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NanoLund Funding

To enable cutting-edge nanoscience, NanoLund financially supports strategically important, and high-risk/high-payoff projects, as well as the development of new infrastructure and characterization techniques. At any one time, we support approximately 50 active projects.

On this page:

Programs you can apply for at any time

For the following programmes, we offer a very, simple, fast process. Just drop us a note at any time and you will hear from us very soon.

  • New-technique fund.
    We financially support visits by NanoLund members to other labs to test, evaluate and learn novel characterization techniques.
    Applications can be submitted at any time during the year.
    Read our policy for support by NanoLund for the New Techniques fund (PDF, 133 kB)
    Contact: LNCL coordinator Rainer Timm.
  • Research visits or mini-sabbaticals.
    We encourage international exchange and offer financial support for visits with leading, international groups in nanoscience, available to both PhD students and senior scientists.
    Policy for support by NanoLund for international research visits (PDF, 142 kB)
    Applications can be submitted at any time during the year. Submit to: info [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (subject: Funding%20application%20for%20research%20visit) (info[at]nano[dot]lu[dot]se)
    Contact: Anneli Löfgren.
    PhD students Linnéa Jönsson and Patrik Nilsson about their visits
  • High-impact publishing.
    Do you have an important result that you think should be published in one of the top journals in your field? Do you plan to apply for a prestigious grant such as ERC or Marie Curie? Free to our members, we offer hands-on help from experienced editors to achieve the highest impact and visibility of your work.
    Contact: Anna-Karin Alm.

Annual calls

  • Open to PIs: NanoLund Project funding
    Proposed projects should help realize and enhance the scientific and educational mission of NanoLund. This includes opportunities to apply for equipment and expert staff.

    The applications to the call for projects starting in 2026 are now being evaluated. There will be an opertunity for oral presentations for the evaluation groups on November 4th. 

    The call text can be found here (PDF, 528 kB)

    List of ongoing NanoLund projects (PDF, 111 kB)

    The next call is expected to open in early September 2026. 
    Contact: Anders Mikkelsen 

  • Open to students and postdocs: Seedling projects.
    Masters students, doctoral students and postdocs currently working in a NanoLund research group annually have the opportunity to apply for funds for seedling projects, to explore a new idea. Funds of up to 100 000 SEK per project are available. In addition to project funding, each Junior scientist responsible for a granted proposal will receive the Junior Scientist Ideas Award.
    Read more in the call for Seedling projects 2024 (PDF, 351 kB).
    The call usually opens in November, with a deadline medio January.
    Contact: Ivan Scheblykin

Strategic initiatives

Common Strategic Research Area (SRA) funding

  • Open to PIs: SRA Seed Funding
    Once a year, the SRA Collegium announces a call for seed funding aimed at supporting emerging and innovative interdisciplinary research topics for the university’s Strategic Research Areas (SRAs). A total of 6 MSEK has been allocated for this call, which aims to foster novel collaborations among the SRAs.
    We now invite applications for seed funding for projects starting in 2026. Target group for this call is Principal Investigators (PIs) from the SRAs at Lund University. For NanoLund, that means that you must be a faculty member or affiliated faculty member. 

    The first submission deadline on 24 November 2025 to the leadership of the main applicant’s primary SRA, which is tasked to rank and select the proposals within the specific SRA. 

    As NanoLund PI, you should submit your proposal to info [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (info[at]nano[dot]lu[dot]se) latest on 24 November 2025

    You can find the call text here (PDF, 279 kB)

NanoLund Grants Office

We offer coordination support for applications that benefit all NanoLund.

We facilitate collaboration with industry & other external organisations

Each year, we organize a feedback session for researchers applying for VR grants.

Please contact:
Anna-Karin Alm
Gerda Rentschler

Guidelines

How to use the NanoLund affiliation and acknowledgments for NanoLund funding.

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They visited Sydney and Shenzhen

Linnéa Jönsson and Patrik Nilsson are two of the PhD students who have seized the opportunity to have a research visit financed by NanoLund. This is a support that NanoLundians – PhD students as well as senior scientists – can apply for at any time.
“Do it! You have to take the opportunity to do something like this if you get the chance,” says Linnéa Jönsson.

“There was so much to learn. Sure, there were many specific techniques that I learned. But there are also so many much more subtle things that are a bit more difficult to put your finger on, but are required to be able to collaborate well,” says Patrik Nilsson.

Last updated: 16 Oct 2025 | webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se