Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research: Strategic mobility – grant for personal mobility between academia and industry

28/04/2022

06/09/2022

The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research invites proposals for its strategic mobility grant for personal mobility between academia and industry. This aims to increase personal mobility, knowledge transfer and cross-fertilization between academia and industry. The total budget for this call is SEK 10 million. Individual grants are worth up to SEK 1.5m including overheads, of which no more than SEK 100,000 for other costs. Indirect costs are only permitted when the host organisation is a Swedish higher education institution, regardless of which organisation administers the grant. The duration of the project shall be equivalent to four to 12 months working full-time. The exchange may be divided into different periods, and the grant holder may also work part-time during their stay, but not more than for a period of two years. In the case of university researchers who will do exchange service in industry, part of the grant can be used for repatriation upon their return to academia.

Bioengineering; Bio/Medical; Computer Science & Informatics; Medicine & Health; Engineering; Materials Sciences

University, research institutes or industrial researchers may apply. The mobility is normally performed within Sweden, it may also be spent in another sector abroad, and it is likewise possible to invite a foreign visiting researcher from another sector to Sweden if it is justified how this contributes to the development of Swedish competitiveness. The exchange should be between one academic and one industry unit. Applicants should be well established in their current work and should have tenured posts or such appointments that they are expected to return to their original activities.