WISE Academic Projects 3 call 2026 – 2027
Application deadline: February 2027
The 3rd round of WISE’s Academic Project Call is coming soon! Tentative information is given below.
About WISE
The aim of WISE is to create conditions for a sustainable society by researching the next generation of ecofriendly materials and manufacturing processes. Efforts will be devoted to identifying new or significantly improved materials, which provide a distinct advantage in physical, chemical, biological, or functional performance when compared to existing materials and technologies. This relates to materials that demand fewer and less resources, are less environmentally hazardous, and enable sound and efficient recycling processes. WISE will also explore materials that, when used in energy technology, generate less negative climate impact under operation, while offering high performance and efficiency when in action at large scales.
Academic doctoral students and postdoc projects aim to fulfill WISE’s goals in sustainable development.
PhD and postdoc projects
In this call, WISE is offering funding for up to 29 academic doctoral student positions and up to 29 academic postdoctoral researcher positions. Proposals are for a single PhD student or a single postdoc researcher.
WISE has the aim to promote a wide coverage of PhD and postdoc projects spanning the WISE matrix and with Supervisors at different stages of academic seniority. Unlike previous WISE-ap project calls, WISE-ap3 requires a co-applicant with sustainability expertise relevant to the project.
The call is planned to open in early spring 2026 for pre-screening at the universities and close in February 2027. Note that only projects already approved during your university’s pre-screening process are to be submitted to WISE.
Projects are expected to start during the fall 2027, at the latest, 1 June 2028.
Who can apply?
The WISE main applicant must be employed by any of the seven partner universities, Chalmers University of Technology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Linköping University, Uppsala University, Stockholm University, Lund University, and Luleå University of Technology, or with any of the affiliated groups of excellence at Göteborg University, Karlstad University, Umeå University, and Örebro University. The sustainability expert co-applicant should be employed at a Swedish university, industry, consultant company, or institute. A researcher can submit a maximum of one proposal as principal investigator. The sustainability expert can be co-applicant on a maximum of 3 proposals.
More information
Please contact the Program Office at WISE if you have any questions.
WISE: info@wise-materials.org