Deadline: 02-Dec-2025
The Applied Welfare Research – Sustainable Social Services 2026 project grant supports high-quality research projects aimed at strengthening the conditions for a sustainable, more preventive and knowledge-based social service.
The focus areas for this grant include creating and disseminating knowledge about an identified issue within the framework of a defined research project, intervention and impact studies that evaluate interventions and activities aimed at clients and users with a particular focus on client-centered social work, increased knowledge about qualitative interventions within social services and social services’ crime prevention efforts, research on the impact of digitalization on social services operations and their staff, and knowledge of how threats and violence against social service workers can be handled and prevented. Other research areas relevant to social services are also eligible, provided the relevance to social services and their clients or users is clearly justified.
The grant can be applied for a duration of three or four years. The benchmark funding amount is SEK 5 million for three-year projects and SEK 6.5 million for four-year projects, which includes indirect costs. Around SEK 80 million is allocated for project grants in this call.
Project grants are intended to finance research that can be used within social services to develop and improve both operations and the users’ life situation and conditions. Projects should be carried out in collaboration with social services operations, users, or stakeholders to ensure practical relevance and applicability.
Before applying, applicants must ensure that the principal applicant and participating researchers have created personal accounts in the Prisma application system, that CV and publication information for the main applicant and participating researchers are stored in each account, and that the grant administrator has an organizational account in Prisma and is approved as a fund administrator by Forte.
For more information, visit Forte.