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NanoLund Funding

To enable cutting-edge nanoscience, NanoLund financially supports strategically important, and high-risk/high-payoff projects, as well as the development of new infrastructure and characterization techniques. At any one time, we support approximately 50 active projects.

On this page:

Programs you can apply for at any time

For the following programmes, we offer a very, simple, fast process. Just drop us a note at any time and you will hear from us very soon.

  • New-technique fund.
    We financially support visits by NanoLund members to other labs to test, evaluate and learn novel characterization techniques.
    Applications can be submitted at any time during the year.
    Read our policy for support by NanoLund for the New Techniques fund (pdf, 133 kB)
    Contact: LNCL coordinator Rainer Timm.
  • Research visits or mini-sabbaticals.
    We encourage international exchange and offer financial support for visits with leading, international groups in nanoscience, available to both PhD students and senior scientists.
    Policy for support by NanoLund for international research visits (pdf, 142 kB)
    Applications can be submitted at any time during the year. Submit to: info [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (subject: Funding%20application%20for%20research%20visit) (info[at]nano[dot]lu[dot]se)
    Contact: Anneli Löfgren.
    PhD students Linnéa Jönsson and Patrik Nilsson about their visits
  • High-impact publishing.
    Do you have an important result that you think should be published in one of the top journals in your field? Do you plan to apply for a prestigious grant such as ERC or Marie Curie? Free to our members, we offer hands-on help from experienced editors to achieve the highest impact and visibility of your work.
    Contact: Anna-Karin Alm.

Annual calls

Strategic initiatives

NanoLund Grants Office

We offer coordination support for applications that benefit all NanoLund.

We facilitate collaboration with industry & other external organisations

Each year, we organize a feedback session for researchers applying for VR grants.

Please contact:
Anna-Karin Alm
Gerda Rentschler

Guidelines

How to use the NanoLund affiliation and acknowledgments for NanoLund funding.

A man standing in front of a spectacular building.

They visited Sydney and Shenzhen

Linnéa Jönsson and Patrik Nilsson are two of the PhD students who have seized the opportunity to have a research visit financed by NanoLund. This is a support that NanoLundians – PhD students as well as senior scientists – can apply for at any time.
“Do it! You have to take the opportunity to do something like this if you get the chance,” says Linnéa Jönsson.

“There was so much to learn. Sure, there were many specific techniques that I learned. But there are also so many much more subtle things that are a bit more difficult to put your finger on, but are required to be able to collaborate well,” says Patrik Nilsson.

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