Prospekt

Important dates

  • Opening date: 17 September 2024
  • Closing date: 13 November 2024, at 15:00
  • Funding decisions: March 2025
  • Project start: Earliest June 2025, latest October 2025

In the programme Prospekt, early career researchers are offered funding to independently pursue a research project in co-production with the business sector.

Closed for applications

We no longer accept applications for the 2024 call for proposals within the Prospekt programme.

Programme summary

  • The research project is conducted in co-production with the business sector
  • The project manager is an early career researcher (academically active for a maximum of three years following their doctoral exam)
  • The project manager develops professionally and positions themselves career-wise through qualifying activities and career support
  • Strengthens and/or renews the environment and its research through strategical recruitment
  • Maximum funding: SEK 2 million
  • Maximum project duration: 3 years

Background of the programme

Today’s knowledge-intensive society is in great need of cutting-edge research results and people with academic excellence. One way to meet these needs is to offer promising researchers good opportunities for an academic career.

The programme Prospekt offers an early career researcher funding of a research project where a well-defined and delimited scientific question is addressed together with relevant business partners. The project should contribute to the scientific development, as well as create benefits to the business sector.

Within the programme, the project manager should also be allowed to develop professionally and position her-/himself career-wise. Therefore, qualifying activities alongside the project, as well as career support, should be included in the project design.

The programme’s contribution to strong research and educational environments

The specific purpose of the Prospekt programme is to develop and/or renew the research and education environment within its scientific profile area through a strategic recruitment of a promising early career researcher. The programme also contributes to strengthen the relationship between academia and the business sector within the subject area.

Programme film

Mälardalen University

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Ongoing projects within the programme

Project titleUniversityProject leaderStart dateEnd date
TeleDrive: Teleoperated and Autonomous Driving of Unmanned Vehicles in Confined Areas Mälardalen UniversityShahriar Hasan2024-09-012026-08-30
New PVD coatings for sustainable machining of additively manufactured tool steelKarlstad UniversityNatalia Pinchuk2024-10-012026-09-30
Rich Testing of SoftwareMälardalen UniversityPeter Backeman2024-09-012026-08-31
Holistic Synthesis and Verification for Safe and Secure Autonomous VehiclesMälardalen UniversityRong Gu2024-09-012026-08-31
Biochar application for pollutant stabilization and ecological restoration of contaminated land in SwedenÖrebro UniversityIngrid Rijk2023-06-102025-08-31
Identifying cellular and molecular signatures of nanoparticle exposure in additive manufacturing - NANOSIGN Örebro UniversityAndi Alijagic2023-01-012024-12-31

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