Industriklivet (The Industrial Leap)

Swedish Energy Agency Negative Emissions Research Support

Funds Swedish research organizations and companies developing carbon capture and storage for negative emissions through Industriklivet grants.

Negative Emissions Research Support (Swedish: "Stöd för forskning för negativa utsläpp") is a research grant from Energimyndigheten, the Swedish Energy Agency, awarded under the Swedish government's long-term Industriklivet (Industry Leap) initiative for industrial decarbonization. It funds research projects that help achieve permanent negative emissions by capturing, transporting, and geologically storing greenhouse gases that are either of biological origin or taken out of the atmosphere (carbon capture and storage, or CCS). The grant counts as industrial research or experimental development under Article 25 of the EU General Block Exemption Regulation (Commission Regulation (EU) No 651/2014), which is the rule that sets how much of a project's costs public money may cover.

The agency has set aside about 15 million SEK in total for this call, shared across all funded projects. The page does not publish a minimum or maximum award per project, so the size of each grant depends on the project and the EU cost-share limits that apply to industrial research or experimental development. Because the funding comes through the GBER state-aid route, the share of project costs the agency can pay is capped by that regulation rather than by a single headline figure.

The call is open to any organization that can contribute to Industriklivet's purpose in the area of negative emissions. The page lists examples: universities and colleges, research institutes, the public sector, and companies (legal persons). For-profit companies can apply directly, which makes this relevant to deep-tech startups working on CCS and carbon removal, on their own or as part of a project team.

Applications are submitted to the Swedish Energy Agency by the closing date of 31 August 2026. The public call page gives the funding area, the eligible applicants, the legal basis, and the deadline, but it does not publish the full scoring criteria, the application portal link, or the project-budget caps on the page itself; it refers applicants to the full call text and a mandatory appendix by name.

Practical caveats: there is no stated per-project award, only the roughly 15 million SEK pool, so applicants should plan budgets against the GBER cost-share rules and the full call document rather than a published maximum. The application form and detailed guidelines were not given as direct links in the captured source, so applicants should start from the official call page to reach the current forms and appendix.