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Rekryteringar

The Rekryteringar programme gives universities an opportunity to recruit an associate senior lecturer, senior lecturer, professor, international guest professor or adjunct professor/lecturer from the business sector. A senior lecturer or professor can also be placed in the business sector.

Changes to the programme

For the 2025 application round, Rekryteringar will be split into two separate programmes with the preliminary names Associate senior lectureship and Capacity building. The goal is to enhance the programme’s role as a tool for strategic recruitment and increased mobility. This year’s calls will open on 9 September.

Programme summary

  • Provides funding for five different forms of employment
  • Promotes mobility between academia and the business sector
  • Strengthens and develops the capacity for business-relevant research and education
  • The employments may run for between 3 months and 4 years depending on the form of employment
  • Co-financing from the Foundation amounts to between 50 and 90 percent of the costs

Background of the programme

Solving future societal challenges requires both cutting-edge research results and a higher education of high quality. To achieve this, Sweden’s universities and university colleges need to be able to employ researchers and teachers who can contribute with relevant knowledge and competence. The Knowledge Foundation therefore offers funding through the programme Rekryteringar in order to make it easier for universities to make strategically important recruitments of key expertise. The programme enables the supply of new competence and new opportunities for collaboration and exchange. In this way, an influx of new perspectives and questions is created, that both contributes to more dynamic research environments and better connects the education to practice and professions.

Contribution to strong research and educational environments

The specific purpose of the Rekryteringar programme is to strengthen the scientific position and profile of an academic environment by the contribution of renewal.

Granted projects 2025

Project titleUniversity Project leaderStart dateEnd date
Assosiate senior lecturer - OPTI-LEG: Optimisation of lower leg and foot prostheses for performance in activities of daily living and parasports participationSwedish School of Sport and Health Sciences (GIH)Toni ArndtMay 2025April 2029
Senior lecturer in environmental science with specialisation in water and sewage systems, climate adaptation and nature-based solutionsKristianstad UniversityIngemar JönssonSeptember 2025August 2029
Associate Senior Lecturer in Chemistry, specialisation Biochemistry/BiotechnologyKarlstad UniversityMiguel FernandesOctober 2025September 2029
Associate Senior Lecturer in Analytical Chemistry expertise in GC (AC-GC)Karlstad UniversityJörgen SamuelssonOctober 2025September 2029
Associate senior lecturer in building physicsLinnaeus UniversityThomas K. BaderSeptember 2025August 2029
Associate senior lecturer in energy- and climate-efficient constructionLinnaeus UniversityAmbrose DodooSeptember 2025August 2029
Senior Lecturer in AI based Measurment Systems - AssIstMid Sweden UniversityMattias O'NilsAugust 2025July 2029
Associate Senior Lecturer in AI-based Computer Vision (A-VISION)Mid Sweden UniversityMårten SjöströmAugust 2025July 2029
Adjunct Lecturer in Software Engineering for Complex Software SystemsMid Sweden UniversityFelix DobslawMay 2025April 2026
International visiting professor in organization and management specializing on human and social sustainabilityMälardalen UniversityAnna UhlinSeptember 2025August 2026
International guest professor in big data systemsMälardalen UniversityCristina SeceleanuMay 2025April 2026
Associate senior lecturer in precision toxicology​Örebro UniversityMagnus EngwallSeptember 2025August 2029
Adjunct senior lecturer in foundation models for multimodal perception systemsÖrebro UniversityMartin MagnussonMay 2025April 2028