Excellence clusters for groundbreaking technologies

Excellence clusters for groundbreaking technologies is a ten-year, large-scale initiative by the Swedish Research Council and Vinnova to fund clusters based on collaborations between academia, industry and innovation actors. The programme aims to fund about ten clusters that can lead to new breakthroughs, strengthen Sweden’s position and foster rapidly growing companies in fields of groundbreaking technologies. Selected clusters are intended to achieve world-leading capabilities in their fields by 2035. Grants will be awarded following assessment of research excellence and innovation potential.

Grant funding to up to ten selected clusters to support establishment and development of clusters of excellence.

Applications are from higher education institutions, companies, innovation actors and other organisations collaborating to form a cluster.

Call for proposals; applications were submitted to the joint call and are assessed by the Swedish Research Council (research excellence) and Vinnova (innovation potential).