The purpose of the seed funds is to pave the way for new collaborations with leading international universities and create exchanges of experience that further develop the international environment at Lund University.
This is the fifth time that funds have been announced. Among those who have received seed funds so far, many are planning for continued collaboration and are seeking additional funds from external funders.
An example of a Get Started project is the following one that was done with British LERU member universities:
https://www.lth.se/english/article/workshop-about-water-system-integration/
Application with a deadline: 15 April 2026
Get Started Funding
Apply for funding to develop collaborations with the potential to lead to externally funded research projects and joint publications
Target group: Researchers with a PhD degree who are employed at Lund University and colleagues with a PhD degree at selected partner universities in countries recently associated or soon to be associated to Horizon Europe
GloHub seed funding for education and/or research collaboration
Apply for funding for research and education collaborations with National University of Singapore, UC Berkeley or University of Melbourne, i.e. partner universities in the LU-led project GloHub
Target group: PhD researchers at LU and PhD colleagues at the National University of Singapore, UC Berkeley or the University of Melbourne.
University of Chicago – Seed funding for education and research collaborations
Seed funding for education and research collaborations.
Target group: PhD researchers at LU and PhD colleagues at the University of Chicago
Doctoral Student Mobility outside the EU/EEA
Apply for funding for short stays at selected partner universities for preparation for dissertation and data collection
Target group: doctoral students at LU
Academic staff mobility outside the EU/EEA
Apply for funding for short stays at selected partner universities for teaching/supervision/skills development
Target group: teachers and researchers who are employed at LU
Application with a deadline 10 April 2026
Monash-Prato workshop for doctoral students on academic writing and publishing
The workshop, organised by Monash University at their Prato campus in Italy on 15–19 June, aims to improve participants' skills in preparing, writing and publishing an article or book chapter
Target group: Doctoral students in the humanities and social sciences and related fields such as law, economics/economic history and sustainability studies.
For more information on conditions, selected partner universities and application forms: International impact actions
For questions, contact: impactactions [at] global [dot] lu [dot] se (impactactions[at]global[dot]lu[dot]se)