Decided
call of proposals
Challenges in Working Life 2025
In this call, you can apply for three-year project grants for individual research projects. The call intends to contribute to achieving a health-promoting working life and is made within the ten-year national program for working life research at Forte. A total of SEK 72 million is allocated in the call for the years 2025–2027.
Granted applications
Here you find information about granted applications in this call. If you have applied in this call, you will receive a notification and can view the decision in Prisma. Please note that the list show applications that have been granted funding at the main decision point for the call. The list do not indicate whether an applicant has declined their grant or if reserve-placed applications have been awarded funding at a later date.
- Funded projects grants: 14
- Total applicants: 130
- Success rate: project grants: 11%
Quick facts
Type of grant: Project grants, that facilitate the implementation of a defined research project designed to contribute to increased knowledge about an identified issue. Project grants may be applied for by individual researchers as well as research groups.
Project duration: 3 years.
Funding amounts: You may apply for a maximum of SEK 5 million for three-year projects. Please note that the maximum amount includes so called indirect costs/overhead costs (OH). Applications that exceed the specified limit will be rejected.
Eligibility: To apply for a grant, you must have obtained a doctoral degree no later than the closing date of the call.
Limitations: No more than one application per main applicant is permitted within this call for proposals. As a participating researcher you may participate in more than one application.
Staffing: For this grant type, you as main applicant may invite participating researchers to join the application.
About the grant
Orientation:
To achieve a health-promoting working life
Forte has identified a number of prioritized challenges where the need for knowledge is great and where more research is needed. Challenges and strategies for how these can be met with research, as well as the overall purpose and goals of the programme, are described in the strategic agenda on working life.
The project applications must contribute to the agenda’s challenge number 3: To achieve a health-promoting working life, and target one or more of the following strategies:
- Creating opportunities for people to be able to work for their entire professional career
- Reducing the occurrence of intimidation, violence and harassment in the workplace
- Decreasing the level of damaging physical burdens and chemical exposure in the working environment
- Reducing psychosocial risks in the working environment
- Ensuring the effective implementation of knowledge about the working environment
The research resulting from the call is expected to relate to several of the Parliament-bound goals that affect working life, such as the goal for working life policy, the public health policy’s goal area 3 Work, working conditions and work environment, and the gender equality policy goal.
Forte would like to see an interdisciplinary and/or multidisciplinary approach to the applications, as well as collaboration with the surrounding community to increase relevance and utilisation. Furthermore, the research must include a sex and gender perspective when applicable.
More information about the call Challenges in Working Life 2025 pdf, 284.5 kB.
Review panel
Chair person
- Abigail Marks, Newcastle University, UK
Scientific reviewers
- Karen Søgaard, Syddansk universitet, Denmark
- Stavroula Leka, Lancaster University, UK
- Pål Graff, Statens arbetsmiljöinstitut (STAMI), Norway
- Kasper Edwards, Danmarks tekniska universitet, Denmark
- Florian Kunze, University of Konstanz, Germany
- Els Clays, Ghent University, Belgium
- Signe Pihl-Thingvad, Syddansk universitet, Denmark
- Alfredo Rodriguez-Muñoz, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
- Angelo Benozzo, University of Aosta Valley, Italy
Community representatives
- Martine Syrjänen Stålberg, TCO – The Swedish Confederation of Professional Employees
- Minke Wersäll, The Swedish Work Environment Authority
Contact information
Raili Uibo
Anna-Karin Florén
Last published: 11 June 2025