Buildings and Infrastructure
09. Industry innovation and infrastructure
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.
Funded projects
Preliminary decisions. Please note that only decisions published in Prisma is a guarantee of granted funding.
The purpose of the call is to accelerate digital transformation through activities that involve stakeholders throughout the value chain, from planning to the long-term management of the built environment. The current pandemic has sparked the realisation that a swifter transition to a more sustainable society through digitalisation is achievable. At the same time, there is a tendency to focus on short-term solutions for coping with the current situation.
Projects should leverage the capacity to quickly transform, as society has demonstrated, together with a focus on the long-term impacts of the solutions. The call therefore focuses on projects whose results can be implemented in the near future, are resource-efficient and scalable, and can be widely applied in spatial planning. Smart Built Environment specifically encourages projects that enable and incentivise new business or operational models, innovative forms of collaboration, and new or developed value chains.
The projects considered for a grant award must:
- Clearly contribute to Smart Built Environment’s impact logic, with a focus on the sector’s digital transformation.
- Clearly promote the sustainability aspects of reduced climate impact and increased equality in the built environment.
- Be scalable and applicable in different environments (for example, in municipal or regional planning and permitting processes or in construction and infrastructure projects).
Search for projects within the program's thematic areas:
- Innovations and new applications
- Value chains and business models
- Information infrastructure
- Knowledge and skills
Read more about the thems on website of Smart Built Environment
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Call text
All you need to know before, during and after you have applied.
Digital built environment in practice (pdf)
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Revision history
January 29, 2021: Extended application period. Due to a previous operational disturbance in the Prisma application system, we are now extending the application period to Tuesday February 9, 14.00.
January 27, 2021: Correction: The project description can be a maximum of 20 pages (maximum 4 MB). Previously 10 pages.
The call is targeted to private companies, public-sector organisations, higher education institutions and research institutes. At least two parties must participate in the application. The project manager can come from a private company, public-sector organisation, a higher education institution or a research institute. At least one of the participating parties must work at a private company or a public-sector organisation.
Innovation ideas
This part of the call is aimed at companies and organisations that have an innovation idea and a need to test feasibility, which can lead to a larger development or innovation project. It is also aimed at companies and organisations that have developed an idea and need small-scale tests for implementation or scaling-up in daily operations. One of the parties should be an end user.
Research, development or innovation projects
This part of the call is targeted to consortia of organisations such as private companies, public-sector organisations, higher education institutions and research institutes. At least one of the parties must clearly be an end user who can test the solution within the framework of the project.
Smart Built Environment welcomes applications from all interested organisations and companies, preferably in collaboration with new partners. Especially interesting for this call are consortia with start-ups that can help to develop new work approaches, business models and technology as well as end users such as property owners, municipalities or construction companies.
Project participants from outside Sweden are welcome to contribute their time or other resources as a project co-funder. International project participants can also receive a limited part of the grant, according to the research funder’s rules. However, participants outside Sweden may not be project managers.
Smart Built Environment and Formas strive for an equitable, gender-equal and inclusive built environment. This means that grant applicants should design the project so that its results can benefit a diverse group of people and build a project team that takes into account gender distribution and different backgrounds. You should consider not only the number of people, but the distribution of power and influence in the project.
Apply for 1. Innovation ideas or 2. Research, development or innovation projects.
Innovation ideas
500 000 kronor
Project duration: Maximum 12 months
Research, development or innovation projects
500 000 kronor–4 miljoner kronor
Project duration: 12–48 månader.
Formas delar totalt ut: Upp till 30 miljoner kronor.
1. Before you begin with your application
You need to
- apply for an organisation accountat External link.
- describe your organisation (structure) External link.
If the organisation does not already have a user account in Prisma, an appropriate representative should request an organisation account on the Prisma website in good time, no later than 15 January 2021.
When you have created an organisation account and described your organisation you can begin with your application.
2. Find the call in Prisma
You will find the call on the Organisation account tab in Prisma. Click that tab, and then go to the link for organisation calls External link..
3. Fill in your application
Fill in your application and follow the instruction in the call text carefully.
4. Get your application signed
Important! After the application is completed, it must be registered, submitted and signed by the person responsible for the organisation account. Signing can be done in two ways:
- If the project manager is responsible for the organisation account, then the application is signed automatically after the application is submitted and registered.
- If someone other than the project manager is responsible for the organisation account, then that person must finalise the application. Next, the administrating organisation (the organisation account manager or user whose role is application manager) must register and submit the application. The application is then signed automatically after the application is registered.
After the application period expires, the application can only be supplemented in special cases on request by Formas.
This call is implemented within the Strategic innovation programme Smart Built Environment. The program supports the built environment sector digitization efforts, through research, development and innovation, in order to help the sector realize a building process that is cheaper, faster and more sustainable.
Smart Built Environment is part of Formas, Vinnova and the Swedish Energy Agency's cooperation on strategic innovation programs External link. . The purpose of the initiative is to create conditions for international competitiveness and sustainable solutions to global societal challenges. Forma is the authority that has principal responsibility for Smart Built Environment and coordinated by IQ Planning External link..
For more information about the program, see www.smartbuilt.se External link.
Contacts
For questions regarding the background, aim and desired effects of the call
Kristina Gabrielii, acting programme director, Smart Built Environment
+46(0)70-259 56 57
kristina.gabrielii@iqs.se
For questions regarding administrative matters and the Prisma application system
Kerstin Röver, Research Officer, Formas
+46(0)73-033 41 08
kerstin.rover@formas.se
For questions regarding budget, funding and state aid regulations.
Johan Hansson, Operations Developer, Formas
+46(0)72-451 84 02
johan.hansson@formas.se
Responsible Formas Officer
Aleh Kliatsko, Senior Research Officer
+46(0)73-539 16 64
aleh.kliatsko@formas.se
Technical support Prisma
Prisma IT support External link.