Career Grant for Early-career Researchers
The Career Grant for Early-career Researchers call welcomes researchers who have recently received a doctorate or who are at an early stage of their career. It is a reoccurring call that normally opens at the beginning of each year. In this call, you can apply for funding to conduct your own research project, where you formulate your own research question, within Formas’ areas of responsibility: Environment, Agricultural Sciences, and Spatial Planning. The purpose of the call is to give promising early-career researchers appropriate opportunities for taking the next step in their careers, encouraging an interdisciplinary direction and developing independence.
The Career Grant for Early-career Researchers call supports researchers in two different critical stages in their career development and is conducted in two tracks:
- Research projects for career age 0–3 for individuals who have a doctorate issued between 0 and 3 years ago (see the call text for precise dates).
- Research projects for career age 4–7 for individuals who have a doctorate issued between 4 and 7 years ago (see the call text for precise dates).
Applications may only be for one track.
Latest information
The 2026 call is open between the 20th of January and the 4th of March, and funding decisions will be made in October 2026. More information is available on the pages below.
2025
Decision on the 2025 call was made on the 21st of October 2025. Lists of granted projects, as well as the call texts from 2025, are available on the websites Career Grant for Early-career Researchers, career age 0–3 years and Career Grant for Early-career Researchers, career age 4–7 years.
2024
Lists of granted projects from the call 2024, as well as the call texts from 2024, are available on the websites Career Grant for Early-career Researchers, career age 0–3 years and Career Grant for Early-career Researchers, career age 4–7 years.