Deadline: October 01, 2025
This funding opportunity supports full-scale system demonstrators designed to accelerate the transition to fossil-free, safe, equitable, and efficient road transport through broad collaborations involving diverse actors with the power to influence various system components.
The focus areas of the funded projects include all five system dimensions: Behavior, culture and values; Business models; Regulations, policy and standardization (“policy”); Infrastructure, physical and digital; and Technology, products, services and processes.
This call aims to enable system demonstrators that possess a high level of technical maturity and conduct demonstrations in real environments, addressing clear societal challenges related to sustainable road transport. Projects must involve broad actor constellations including industry solution providers, need owners, users, researchers, and public actors, with a minimum of five parties, of which at least one must be a need owner.
Applicant projects must have completed a preparatory project and include its final report as part of the application. Project budgets must be at least SEK 10 million with a project duration of up to 36 months and require at least 50 percent co-financing, including 25 percent from business entities. The total grant budget for this call is approximately SEK 70 million.
Eligible activities include building and testing system demonstrators in real environments, evaluating user and stakeholder experiences, validating influences on structural factors like behavior and regulations, investigating business models and demand, assessing infrastructure adaptation needs, determining investment requirements for national and international scaling, and conducting communication to stakeholders beyond the project consortium.
Funding covers eligible costs such as personnel salaries and associated costs, equipment and premises rental beyond regular business locations, consulting and licensing fees up to 20 percent of each party’s budget, other direct costs including materials and travel, and indirect overhead costs capped at 30 percent of personnel costs. Higher limits may apply for universities, research institutes, and certain government agencies. All funding is subject to state aid rules.
Grants cover up to 50 percent of eligible project costs, with funding shares per participant depending on organization size and role. Experimental development activities as defined in the program are supported. For organizations not engaged in economic activities, such as universities and research entities, up to 100 percent funding is possible.
Proposals are evaluated based on their potential to contribute to sustainable road transport through large-scale system demonstrations, feasibility, gender equality integration, and strength of actor collaboration. Key assessment criteria include the maturity and scalability of solutions, comprehensiveness across system dimensions, project planning, risk mitigation, commitment of diverse actors, and integration of gender perspectives.
Successful applicants must agree to Vinnova’s general terms and conditions, including participation agreements among project partners, regular reporting of progress and costs, dissemination plans that include open access scientific publishing, and adherence to special conditions set for the call.
Applications must be submitted by 1 October 2025 at 2 PM via Vinnova’s e-services, accompanied by a final report from the preparatory project, a project summary, and a Gantt chart. Only mandatory attachments as specified are permitted.
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