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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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The Wallenberg Foundations: calls on archaeology & art history
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Marcus & Amalia Wallenberg Foundation – Program for art history and archeology
Berit Wallenberg Foundation – Larger research projects within archeology or art history (note: application preferably in Swedish)
Considering applying to the above foundations? Please note that applications need first to be prioritized on faculty level and ultimately accompanied by a Vice-chancellor’s letter of endorsement.
Management Rules including the time plan for the LU internal process can be found on the Staff Pages. Deadline for letter of intent is Direct links to the documents:
Both calls opens 1 May and closes 1 June 2020. Questions? Please direct these to Johanna Mellgren (johanna.mellgren@fs.lu.se)
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Please note that the following calls with the Berit Wallenberg Foundation does not require central management (i.e. no Vice-chancellor's support letter and no involvement from Research Services):
Berit Wallenberg PhD positions (In Swedish) - funding for doctoral positions in art and cultural history, with a focus on archeology or art history, at Swedish universities.
Smaller research projects (In Swedish) - grants for smaller research projects within archeology or art history.
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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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SSMF Large Grant: Start-up grants for young researchers
The Swedish Society for Medical Research (Svenska Sällskapet för Medicinsk Forskning, SSMF) announces a four-year start-up grant to support young researchers working full-time or half-time, half-time grants being intended for clinically-active researchers, as well as a grant to cover operating expenses.
- The start-up support is awarded for two years, with a two-year extension subject to approval of a scientific report.
- The objective is to offer promising young scientists an opportunity to establish themselves as independent researchers.
- The support is aimed at PhDs with post-doctoral qualifications.
- Full-time positions may be combined with a part-time occupation (maximum 20%), such as clinical practice.
The grant includes funds for salary for employment as a researcher or equivalent. For full-time employment, the amount is SEK 800,000 per year.
Deadline: 15 April 2021
Further information
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(PhD) Opportunities with the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority
A number of research funding opportunities are now open, and we would especially like to highlight the PhD project funding available, which includes funding for e.g. research on severe nuclear conk-outs, research on radiation biology, research on radioecology, and more.
Further information (in Swedish)
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SSMF Travel grants for doctoral students
The Swedish Society for Medical Research (Svenska Sällskapet för Medicinsk Forskning, SSMF) awards travel grants to doctoral students pursuing preclinical and clinical medical research in Sweden.
Deadlines: 1 March, 1 June, 1 September and 1 December. The application system opens 2 weeks prior to the deadlines.
Further information
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Nominate to the Marcus Wallenberg Prize
The Board of the Marcus Wallenberg Foundation and its Selection Committee invite individuals and institutions, globally, to nominate candidates for the Marcus Wallenberg Prize, between 1 February and 31 May each year. The Prize is awarded to recognize, encourage and stimulate path-breaking scientific achievements which contribute significantly to broader knowledge and/or technical development within all subjects relevant to the forest-based sector all over the world.
Further information
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Pentti Malaska Futures Award
Research-based, visionary solutions for global challenges
University of Turku grants a €30,000 Pentti Malaska Futures Award for a visionary, boundary-crossing, research-based solution that supports the building of more sustainable global futures.
The main criteria for the innovations participating in the competition are the following:
- sustainable mindset
- visionary thinking
- academia-business collaboration
- boundary-crossing approach in research and society
Deadline: 26 April 2021
Further information
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Opportunities with the Swedish Energy Agency
The Swedish Energy Agency supports research and development about the supply, conversion, distribution and use of energy. A number of calls are now open, for example
Research and Innovation in support of a sustainable wind power expansion
The Swedish Energy Agency supports research and development about the supply, conversion, distribution and use of energy. Funding is now available for projects concerning new solutions and new knowledge in sustainable wind power expansion in Sweden. Two categories are available:
- The development of new solutions that can be commercialized and/or may be applied in the society (A)
- The building of knowledge and competence amongst the concerned actors (B)
Deadline, application outline (A): 22 April 2021
Deadline: 26 April 2021
Further information (in Swedish)
Energy efficiency in lighting systems
Projects proposals concerned with energy- and resource-effective lighting systems are invited, especially proposals where different groups of actors will be collaborating (e.g. university + company), projects concerned with specific needs, and new knowledge and methods development.
Deadline: 29 April 2021
Further information (in Swedish)
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Opportunities with the Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society
The Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society aims to support Scandinavian researchers within the plant sciences. The society is offering a variety of grants with different purpose and for different career stages, e.g. travel grants, event grants, open grants and career development grants.
Further information
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The Fulbright Hildeman Fellowship
Promoting Scandinavian studies in the U.S.
The primary objectives of the Hildeman Fellowship are to encourage students and faculty in Scandinavian studies, to strengthen contacts between Swedish and American academics and to increase the interest in Sweden and Swedish area studies on the part of American students and scholars in a variety of fields. For academic year 2021-22, the University of California, Berkeley will host the Hildeman Fellow with a focus on immigration, multiculturalism and diversity.
Deadline: 26 April 2021
Further information
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Swedish Retail and Wholesale council: Postdoctoral scholarship in trade
The council invites nominations to their post-doc scholarship. The funded research shall be applicable to trade businesses and/or employees, or to the industry as a whole, and come to practical use in a near future. Grant sum is 2 MSEK.
Deadline: 28 April
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Current openings with the Swedish Cancer Society
The following calls are now open for applications:
- Research project: finances research that can lead to improved understanding of cancer diseases, prevention, earlier diagnosis and effective treatment.
- Planning team grant: intended to bring together researchers working on similar methodological and subject-matter areas to increase collaboration. 29 April 2021
- Research months: intended to provide researchers on clinical positions to set aside time for research.
Deadline: 29 April 2021
Further information (in Swedish)
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Interdisciplinary Fellowship Program for postdocs at the Collegium Helveticum, Zurich
Currently, a call is open for early-career researchers working in any academic or artistic discipline at postdoc or equivalent level (for artists) who would like to collaborate and exchange ideas across disciplinary boundaries. Eight scholars and artists are being sought for ten months starting on 1 September 2021.
Deadline 30 April 2021
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Länsförsäkringar Research projects
– regarding the housing market in the age of urbanisation
This theme is focused on knowledge on locally adapted solutions for Sweden’s dysfunctional housing market. Cross-disciplinary projects that contribute to evidence-based decision-making and provide lessons for the future will be prioritised.
Deadline: 30 April 2021
Further information (in Swedish)
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Make Our Planet Great Again: visiting fellowship for young researchers
The French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs and the French Ministry of Higher Education for Research and Innovation have launched a visiting fellowship programme for young researchers, who have obtained their doctoral degree less than five years prior to the application and who wish to carry out their research in France in line with a “One Health” approach.
Deadline: 3 May 2021
Further information
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Competence support in nuclear engineering
The Swedish Radiation Safety Authority make available research funding of maximum 3 MSEK across 3 years for projects focusing on reactor physics, termohydraulics, or nuclear data. The main applicant must represent their own research group.
Deadline: 5 May 2021
Further information (in Swedish)
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RJ Sabbatical 2021
The call concern funding to established lecturers and professors in the humanities and social sciences, to fulfil a sustained research period of 6-12 months, with a minimum of 1 month spent abroad. The purpose is to complete well advanced research projects or extensive written works considered of high scientific potential, and to strengthen international contacts.
Deadline: 5 May 2021
Further information (in Swedish)
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KLSA project call
The Royal Swedish Agricultural Academy’s research fund promotes research projects that lifts the green industry’s position in the society.
Deadline: 5 May 2021
Further information (in Swedish)
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Architecture scholarships with the Helgo Zettervall Foundation
The foundation aims to promote the development of Swedish architecture. This by granting scholarships for educational-, research-, and development projects. The Helgo Prize is issued every fourth year, and the prize sum of 150 000 SEK makes it the largest architecture prize in Sweden.
Deadline for 2021 scholarships is 10 May 2021
Further information (in Swedish)
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Funding to study the civil society
The Swedish Agency for Youth and Civil Society invites researchers to apply for funding to study the civil society. Projects may be 1 or 2 years. See the call page for info on prioritized research areas, formal demands and framing of the application (in Swedish).
Deadline: 16 May 2021
Further information
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Riksbankens Jubileumsfond: Grants for Research Initiation
These grants may be applied for at any time during the year. Funding decisions are taken at intervals of about 2-4 times each semester.
Further information
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Opportunities with the Swedish Heart-Lung Foundation
The Swedish Heart-Lung Foundation supports clinically focused research as well as investigations focused on prevention within the areas of cardiac, vascular and pulmonary disease and tuberculosis.
Upcoming deadlines:
Project grant (18 May)
Research fellowship (18 May)
Monthly research stipends (18 May)
Project call prevention (23 November)
Further information (in Swedish)
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Industry doctoral student programme (SSF)
The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research invites applications for its industry doctoral student programme. This supports doctoral students’ research and postgraduate studies within the fields of information, communication and systems technologies (ICT), life sciences and materials research in collaboration between academia and industry.
Deadline: 25 May 2021
Further information
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Ollie and Elof Ericssons Foundation: Medicine, Technology and Economics
Ollie and Elof Ericssons Foundation for Scientific Research invites applications for research funding. The foundation supports projects in Medicine, Technology and Economics. Qualified to apply are young and independent researchers that has initiated the establishment of their own research group.
Deadline: 31 May 2021
Further information
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The Swedish Brain Foundation post-doctoral scholarship
The Swedish Brain Foundation supports research on diseases, damages and disabilities of the brain and the rest of the CNS, however research can also concern the healthy brain´s normal functions and development. The post doc scholarship is worth 300 000 SEK per year for two years, and is open to researchers with a Swedish PhD degree.
Deadline: 7 June 2021
Further information (in Swedish)
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Polyarthritis research projects
The Anna-Greta och Holger Crafoord Foundation annually issues scholarships and research funding to individual researchers or institutions in Sweden. In 2021, funding will be granted research concerned with polyarthritis, within the filed “Autoimmune and autoinflammatory mechanisms in rheumatic diseases”.
Deadline: 15 June 2021
Further information
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Jeanssons Foundations – support for medical research
Each year Jeanssons Foundations issues research funding of around 4-7 MSEK, primarily to researchers having fulfilled their postdoctoral education, and are on their way establishing their own research group
For 2021 start up grants, eligible applicants should have a position connected to a university or institute and have received a PhD year 2015 or later.
Deadline: 18 June 2021
Further information
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The Swedish Geotechnical Institute – The 2021 Tuffo call
The Swedish Geotechnical Institute (SGI) is an expert agency that works for a safe, efficient and sustainable development and sustainable use of land and natural resources.
SGI:s Tuffo program aims to produce new knowledge that will contribute to an increased pace in the remediation of contaminated sites in Sweden, and enable the fulfilment of the environmental quality objective "a non-toxic environment".
The 2021 Tuffo call is now open, and this year’s focus is innovative solutions for contaminated areas. Applications and evaluation are made in a two-stage process, where Stage 1 includes idea outlines and Stage 2 comprises full applications.
Deadline (stage 1): 23 September 2021
Further information (in Swedish)
Tuffo information meeting! Interested in learning more about the call? One hour info meetings will be held 20/4 and 21/4 over Zoom. E-mail thereze.ladekrans@sgi.se to sign up.
Tuffo matchmaking meeting! To help meet the challenge of finding collaborators, Tuffo annually arrange a meeting for those who are interested. This year the meeting is planned for 2 June 2021.
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