Other grants
Here you find grants from external funders who have reached out to the faculty. You will also find information about support you can get in your application process.
Please note that there might be some grants with information only in Swedish, published on the Swedish web page. Click on the link to the Swedish page in the upper right corner (På svenska) to check and compare.
Call for applications for infrastructure investments within the Faculties of Medicine, the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Engineering, as well as regulations for the handling of applications, and information about Lund University's central call.
Deadline
The deadline for applications has passed. Now the received applications are prioritized first at faculty level and then at university level. A decision on who can submit applications to the foundation will be made around October 25 2024.
Clarification of the updated terms below
The foundation is prepared to approve a different allocation, provided that the individual will combine employment at the university with a clinical position, but only if the position is shared between a medical faculty and the region/university hospital with which it collaborates.
Updated conditions from KAW
During the summer, the foundation has updated/clarified the conditions for WAF. This information is not included in the management procedures because it came after the procedures were established. Therefore, it is important that those nominating individuals to the faculty take note of these updates and ensure that the candidate is aware of them and will meet the conditions.
The new conditions are:
- The nominees must spend at least 70 % of their position and working time at the host university.
- The higher education institutions must guarantee that the selected researchers will have relevant positions at the higher education institution and that at least 70% of the total assigned working time is located at the host university.
Information from KAW
Information about the call (KA Wallenberg website)
The funder's assessment criteria (KA Wallenberg website)
Application documents and instructions
The following documents shall be sent to birgitta [dot] larsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (birgitta[dot]larsson[at]med[dot]lu[dot]se) latest 11 September 2024:
- Preliminarily completed checklist that the faculty can review and complete (Appendix 2 below).
- Draft of the justification letter in a Word document. Please note that this should be plain text and not in a letter template or signed by someone. It should contain the following information:
- why the researcher’s activity is deemed to constitute an important part of the university’s and the faculty’s research profile
- how the proposed research programme supports the nominee’s career development
- how the research fits into the research environment
- what resources will be made available to the nominee.
- also state the subject area of the nominee (medicine, engineering, science, social sciences or humanities/religious studies).
- Max 2 A4 pages and 7000 characters including spaces. - Complete CV (Appendix 3 below).
- Project description. Brief description of the proposed research programme.
- For regular candidates: Max 2 A4 pages and max 7000 characters incl. spaces including references. State the date of the doctoral degree clearly at the start of the document. Emphasise quality, originality, and feasibility. See the assessment criteria.
- For candidates that have applied for a position within the excellence initiative “Excellenssatsning på unga forskare med inriktning mot Wallenberg Academy Fellows”, the project plan used for the excellence initiative application may be submitted instead. - For nominated external candidates who did not participate in the excellence initiative with a focus on WAF: A justification stating why they want to establish their research at Lund University written in a Word document.
- Co-financing certificate signed by head of department (Appendix 4 below).
Appendix 2 - Template for checklist (in Swedish) (Word, 16 KB)
Appendix 3 - CV guidelines (PDF 180 KB, new tab)
Appendix 4 - Co-financing certificate template (Word, 76 KB)
Coordination with excellence initiative
Please note that for the upcoming call, Lund University's internal selection process for WAF will be coordinated with the excellence initiative for young researchers with a focus on Wallenberg Academy Fellows (STYR 2023/1861).
Call for project applications to the themed calls from Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Foundation and the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation 2025
The foundations had two themed calls in 2025 (the text below is not official since the foundations hasn’t updated their English webpages yet, it is translated from Swedish) out of which one is of relevance for the Faculty of Medicine:
Youth psychology/psychiatry
The area includes methods to assess, investigate, diagnose, treat, follow up and prevent mental illness and psychological/psychiatric problems in children and young people (0–18 years). Knowledge in Developmental psychology as well as knowledge of medical, societal and social factors that affect the mental health of children and young people, including evidence-based psychological work methods, are of relevance. Knowledge development about pharmacological treatment and how it interacts with psychological treatment as well as knowledge development about laws, regulations and ethical issues that affect work with children and young people is covered by the call.
The Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation (MMW) primarily awards grants in the social sciences and the Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Foundation (MAW) primarily awards grants in the humanities.
Information and guidelines for the calls also exist on each Foundations webpage. Please note - currently (2024-09-13) only the Swedish websites has the updated call information:
The internal deadline at the Faculty of Medicine is Tuesday, November 26. The Letter of Intent should be sent to birgitta [dot] larsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se
The content of the Letter of Intent is described in Appendix 1 of the management rules (document/link below).
The application must be approved by the head of department, but no co-financing certificate is required at this stage of the application process. However, each main applicant is responsible for contacting their head of department and getting the application approved before the LoI is submitted.
If you have questions contact Birgitta [dot] larsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Birgitta[dot]larsson[at]med[dot]lu[dot]se)
Management rules Lund University MAW/MMW 2025 (PDF 704 kB, new tab)
Contact DoD and NIH
For help with applications to U.S. Department of Defence (DoD) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) contact the Lund University Research support.