Programs & Funding
NanoLund’s research groups are grateful for support from a wide range of national and international funding agencies who enable our interdisciplinary environment to perform research at the highest international standard.
Research at NanoLund is supported by a wide range of sources, including funding from Lund University and national and international external grants awarded to individual researchers and research groups. A key source of support for the environment as a whole is the Strategic Research Area for nanoscience and nanotechnology awarded by the Swedish government.
About 13% of our total funding is specific funding for NanoLund being a Strategic Research Area. Additional faculty funding from Lund University corresponds to about 24%. The remaining funding is individual grants raised by NanoLund members. Some of our major funding bodies are the Swedish Research Council, the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, and the European Commission’s Research and Innovation Activities including ERC. For a full list of funding organisations, see the list attached to this text. The numbers in the pie chart are in MSEK (1 million Swedish kronor).
NanoLund income sources 2021 (MSEK)
Of the funding sources for NanoLund in 2021, MSEK 56 came from Lund University, 30 from NanoLund Strategic Research Funding, 42 from Swedish Research Council, 31 from EU including ERC, and 29 from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation.
The funding included in the chart is weighted according to the researcher’s participation in NanoLund.
In 2021 NanoLund individual grantees included:
- 7 active ERC grants (in total 13 NanoLundians have received ERC grants)
- Participation in 16 EU-projects
- Coordination of 2 the 16 EU-projects
- 4 Wallenberg Scholars,
- 7 KAW projects,
- 1 Novo Nordisk Foundation project,
- 3 Swedish Research Council Distinguished Professor, and
- 4 Swedish Research Council Research Environments
- 1 Future Research Leader, 1 Strategic Mobility grant and 1 Ingvar Carlsson Award from the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research, SSF
Funding organisations
Researchers within NanoLund attract funding from the following organizations (the links below goes to the organization's own web sites):
- AFA Insurance
- Cancerfonden (website in Swedish)
- Carl Trygger Foundation
- the Crafoord Foundation
- the Danish Council for Strategic Research
- the Danish Hydrocarbon Research and Technology Center (DHRTC)
- European Commission's Research and Innovation Activities: European Research Council (ERC), Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions, Horizon 2020 and FP7
- FORTE – Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare
- FQXi (Foundational Questions Institute)
- Hjärnfonden - the Swedish Brain Foundation (website in Swedish)
- the Independent Research Fund Denmark
- Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
- LMK Foundation for Interdisciplinary Scientific Research (website in Swedish)
- Maja och Erik Lindqvists Forskningsstiftelse (website in Swedish)
- Magn. Bergvalls Stiftelse (website in Swedish)
- Mats Paulssons Stiftelse för forskning, innovation och samhällsbyggande (website in Swedish)
- Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's research
- Mistra - the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research
- Novo Nordisk Foundation
- the Office of Naval Research
- Olle Engkvists stiftelse (website in Swedish)
- Region Skåne (web site in Swedish)
- the Royal Physiographic Society in Lund
- Ruth och Nils-Erik Stenbäcks stiftelse (website in Swedish)
- Sanofi
- Sida – Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency
- Sven och Ebba-Christina Hagbergs Stiftelse
- Stiftelsen Kronprinsessan Margaretas Arbetsnämnd för synskadade (website in Swedish)
- STINT – The Swedish Foundation for International cooperation in Research and Higher Education The Swedish Energy Agency
- Sweden Water Research
- Swedish Alzheimer's Foundation (website in Swedish)
- Swedish Energy Agency
- Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
- the Swedish Heart-Lung Foundation
- the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF)
- the Swedish Research Council
- Swedish Work Environment Authority
- Sydvatten AB (website in Swedish)
- VINNOVA – Sweden’s Innovation Agency
- the Volkswagen Foundation
- Åhlén-Stiftelsen (website in Swedish)
- Åke Wibergs stiftelse (website in Swedish)