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Call for Applications: HKUST-KTH Global Knowledge Network Awards Seed funding 2025

Published Apr 30, 2025

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and KTH Royal Institute of Technology are offering faculty research grant awards through their partnership on the Global Knowledge Network. The HKUST-KTH Global Knowledge Network Awards (Seed funding) are intended to provide HKUST and KTH faculty teams with initial financial support for collaborative research explorations. These grants have the potential to create new or expanded research partnerships, develop cutting-edge scholarship to create academic and societal impact, and attract external funding.

These international research exploration seed grants will help support early-stage research projects or capacity-building efforts to establish and sustain long-term collaborations and secure extramural funding.

  1. Each grant requires at least one Principal Investigator from HKUST and one from KTH. Additional collaborators are welcome but not required.
  2. Grants are open to any HKUST-eligible PI and KTH-eligible PI from any academic discipline.
  3. No specific research themes are required.  
  4. Applications will be submitted online via the HKUST-KTH Global Knowledge Network Awards 2025 - Application
  5. Deadline for Applications: 15 June, 2025, 23:59 UTC

Please download the guidelines for the awards and the required documents to be completed for online submission from the link below:

HKUST-KTH Global Knowledge Network Awards

To help interested prospective applicants from HKUST and KTH to identify collaborators with similar research interests, please sign up for the HKUST-KTH collaboration matchmaking.