Deadline: 2 September 2025
Do you have a project idea that can help Swedish industry create and take advantage of the opportunities of digitalization? Vinnova wants to finance research and innovation projects with high potential to contribute to new industrial solutions in cybersecurity and data flows, i.e. access to well-structured data in digital value chains.
Aims
- Advanced digitalisation aims to strengthen Swedish research and make Sweden more attractive for research and innovation investments, and stimulate the development of advanced digital technology. The programme will be implemented with a long-term perspective and contribute to innovative, enabling technologies and the development of core competence areas that meet the needs of industry.
Objectives
- The program’s objective are:
- Contribute to the next generation of advanced, powerful and secure digital solutions – developed in Sweden.
- Strengthen Sweden’s attractiveness when it comes to research and innovation investments.
- Contribute to raising the competence and implementation capacity of Swedish business in the area of advanced digitalisation.
- Ensure increased competitiveness for industry operating in Sweden.
- To constitute a collaboration platform and function as a knowledge hub for other Swedish initiatives in the field of digitalization.
- Contribute to society’s digital transformation, sustainable development and the work to achieve Swedish environmental goals.
Thematic Areas
- The projects should promote innovation within and be relevant to one of the two thematic areas of the call:
- Cybersecurity
- Data flows – access to well-structured data in digital value chains.
Funding Information
- Vinnova’s funding can amount to between 2 and 30 million SEK per project, and can maximum amount to 50 percent of the project’s total eligible costs.
- The duration of the projects should be between 12 and 36 months.
Eligible Costs
- In this the call for proposals these types of costs are eligible:
- Personnel costs: Salaries, social security contributions and other personnel costs.
- Equipment, land and buildings: Instruments, equipment and rent for premises other than regular business premises.
- Consulting and licensing costs: Consulting services, knowledge and patents purchased or used under license from a third party.
- Other direct costs: For example, materials, supplies and travel necessary to carry out the project.
- Indirect costs (overhead): Costs that are not incurred as an immediate consequence of but can be related to the project, such as regular premises and cleaning.
Target Audiences
- The call for proposals is aimed at consortia with at least two participants, which may include industry, business, academia, research institutes, public activities, authorities or economic associations.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligibility requirements on organizational form of project parties:
- All project partners must be legal entities. They do not grant funding to individual companies.
- The coordinating party must be a Swedish legal entity and conduct activities in Sweden.
- The project must have at least two project parties, of which at least one party must be a Swedish company. Project parties from the same group are not counted as different project parties.
- Eligibility requirements for the project:
- The project manager must be employed by the coordinator.
- The project may not begin before proposal is submitted.
For more information, visit Vinnova.
