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Center for Financial Market Research - National Center

In this call, we welcome applications that, as a national center in financial market research, have the capacity and ambition to concentrate on central research topics.

The offer in brief

What can you apply for?

One national center with national responsibility for basic research in financial markets and for research training in the area.

Who can apply?

Swedish universities, university colleges and research institutes. The intended center coordinator can apply together with private and/or public financial market participants.

How much can you apply for?

A national center can receive funding up to SEK 20 million, per year over 10 years.

Important dates

    • What is the offer about?

    Vinnova has been commissioned by the government to further develop the research program for financial market research. Thus, Vinnova plans to fund two centers over a ten-year period, a national center and a competence center. This offer is for the national center.

    For information on the offer for the competence center, please go to this page.

    The national center should have the capacity and ambition to be a multidisciplinary and co-located center that can gather power around central research themes, attract world-leading international competence and interact with users and the industry. Such a center should take national responsibility for important research infrastructure and for the development and further development of new and existing research schools. In addition to postgraduate education, the center will also contribute to the development of basic education and further training for professionals in the financial market area.

    More information about the offer (in Swedish)

    Presentation av utlysningen Finansmarknadsforskning 20200616.pdf (pdf, 860 kB) Vanliga frågor och svar om utlysningen.docx (docx, 51 kB)

    Watch the information meeting that took place June 16 (in Swedish, no subtitles)

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    Please read the call text

    The call text contains important information about the call such as details on the assessment critera. Please read the call text carefully before you start your application. 

    How to apply

    To apply for funding, you need to log in and complete an application form in our eServices portal. The application form contains questions about your project, the participants taking part in the project and your budget. 

    How to apply for funding

    Download document templates for your attachments

    Plesae download the templates for the documents you need to attach to your application such as a CV or project description.

    National Financial plan Revised 20-08-25 (xlsx, 28 kB) Project description, National center (docx, 32 kB) Declaration of intent for main applicant (docx, 78 kB) Declaration of intent (docx, 75 kB) CV (doc, 74 kB)

    What happens after the call has closed?

    Once your application has been registered, we'll send a confirmation email to the person responsible for the user account, as well as to the project manager and the company signer. Please note that this may take a few hours after the call has closed.

    After the closing date, you can't register any new information. You may only add information to your application if we ask for it.

    Who can read your application?

    Applications submitted to us become official documents. However, we don't disclose information about business operations, inventions or research results if it can be assumed that someone will suffer economic damage if we do.

    This means that we must disclose the documents if someone requests them. However, we can black out information if we believe it could cause economic harm if disclosed.

    How we handle official documents and privacy

    Any questions?

    If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us.

    Ulf Öhlander

    Utlysningsansvarig

    +46 8 473 30 08

    Göran Persson

    Administrativa frågor

    +46 8 473 31 32

    Teknisk support

    +46 8 473 32 99

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    Center for Financial Market Research - Competence Center

    Reference number 2020-02370