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.

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.

For more detailed information, see the document “Information about the call” further down on this page.

About the grant

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.

To be able to apply, the administrating organisation for the grant must have an organisational account in Prisma and been approved as an administrating organisation at Forte. Forte’s criteria for administrating organisations »

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
  • 1 vacant

Community representatives

  • Martine Syrjänen Stålberg, TCO – The Swedish Confederation of Professional Employees
  • Minke Wersäll, The Swedish Work Environment Authority

Schedule

Call opens: 29 October 2024, 10.00 CET
Call closes: 14 January 2025, 14.00 CET
Funding decision: May 2025
Decisions are published: A few days after the decision
Project start: 1 July 2025