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Circular and climate-neutral industry - From theory to practice 2021

Circular and climate-neutral industry - From theory to practice 2021

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The offer in brief

What can you apply for?

The funded Project will investigate obstacles and opportunities to drive the transition to a circular and climate-neutral industry.

Who can apply?

Actor constellations of at least 3 parties (legal persons) who have the ability and interest to contribute in collaboration to a circular and climate-neutral industry.

How much can you apply for?

Vinnova´s funding covers a maximum of 80% of the project´s total eligible costs, with a maximum of funding per project is SEK 1 million.

What is the offer about?

With this the offer, Vinnova wants to strengthen the conditions for realizing a circular and climate-neutral industry.

We turn to stakeholder constellations that want to analyze policy issues and behavioral factors that counteract the transition to a circular and climate-neutral industry. We see that it can be both individual and organizational behaviors in a national and international context. These can be widely differing factors that need to be elucidated and evaluated, such as business models, laws, regulations, certifications, standards, work organizations and processes, incentive structures, consumer behavior or instruments.

Project that are financed must investigate obstacles and opportunities and come up with concrete proposals for what is required to drive the transition to a circular and climate-neutral industry. The projects must contribute to the call's performance targets and one or more of the call's long impact goals.

Performance targets

  • Increased knowledge of obstacles and opportunities in aim to contribute to policy development and / or a behavioral change that drives the transition to a circular and climate-neutral industry.

  • Developed a plan that explains how it is practically possible to address and solve identified obstacles and challenges.
  • External monitoring that reports needs and conditions for the project's results in a national as well as international context.

Long-term impact goals

  • Climate neutral and circular production
  • Resource efficient and resilient value chains
  • Global competitiveness
  • A socially sustainable industry

Passar the offer ert project?

The offer is aimed at constellations of at least 3 parties (legal entities) who have the ability and interest to jointly contribute to a circular and climate-neutral industry.

The actors who are most affected by the project's results, ie needy owners, are expected to participate in the project.

Activities that are carried out must investigate obstacles and opportunities and show concrete examples / proposals of what is required to drive the transition to a circular and climate-neutral industry after the end of the project.

Development of technical solutions, as well as locally oriented initiatives or those that only concern an individual company, is not financed in this offer.

In this the offer financed not project that addresses issues in food, medicine, mobility and Environment in terms of planning, development, construction and management of buildings and social structure.

Important dates

  • 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. 

    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.

    CV-mall (docx, 29 kB) Exempelmall Effektlogik, max 1 sida (pdf, 173 kB) Mall projektbeskrivning - Från teori till praktik (docx, 36 kB)

    This happens when the call is closed

    Once your proposal registered, we will email a confirmation to the person in charge of the user account and to the project manager and the signatory. This may take a few hours after the call is closed.

    When the call is closed, you can not change or fill in any new information. Then you can only complete your proposal if we ask for it.

    Who can read your proposal?

    Applications submitted to us become public documents. However, we do not disclose information about the business, inventions or research results if it can be assumed that someone is suffering financial damage if the information is shown.

    This means that we must release the documents if someone requests them. However, we keep confidential the information that we believe could cause financial damage if it is disclosed.

    How we handle public documents and confidentiality

    Any questions?

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

    Reference number 2021-01973