Broad calls covering all of Swedish Mining Innovation’s thematic areas are announced on a regular basis. The financed innovation projects should help to strengthen the sustainability and competitiveness of the Swedish mining and metal producing industry, for example through new technological achievements. The projects financed may be pre-studies, fullscale projects or pilot projects.
Project applications are evaluated by an external assessment team. This leaves a recommendation to Swedish Mining Innovation’s board, which, after a thematic review, leaves a decision to Vinnova. After that, Vinnova takes the formal decision on which projects are granted and administrates them.
In addition to broad calls, there are also opportunities for existing projects to apply for planning grants to gear up the whole or part of their Swedish Mining Innovation project.
Opens for application: 18 May, 2021
Apply before: 11 November, 2021 at 14:00
Decision given: 22 February, 2022
Project allowed to start: 1 March, 2022
Will be available shortly here and on Vinnova’s call page at Resurseffektiv och hållbar produktion inom gruv- och metallutvinnigsindustrin | Vinnova
Swedish and English versions will be available.
Lawrence Hooey, Technology and Innovation Manager Swedish Mining Innovation (contact)
The formal application is made through Vinnova’s portal. Please go to Vinnova’s call page link above.
The strategic innovation programme Swedish Mining Innovation and Vinnova invite all stakeholders who have or have had projects financed by Swedish Mining Innovation to apply for grants for preparing a project application (called planning projects) to leverage their STRIM projects through initiation of the new project (called leverage projects). Leverage projects may be related to entire projects or parts of projects. The planning project grant is aimed at writing applications, building an international consortia and associated activities that lead to additional funding from EU or international programmes for continuing development based on activities and results from projects funded by Swedish Mining Innovation.
The leverage projects are to support the strategic innovation programme’s overall objectives to improve the competitiveness of the mining and metal producing industry, to improve the sustainability of the sector, to improve resource and energy efficiency across the entire sector’s value chain, as well as to develop and introduce new knowledge and new technologies to find new ores.
Call opens: 11 January 2021
Call closes: 18 November 2021
Date of decision: Continuous
Earliest date of project start: Continuous
Last date of project start: 10 December 2021
Lawrence Hooey, Technology and Innovation Manager Swedish Mining Innovation (contact)
