Seed funding
Life Science Technology Platform Seed funding Opportunities
Seed funding opportunities
Multidisciplinary projects: The KTH LST platform will fund activities aiming at the formation of multidisciplinary research projects. This funding aims at financially supporting researchers in applying national or international funding (e.g. Vinnova, SSF etc.) with at least one other collaborator (e.g. industrial partner, other research groups etc.). KTH research teams that write and submit such multidisciplinary project proposal can apply for 75 kkr in seed funding.
EU-project coordination: The KTH LST platform will provide 75kkr for every EU STERP/IMI/FET proposal coordination that lies within the life science technology field. Two-stage proposals will get half of the funding upon successful submission of the first stage, and half of the funding upon successful submission of the second stage.
Eligibility criteria
Any KTH researcher can be an applicant. The applications can include any initial multidisciplinary projects or research proposals that fit the eligibility criteria below and that have or will be started/submitted between October 1, 2012, and May 31, 2013.
Funding for initial multidisciplinary projects:
- must be a collaboration between a KTH partner and i) another partner within KTH, ii) an industrial, ii) academic ,or iv) clinical partner outside KTH,
- must be in the field of medical or biomedical technology,
- must involve at least either one PhD student on a 3 month full time basis, or an entire master thesis project
- must address an entirely novel idea (i.e. co-funding for existing or on-going projects will not be allowed)
- must have at least two partners, in which the non-applicant partner(s) contribute with resources >35% of the overall project resources,
- must have a total budget exceeding 500 kkr,
- must be submitted to a recognized funding body (e.g. Vinnova, VR, SSF, others).
Note that “Multidisciplinary” refers to that only teams with partners with a considerably different research focus will be considered for funding.
EU-project proposal coordination funding:
- the KTH researcher must be the coordinating party
- must be in the field of life science technology and submitted as an EU STREP/IMI/FET.
Application
You can apply anytime during the year. For the multidisciplinary seed funding you must fill out the two-page form as shown in appendix 1, and send it by email to lifescience@kth.se. For the EU-project proposal coordination funding, submit the official EU receipt to lifescience@kth.se together with a short description of the project.
Funding decision
Multidisciplinary projects: An internal advisory board will make the funding decision for multidisciplinary projects. The decision will be made within 1-2 months after the application is submitted. The decision criteria will be the excellence of the research plan with respect to the targeted call for funding (score 1- 5), and the partnership (potential and balance between partners). A minimum score of 4 is required. The total available funding for national research applications may be limited to 15 projects.
EU-project proposal: the executive committee of the KTH LST platform will take the decision if the project is eligible.
Payment modalities
Multidisciplinary projects: The payment will be made after we have received a copy of the successful submission of the research proposal as well a written two-page report on research preformed before the submission (3-6 months) and a work plan on the research to be preformed the coming 3-6 months.
EU-proposal coordination: The payment will be made after we have received the official receipt of the submission.
Contact information
For additional information, please contact: Fredrik Carlborg; email: lifescience@kth.se; tel: 08-790 7794
