Impact Innovation: Water Wise Societies

Impact Innovation: Transition Lab within Water Wise Societies

Funds Swedish consortia exploring, testing and scaling water solutions through an Impact Innovation transition-lab grant.

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Impact Innovation: Transition Lab within Water Wise Societies is a collaboration grant published by the Swedish Energy Agency (Energimyndigheten). The call comes from Water Wise Societies, a programme inside Impact Innovation, which is a joint initiative of the Swedish Energy Agency, the research council Formas, and the innovation agency Vinnova (Swedish: "Impact Innovation: Omställningslabb inom Water Wise Societies"). The programme's goal is sustainable water for everyone in Sweden by 2050.

The grant pays for groups of organisations to explore, test, and scale new water ideas together, and to build themselves into a lasting "transition lab" that takes on a defined geographic or thematic water challenge. The source page does not state any award amounts, total budget, project length, or cost-share rate, so those figures are not recorded here. Amounts are paid in Swedish kronor (SEK).

This is a consortium grant, not a single-company grant. The applicant must be a group of actors from across the "source to coast" water system, for example public sector bodies, businesses, research organisations, institutes, and civil society. The group must contain at least three parties, of which at least one must be a need owner (an organisation that actually owns the water problem being solved). A for-profit company applies as one partner in such a group. Individuals cannot apply on their own.

Applications are submitted to Vinnova, not to the Swedish Energy Agency directly. The most recent published round closed on 3 September 2025 at 14:00, with funding decisions due on 5 November 2025; both dates are now past, and no future round date has been published. Because Water Wise Societies is an ongoing programme working toward a 2050 goal, the catalogue treats it as between rounds rather than discontinued.

Practical caveats: the source page gives no money figures, no scoring criteria, and no direct application URL, so those fields are left blank rather than guessed. Confirm the next round, the budget, and the exact submission link on the Vinnova call page before preparing an application.