Here you can grants of Arctic and/or Northern relevance. For calls at Umeå University, please see the research web.
2025
Conference grants 2025
Deadline: continuous throughout the year
Are you planning a conference that will be held in Umeå? Then you can apply for funding for it! Umeå municipality, Region Västerbotten and Umeå University annually sets aside funding for conferences.
The grant amount is based on the estimated number of attendees, with a maximum total of SEK 60,000.
National conferences – SEK 200 per person Nordic conferences – SEK 225 per person International conferences – SEK 275 per person Read more
Activity funding from UTRI
Deadline: continous throughout the year
Are you looking to carry out activities that promote research about sustainable transformation? Apply for funding up to SEK 80,000, and receive both financial support and practical assistance. Activities can for example be seminars, symposia, workshops, panel discussions, conferences, writing retreats, pilot projects, or time for writing research proposals. Read more
October 2025
AQUARIUS Funding: Marine and Freshwater Infrastructure Access
Deadline: 28 October
Marine and freshwater researchers can apply for access to Europe’s leading aquatic research infrastructures. A total of €4 million will be available to support research projects that contribute to the objectives of the EU Mission: Restore Our Ocean and Waters, as well as travel costs.
UArctic Entrepreneurship Fund 2025
Deadline: 31 October
Yearly
The UArctic Entrepreneurship Fund supports the development of new services or products in the incubator stage that have a direct benefit locally and/or an circumpolar impact. The aim is to help save the Arctic environment and strengthen Arctic communities.
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences scholarships and grants
Deadline: 31 October
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is announcing scholarships and researchs grants in several disciplines. Doctoral students and PhD holders can apply for between 200,000 and 5,200,000 SEK for either research funding or scholarships. Funding may be sought for purposes such as project operating costs, expenses for international stays, or conference travel where own research results are presented. Read more
November 2025
Arctic Field Grant (AFG) 2026
Deadline: 12 November 2025
Yearly
The Arctic Field Grant supports fieldwork for students and researchers collecting data in Svalbard and Jan Mayen. Application to the call opens six weeks prior to the deadline.
Apply for seed funding for new collaborations
Deadline: 17 November
Would you like to start a research collaboration on a societal challenge linked to the UN’s Agenda 2030? As a researcher or teacher at Umeå University, you can now apply for up to SEK 85,000 in seed funding to launch projects together with Region Västerbotten or the municipalities of Skellefteå, Umeå or Örnsköldsvik. The funding is intended as a stepping stone towards larger external applications. Read more
December 2025
FORMAS: Blue transformation – coast and sea
Deadline: 8 December
Researchers can apply for up to 30 million SEK for a three or four year long innovation project that contributes to a better environment in coastal and marine areas.
January 2026
ERC Consolidator Grant 2026
Deadline: 13 January
Yearly
Researchers with 7-12 years of experience since completing their PhD can apply for up to € 2 million to establish a research team and continue to develop a success career in Europe. Applications can be made in any field of research.
Receive funding for your polar expeditions
Deadline: 31 January
Yearly
The Gino Watkins Memorial Fund gives grants annually of up to £4,000 towards expeditions that aims to improve the knowledge of the polar regions. Apply before 31 January!
Gösta Skoglund foundation
Deadline: 31 January
Yearly
Nominate a student for the best student thesis, or apply for funding for conferences, study visits, guest researchers, or the organization of workshops/conferences in Umeå. The Foundation has a focus on Regional science, but does not exclude applications that broaden or invite new approaches. Both applications should be submitted by 31 January each year. Read more
February 2026
The Foundation Anna och Nils Håkansson Stiftelse 2026
Deadline: 15 February 2026 Deadline: 15 September 2026
Twice a year
The foundation "Anna och Nils Håkanssons Stiftelse" provides grants of between SEK 50,000 and SEK 200,000 to scientific education and research that promotes Sweden's forestry, and primarily forestry in the inland of Norrland.
Upcoming calls 2026
Grants from Letterstedtska föreningen
Opens: 15 January 2026 Closes: 15 February 2026
Opens: 15 August 2026 Closes: 15 September 2026
Twice a year
Letterstedtska föreningen grants funding every year for enhancing collaboration and community between the five nordic countries in the areas of science, art and industry.
The J C Kempe Memorial Scholarship Foundation, spring 2026
Opens: call not open yet Deadline: call not open yet
Twice a year
The application is now open for scholarship funding from The J C Kempe Memorial Scholarship Foundation. As a master's or doctoral student in Västerbotten, Västernorrland or Norrbotten, you can apply.
Kempe Foundations 2026
Opens: in 2026 Deadline: call not open yet
Yearly
Teachers, researchers or doctoral students at Umeå university, you can apply for grants from the Kempe Foundation.
Skogssällskapets utlysning 2026
Deadline: inte öppen än
Årlig
Tillsammans med närstående stiftelser utlyser Skogssällskapet totalt 26 miljoner kronor till universitet i Sverige och Finland för forskning inom skogshushållning och naturvård, och särskilt inom fokusområdena tillväxthöjande åtgärder i skogen, klimatsäkring av framtidens skog, och skogsskador.
The Royal Physiographic Society of Lund HORISONT grant 2026
Deadline: call not open yet
Yearly
The Royal Physiographic Society of Lund announces the research grant Horisont, where you can apply for up to SEK 800,000 in support of bold and innovative research ideas across all disciplines. The grant serves as seed funding for projects that often fall outside the scope of traditional funding mechanisms.
Call for doctoral resources, spring 2026
Deadline: call not open yet
Twice a year
The Industrial Doctoral School for Research and Innovation (IDS) announces funding for a doctoral student in collaborative projects. As a researcher at Umeå University, qualified to act as principal supervisor to a doctoral student, you can apply for doctoral resources together with an external organisation as co-applicant. IDS funds 50 percent of the doctoral student’s salary for 48 months. Read more
Scholarship from The Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography (SSAG) 2026
Deadline: call not open yet
Yearly
Are you a master's student, PhD student or a postdoc with a research project that focuses on anthropology, cultural geography or physical geography? Then you can apply for up to SEK 80,000 for field work and related activities to advance the fields of anthropology & geography. Note that you must be a member of SSAG to be eligible to apply.
Göran Gustafssons Foundation for nature and environment in Lapland 2026
Deadline: call not open yet
Yearly
You can apply for grants for your scientific research project about nature, environment and Indigenout peoples in Lapland. Last year grants for SEK 2 265 000 was approved. Contact the foundation office to receive the application form. info@gustafssonsstiftelse.se 08-23 53 70 (in Swedish)
FORMAS: Career Grant for Early-career Researchers, career age 0–3 years
Deadline: call not open yet
Early-career researchers with a career age of 0–3 years can apply for up to SEK 1.5 million on average per year for up to four year long research projects where you formulate your own question within Formas’ areas of responsibility: Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning.
FORMAS: Career Grant for Early-career Researchers, career age 4–7 years
Deadline: call not open yet
Early-career researchers with a career age of 4–7 years can apply for up to SEK 1.5 million on average per year for up to four year long research projects where you formulate your own question within Formas’ areas of responsibility: Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning.
Carl Trygger Foundation 2026
Deadline: call not open yet
Yearly
The Carl Trygger Foundation for Scientific Research supports research in the natural sciences that is important for Sweden in areas such as physics, chemistry, technology, biology, ecology, geology, as well as forest and agricultural science. Grants have also been awarded to instrument development in these disciplines.
Upcoming calls 2027
SSF Future Research Leaders
Deadline: call not open yet
Every third year
Are you a young researcher aspiring to lead pioneering research in natural sciences, technology, or medicine? Seize the opportunity to join the SSF flagship programme, Future Research Leaders. 16 researchers will receive SEK 15 million each, alongside comprehensive leadership training over five years. To be eligible, you must have completed your doctoral degree between 2018 and 2020, and work full-time at a Swedish university or research institute during the grant period.
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