Funding opportunities

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Open calls

This list contains open calls that has come to our knowledge. There may be additional opportunities from the funders listed below this section.

• Vetenskapsrådet/Swedish Research Council. Starting grants/Consolidator grants/Research grants, Deadline March 29
  Link to vr.se

• Formas. Several interesting open calls with various deadlines in April and May.
  Of special interest: Cross-Cutting Climate Adaptation – challenges and measures. Deadline May 12
  Link to formas.se

• Lund University Strategic Research Areas call for funding: Infrastructure. Target group PI:s in the SRA:s. Contact your SRA for information.  Deadline May 1.

• FACCE-JPI and the ERA-Net SusCrop Joint Call on Agrobiodiversity. Mandatory pre-registration close May 4, Deadline June 22.
  Link to call on suscrop.eu

• Belmont forum Collaborative Research Actions (CRAs), two calls:
  • Systems of Sustainable Consumption and Production. Call open, deadline May 10
  • Integrated Approaches to Human Migration / Mobility in an Era of Rapid Global Change. Pre-announcement, call will open April. Expression of interest form is already open. 
    Link to call pages on belmontforum.org

• Nordforsk Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change. Deadline May 19.
  Link to call on nordforsk.org

• Carl Tryggers Stiftelse. Three different grants: Postdoc scholarship, Running costs / equipment, Special grants. Deadline May 18.
  Link to Carltryggersstiftelse.se

• The Oscar and Lili Lamm Memorial Foundation. The 2022 call for proposals will cover landscape conservation and plant health. Deadline June 1.
  Link to call on stiftelsenlamm.a.se

• Region Skåne Environmental Fund (miljömålsfonden) Deadline 3 June
  Link to skane.se

• Lund University Strategic Research Areas call for funding: Seed funding for emerging research topics. Target group PI:s in the SRA:s. Contact your SRA for information. Deadline September 15.

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List of funders 

Under construction

For funders with annual calls, the approximate deadline is stated within brackets. Note that some funders, Formas and VR especially, have more calls than just the annual ones.

Governmental funders: Research councils, Governmental agencies etc.

• Formas (April) Link fo formas.se
• FORTE (February) Link to forte.se
• Fulbright Comission Link to Fulbright.se
• SIDA Link to SIDA.se
• STINT Link to stint.se
• Vetenskapsrådet "VR" (March) Link to VR.se 
• Vinnova Link to Vinnova.se

• Swedish Energy Agency / Energimyndigheten (continous) Link to energimyndigheten.se
• Hav och Vattenmyndigheten Link to havochvatten.se
• Swedish EPA / Naturvårdsverket Link to naturvardsverket.se 
• Region Skåne Environmental Fund (June)  Link to utveckling.skane.se
• Swedish Space Agency / Rymdstyrelsen (March-June) Link to rymdstyrelsen.se
• Smart Built Environment (November) Link to smartbuilt.se
• Svenskt Vatten (March, September) Link to svensktvatten.se
• Swedish Insitute Link to si.se

Foundations etc.

• Carl Tryggers Stiftelse
• Climate Change AI
• KSLA
• KVA
• Lantmännen
• LINXS
• NordGen
• Olle Engkvist
• Ragnar Söderbergs stiftelse
• Riksbankens Jubileumsfond
• Skogssällskapet
• SSF - Swedish Foundation for Strategic research
• Stiftelsen Lantbruksforskning
• Södra Research Foundation
• Viable Cities
• Wallenberg

Horizon Europe

• Work programmes Cluster 5
• Work programmes Cluster 6
• MSCA
• ERC

Funders of special interest for junior researchers

• Baltic University Program - mobility grant
• Craaford
• Erasmus
• Fysiografen
• Humbolt Scholarships for Post-Doctoral Training on Sustainable Development in Germany (all areas)
• IIASA Postdoc Peter E De Janous
• IIASA YSSP - for PhD-students
• Ragnar Sellbergs foundation
• Stiftelsen Lamm
• Åforsk
• Handelsrådet (Stipend)
• National geographic (Stipend)

Lund University internal calls

• BECC
• LU Funding for commissioned education
• LU Funding for equal opportunities initiatives
• LU Infrastructure
• LU Oscar II scolorship
• Pufendorf ASG
• Pufendorf Theme

Funders aimed at consortiums

• Belmont Forum
• Biodiversa +
• JPI climate
• JPI facce
• JPI oceans
• JPI Urban Europé
• LIFE +
• Mistra
• Nordforsk
• Nordic Council of Ministers
• Novo Nordisk Fonden

Sustainability Forum Funding page

Sustainability Forum has a nice collection of open calls and funding news in the For researchers section:

Funding opportunities on sustainability.lu.se

Grants calendar

The Grants Calendar is presently not updated by CEC staff, so relevant calls may not be included.

The Grants Calendar lists calls according to the deadline date, and you can easily select the calls according to categories, type of funding or search by free text. To access the Grants Calendar you log in with your Lucat ID. 

Grants Calendar on med.lu.se