Navigating funding and grants

Only a very small portion of the research performed at the Faculty of Medicine is financed by faculty means. This money is mainly used to finance teaching positions, strategic research areas (SFO:s), the PhD programme and premises costs. The rest of the research is financed mainly through ALF funds and funding brought in by research groups, or individual researchers with or without collaborators, as grants from different governmental research councils and non-governmental foundations. 

Research can also be funded by scholarships/stipends. Unless these scholarships are offered by Lund University, the scholarship holder is not employed, but may, upon agreement with a collaborating research group leader, use the university premises for his/her research.

Bringing in external funding through successful grant applications is key for an academic career.

• Read more about ALF (information in Swedish): ALF-anslag och ansökan, Medicinska fakulteten
• Other grants, Faculty of Medicine
• Grants and scholarships at the Faculty of Medicine and Lund University, including link to Grants Calendar
• Lund University Research Services: Research funding, including link to Pivot-RP