Forte awards just over SEK 89 million to 26 junior researchers who applied in this year’s call for starting grants. The grant will strengthen career development for researchers at the beginning of their careers and promote research mobility.

Flexible funding

This is the second time Forte funds starting grants. The grant offers junior researchers an opportunity to pursue their own research project, and replaces the previous calls for national and international postdoc. Researchers can adapt both budget and activity degree in the project, and the grant can be for two or three years.

– We have designed this so that researchers can combine the grant with participation in other projects, with teaching or other work. However, the funding may only be used to finance the project sought for, says Dag Hervieu, responsible for the call.

The projects can be at a university or organisation in Swedish, or in another country. This year there will be collaborations with the UK, USA, Australia and Denmark.

All granted projects

The call for starting grants, that includes Forte’s overall areas: health, working life and welfare, Forte granted just over SEK 89 million for 26 research projects. The projects concern, among other things, mental ill-health among children and young people, the social service’s work with perpetrators, unequal working conditions and more flexible forms of employment.

See a complete list of all applications granted in Starting Grants 2024.