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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.

11 granted

new research centres 2025

Women’s health and diseases, return to work, severe mental illnesses, health care and social care for people living with dementia

1 billion SEK

to promote strong research environments

The funding for the research centres runs over ten years.

Eleven new research centres

Severe mental illnesses

  • Uppsala Centre for Preventive Psychiatry - A National Centre for Research on Early Identification and Intervention in Severe Mental Illness, Uppsala University
  • Centre for Applied Psychiatric Research and Innovation (CAPRI), Karolinska Institutet
  • Centre for Mental Health and Recovery across the Life Course for persons with Serious Mental Illness, Lund University

Women’s health and diseases (co-funded by the Swedish Research Council)

  • MAMA Research Hub 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 - Interdisciplinary Centre for Women’s Health Over the LifecoursE - at the intersection of reproductive transitions, mental health and pain, Uppsala University
  • CIRCE – Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Cancer and Equity in Women, Lund University

Return to work

  • The RELATE Research Centre - REturn-to-Work in LATEr Stages of Working Life: Person-Centred Participatory Health Interventions for Sustainable Future Work, Linköping University
  • University of Gothenburg Center for Interdisciplinary Return-to-Work Studies in Primary Care - UGOT-ReWork
  • Stockholm Center for Return to Work, Karolinska Institutet

Health care and social care for people living with dementia

  • DEMSAM Centre for a DEMentia-friendly Society with A person-centred Mindset, University of Gothenburg
  • KI Transdisciplinary Research Center for Personalized Dementia Prevention & Care (TraCeDem), Karolinska Institutet

Last published: 13 February 2026