Impact Innovation: Research and Development Projects in Sweden

The offer is part of Swedish Metals & Minerals, a programme within the Swedish Energy Agency, Formas and Vinnova´s joint innovation initiative Impact Innovation. The programme´s mission is\”To ensure a sustainable and resilient supply of metals and minerals for societal transition\”. This call for proposals is aimed at research and development projects that contribute to Swedish Metals & Minerals´ mission through solutions or improvements within the programme´s Technological Action Areas.

Funding Information

• There is no set maximum grant amount per project, but 20-30 project is expected to be financed within the call´s budget of SEK 125 million.

What can you apply for?

• Project with the character of industrial research or experimental development that contributes to Swedish Metals & Minerals´ mission through solutions or improvements within the program´s technical action areas.

Eligibility Criteria

• The applicant consortium contains at least three project partners, of which at least one Swedish research organization (university, university college or research institute) and at least one company with activities in Sweden. Different workplaces or workplaces in an organization, for example different departments at a university, are counted as one participant as they constitute the same legal entity.
• Eligibility requirements on organizational form of project parties
  • All project parties must be legal entities. Natural persons or individual companies cannot participate as project parties.
  • The coordinating project party must be a Swedish legal entity and conduct activities in Sweden.
  • The project parties seeking funding from Vinnova are either Swedish legal entities or foreign organizations that have a branch or operating location in Sweden and where the costs in the project are attributable to the branch’s or operating location’s activities.
• Eligibility requirements for the project
  • The project must not have begun before proposal is submitted.
  • Proposal must be written in Swedish or English.

For more information, visit Vinnova.