Application Open for Foundation for Strategic Research EU Horizon Europe application support 2025, The Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF) continues to support Swedish researchers in their work with applying for grants within the Horizon Europe (HEU) programme, the EU’s framework programme for research and innovation. Through the call “SSF: EU Horizon Europe application support 2025”, the foundation is offering SEK 10 million to help researchers apply for EU grants as project coordinator for HEU Pillar 2.

Applicants are encouraged to carefully review the full details and submit their applications before the specified deadline to seize this grant opportunity.

Last Date of Submission: 15^th October 2025

Aim of this Call (Application Open for Foundation for Strategic Research EU Horizon Europe application support 2025)

• The aim of the call is to promote the internationalisation of Swedish research by stimulating increased Swedish participation in HEU Pillar 2 Global Challenges & European Industrial Competitiveness. HEU projects should be of strategic relevance for Sweden, i.e. benefit Sweden’s future competitiveness.
• The call is aimed at researchers in natural sciences, engineering or medicine at Swedish universities or research institutes who apply for the role of project coordinator for HEU Pillar 2 projects in 2025.
• Selected projects will receive a maximum SSF grant of SEK 500,000 (incl. overheads). The grants must be used exclusively to cover costs for salaries, travel and consultants directly related to the preparation of a HEU application. The call covers costs from 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2025.

Scopes (Application Open for Foundation for Strategic Research EU Horizon Europe application support 2025)

• SSF covers direct application costs for researchers employed by Swedish universities and research institutes as they apply for funding for engaging in project Coordinator roles exclusively in projects in EU HEU Pillar 2 (Global Challenges & European Industrial Competitiveness) in the fields of natural science, technology or medicine.
• SSF will release funding upon notification by the applicant that the HEU application has been registered as an eligible HEU-application and the relevant costs have been reported to SSF. HEU-applications that are evaluated by EU as non-eligible will not receive any funding from SSF. However, SSF does not require the applications to finally be granted any HEU-funding.

Funding Information (Application Open for Foundation for Strategic Research EU Horizon Europe application support 2025)

• Selected projects will receive SSF-grants maximized to SEK 500 000 (incl. overheads).

Eligibility Criteria (Application Open for Foundation for Strategic Research EU Horizon Europe application support 2025)

All the following criteria must be fulfilled for SSF to consider an application as eligible and to receive further evaluation. Non-eligible applications will be rejected.

• The applicant is currently employed to at least 50% by a Swedish university, University college or Research institute which has the capacity to assume coordination responsibility for the project during the grant period and during the period of the proposed HEU-project.
• The applicant (the person, not only his/her organisation) has during the previous five years been, or currently is, the main PI of any other granted individual research project of the amount of at least MSEK 5 in total, including all participants. This grant can come from any funding organisation: SSF, EU or other.
• The applicant must be involved in an HEU-application in the role of Project Coordinator in a Pillar 2 (Global Challenges & European Industrial Competitiveness) Project (including partnership projects) in the fields of natural science, technology or medicine. See the HEU overview picture on the final page for more details.
• Only original (or Stage 1 in a multistage HEU evaluation) applications towards HEU Calls as already published in HEU work plans are eligible.
• The application to SSF concerns covering costs for directly working with an application towards EU HEU Pillar 2. There is no requirement on the status of the HEU-application when submitting the SSF-application.
• Eligible costs are exclusively those arising during 1 January 2025 – 31 December 2025 for salaries, travel and consultants in direct connection to the HEU application. No costs for preparatory data collection, investigations, research etc. are eligible, nor are any costs outside the above date interval accepted.

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