Robust and resilient infrastructure and the built environment - a call for transdisciplinary centres

Formas is announcing funding for innovative interdisciplinary centres that will contribute to robust and resilient infrastructure and the built environment for sustainable spatial planning. The centres must focus on issues relating to robustness and resilience, sustainability, and the competitiveness of society. Sweden's infrastructure and built environment need to be strengthened in response to a changed global context, with new types of security and health-related risks and threats that make systems vulnerable. The centres are to be planned, established and run jointly by academia, industry, the public sector and other parts of society. The call aims to promote innovative interdisciplinary research of highest scientific quality and societal relevance that contributes to structural change and transformation to more robust and resilient infrastructure and built environments. The centres must be based on a clearly articulated challenge and contribute to robust and resilient infrastructure that is environmentally sustainable and contributes to the competitiveness of society incorporating both aspects of social and economic sustainability. This call is part of the national research programme for sustainable spatial planning, and Formas will fund up to three new centres on the theme of robust and resilient infrastructure and the built environment.