CFPs: Planning Grants in Mental Health 2024 (Sweden)

The purpose of the grants is to enable researchers to, in cooperation with organisations working with mental health and engaging with individuals in their operations, develop collaboration and improve the conditions for an upcoming call for project proposals in 2026. The collaboration between practice and research should primarily have a problem-solving approach.

Priorities

• In this call for proposals, you can apply for a planning grant. The planning grant can be used for various activities for the purpose of enabling a future application for project grants. For example, this could involve testing an idea in a pilot study or developing a collaboration/co-creation with relevant partners and target groups outside of academia. This means that the activities funded by the planning grant do not strictly have to involve research.
• However, research prepared using the planning grant must align with the priority areas of Fortes’ research programme on mental health:
  • Research on the causes, mechanisms, and development of mental health and ill-health.
  • Research on promotion, prevention, and early interventions for mental health.
  • Research on the organisation and structure of the welfare system related to mental health.
  • Practice-oriented research on effective interventions, methods, and treatment for mental ill-health and psychiatric disorders.
• The call for proposals requests applications that aim to facilitate research on methods, work practices, and conditions in the field of mental health, spanning from mental well-being to psychological problems and psychiatric conditions, at both societal and individual levels.  There are no restrictions in terms of which age groups the projects plan to include. Forte also welcomes projects which include support for relatives.
  • All age groups are included in the work.
  • The focus can be on promoting efforts for people’s mental well-being, preventive work for mental health problems and psychiatric conditions.
  • A focus on civil society’s methods, ways of working and conditions in working with mental health.

Funding Information

• For this call a budget of about SEK 11 million is available. The maximum amount to apply for is SEK 700,000 per year.
• Project duration
  • Funding may be sought for one year.

Eligibility Criteria

• Doctoral degree
  • To apply for a grant under this call for proposals, you must have obtained a doctoral degree no later than the closing date of the call for proposals.
• Reporting for previous grants
  • The main applicant must have submitted the final report for any previously approved grants from Forte within the reporting deadline. This only applies to grants where the deadline for final reporting has passed. Any previously granted extensions of project duration, and consequently of reporting deadlines, will be taken into account.
• All applications must meet the following requirements in order to receive funding. The extent to which these requirements are met forms part of the overall assessment by the review panel.
  • The research must be relevant to Forte’s areas and the focus of the call.
  • The application must address and justify if a gender perspective is applicable or not to the research and how this is taken into account in the research.
  • The research must be conducted ethically, and the application must address the ethical aspects of the research and how any ethical issues will be handled.

For more information, visit Forte.