Annual call: A digital built environment in practice
This call for proposals aims to contribute to the sustainable development of the built environment through projects that centre around digitalisation and industrial processes. Applications can address processes, forms of collaboration, business models, technology or a combination of these. The purpose of the call is to accelerate digital transformation through activities that involve stakeholders across the value chain, from planning to the long-term management of the built environment. With this call, we encourage applications with a special focus on industrial processes, impacts linked to climate goals and business models, international perspectives, and the potential for scale-up and implementation in a broad perspective.
The projects should address at least one of the programme’s . They should help to achieve the impacts and objectives identified in the programme’s impact logic.
The principal applicant (the coordinating project party) must be a Swedish organisation, and at least one project party must be from a private company or a public-sector organisation that has the intention to test and use the solution that the project develops. Each project party must be a legal entity with a unique corporate identity number.
Projects should strive for a gender-balanced project team and consider how the project can contribute to greater equality in the problem area and real-world impact. See Smart Built Environment Equity Guide (in Swedish).
The call provides approximately SEK 40 million in funding and includes co-funding requirements for each project as a whole of at least 50 percent of the project’s costs. You can apply for SEK 500,000 to SEK 4 million. The project duration is 12-48 months.
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Calls for proposals
Calls for proposals are initiated by the Programme Board, after which the Programme Office develops a suggested call text, the project approval criteria, and support for the appointment of an assessment team based on the development needs and potential of the specific focus area. The process of initiating a call for proposals takes place in close dialogue with the research funding authorities. The call is then published on the Formas website (Formas is a Swedish Research Council for sustainable development) and potential applicants are invited to submit project proposals within the framework of the call.
Submitted project proposals are evaluated by an external assessment team that provides recommendations for approval or rejection based on the call criteria.
When the evaluation is complete, recommendations are taken up for decision by the Programme Board. Once the Programme Board has made its decision, recommendations are submitted to the research funding authorities for a final decision on fund allocation.
After the decision, it is the responsibility of each project manager to carry out the project with the support of the steering committee and to report on progress and final results.