SSF call for 120 million in Instrument, Technology and Method development

There is now a new opportunity to apply for the Instrument, technology and method development call. The grants can be applied for by research engineers, non-faculty researchers, researchers, PhDs and postdocs for the development of new tools and methods, while promoting the grantees’ own career paths.

Instrument, technology and method development is a necessary factor for competitive research and innovation. Yet direct public funding is largely lacking in this somewhat neglected area. Already in 2017, SSF’s first call for proposals to strengthen the business branch came out, and now the second is coming.

The proposed projects must enable scientific or technical breakthroughs by developing new instrument and/or method development and/or techniques, focused on important application problems. The projects must enable future research, innovations or services around which industry and/or the public sector can grow.

SSF encourages collaborations and utilization of project results during the project period.

The call is not aimed at projects that are primarily about using (new) methods and instruments in research. The project should also not constitute a minor part of an existing research and development project.

Each project can apply for six to ten million kroner, which will be paid out over a three-year period. After the first year, an evaluation is made which is decisive for the continued payment of the grant.

SSF encourages high-risk projects that can lead to important innovation.

The call is mainly aimed at researchers and research engineers and not at professors, lecturers and people on a tenure track.

The application deadline is March 25, 2025 at 2:00 p.m. Project start is January 1, 2026.

Get the call here!

For further information, please contact:

Research Secretary Mattias Lundberg, mattias.lundberg@strategiska.se,

08 – 505 81 678

Program manager Joakim Amorim, joakim.amorim@strategiska.se, 08-505 816 65