Apply for funding
Who can apply for funding?
Universities, colleges, research institutes and their affiliated researchers represent our main applicant groups. But many others can also apply for funding from us – special interest groups, private companies (except sole proprietors), associations, municipalities, county councils, and other government agencies that are not higher education institutions.
Projects that qualify for funding
When you apply for project funding, you can apply for grants to cover both direct and indirect costs. Direct costs include costs for salaries, equipment and travel. Indirect costs are costs that are shared with others in your organisation, such as for administration, IT and renting of premises.
How to apply
You apply for funding and add the information you need for your application in our application system, Prisma. There is some information that is good to know before you apply, such as what our assessment criteria are, who is considered an administrating organisation and may receive the money, what our publication criteria are, and what considerations you should take into account for your project when you apply for funding.
How we assess your application
We assess applications on the basis of scientific quality and relevance for society. We sometimes consider other criteria, and in such cases we will state this in our call descriptions. Formas’ Scientific Council is responsible for decisions about which projects are granted funding. The Scientific Council delegates decisions on granting funds of up to SEK 10 million per project and year to Formas’ director general, who in turn delegates these decisions to Formas’ department heads. The decisions are based on the recommendations made by our review panels. It is these review panel members who assess all applications before they are submitted to Formas’ for a decision.
When are you informed about our decision?
Each call description states when you can expect to be informed. You or the project manager will receive a message in Prisma. The message will be sent to the project manager’s account.
Reporting requirements
If you are awarded a grant, you must report project expenses and results. This is done in Prisma.
Current calls
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Career Grant for Early-career Researchers, career age 4–7 years
This call welcomes researchers who have recently received a doctorate or who are at an early stage of their career. You can apply for funding to conduct your own research project, where you formulate...Current: 54 days left. Apply before: 2025-03-19 14:00 -
Career Grant for Early-career Researchers, career age 0–3 years
This call welcomes researchers who have recently received a doctorate or who are at an early stage of their career. You can apply for funding to conduct your own research project, where you formulate...Current: 54 days left. Apply before: 2025-03-19 14:00 -
Enabling financing and investments for a sustainable climate transformation
There is still time to respond to the impending crises resulting from climate change and the loss of biodiversity. Significant financial resources need to be mobilised while countering capital flows t...Current: 95 days left. Apply before: 2025-04-29 14:00 -
The future and development of forests and the forest sector in a global context
Sweden, the EU and the world face complex challenges and changes – environmental, technical and societal – that affect forests and the forest sector. This call intends to enable research that explores...Current: 11 days left. Apply before: 2025-02-04 14:00 -
Smart Built Environment: Digital spatial planning in practice
The call is to contribute to the sustainable development of our built environment through projects that use digitalisation as a central component and as a tool for improved sustainability in spatial p...Current: 12 days left. Apply before: 2025-02-05 14:00 -
Co-funded call: Ecosystem-based aquatic management
The Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management, the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, and Formas are jointly announcing this call for research aimed at developing new knowledge to improve t...Given decision: 2024-12-05 14:00 -
Career Grant for Early-career Researchers, career age 4–7 years
This call welcomes researchers who have recently received a doctorate or who are at an early stage of their career. You can apply for funding to conduct your own research project, where you formulate...Given decision: 2024-11-05 14:00 -
Biodiversa+: Nature-based solutions for biodiversity, human well-being and transformative change
Formas announces 30 million SEK to researchers belonging to Swedish universities, colleges and institutes for participation and/or coordination of an application to the European partnership Biodiversa...Given decision: 2024-11-19 15:00 -
Sustainable, circular and resource-efficient built environment
Achieving a sustainable society requires drastically increasing the reuse of resources and drastically decreasing climate emissions in the built environment, both in terms of new construction and with...Closed: Decision is made 2025-05-27 14:00. -
The first transnational call within the EU partnership FutureFoodS
FutureFoodS is the European partnership that aims to contribute to more sustainable Food Systems in the future. The objective of this call is to fund transnational research and/or innovation projects...Closed: Decision is made 2025-12-01 14:00.