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Collaborative projects for healthy and resilient communities

The call for proposals aims to strengthen Sweden´s resilience and health through concrete collaborations between the public sector and business, increased innovative capacity and sustainable working methods. In the longer term, the call for proposals wants to contribute to faster dissemination of innovations, system innovation and more robust and adaptable social systems, and strengthened competitiveness.

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The offer in brief

What can you apply for?

The call for proposals funds projects that create or deepen collaborations, develop and test solutions in real-world contexts – within health and life science, food systems, community development or preparedness and civil defense.

Who can apply?

A consortium must have at least one actor from the public sector – state, regional or municipal and one from the business community. Actors from academia, research institutes and civil society are encouraged to participate in the projects.

How much can you apply for?

How much can you apply for? A project will last between 18-24 months and can be funded with up to 2 million SEK per project. Approximately 40 project will be granted funding.

Important dates

  • How to apply

    To apply for funding, you need to log in and complete an application form in our eServices portal. The application form contains questions about your project, the participants taking part in the project and your budget. 

    How to apply for funding

    What happens after the call has closed?

    Once your application has been registered, we'll send a confirmation email to the person responsible for the user account, as well as to the project manager and the company signer. Please note that this may take a few hours after the call has closed.

    After the closing date, you can't register any new information. You may only add information to your application if we ask for it.

    Who can read your application?

    Applications submitted to us become official documents. However, we don't disclose information about business operations, inventions or research results if it can be assumed that someone will suffer economic damage if we do.

    This means that we must disclose the documents if someone requests them. However, we can black out information if we believe it could cause economic harm if disclosed.

    How we handle official documents and privacy

    Information about the offer coming soon

    As soon as this offer opens for the application, we will publish complete information. We will describe, for example, what you can apply for, how much you can apply for and what we assess your application for.

    How to apply

    To apply for funding from us, you need to fill in a longer application, which we then assess in competition with others. If we decide to finance your project, you need to report to us how the project is going, so that we can see that you carry out the project as you described in the application.

    How to apply for and receive funding from us

    Reference number 2026-01508