Deadline: 21-Jun-22
NordForsk is offering grants for research projects in the Future Working Life Research Programme.
Aims
- The overall aim of the Programme is to generate knowledge and solutions for a sustainable and inclusive future working life in a Nordic and/or Nordic-Lithuanian context.
- The Programme aims to enhance cross-border research collaboration within working life research, provide support for solid research environments, and fund excellent and innovative research with impact both within and beyond academia.
- It encourages interdisciplinary and comparative approaches. Research aiming to contribute to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and national policy strategies is encouraged.
- To build future capacity in the area, the Programme welcomes collaboration between established and early career researchers.
- The Programme promotes an inclusive working life which provides equal opportunities for all and acknowledges the knowledge and potential that exists in the entire population regardless of gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic background, health, faith, religion, and sexual orientation.
Priorities
The funding parties have identified three crucial and inter-linked areas that would particularly benefit from Nordic and Nordic-Lithuanian research collaboration and that the Future Working Life research programme will prioritise:
- Sustainable labour force participation: More knowledge is needed about how their societies can adapt to rapid social, demographic, and technological changes and how to ensure an inclusive, competent, and sustainable future labour force.
- Work environment and wellbeing: Research is needed to better understand how to create healthy work environments that promote wellbeing and work-life balance in a time of hybrid working environments, flexible contracts/new employment forms and longer working life.
- Green transition of working life: A green transition of working life is a crucial part of the path towards a green and sustainable Nordic and Baltic region.
Funding Information
- Available budget: 46 MNOK
- Maximum amount of funding that may be sought: 9 MNOK
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for funding, the following conditions must be met:
- Proposals must be submitted electronically through NordForsk Application Portal by the call deadline.
- All proposals must be written in English and follow the structure set out in the application form available on the NordForsk Call and Application Portal.
- The research project must include partners from research performing organisations* in at least three of the countries or autonomous region co-funding the call: Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Åland, Lithuania. Research performing organisations from outside the participating countries may participate with their own funding.
- The host institution (Project Owner) for the research project must be a research performing organisation based in one of the countries or autonomous region co-funding the call: Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Åland, Lithuania.
- The project leader must be a qualified researcher at the host institution.
- A researcher may only serve as project leader for one application under this call. However, research institutions may be affiliated with more than one application.
- Researchers and research groups must be based at a research performing organisation.
- The proposal must include a signed Letter of Commitment from each partner institution. Letters of Commitment must be signed by a person authorized to take on financial commitments on behalf of the institution for the entire duration of the project.
- Applicants and project participants must comply with national rules.
For more information, visit https://funding.nordforsk.org/portal/#call/2665/details