Forte - Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare
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Forte is a Swedish government research funding agency that promotes and finances research in the areas of health, working life, and welfare. The organization works to ensure that research benefits society and annually distributes approximately 900 million Swedish kronor to research, primarily to universities and higher education institutions in Sweden.
Funding Opportunities
Framtidens vårdsystem 2026 (THCS) - Access to care
The European partnership Transforming Health and Care Systems (THCS) opens its fourth transnational call focused on Access to care. Forte allocates 15 million Swedish kronor to this call. The purpose is to finance research and innovation projects that contribute to equitable access to and use of healthcare. Projects should also provide decision-makers and other responsible parties with the knowledge and tools needed to reallocate resources when healthcare systems face new and ongoing challenges. Funded projects should build on existing knowledge to develop innovative solutions that help key actors reduce inequalities in access to and use of healthcare services. Projects should examine how access to care at all levels can be improved through financial models, models for care delivery, and development of interdisciplinary and integrated care programs.
Konferensbidrag 2026
Forte vill stimulera konferenser där forskare i Sverige kan presentera och diskutera forskning inom Fortes ansvarsområden. Bidraget avser stöd för att genomföra konferenser med svenskt lärosäte eller vetenskaplig organisation som värd. Syftet är att underlätta kontakter och erfarenhetsutbyte mellan forskare samt bidra till att forskning sprids. Forte ger bidrag till nationella konferenser inom våra områden, som genomförs i Sverige och är öppna för alla forskare inom området. Konferensbidrag syftar till att stärka forskningsfält inom Fortes områden genom anordnandet av nationella vetenskapliga konferenser, där forskare och praktiker kan utbyta erfarenheter och kunskap samt utveckla samarbeten. Konferensen måste genomföras inom 15 månader från projektstart och ska genomföras i Sverige samt samla minst 40 deltagare.
Etableringsbidrag 2026
The annual call for starting grants aims to support competence and career development for junior researchers and promote researcher mobility. The starting grant should promote establishment and independence in research by giving junior researchers the opportunity to lead their own defined project. The grant is open for research within Forte's three areas: health, working life, and welfare. The research supported must be of high scientific quality and have good potential to contribute to societal benefit in the short or long term. This funding opportunity is specifically designed to give young researchers financing for their own employment and enable them to independently conduct their research.
Hjärnhälsa 2026 - JTC2026 Call 1: Neurological Mental Sensory Disorders
Forte participates in the JTC2026 Call 1: Neurological Mental Sensory Disorders call, administered by the European Brain Health partnership. The purpose of the call is to support international and interdisciplinary research collaborations that contribute knowledge applicable in practice. Research questions should address how biological, social, and environmental factors affect the development of neurological, mental, and sensory disorders throughout life. The research should have potential to improve early detection, preventive interventions, treatments, and support for affected individuals. The call emphasizes life-course perspectives, outcomes capturing quality of life, and aspects of function, gender, ethics, culture, and socio-economic factors. Only transnational projects will be funded, with research consortia required to include at least three eligible research partners from at least three different countries.
Vård och omsorg för personer med demenssjukdom 2027
This is an upcoming research funding opportunity from Forte focused on dementia care and support. The call is part of Forte's government mandate to fund research on care and support for people with dementia. Dementia is a chronic disease that worsens over time. Through the research proposition 2024/25:60, the Swedish government tasked Forte with investing a total of 239 million Swedish kronor over four years on research about care and support for people with dementia. The call is scheduled to open in autumn 2026, close in winter 2026, with decisions announced in spring 2027. All information is currently preliminary and final details will be published when the call officially opens.
Fritidens betydelse för barns hälsa 2026
Utlysningen välkomnar forskningsansökningar som bidrar till att stärka kunskapsläget om fritidens betydelse för barns och ungas psykiska, fysiska och sociala hälsa. Projekten kan omfatta olika typer av fritidsaktiviteter, miljöer och strukturella förutsättningar. Detta är den första utlysningen inom ramen för Fortes nya 10-åriga nationella forskningsprogram med syfte att öka kunskapen om barns och ungas uppväxt och hälsa. Treårigt projektbidrag erbjuds för att stärka kunskapen om fritidens betydelse för barn och ungas hälsa, välbefinnande och utveckling. Forskningsprojekten kan omfatta olika typer av fritidsaktiviteter, miljöer och strukturella förutsättningar som påverkar ungas utveckling.
Samverkan i praktiken för psykisk hälsa 2026
This grant call welcomes practice-based research on promoting, preventive, and early interventions for mental health, as well as effective interventions, methods, and treatments for mental ill-health. Collaboration with the public sector or civil society is a requirement and should permeate the entire research process. The funding is part of Sweden's national research program on mental health and aims to support research that not only enhances understanding of mental health issues but also actively contributes to solutions and improvements. Projects should align with Sweden's national strategy for mental health and suicide prevention. Research can focus on mental health broadly, ranging from psychological well-being to psychological distress and psychiatric conditions, at both societal and individual levels, and across all age groups.
Projektbidrag 2026
The annual call for project grants is an open call where researchers can freely formulate research questions within Forte's areas. The purpose is to enable analysis of and contribute to deeper knowledge within defined research areas or questions. Project grants aim to create and disseminate knowledge about an identified research question within a defined research project. Project grants can be applied for by both individual researchers and research groups. The research supported must be of high scientific quality and have good potential to contribute to societal benefit in the short or long term. Applications are open for research within Forte's three areas: health, working life and welfare.
Brain health 2026
In January, the European partnership for Brain Health will launch two calls for proposals for multinational translational research projects. Brain disorders are a leading cause of disability and death globally and pose major challenges for people living with these conditions, their families, social relationships, and professional and informal carers. The aim of the call is to facilitate multinational, collaborative and interdisciplinary research that addresses critical translational questions. Applications for this call should address how biological, social and environmental factors affect the trajectory of neurological, mental and sensory disorders across the lifespan. It is crucial to identify the factors that influence brain health across the life course – from the fetal stage to older age – as well as methods to monitor these factors, influence them, or both.
Collaboration in Practice for Mental Health 2026
The call welcomes practice-oriented research within promotion, prevention, and early interventions for mental health, as well as effective interventions, methods, and treatments for mental ill-health and illness. Collaboration with the public sector or civil society is a requirement and must permeate the entire research process. The call invites practice-oriented research relating to two priority areas: promotive, preventive, and early interventions for mental health, and practice-oriented research on effective interventions, methods, and treatments for mental ill-health and mental disorders. Applications are invited across the spectrum of mental health, from well-being to psychological distress and psychiatric illnesses, at both individual and societal levels and across all ages. All research funded under this call must be conducted in collaboration with the public sector or civil society, with partners involved in planning, study design, data collection and analysis, as well as interpretation, dissemination, and implementation of results. Research should generate tangible benefits for patients and practice, address societal challenges in the field, and support the implementation of the priority actions outlined in the national strategy on mental health and suicide prevention.
Conference grants 2026
Conference grants 2026 is a funding opportunity from Forte, Sweden's research council for health, working life and welfare. The grant is intended to support the organisation of conferences hosted by a Swedish higher education institution or scientific organisation. Forte funds research within three main fields: health, working life and welfare. This research concerns us all and gives us knowledge to develop, both individually and as a society. The call is planned to open in early 2026 with decisions expected in spring 2026 and project start in summer 2026.
Starting grants 2026
Forte's Starting grants 2026 is an annual call for proposals designed to support skills and career development for junior researchers and to promote researcher mobility. The program provides two- or three-year starting grants for research about health, working life and welfare. This call welcomes applications within Forte's areas of health, working life and welfare - research that concerns society and provides knowledge for individual and societal development. The program is specifically targeted at junior researchers who have obtained a doctoral degree no later than the closing date of the call, and applicants may apply for a starting grant up to three years after their doctoral degree certificate has been issued. With a budget of approximately SEK 100 million available for the years 2027-2029, this funding opportunity aims to support early-career researchers in establishing their research careers in fields critical to public health, working conditions, and social welfare.
At a Glance
- Total Funding Opportunities
- 14
- Active Now
- 12
- Source Domain
- forte.se
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