Research for a Competitive and Sustainable Battery Value Chain
Funds Swedish companies, universities, and research institutes running battery research and innovation projects through Swedish Energy Agency grants.
⚠ This may reflect a past cycle — verify the current call on the funder's site.
Research for a Competitive and Sustainable Battery Value Chain (Swedish: Forskning för en konkurrenskraftig och hållbar batterivärdekedja) is a research-and-innovation grant call run by the Swedish Energy Agency (Energimyndigheten). It sits under the agency's Sustainable Battery Value Chain programme (Hållbar batterivärdekedja), whose stated aim is to enable Sweden's parts of a sustainable European battery value chain through battery research and academic skills-building.
The call put out about SEK 70 million in total. Each project can apply for at most SEK 10 million, and international partners together can be granted no more than 15 percent of the funding applied for. The instrument is a grant for research and innovation work on the battery value chain.
The call is open to several applicant types: companies (legal persons), universities and university colleges, research institutes, and the public sector. Companies can apply directly, so a for-profit deep-tech firm working on batteries is an eligible lead applicant. The page does not state minimum project size, team size, or a company-age limit.
Applications are made through the agency's online portal (Mina sidor). For the round covered here, the portal opened for applications on 27 February 2026 and the deadline was 7 May 2026 at 23:59. The web page does not publish the scoring criteria or a numerical scale; the full evaluation detail is in the official call-text PDF (Fullständig utlysningstext).
Practical caveats: the deadline for this round has passed, so the page is between rounds rather than open; the four prioritised research areas are not named in the web text and must be read from the PDF; and the 15 percent cap on funding to international partners limits how much of a project budget can flow abroad. Amounts are in Swedish kronor (SEK).
Research and innovation across the battery value chain — battery materials, cells, manufacturing, and sustainability. The call asks especially for projects in four prioritised areas carried out with internationally leading research groups or companies; the four areas are named only in the full call-text PDF, not on the web page.
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