Early career Centre researchers secure SEK 18 million in funding

“I’m honoured and excited to pursue new, interesting research directions,” says Rachel Mazac, one of the grantees.

She is one of three early career Centre researchers that have received grants from Formas for a combine value of SEK 18 mio. Formas is a Swedish research council for sustainable development, and the granted projects will run for up to six years.

Rachel Mazac’s project “Recipes for Change” will assess how prepared food systems are for sustainability transformations. She will do so by developing and applying a Transformational Readiness Assessment Tool across cases in Stockholm and Sydney.

Centre researcher Louis Delannoy is another grantee. His new project aims to assess the frequency, intensity, and interactions of crises, and to map historical and future polycrisis hotspots—regions where crises co-occur and amplify.

“I’m extremely excited and can’t wait to start working with my dream team of partners and ensuring that we strive to deliver a unique societal value,” Louis Delannoy says.

The third recipient of the Early career grant is David Collste with the project “Climate policies: impacts on economic development, inequality, and environmental targets (CLIMPACT)”.

Formas Early Career grants have the purpose to give promising early-career researchers appropriate opportunities for taking the next step in their careers, encouraging an interdisciplinary direction, developing independence, and contributing to innovative research environments.

Ultimately, the call should strengthen researchers early in their careers and their opportunities to work in leading positions within academia, the public sector, civil society, or business.