Funding opportunities for international collaboration
The Internationalisation Board is responsible for advancing university‑wide collaborations by supporting researchers and educators through a variety of funding opportunities.
All funding calls managed by the International Relations Office are published internally as news on ki.se. To quickly find opportunities in the news archive simply filter using the tags "call" and "grant".
This page highlights the recurring funding opportunities available.
Recurring calls
Call to support collaboration with partners across Africa, aiming to strengthen existing partnerships or build new ones that advance efforts to reduce poverty and promote sustainable health and development.
Call to support short term travel or interactions‑term travel between Karolinska Institutet and partner institutions in Brazil. These funding opportunities enable faculty, postdoctoral fellows, students, and trainees to initiate or strengthen collaborative projects and build sustainable research and education networks.
Strengthen your international partnerships through dedicated funding for collaboration with Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (Charité). These funding opportunities support KI faculty and staff who want to deepen joint activities in research and education and build sustainable networks.
Call 2025
Deepen your engagement within KI’s longstanding, 30‑year partnership with the Mayo Clinic. Apply for Collaboration funding to support short‑term travel for KI faculty, staff, postdoctoral fellows, students, and trainees—enabling you to plan, initiate, or advance joint research, education, administration, and innovation activities with one of KI’s most established international partners.
Funds are available for faculty, staff, and doctoral students to support collaborative activities in the fields of network medicine, systems biology, and AI. Eligible uses of funds include, but are not limited to: analyses for ongoing collaborative projects; travel to collaborating laboratories; data collection for ongoing or new research projects; preparation of larger grant proposals within network medicine, systems medicine, or AI together with one or more partners within the Network Medicine Institute and Alliance and/or with partners at KI; as well as the organisation of workshops and external lectures at KI on these topics.
KI Network Medicine Alliance (KI NMA) Collaborative Awards
Engage in transformative European collaboration through NeurotechEU – the European University of Brain and Technology. Funding is available for KI faculty, staff, and students working within neurotechnology. In addition, NeurotechEU PIs at KI may apply for bench fee support of up to 5,000 SEK to advance their research within the alliance.
Enhance your international research experience through targeted funding for doctoral students and postdocs collaborating with the University of Tokyo. The funding supports activities such as lab visits, to increase joint research projects, mobility initiatives, and faculty development—strengthening both new and existing research connections.
The purpose of the awards is to facilitate new and existing contacts between researchers and doctoral students as well as increase research collaboration with the University of Edinburgh, University College London (UCL), Imperial College London and King’s College London, KI’s Internationalisation Board is pleased to announce the availability of limited competitive funds for a lab visit.
This initiative supports innovative projects that integrate international and intercultural perspectives into KI’s educational environment.
Previous awarded initiatives (2022 and 2024) serve as inspiring examples of how internationalisation at home can enrich the learning experience for all students.