Design for an Energy-Efficient Everyday Life

Design for an Energy-Efficient Everyday Life Call

Funds Swedish companies, design agencies, universities and institutes building energy- and resource-efficient products, services and behaviors through the Swedish Energy Agency's design and behavioral-science grants.

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

Design for an Energy-Efficient Everyday Life is a research and innovation grant call run by the Swedish Energy Agency (Energimyndigheten), the Swedish state authority for energy. It sits under the agency's program of the same name (Swedish: Design for energieffektiv vardag), which combines design and behavioral science to produce knowledge, products, business models and services that speed up the move to an energy- and resource-efficient society. This record covers the sixth call (utlysning 6) in that program.

The total budget announced for this call was about SEK 30 million, shared across all funded projects. The page does not state a minimum or maximum grant per project, and it does not publish a funding rate or which costs are eligible; it directs applicants to the case officer and the full call text for those details. Funded projects could start at the earliest on 1 August 2022 and run at the latest until 31 December 2024.

The call was open to any actor that can contribute to its goals. The page lists examples: companies and design agencies, the public sector, the design knowledge and the social-science, humanities, technical and natural-science disciplines of universities and university colleges, research institutes connected to the area, and other actors connected to the area. For-profit companies apply directly, so a business has a clear applicant path. Projects had to fit one of the two program areas: knowledge and competence, or innovation and technology for resource efficiency.

Applications were submitted to the Swedish Energy Agency for this round, which closed on 1 March 2022. The page does not publish scoring criteria, a numeric threshold, or a step-by-step review process; applicants are pointed to the full call text and the agency's case officer for the application and assessment details.

Note the practical caveats: this is call 6, its deadline (1 March 2022) is in the past, and the page was last updated on 30 November 2021, so this round is closed. The program runs in repeated calls, so a future round is possible, but the page does not announce one. Per-project amounts, funding rate, eligible costs, and the assessment process are not stated on this page and must be confirmed in the full call text before relying on them.