Industriklivet (The Industrial Leap)

Industriklivet Negative Emissions — Scale-up and Commercialization

Funds Swedish companies scaling up and commercializing carbon-removal technology through Industriklivet negative-emissions grants administered by the Swedish Energy Agency.

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

Industriklivet Negative Emissions – Scale-up and Commercialization (Swedish: Negativa utsläpp – uppskalning och kommersialisering) is a grant call run by the Swedish Energy Agency (Energimyndigheten) under Industriklivet, a long-term government initiative set up to support the transition of Swedish industry. The call sits inside Industriklivet's "negative emissions" area, which supports projects that permanently remove greenhouse gases by capturing, transporting, and geologically storing carbon dioxide of biogenic origin or carbon dioxide taken out of the air. Support can cover the entire value chain.

The round advertised roughly 300 million Swedish kronor (SEK) in total funding across all selected projects. The Swedish Energy Agency does not publish a per-project maximum on this page, so the 300 million SEK figure is the combined pool for the call, not the amount a single applicant can receive. The money is a grant — the agency takes no equity. Eligible activities are feasibility studies, pilot and demonstration projects, and investments in commercial plants, so the call funds work from early study stage through to full commercial deployment.

The call is aimed first at companies that want to scale up and commercialize technology and solutions that serve Industriklivet's negative-emissions purpose. Other actors — universities, university colleges, and research institutes — may take part in a project and apply for support when it is justified, so the typical applicant is a company, often working with research partners. For-profit eligibility is therefore the main path; academic and research bodies are allowed as participants.

Applications for this round closed on 29 April 2026 ("Sista dag för ansökan 2026-04-29"). The page does not publish a scoring rubric, a numeric payline, or a detailed step-by-step process, so those fields are left empty rather than guessed. Industriklivet is a standing government program that issues repeated calls, so this opportunity is recorded as between cycles: the April 2026 deadline has passed and a future negative-emissions call is expected but not yet dated.

Practical caveats: the 300 million SEK is the call's total budget, not a guaranteed grant size, and the agency decides per-project amounts case by case. The original page is in Swedish, so applicants should expect Swedish-language documentation and confirm the next round's opening date and terms directly with the Swedish Energy Agency before planning a submission.