritise long-standing partnerships.
Deadline: 24 September 2021
Further information
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Do not miss the September deadline at
The Royal Physiographic Society of Lund
Annual opportunities with deadline 28 September
Donations for sciences, medicine and technology:
- Biology
- Geology
- Chemistry
- Medicine
- Technology
Märta and Erik Holmberg donation: astronomy and physics
Nilsson-Ehle donations: theoretical and practical genetics
Hedda and John Forssman foundation: medical examinations
Nils Olof Berggren Foundation: ornithological studies
Walter Gyllenberg Foundation: research in astronomy, physics and mathematics
Jan Löfqvists donation: Zoology
Further information
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ÅForsk Travel Scholarship
Funding may be granted for conference attendance abroad, thesis work abroad, and visit to a foreign university. The activity in question should preferably be related to ÅForsk’s core areas; Energy, Environment, Process development, Infrastructure, Materials, Products from renewable sources, and Energy. Max sum to apply for is 30 000 SEK.
Deadline: 30 September 2021
Further information (in Swedish)
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Swedish Cancer- and Allergy fund
The fund supports environment related cancer- and allergy research. Funds may not be used for animal experimentation. The maximum grant amount is 500 000 SEK over 1 year.
Deadline: 30 September 2021
Further information (in Swedish)
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Neuro Association 2022: funding on the diseases of the brain
The Association supports research regarding the causes and cures of organic neurological diseases, primarily MS, as well as social and behavioural research- and development in this field. One project may be funded for a maximum of three years.
Deadline: 30 September 2021
Further information (in Swedish)
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Academic collaboration in the Baltic Sea region
The programme is aimed at strengthening the macro-regional experience-sharing and joint development of practices, methodology and capacity for internationalization within higher education and research. The call is open to new as well as already established partnerships. Seed project (12 months; 100 000 – 300 000 SEK) as well as collaborative projects (18 months; SEK 500 000 – 1 000 000 SEK) are available.
Deadline: 30 September 2021
Further information
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Apply for scholarship- or project funding from the Lars Salvius association
Funding is annually granted writers and publishers, and an annual price is also issued for notable achievements in research communication and popular science.
Deadline: 30 September 2021
Further information (in Swedish)
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Entrepreneurship for the development of a living countryside
The purpose of the Kamprad Family Foundation is to support, stimulate and reward education and scientific research to promote entrepreneurship, the environment, competence, health and social improvement. It will focus specifically on implementing the results of the research and education to benefit the many people quickly and cost-efficiently.
Deadline: 30 September 2021
Further information
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The Swedish National Heritage Board: Cultural heritage and -environment
This year’s call is intended for one-year projects to be conducted during 2022. Two themes are available: The digitization of the cultural heritage field and Cultural heritage and climate.
Deadline: 1 October 2021
Further information (in Swedish)
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HM Queen Silvia Jubilee Fund
The fund annually grants funding to research on children and disability. Doctoral student accepted at any of the Swedish universities are welcomed to apply. This year, the theme for the call is “Evaluation of interventions in order to ease the consequences of child disability”.
Deadline: 1 October 2021
Further information (in Swedish)
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The Wenner-Gren Foundations
The Foundations award fellowships to Swedish researchers, who want to go abroad, and to guest scientists, who want to visit Sweden.
Scholarships with deadline 1 October 2021:
- Wennergren Fellows (postdoc for Swedish researchers)
- Postdoctoral scholarships (foreign researchers; for stay in Sweden)
- Guest researcher scholarships (at Swedish institution)
- Sabbatical scholarships (senior researchers)
- Travelling scholarship
Further information (in Swedish)
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Söderström König Foundation – psychiatry contributions
The Swedish Society of Medicine invites project proposals in benefit of psychiatric knowledge development (general-, children and youth-, elderly-, and forensic psychiatry). Research including the special situation of women in psychiatry will be acknowledged. Contributions are worth max 500 000 SEK for max 18 months.
Deadline: 1 October 2021
Further information (in Swedish)
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Opportunities with the Swedish Cancer Society
Postdoctoral Position (3 years): The purpose is to benefit cancer research by recruiting able, younger researchers to the field.
Fellowship in radiation therapy research (3 years): The purpose is to promote radiation therapy research in Sweden.
Senior Investigator Award (6 years): The purpose is to provide established researchers who do not have a permanent position the opportunity to devote themselves to cancer research full-time for a six-year period.
Junior Investigator Award (6 years): The purpose is to provide postdoctoral researchers who do not have a permanent position the opportunity to devote themselves to cancer research full-time for a six-year period.
Junior/Senior Clinical Investigator Award (50-70%, 6 years): The purpose is to provide clinically active, postdoctoral researchers with the opportunity to spend between 50 and 70% of their time on research for a six-year period.
Deadline (all the above): 7 October 2021
Further information
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SSF Future Software Systems (FuSS)
The Call aims to stimulate collaborative multidisciplinary research within the area of Future Software Systems (FuSS) of relevance to present or future Swedish-based industry and to society. Selected projects will be supported by grants of SEK 4-7 million per year for five years. Funding for the last two years will be dependent on a successful midterm evaluation.
Read the announcement
Deadline: 11 October 2021
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The Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (SSM) – post doc positions
SSM invites applications to two post doc positions in the field of radiation protection. The grant is max 5.4 MSEK (total, incl. indirect costs). Main applicant must represent a research group.
Deadline: 14 October 2021
Further information (in Swedish)
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Swedish Environmental Protection Agency – funding for research program
Funding under the banner “Multifunctionality in the landscape – roads to adaptation” is available to support one research program. The purpose is to, for 5 years, finance a research programme centred on man kind´s interaction with biodiversity on a landscape level, and from various perspectives. Application is done in 2 steps. Granted program to start May 2022.
Deadline (step 1): 15 October 2021
Further information (in Swedish)
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The Samariten foundation for paediatric research: Yearly project call
The foundation contributes to the development of childcare by supporting scientific research and learning. Funding is primarily offered newly established projects with high clinical relevance that lacks funding from major financing bodies.
Deadline: 17 October 2021
Further information (in Swedish)
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Percy Falk Foundation – project proposals
The foundation was initiated in order to benefit research concerned with breast- and prostate cancer.
Deadline: 1 November 2021
Further information (in Swedish)
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The Azrieli International Postdoctoral Fellowship
The fellowship provides generous funding and support for international postdoc applicants to conduct research in STEM, the humanities and social sciences at eligible Israeli institutions. The value of the fellowship is approximately €48,000 per year, including funds reserved for research and travel. The starting date of the Fellowship is October 2022, however candidates are permitted to start their Fellowship as early as June 2022, and no later than March 2023.
Deadline: 2 November 2021
Further information
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SSMF post-doctoral grant
The 3 year post doc grant is aimed at younger researchers in Medicine, and is available as full- or half-time studies. The half-time grant is intended for clinically active applicants. The full-time grant can be partly spent abroad and is worth 1 MSEK/year, whereas the half-time is worth 700 000 SEK/year.
Deadline: 15 November
Further information (in Swedish)
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