Strong research environments
Major and complex societal challenges require research that maintains high quality over time. Forte therefore invests in building and strengthening research environments, including a current initiative supporting eleven research centres with funding planned to exceed SEK 1 billion.
What are strong research environments?
Strong research environments are long-term, coherent and often interdisciplinary settings in which researchers, higher education institutions and actors in the wider society collaborate around shared knowledge needs. They are characterised by high scientific quality, an international outlook and a breadth of expertise that together create favourable conditions for innovative and problem-solving research.
Research environments for health, working life and welfare
For Forte, strong research environments are an important tool for addressing societal challenges within our areas of health, working life and welfare. Through such long-term and stable investments in our areas, we aim to promote leading research and strengthen societal benefits.
Forte funds research environments primarily through two types of grants: research centre grants and programme grants. Both types are part of the overall funding category research environment support. Over the past five years, we have funded approximately SEK 200 million per year in research environment support.
Investment in research centres
Within the call Research centre grants 2025, Forte is funding eleven new research centres. The funding runs over ten years, with a total of approximately SEK 1 billion planned to be paid out.
Severe mental illnesses
- Uppsala Centre for Preventive Psychiatry External link. - A National Centre for Research on Early Identification and Intervention in Severe Mental Illness, Uppsala University
- ReLife External link. - Centre for Mental Health and Recovery Across the Life Course, Lund university
- CAPRI External link. - Centre for Applied Psychiatric Research and Innovation, Karolinska Institutet
Women’s health and diseases (co-funded by the Swedish Research Council)
- MAMA Research Hub External link. for Multidisciplinary Approaches to Maternity Advancement - Towards personalized care models, evidence-based use of medical interventions, and a seamless postpartum follow-up, Linköpings universitet
- WHOLE External link. - Interdisciplinary Centre for Women’s Health Over the LifecoursE - at the intersection of reproductive transitions, mental health and pain, Uppsala University
- CIRCE External link. – Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Cancer and Equity in Women, Lund University
Return to work
- The RELATE Research Centre External link. - REturn-to-Work in LATEr Stages of Working Life: Person-Centred Participatory Health Interventions for Sustainable Future Work, Linköping University
- UGot ReWork External link. - Center for Return-to-Work Studies in Primary Care , University of Gothenburg
- Stockholm Center for Return to Work External link., Karolinska Institutet
Health care and social care for people living with dementia
- DEMSAM External link. Centre for a DEMentia-friendly Society with A person-centred Mindset, University of Gothenburg
- TraCeDem External link. - KI Transdisciplinary Research Center for Personalized Dementia Prevention and Care, Karolinska Institutet
Last published: 6 July 2026
Research centres about dementia
Demsam and Tracedem aim to contribute to better living conditions for people living with dementia and their relatives.
Research centres about mental illnesses
Three research centres will develop more targeted interventions and strengthen recovery for people with severe mental illness.
Research centres about returning to work
RELATE, UGot ReWork and Stockholm Center for Return to Work will strengthen knowledge on how to better support people on sick leave in returning to work.
Research centre about women's health and diseases
Whole will study women’s health from a life-course perspective and increase knowledge, improve healthcare, and contribute to a more equitable society.