Who can apply?
The eligibility criteria are always stated in the call text. As a general rule, the project consortium must include partners from at least three Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden) or autonomous areas (the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Åland).
The project owner (contract partner to NordForsk) must be a legal entity based in a Nordic country, or in a country that is a funding partner of the call. The project owner must be a research performing organisation. A research performing organisation is a legal entity which is a university, university college or an established research institute and is characterised by the following:
- A primary goal is to independently conduct fundamental research and/or applied research and or research-based innovation where results are published.
- The entity may be private or public but must not pay out dividends from its activities.
- The entity has a significant production of academic, published research.
- How to apply
- Go to the NordForsk Application Portal to read the entire call text and any attachments (such as background documents and national guidelines).
- You must log in to the portal to create a grant application. First-time applicants must register themselves as users.
- Once registered, new users will automatically be logged in and can fill in the online application form for the relevant call for proposals.
- We strongly advise that you look into the requirements in the application form before your start working on your application. There are, for example, several attachments to be included, and these have a maximum length. If the attachments exceed the maximum number of pages, it will prevent you from submitting your application. There is usually both an online budget table to fill in, as well as Excel spreadsheet attachments. It is your responsibility as applicant to make sure that the application is complete prior to deadline.
- Applications may be opened and edited after they have been submitted, but please remember to resubmit your application by the submission deadline! Only fully completed, properly submitted applications will be processed.
- The individual who creates the application will automatically be registered as the project leader. The party to the contract with NordForsk will be the institution with whom the project leader is affiliated (the Project Owner), not with the project leader as an individual.
- Applicants will receive an automatic confirmation of receipt via e-mail upon submission of a grant application.
- The date and time stipulated for deadlines are absolute and final, and no one is automatically entitled to an extension. The deadline may be extended in the event of technical problems with the NordForsk application portal. If the deadline is extended, all applicants who have created a draft application or submitted an application will be informed of this. Technical problems originating with the applicants will not lead to an individual extension of the deadline.
- Only online applications submitted via the NordForsk Application Portal by the submission deadline will be accepted. Attachments will only be accepted if specifically requested in the call for proposals.
- Applications cannot be revised after the submission deadline has passed unless the revisions concerned are needed due to errors of a clearly clerical or technical nature.
- Proposals that do not fulfil the formal requirements (eligibility criteria) set out in the call will be dismissed.
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