Forte Project Grants

Forte – Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare

Forte is Sweden's national research council for health, working life and welfare — the closest institutional match in Europe to a social work research funder. The annual project grant is a free-standing, investigator-initiated three-year grant: applicants formulate their own question anywhere inside Forte's remit, which explicitly covers social policy, social services, welfare provision, the labour market, public health and care organisation. Proposals are assessed by nine subject panels, several of which (social policy, welfare services, working life) map directly onto social work scholarship

Indicative award

Amount not published (total award)Maximum SEK 5 million per grant, from a call budget of approximately SEK 345 million. Figures are in Swedish kronor; numeric fields are left null rather than silently converted to USD.

Timing

Annual cycleAnnual cycle · Jan, Feb, MarNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Annual call. The 2026 round closed 5 March 2026 at 14:00 CET (a date extended from the original because of submission-system problems), with funded projects starting 1 January 2027 and running three years. The next round's date had not been published on the funder page at the time of checking, so no

Who can apply

Postdoctoral, Early-career faculty, Mid-career & senior, Any faculty rank

Eligibility

The main applicant must hold a doctoral degree by the closing date, and the grant must be administered by an organisation approved by Forte — in practice a Swedish university, university college or research institute. No citizenship requirement is stated and international collaboration is permitted, but the administering (host) organisation must be Swedish. One application per main applicant per round; you may not simultaneously be main applicant in the Forte starting grants call or lead an ongoing Forte project grant.

SSWR clusters

Topics

welfare policy · working life · public health · social services · care organisation

Apply at

https://forte.se/en/funding/funding-opportunities/project-grants-2026

This entry

Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.

Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.

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Forte Project Grants

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