Research Funding News 5 2025 Research Services, Lund University |
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In Nobel timesAs tradition has it, following this week's announcements of the Nobel Prize laureates, the European Commission has been quick of the mark to note that one of the winners of the physics prize, Michel H. Devoret, has been EU-funded, having been a supervisor in a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action. Did he find out about the MSCA from his grants office, one wonders? Either way, please find the latest issue of Research Funding News from your very own funding specialists. Perhaps it is in this very issue that you will find your next funding opportunity on your path towards Nobel greatness? Research Services
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Knowledge for sustainable development - Lund University Research Conference 2025Save the date! On 9 December 2025, Lund University invites to its 5th official research conference on sustainable development, in collaboration with University of Cambridge. The conference is aimed at all researchers who want to increase their knowledge about the challenges that lie ahead, learn how their research can contribute to change, and strengthen their contacts with researchers from other disciplines. This year's conference theme is Breaking barriers to climate solutions and will be a hybrid event. Conference website | |
Research mobility programmes France-SwedenThe French Embassy to Sweden has two calls for research mobility programmes open: - The SFVE-A mobility programme (Svensk-Fransk Vetenskap Anslag) for short visits or complementary funding
- France Excellence Research grants for mobility to France
Deadline: 2 November 2025 Further information on the website of the Institut français de Suède | Azrieli International Postdoctoral Fellowship 2026-2027Applications are open for the Azrieli International Postdoctoral Fellowship and the Azrieli International Visiting PhD Fellowship, both for exceptional international researchers. Candidates must secure an academic sponsor in Israel before applying. Deadline: 19 November 2025 Further information | | Apply for starting a Theme at Pufendorf IAS
The Pufendorf IAS is tasked with stimulating interdisciplinary research at Lund University, and provides researchers from different disciplines and faculties with the opportunity to work together for 9 months on a research problem.
The Institute welcomes theme applications concerning new research questions that are at an early stage. These ideas are generally not yet mature enough for other forms of research funding. Deadline is 9 December 2025. An information meeting will be held on 21 October. Further information. The Pufendorf IAS also invites for applications to form an Advanced Study Group (ASG), a flexible format for a group of researchers to meet ad hoc to bring a research idea from a very early stage to a more concrete level. Read more about ASG. | | | | |
Advanced WP drafts 2026-2027The European Commission has uploaded the final draft versions of the work programmes for 2026-2027. This is a useful way to find upcoming calls during the remainder of the framework programme. Some final changes may still occur when the definitive versions will be adopted later during autumn. First deadlines in 2026 are expected in March 2026. | EIC Advanced Innovation Challenges
The European Innovation Council will in 2026 pilot so called Advanced Innovation Challenges. The EIC-AICs will drive breakthrough innovation through staged-based support. The AICs aim to support high-risk, demand-driven deep tech innovation with transformative potential especially in areas where there is extensive research but lack of commercial uptake. The two AICs to be piloted first are: - Accelerating Physical AI: Embodied Intelligence for the Next Frontier of AI-Powered Robotics
- Translating Disruptive New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) into Practice
Funding available in stage 1 is up to €300,000 lump sum for up to nine months to prepare and benchmark breakthrough solutions and explore their viability. The call will open on 15 November 2025, with a stage 1 deadline set for 1 March 2026. Research Services has a copy of the draft work programme, so contact anna-karin.wihlborg@fsi.lu.se for more information. | | | Driving Urban TransitionsDUT is a European partnership that funds research and innovation projects for sustainable urban transformation. For the 2025 call, Formas is co-funding projects in circular urban economies and the Swedish Energy Agency in energy-positive districts. Deadline: 17 November 2025 Further information on Formas website
| Biodiversa+ callThe European Biodiversity Partnership under Horizon Europe - Biodiversa plus - will open a call for international three-year projects focusing on the restoration of ecosystem function, integrity and connectivity.
Deadline for pre-registering the proposal with Formas: 7 November 2025 Further information on Formas website | JRC research infrastructure open accessThe Joint Research Centre has six open calls, offering access to its laboratories and facilities
| | | Swedish funding requiring central management | Project calls from MMW & MAWPlease note that the Management rules for project calls with the Marianne & Marcus Wallenberg Foundation (MMW) and the Marcus & Amalia Wallenberg Foundation (MAW) has been distributed to faculties. This document can also be found on the Swedish language Staff Pages. It describes the LU internal project selection process + contains information on the structure and content of Letters of Intent (LOI). Please visit the foundation webpages to learn about call prerequisites. MMW focuses on the wider Social Sciences whereas MAW focuses on the Humanities. Please also note that it is the faculties that submits researcher LOIs to Research Services on the 13 January 2026. Thus, make sure to reach out to your faculty to learn about the faculty-internal process and deadline. Contact at Research Services: Sam Madjidian (sam.madjidian@fsi.lu.se)
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Selected calls from other fundersFor a more exhaustive list of calls directly relevant to you, try the grant database Pivot-RP, to which Lund University subscribes. | The Swedish Childhood Cancer Fund (Barncancerfonden) No specific deadlines: Start-up grants; Health care planning groups under PHO Further information | SSF drone swarms Technologies for autonomous swarms of dronesThe grant will enable a Strategic Research Center, which will stimulate collaboration between academia, research institutes, industry and society. Deadline: 28 January 2026
Further information | | | SSF call in Swedish-Taiwanese researchA joint call between SSF and the National Science and Technology Council of Taiwan to fund ten strategic collaboration projects in at least one of the following areas: 6G, AI, Biotechnology for precision medicine, Drones/robots, Green energy, Semiconductors, Quantum science, Marine and ocean exploration, Neuroscience, or Space. Deadline: 11 February 2026
Further information | Opportunities with the Kamprad Family FoundationThe foundation's Continuation Grants focused on implementing previously conducted research has a deadline of 1 December 2025. Further information (in Swedish) | Vinnova international planning grantPlanning grant for proposals for research and innovation projects to an international call for proposals. Up to 300 000 SEK for partners and up to 500 000 SEK for coordinators. Deadline: 12 November 2025
Further information | | | Swedish Foundations' Starting GrantThe call addresses prominent early-career researchers based at host institutions in Sweden, who scored among the best in the most recent ERC Starting Grant call yet narrowly missed out on a grant due to the limited available ERC funding. The funding is equivalent to an ERC Starting Grant. Deadline: 24 October 2025 Further information | SSMF
Postdoctoral Grant in medicineThese are three-year grants in medical science
intended to give young researchers the opportunity to obtain qualifications to establish themselves as independent researchers. Applications are accepted for both full-time and half-time positions, the latter are intended for those who are clinically active in their regular employment, such as medical practitioners. Deadline: 15 November 2025
Further information
| RJ guest researchers Tokyo CollegeThe RJ foundation offers an opportunity to spend the 2026-2027 academic year at Tokyo College, the University of Tokyo's English-language, multidisciplinary Institute for Advanced Studies. Deadline: 29 October 2025
Further information (in Swedish)
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