Impact Innovation: Innovations that can change systems – “Sustainable water for all 2050”

The call for proposals aims to support collaborations that develop and test new solutions that can contribute to Water Wise Societies's mission Sustainable Water for All 2050. The goal is to contribute to system change in practice where new working methods, technologies and business models make water resources used more sustainably and fairly.

Funding can be applied for by actors from different parts of society in collaboration. These are organisations that are necessary to change the system “from source to coast”, for example municipalities, water and sanitation organisations, companies and industries, public organisations and authorities, research and innovation actors, civil society and other organisations.

The project will start on June 1, 2026 and be completed no later than May 30, 2029.

The call for proposals is carried out within the program Water Wise Societies, which is part of Impact Innovation. Impact Innovation is a joint initiative from the Swedish Energy Agency, Formas and Vinnova to meet major societal challenges through innovation and collaboration.

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Water Wise Societies is driving Sweden's transition towards sustainable water for all. Via Vinnova, the Swedish Energy Agency and Formas are funding initiatives to drive change in the water sector through:

• innovation
• policy development
• capacity development
• research
• and internationalisation

The program's mission Sustainable Water for All 2050 means that water should be available in the right quantity and quality, and that it creates good conditions for people, the environment, ecosystems and business - despite a changing climate.

Contribute to Water Wise Societies's mission, goals and assignments through systems innovation

To achieve the mission, innovative water solutions need to be developed and put into practice in Sweden and internationally. In some cases, solutions are required that can change how entire systems work. This means sweeping changes at multiple levels between actors from all parts of society.

We believe that different perspectives, experiences and expertise from all corners of society are needed for transformation to happen, and that new collaborations and ways of working are keys to innovation and sustainable solutions. New or strengthened collaborations are needed between actors who do not collaborate today. It is about breaking down silos and discussing problems and developing solutions in broader constellations.

The applicant defines needs and solutions within the framework of one or more of Water Wise Societies's ten assignments. Solutions that are funded must have great potential to meet the need or needs.

Aim

The purpose of the call for proposals is for actors to collaborate to realize innovative solutions with potential for system change and to make a concrete contribution to Water Wise Societies's mission, goals and assignments.

The projects that are financed will, in the long term, strengthen Swedish innovation and competitiveness through sustainable growth or contribute to other societal benefits.

Mission, goals and assignments

Water Wise Societies's mission "Sustainable Water for All 2050" is broken down into three sub-goals and ten missions. The missions, which describe a desired future and the need for change, are intended to mobilize actors to make the change together.

The program's sub-goals and associated tasks that will collectively contribute to achieving the mission are:

• Resilient supply and management of water in society
  • Secure supply and management of water
  • Ensuring good drinking water quality
  • Adapting society to flooding and drought

• Building and managing society in harmony with water

• Wise water use
  • Sustainable water extraction
  • Reduce water use and leakage

• Recycle and reuse water and its resources

• Healthy lakes, streams and groundwater
  • Reduce negative impacts on aquatic ecosystems
  • Prevent and reduce the spread of hazardous substances

• Reduce eutrophication in lakes and streams

For more information about the assignments, see Water Wise Societies website

We are looking for project that:

• Belongs within Water Wise Societies's area and contributes to solving one or more of the program's missions.
• Are needs- and actor-driven, which means that they are implemented in collaboration between committed actors, including those who need the innovative solution.
• Applies to innovative solutions that can be used broadly, demonstrate clear benefits and have potential to change systems.
• Consists of the activities required for the solutions to be developed, tested and ultimately utilized.
• Contains work in multiple system dimensions (see more about system dimensions below).
• Are relevant in both a Swedish and international context,
• Based on clear descriptions of desired results and what the project should lead to.
• Contributes to sustainable system transformation.
  
  

Contributes to Water Wise Societies

The projects should be based on and contribute concretely to achieving one or more of Water Wise Societies's ten missions. They should have potential to change systems.

Are needs- and actor-driven

The projects should be based on concrete needs. You gather the right actors to meet the need, lead the work, plan who needs to be involved and what needs to be done to create results.

An actor-driven project is based on collaboration between several types of organisations, for example:

• Needs owner – actors who have a concrete problem or need that the solution can solve, for example municipalities, water supply organisations, industrial companies or water conservation associations. A needs owner should participate actively and contribute their own resources.
• Developers of the solution – actors who develop and test the innovative solution.

• Knowledge and support actors – organisations that can contribute with analysis, research or evaluation.

At least one need owner must participate as participant with a significant contribution.

Stakeholders should have influence over the system or area where the change is to be tested. This could, for example, be organisations that develop and manage a system where the solution is needed, such as municipalities, water and sanitation organisations, industrial companies, water conservation associations, and others.

It is also important to involve end users, customers or users so that the solution becomes relevant and can be used in practice.

Touch solution that can change systems

The solution should be widely applicable and create clear benefits. When the use of the solution is scaled up, it should have potential to change, that is, influence and reshape, the system. For example, if you develop a new solution that can easily replace another, the system will not change.

A solution that can change systems is part of a larger context – an ecosystem of actors, structures, rules and behaviors. It is not just about developing the solution, but also about understanding what changes are required in the surrounding systems for the solution to create value.

The solution does not have to be technical, but can also be a model or process. The solution should be different from existing efforts in the area, including internationally. However, the solution can be inspired by international examples.

Focuses on usability

The goal is for the solution to be widely used and beneficial to society. The projects will therefore:

• develop and test a solution
• work to ensure it is introduced, managed and scaled up.

Activities are needed for both points above. Iterations are often needed.

We do not expect the solution to be widely implemented or scaled during the project period. However, the conditions need to be made clear during the course of the project (for example, regarding management, ownership, continuation plan). A basic idea of the path to utilization should be described already in proposal.

You will likely have different models for how benefits should arise for your organisations or areas of responsibility. All actors should contribute to ensuring that benefits actually occur.

Has a systems perspective

Since the projects are not only intended to solve a specific problem, you need to think about how the entire system is affected and interconnected.

A systems perspective means that you look at the whole – technology, people, organisations, regulations and economics – and how changes in one part affect the others.

Within Water Wise Societies, five system dimensions are used:

• Technology, products and processes
• Transition infrastructure
• Money and value
• Policy and governance
• Acceptance and behavioral changes

Proposal should show how your work relates to one or more of these dimensions and how the activities are interconnected. For example, the project may combine activities such as policy work, developing new business models, skills-enhancing initiatives or measures that strengthen behavioral change and acceptance of the new solution.

If conditions are already in place within one or more system dimensions, this should be stated in proposal. Then work within these dimensions is not required in the project.

Links project plan to results

The project should have:

• clear objective that can be followed up,
• activities that show how the goals will be achieved, and

• a credible plan for how the results will be taken forward after the project ends.

A clear logic is needed for how activities should lead to desired results and effects, as well as plans for how learning from follow-up and evaluation should influence project execution.

Has national and international potential

The project we fund should be relevant in Sweden, but also have potential to contribute internationally.

The solution may be inspired by international examples or have potential to spread outside Sweden.

You should show how you monitor international initiatives and how you think about collaborations, scaling or dissemination in a longer perspective - even if it is not implemented during the project period.

Contributes to a sustainable system transition

All project within Water Wise Societies will contribute to sustainable societal transformation in line with Impact Innovation – Sweden's major effort to meet future challenges through innovation. Water Wise Societites is one of Impact Innovation's five mission-driven programme.

This means that the projects should:

• contribute to both ecological, social and economic sustainability,
• stimulate collaboration between private, public and non-profit actors, and

• contribute to Sweden's and the world's common objective in Agenda 2030.

Together we will show how innovation can create a sustainable, competitive and water-wise society in Sweden and internationally.

As part of this, we always follow up and assess:

• If women and men participate in the project on an equal footing, receive contributions and have influence and power over the project.
• How well the project analyzes and takes a position on whether there are sex or gender aspects that are relevant to the project's problem formulation, solutions and effects.

Equal funding of innovations

An innovative force in a sustainable world

Making scientific publications and results available

This the call for proposals will also help make results available to everyone. Therefore, all scientific publishing should be open access. When results from research and innovation are made freely available, more people can contribute to solving societal challenges.

The call for proposals is aimed at both new and existing groupings of actors in the “source to shore” system.

The “source to shore” system

The system boundary is based on a catchment area perspective and includes both water in society such as drinking, surface and wastewater and natural waters in lakes, watercourses and groundwater. Factors that affect water and water management are also included, as well as related infrastructure, the resources in our watercourses and all actors that affect or are affected by water from source to coast. Marine issues, i.e. the sea, do not fit within the system boundary.

In addition to the water sector, the system also includes water challenges in areas affected by water, such as:

• countryside
• Agriculture
• forest
• food
• communities
• industry

The system also includes fields of knowledge such as economics, law and behavioral science.

Relevant actors are, for example:

• municipalities
• VA organisations
• other public organisations and authorities
• companies and industries
• research and innovation actors, including institutes
• civil society organizations

Project roles

There are several ways for organisations to participate in a project in this call for proposals. One way is to be participant and part of the stakeholder group that applies together in the call for proposals. One can also participate as, for example, a subcontractor or reference group member or similar.

A participant should be actively involved in the project and also share risks and results. It is important that project partners and key individuals participate with active commitment.

We have identified that the following types of actors can be crucial for successful implementation:

• Stakeholders - those who need new solutions. Stakeholders should have influence over the system or area where the change is to be tested.
• Users and stakeholders- those who use the solutions, such as customers and users. They are important demanders who should be involved in the project for, for example, needs identification. Stakeholders, those who are affected by the solution being used, may also need to be involved in the project.
• Enablers – those who improve the conditions for solutions to be used, for example authorities and organisations that set rules and standards.
• Solution owners - those who develop, test and commercialize solutions.
• Intermediaries - actors who can perform development, testing and demonstration of solutions, such as universities, university colleges, consultants and institutes.
• Foreign actors - To ensure an international perspective, foreign actors may need to participate in the project. They are welcome to participate as project partners on the following term:

• A foreign actor cannot be coordinator.

• In order for foreign actors to be granted funding, they must have a Swedish business registration number and the costs of participating in the project must be incurred in a Swedish branch or establishment.

It is important to identify the right people within an organisation and how they should be involved in a project. In addition to the key people required to carry out development and coordination activities, key decision-makers or people responsible for production and operations may also need to be involved.

Project group

To apply, a collaboration between at least two organisations is required, of which at least one is a need owner. The organisations that are part of the project must be actively involved and share risks and results. It is important that project partners and key individuals participate with active commitment.

Those of you who apply together do so as project partners, where one of your organisations acts as coordinator. Coordinator coordinates the project and represents the project in relation to Vinnova.

All project partners must be legal entities. Individuals or individual companies cannot participate. The coordinating party must be a Swedish legal entity and conduct activities in Sweden.

The project manager must be employed by the coordinating organisation. We can accept that project manager is employed by another of the parties in the project. You must then justify the need for this in proposal. This justification will be taken into account in our assessment.

Shared project management is permitted, where the project manager shares responsibility for the project with a deputy project manager who does not have to come from the same organisation.

What activities do we want to finance?

You can seek project support for activities carried out to realize an innovative solution. This includes development, testing, and preparation for implementation and scaling. Stakeholders and users should always be involved.

Examples of relevant activities:

• Develop the actor group: deepen collaboration between the actors and, if necessary, work to involve more actors in the work.
• Deepen the needs analysis: update, supplement and deepen the analysis done before proposal.
• Analyze structural factors to better understand obstacles and opportunities for the solution within the five system dimensions.
• Develop prototypes and demonstrators: everything from simple prototypes and demonstrators with limited functionality to more sophisticated ones in a real environment to test solutions and develop new knowledge. The results can often have greater value and dissemination if you can show and test the solution in this form.
• Conducting tests in the lab and in the real world:
  • In a limited and controlled environment such as a lab experiment and with a limited number of users.
  • On a larger scale and in a real environment in order to be able to spread and be used. In this type of testing, the needs owner and users/requirement setters often have a central role.
  • In an international environment. potential of the results can increase significantly if the international dimension is strengthened, for example by carrying out tests in particularly interesting environments outside Sweden.
• Generalize results: to increase potential of the results, it may be relevant to involve new, important user groups to ensure that the results can be disseminated to other actors, sectors and areas of use.
• Develop new tools or methods that can facilitate broad use and scaling, such as new types of training or forms of target group-adapted communication.
• Influence structural factors to facilitate the implementation of the solution. For example, actively work to:
  • change laws, regulations, policies and standards (system dimension Policy and Governance)
  • influence cultural values (the dimension of Acceptance and Behavioral Changes)
  • develop and implement new business or compensation models (the Money and Value dimension).
• Develop plans for how you will contribute to broad use and scaling after the project ends.
  • This includes who will own, operate and manage the results after you have completed the project.
• Evaluate the benefit of the solution or the project's activities, such as the work to influence structural factors.
• Disseminate project results, method development and knowledge among partners and actors outside the project consortium.

Project funded in this call for proposals will participate in and contribute to Water Wise Societies's so-called transition arena. It is an arena for exchange of experiences and co-creation run by the Water Wise Societies program office for the program's members. The arena consists of both physical and digital meetings and workshops. Participation is ongoing.

The projects will submit a special report in 2027 describing how your thoughts have developed about the project's potential to change systems and how realistic it is that the goals will be met. Vinnova will provide a template for the report in the form of a results framework.

We do not finance:

• Routine or recurring development of existing solutions or other ongoing activities.
• Distinctive research projects. However, Research may occur when this is justified to achieve the project's objective.
• Project where the benefit only accrues to individual actors.
• Building and establishing, for example, platforms, forums, testbeds or similar structures.
  • However, certain activities to further develop testbeds can be funded. In some cases, the value of the results can be enhanced if they can be incorporated into an existing testbed. Such further development can include, for example, new features, more efficient business and work models, and certain upgrades and adaptations of existing test infrastructure.

What costs can we finance?

Our funding is subject to state aid rules. The rules govern what types of costs we can finance. These are called eligible costs.

In this the call for proposals, these types of costs are eligible:

• Salary costs: Gross salary paid, as well as employer contributions and other salary-related costs.
• Equipment, land and buildings: Instruments, equipment and rent for premises other than regular business premises.
• Consulting and licensing costs: Consulting services or costs for licenses from an external actor. Costs of this kind may constitute a maximum of 20 percent of a project party's budget. We can accept a higher proportion than 20 percent in case of special needs. You must then justify the need for this in proposal. This justification is taken into account in our assessment. The services must be purchased from outsiders, that is, from external actors on market term.
• Other direct costs: For example, materials, supplies and travel necessary to carry out the project.
• Indirect costs (overhead):Costs that are not incurred as a direct result of but can be related to the project, for example regular premises and cleaning. Indirect costs may constitute a maximum of 30 percent of personnel costs. Universities, university colleges and certain research organisations and government agencies have higher maximum limits depending on the type of activities.

Costs incurred for participating in the Water Wise Societies transition arena may be included in the eligible costs.

For more detailed information about which costs we can finance, see Instructions for eligible costs

What eligibility requirements apply to costs we finance?

For a cost to be eligible, it must be:

• necessary for the activities in the project
• accounted for correctly and separately from the organisation's other costs.

An organisation may also not claim someone else's costs as its own.

Please note that participant are not allowed to purchase services or goods from other participant within the project.

For more detailed information on which eligibility requirements, limitations and exceptions apply, see Instructions for eligible costs

state aid rules govern how much of the costs we can finance. This is determined individually for each organisation. We therefore differentiate between how much funding the project can receive, and how much each participant can receive.

The total budget for the call for proposals is SEK 100 million.

How much funding can the project receive?

You can apply for a maximum of 36 months in this call for proposals. The project can receive a maximum of SEK 10,000,000 in funding. The project's aid intensity may not exceed 70%.

The call for proposals provides the opportunity for successive funding

Since research and innovation projects involve uncertainty and often need to change over time, we want to create the conditions for a more agile way of working and funding. To enable adaptations and meet any need to add new partners or activities during the initial project period, we will apply “successive funding” in this call for proposals.

At the time of application, the project can choose to apply for funding for its entire planned project ambition, or for part of it – however, at least 75 percent. The project that seeks part of the funding will have the opportunity to apply for the remaining funds in 2027. The purpose is to give the project time to mobilize more actors during the initial project period.

The total contribution to the project cannot exceed the maximum allocated amount per project, i.e. SEK 10,000,000.

Vinnova will provide a template and instructions for this.

How much funding can a participant receive?

Descriptions in the following sections about what support we can provide are simplified. For full information, see funding rules | State aid to economic activities (companies) | Vinnova.

How much funding each participant can receive depends mainly on:

• party size and activities
• which activities the party will carry out in the project.

In this the call for proposals we provide support to both organisations that conduct economic activities ( state aid) and organisations that do not conduct economic activities.

Economic and non-economic activities

Vinnova distinguishes between economic and non-economic activities according to EU state aid rules.

Economic activities means that the organisation offers goods or services on a market. It does not matter how the activity is financed, whether it is public or private, whether it is run for profit or not, or what legal form it has – for example, a limited liability company, an economic association, a non-profit association or a foundation.

Non-economic activities have a general, non-commercial aim and do not offer goods or services on a market, such as free research, education or cultural activities without sales.

If an organisation carries out both types of activities these must be kept separate in the accounts, so that the support only goes to the part that is eligible for support.

If you are unsure whether an organisation in your project is conducting economic activities, contact call manager. However, The organisation is responsible for assessing whether it is conducting economic activities.

Support for organisations that do not conduct economic activities

In this the call for proposals we also provide support to organisations that do not engage in economic activities. This usually includes universities and university colleges, research institutes and other organisations that do not offer a service or product on a market.

We can fund up to 100 percent of such organisations' eligible costs.

Can municipal water and sanitation companies apply for funding as non-economic activities?

The issue has not been legally tested in Sweden. However, there are good reasons to view municipal water operations in Sweden as legal monopolies, which would mean that municipal water companies can use non-economic activities as basis for support.

Two conditions are that:

• The projects must be carried out within the part of the business that is based on the legal monopoly.
• The organisation must distinguish between costs, funding and revenues from activities that are of an economic and non-economic nature. Otherwise, cross-subsidization of economic activities may occur.

Support for organisations with economic activities that conduct research and development

In this the call for proposals we provide support for industrial research and experimental development.

• Industrial research can be simply described as seeking new knowledge through planned research or critical analysis to develop or significantly improve products, processes or services.
• Experimental development can be simply described as combining, shaping and using existing knowledge to develop new or improved products, processes or services.

How much of the costs can we finance?

The organisation's size and type of activity determines how large a proportion of the costs we can finance, i.e. the maximum level of support.

Minor Support for businesses

In this the call for proposals we can also provide de minimis support, also known as support of minor importance. We can finance up to 100 percent of a project party's costs.

An organisation can receive a maximum of 300,000 euros over a three-year period in this form of support, regardless of the funder and project. This means that if the same organisation has received support of lesser importance in other project from other funders in the past, it will affect how large the support can be in this the call for proposals.

Submit a certificate of de minimis support when you submit proposal. This is required for us to be able to grant this support.

Certificate of de minimis support

We can only grant applications that meet our formal eligibility requirements.

Some of the requirements need to be met at the time of application in order for us to assess your proposal. If these eligibility requirements are not met, we will reject proposal immediately.

For certain formal eligibility requirements we may allow additions to correct obvious errors, provided that the action does not result in a substantive change to proposal.

Eligibility requirements for project parties

• All project partners must be legal entities. Natural persons or individual companies cannot participate.
• The coordinating party must be a Swedish legal entity and conduct activities in Sweden.
• At least two project partners must participate in the project. This includes the coordinating partner.

Eligibility requirements for the project

• The project manager must be employed by the coordinating party or a participant in the project. In the latter case, however, this must be justified in proposal. This justification is taken into account in our assessment.

Eligibility requirements on proposal

• Proposal must be written in Swedish or English.
• Proposal must follow the instructions given in section 9. We may allow certain additions regarding this eligibility requirements.
• Proposal must contain all requested attachments as given in section 9. We may allow certain additions regarding this eligibility requirements.

Applications that meet our eligibility requirements will proceed to assessment. In the assessment, we look at how much potential your idea has, how realistic it is and who will implement the project.

What do we assess?

When assessing applications, we look at three main criteria:

• Potential: We analyze what effects and what value we can expect from the project.
• Actors: We assess the participants' competence and ability to collaboratively implement the project and achieve desired results and effects.
• Feasibility: We assess how realistic and credible the project plan is, both for implementing the project and for achieving desired results.

Eftersom Vinnova is tasked with contributing to increased gender equality and climate change, and we always follow up and assess these perspectives.

Potential

• To what extent does the project have potential to make a concrete contribution to one or more of Water Wise Societies's missions by working to realize an innovative solution.
  • This includes that the innovative solution can be used widely and has potential to change systems.
• To what extent is the project based on a credible systems approach.
  • The approach should show what work is required within different system dimensions for the solution to be realized and widely used.
• How well the solutions differ from existing solutions in the field, including internationally, in terms of level of innovation and possible benefit.
• The extent to which the application contains a relevant analysis of the project's international dimensions.
• How well perspectives on sex, gender and equality have been integrated into the project proposal, and what significance these have for the project's results.

Actors

• To what extent is the project group composed of the organisations that need to be involved in order for the project to be implemented and create broad benefits.
• The extent to which the project manager and other key individuals are assessed to have the competence, ability and prerequisites to implement the project.
• How well the financial contribution, participation, power and influence are distributed in an equal manner in the project team.

Feasibility

• To what extent is the project based on clear descriptions of what the project will lead to, with measurable, concrete and well-defined objective, and how the project will be evaluated.
• How appropriate the project plan and budget are for realizing an innovative solution in accordance with the project's objective.
  • This includes work to:
    • the solution should be usable after the project ends
    • bring about change within multiple system dimensions
    • include end users in testing and development
    • include international dimensions
  • How well the need for consulting services is justified. This only applies if a project party's budget contains more than 20 percent consulting costs.
  • The extent to which the project is implemented in active collaboration between committed actors, including significant input from need owners.
  • How credible the project plan's analyses of risk and potential goal conflicts are, and how effective the plans for managing this are.

How do we assess?

Once we have received the applications, we will review them. We will screen out any applications that are incomplete or that do not meet our formal eligibility requirements as per section 6.

Applications that are correct and complete are distributed among different evaluator and assessed in competition with each other. The evaluators are appointed by us based on their expertise in the field. Each proposal is assessed by at least four evaluator.

Once the evaluators have reviewed the applications, we will have an assessment meeting where the evaluators will recommend which applications should be granted. We will also call for an interview before making a decision.

The interviews will take place on May 6 - 12, 2026. The invitation will be sent out approximately two weeks in advance.

In a competitive situation, an overall portfolio perspective regarding Water Wise Societies assignments and the geography of the projects will be taken into account.

Information about approved project is published on www.vinnova.se and Water Wise Societies's website.

How does it affect an organization's financial status?

Before deciding on funding we also conduct a comprehensive assessment of the organizational and financial status of those receiving funding. We use information we obtain from credit reports, currently from Dun & Bradstreet.

In order for us to grant funding the following applies:

• Organisations seeking funding for personnel costs must be registered as employers with the Swedish Tax Agency.
• Organisations must not be insolvent, or undergoing liquidation or corporate restructuring. They must also not have any significant unpaid debts with the Swedish Enforcement Authority.
• Organisations may not cover project costs in this the call for proposals with public funding or own funds intended for other project.
• Limited liability companies must not have used up half or more of their share capital.
• If requested, SMEs must be able to demonstrate that they have the financial capacity to carry out the project according to their budget in proposal.

Once we have assessed all applications, we will send you a decision either granting or rejecting your proposal. Since applications are assessed competitively, you may be rejected even though you meet all eligibility requirements and criteria.

In the decision, we state how much of the costs we will cover for each organisation.

You cannot appeal our decision, but you are welcome to apply to us again at another time.

What happens if you are granted funding?

If we grant your proposal, you must follow our general terms and conditions for funding. The terms include, among other things:

• That you will sign a special document in which you approve your participation and commit to carrying out the project.
• That you report how things are going, your costs and achieved results to us regularly during the project period.
• If you are multiple parties, you must agree on your mutual rights and obligations in the project in an agreement. It can take time to get a project agreement in place, so it is a good idea to start working on this before the project starts.
• How the results will be used and how scientific publication will take place.

See our general terms and conditions and get help understanding and fulfilling them

You also need to follow the special conditions that apply to this the call for proposals:

• All project parties must be legal entities.
• The coordinating party must be a Swedish legal entity and conduct activities in Sweden.
• The project must be represented by at least one participant at the Water Wise Societies transition arena and other activities organized within the program, approximately on two to four (of which a maximum of two physical) occasions per year. The costs for such participation are eligible for support.
• The project must, upon request, have contact with the Water Wise Societies program office or another actor designated by the program office during the duration of the project. This may, for example, involve shorter digital meetings or responding to surveys.
• When providing information about the project and when publishing project results, it must be stated that the work was carried out within the Impact Innovation program Water Wise Societies – an initiative of the Swedish Energy Agency, Formas and Vinnova.
• In connection with the final reporting of the project to Vinnova, a summary of the project results must be sent to Water Wise Societies program office according to the template available at www.impactinnovation.se. The summary must be freely distributed and published on the Energy Agency, Formas, Vinnova, Impact Innovations and the program office's website. The summary must not contain confidential or otherwise sensitive information.

We may also decide to add supplementary special conditions for individual project. In such cases, they will be stated in the decision.

Could you need to pay back funding?

If you have received more money than you are entitled to or if you do not follow our term, you may be required to repay.

When the call for proposals closes, your proposal will be registered as. We will then send an email confirmation to the person responsible for the user account, as well as to the project manager and the signatory. If you have not received a confirmation within 24 hours of the call for proposals closing, please contact us.

Once the call for proposals is closed, you cannot change anything in proposal. You can only make additions if we ask you to.

Who can read your proposal?

Your proposal will be read by Vinnova employees and the evaluator participating in this the call for proposals. Everyone works under a duty of confidentiality.

Applications submitted to us become public documents. This means that we must disclose them if requested. However, we keep certain types of information confidential if disclosure could be expected to cause financial harm to the individual. This applies to information about business and operational conditions, inventions or research results.

How we handle public documents and confidentiality