Applications open for Project Grants and Article Award

The calls can include larger grants for research groups or individual researchers, smaller grants for specific purposes (such as travel) or awards for valuable work already carried out (“article of the year award”). Dissemination of original research results to a wider, non-academic audience can be also supported.

Research Areas

• Medical
• Psychological
• Sociological
• Educational aspects of intelligence and the human brain
• Human intelligence

Funding Information

• In 2025 the Nordic Mensa Fund will award a maximum of five “Article of the year” awards and a number of project grants (up to 10,000€) depending on the applications received.
• Article Award
  • Article of the year awards, 1,000€ each, maximum five awards.
• Project Grant
  • For grants above 5000€, 80% of the grant will be disbursed up front and the last 20% will be paid out when the final project report has been submitted and approved by the Fund.

Costs Covered

• Project Grant
  • The project grant is intended to cover direct research costs for a project related to one of the areas the foundation is supporting. Smaller grants can also be applied for to cover e.g. travel for conferences to present intelligence related research results, projects aiming to communicate/disseminate the research results to the general public or other research project related expenses.

Eligibility Criteria

• The nominated author or the main applicant must be affiliated with one of the countries involved in the Nordic Mensa Fund: Sweden, Finland, Norway or Denmark, either by nationality, residence or affiliation with a university based in one of these countries. The nomination/application must be made in English.
• Article Award
  • Anyone can nominate an article. The nominator can also be the author of the article. The award will be given to the nominated author as a personal grant.

Application Requirements

• Project Grant
  • Applications should be submitted in English through the application form. The application should include a PDF file with a max. 2-page research plan including the budget, and a 1 page CV of the main applicant. In addition, a short popular description of the project that can be published, as well as contact information for a reference person who supports the application should be provided.
  • The grant recipient will be required to provide a short report to the Nordic Mensa Fund within 12 months of the award of the grant. The Nordic Mensa Fund may withdraw the grant if such a report is not delivered. The grants will be paid and processed through the applicant’s university/institute finance system.
• Article Award
  • Nomination is done in English through the nomination form below and it should include a justification of max. 500 words. The justification should include the main findings of the article, its relevance to science and how it is connected to the areas of the Nordic Mensa Fund: medical, psychological, sociological or educational aspects of human intelligence.

For more information, visit Nordic Mensa Fund.