Battery Fund Programme

Battery Fund Programme Research Call

Funds Swedish companies and researchers developing battery storage, recycling, and reuse technologies through the Swedish Energy Agency's Battery Fund Programme grants.

⚠ This may reflect a past cycle — verify the current call on the funder's site.

The Battery Fund Programme Research Call is a research grant run by Sweden's Energimyndigheten (Swedish Energy Agency), the national agency for energy policy and energy research. It sits under the agency's Battery Fund Programme (Swedish: Batterifondsprogrammet), a recurring scheme that funds work in numbered calls; the record here describes Call 9. The programme aims to develop cost- and resource-efficient battery concepts for storing and using renewable energy in electricity-system and vehicle applications, to build battery knowledge among Swedish researchers and companies, and to strengthen collaboration between academia and industry.

The agency announced a combined pool of 60 million SEK for this call. The source does not state a minimum or maximum award per project, so per-project amounts are unknown. Projects funded under Call 9 could start from 1 July 2022 at the earliest and had to finish by 31 December 2027, so the programme supports multi-year work. Applicants apply for a share of the announced pool rather than a fixed grant size.

A wide range of actors can apply: companies, the public sector, the social-science, humanities, technical and natural-science disciplines of universities and colleges, research institutes, and other actors connected to the battery value chain. This gives a for-profit company a direct path to apply, on its own or alongside research partners.

Applications for Call 9 were submitted through the agency's online service, Mina Sidor (My Pages). For this round the application window opened on 17 November 2021 and closed on 26 January 2022, with funding decisions planned from 1 May 2022 at the earliest. The call invited two priority areas: battery recycling, and batteries for electricity-system and vehicle applications. Beyond those, the programme also accepted projects on reuse, recycling, battery development of present and future technologies and materials including supercapacitors, diagnostics and measurement, control and use, logistics, and safety, with no internal ranking between these areas.

Note that Call 9 has closed: its deadline of 26 January 2022 has passed and the source page was last updated on 20 December 2021. The programme has run in repeated numbered calls, so a future call may follow, but no later round is published in this source. Full call documents, including English- and German-language versions, are referenced on the agency page but their direct download links are not given in the source text.