Create a strategic project
The call was closed on August 28, 2025.
Future Mobility aims to contribute to new or strengthened innovation collaborations between Sweden and the United States (focus California) within sustainable mobility.
On this site, you can learn how to apply for a strategic project with co-funding from Future Mobility.
You can also access the application guide via a PDF document, here:
What is a strategic project?
A strategic project
contributes to creating disruptive sustainable mobility solutions and
boosts research and innovation collaboration between the United States and Sweden.
Three focus areas have been selected and the project must contribute to at least one of them:
Shared
public and private mobility solutions to move people and goods
Electric
transport using electricity and/or hydrogen as the energy carrier
Connected and/or Automated
transport solutions that are safer and more efficient
The submission deadline is August 28, 2025. We will only review project proposals that have been received by this date and meet the following requirements:
- Be submitted using the project pitch template from Future Mobility
- Contribute to strengthening innovation collaboration between Sweden and the United States and at least one of the focus areas: shared, electric, connected and/or automated mobility
- Include actors in both Sweden and the United States, with a preference for California
- Request a maximum of SEK 750,000 in grant from Vinnova and the Swedish Energy Agency
- Start in November 2025 at the earliest and be finalized before the end of July 2026
- Be coordinated by an organization in Sweden and all project participants must be legal entities.
Please contact Jan Hellåker (jan.hellaker@lindholmen.se) or Hans Pohl (hans.pohl@lindholmen.se) to get access to the project pitch template.
How to start a strategic project
- Contact Future Mobility
We're happy to assist you with matchmaking and other types of support. When critical ingredients for a collaborative project are in place, you will be invited to prepare a project pitch, using a Future Mobility template.
Project pitch to the Future Mobility panel of experts from Swedish and Californian agencies”
Ten-minute presentation plus questions and answers.
Depending on the outcome of the pitch, you will be asked to either:
(1) continue with the preparation of a complete application, or
(2) revise the proposal for a second pitch, or
(3) look for other types of funding for the proposed activities.
Complete the application using a standard Vinnova format
Five pages project description plus some tables with budget data to complete. Please carefully consider the evaluation criteria when you prepare the application. When you consider the application complete, you share it with the Future Mobility management team for review and feedback. When no more revisions are needed, you will be asked to submit the application in Vinnova’s system.
- Review of the application
Vinnova organizes the final assessment of the application in relation to the evaluation criteria.
- Project start
Further requirements for a co-funded strategic project
A strategic project must:
- Include actors in both Sweden and the United States, with a preference for California
- Include a confirmed interest from at least one potential user of the project results (participation or LoI)
- Be funded in line with the Swedish state aid rules (statsstödsregler)
- Request maximum SEK 750,000 in grant from Vinnova and the Swedish Energy Agency
- Is coordinated by an organization in Sweden and all project participants are legal entities.
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