Deadline: 12-Jan-22
Formas is inviting proposals for a socially sustainable housing supply that can contribute to the development of Sweden’s social housing policy.
Housing supply issues have long been in focus in Sweden, but they gained renewed interest during 2020–2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic and discussions about market rents at the highest national level of Swedish politics. Sweden faces several challenges if it is to achieve a socially sustainable housing supply, and these challenges take on different forms in different parts of the country.
The theme of the call also links to current initiatives in design issues, both nationwide and internationally. Within the EU, the New European Bauhaus Initiative has been launched with the aim of improving how they live together in the built environment by promoting innovative solutions that touch on three complementary dimensions: sustainability, aesthetics and inclusion.
The goal is to create a movement around design, construction and spatial planning that are guided by these dimensions. In Sweden, the “Policy for Designed Living Environment” was presented in February 2018 with the goal of taking a holistic approach to public architecture and design and formulating a comprehensive national architecture policy.
Purposes
- There is a need for more knowledge about how they can achieve a socially sustainable housing supply that is available to social groups with fewer resources. This call will fund overviews of national and international research that has been conducted on socially sustainable housing supply and that can contribute to knowledge about solutions to the challenges in this area and to the development of Sweden’s social housing policy. The knowledge and research overviews can also include examples of completed initiatives in socially sustainable housing supply in practice, such as in a municipality or the construction industry.
- The knowledge and research overviews must highlight the current state of knowledge in this area through methodologically sound reviews of the scientific literature, reports, studies and more. International contexts and examples can be used to learn lessons from a comparative perspective and enable the project’s results to be applied in the development of Swedish housing policy.
- After completion, the knowledge and research overviews must be made available in order to promote knowledge building for different target groups, such as politicians, stakeholders within the construction industry, municipalities and regions, special interest groups and others. The projects must result in a policy brief and a summary report in Swedish about the key findings that can be communicated to the relevant target groups. Disseminating the knowledge generated by the knowledge and research overviews is an important part of the project.
Funding Information
Formas aims to fund up to 10 project proposals with a maximum budget of SEK 1 million per project. A project can run from 6 months up to one year.
Eligibility Criteria
- Researchers from any discipline who hold a PhD and are active at a Swedish university, higher education institution or research institute can apply under this call. Formas encourages applicants from the economic, engineering and legal sciences, as well as applicants from the humanities, architecture and social sciences.
- Formas strives for an equitable, gender-balanced and inclusive development of society. Applicants should design the project so that its results can help to advance social housing policy in Sweden towards becoming sustainable for everyone.
For more information, visit https://formas.se/en/start-page/archive/calls/2021-11-01-knowledge-for-a-socially-sustainable-housing-supply.html