Environmental Scholarships from Sveriges Ingenjörer
Apply for a scholarship to contribute to a greener future!
As a student, you now have the opportunity to receive support for a degree project that makes a real difference – for the environment, society, and the future.
Through the Environmental Fund’s scholarship, you get the chance to realize an idea that could lead to a new product, service, or solution that promotes sustainable development in Sweden. Turn your thesis into something greater – make it a step toward change.
Sveriges Ingenjörer manages the Environmental Fund of Sveriges Ingenjörer, with annual grants from Swedbank’s Humanfond. The fund aims to support projects that improve the physical environment in Sweden and its surrounding regions.
This is done through scholarships that give students the opportunity to work on these issues. The goal is that the results of the degree projects will lead to new companies, new jobs, and/or implemented solutions that improve the physical environment in Sweden.
Who Can Apply?
All students enrolled in a Master of Science in Engineering or an international master's programme at the Faculty of Science and Technology who will carry out their degree project in the spring of 2026 are welcome to apply.
The scholarship is not available to students in bachelor's or university engineering (högskoleingenjör) programmes.
Each scholarship is worth SEK 50,000 per project. If you are conducting a joint project, you submit one shared application. A total of ten projects will be nominated by the faculty and submitted to Sveriges Ingenjörer.
Selection Criteria
General Criteria
- The degree project must be assessed as having high scientific quality.
- The results must be considered to offer a solution to an environmental issue, contributing to the green transition and/or addressing climate challenges, with the potential for physical application in Sweden.
Faculty-Specific Criteria
- Scholarships are open to students planning a degree project within the next calendar year, with the majority of the work carried out during the spring semester.
- The project must be conducted as part of the programme's official degree project course. Applicants must be eligible for or gain eligibility for the course before the end of 2025 – this must be described in the application.
- The project must be anchored with a supervisor; the application must explain how this has been arranged.
- Students who are members of Sveriges Ingenjörer will be given priority.
- If more than one student is involved in a selected project, the scholarship amount is shared.
Application
Applications are open from October 1, and the deadline to apply is November 10, 2026. Notification of awards will be given in December 2026.
The project plan for the degree project must include:
- Background and purpose: Why should this project be carried out? What environmental problems will it address, and why are existing solutions insufficient?
- Expected results: What do you hope to achieve? What practical impact could your project have in Sweden, both within and beyond the scope of the degree project?
- Potential recipients: Who in Sweden could benefit from or take the project further? What is the long-term potential of your work?
- Method: A general description of how the project will be carried out to reach its goals.
- Timeline: When and how the work is planned to be conducted.
Stipendiates of the Environmental Fund's scholarship 2026
The ten thesis projects awarded the Sveriges Ingenjörers’ Environmental Fund Scholarship have now presented their projects. During the presentation event, the results of each thesis project were showcased, highlighting their potential contributions to a more sustainable future.
The names of the scholarship recipients and the titles of their thesis projects are listed below.
If you would like to learn more about any of the projects, the final reports will be available through DiVA once they have been published.
Stipendietets of the Environmental Fund’s scholarship 2026
Stipendiates | Thesis title |
|---|---|
Linus Lassen | Towards a More Complete picture of Biodiversity |
Miguel Lezana Pascual | Assessing Solar PV Deployment in Cape Town |
Aijing (Lettie) Sun | Reducing Platinum Dependency in Hydrogen Purification Technologies: A Socio-Technical and Material-Level Analysis of PEM Systems |
Daniel Abdollahi | Conceptual Digital Platform for Rare Earth Recovery |
Amelia Lilja | Pilot-scale study of quaternary treatment at Henriksdal Wastewater Treatment Plant |
Madhur Gupta | AI-Enabled Energy Efficiancy Enhancements in Radio Access Networks |
Hannes Hansson Ella Palm | Operationalizing Sustainability through Data Driven-Batch Sequencing |
William Borland & Wilhelm Johnsen Lundstrøm | The Hidden Game of Energy Retrofit |
Madhushree Ghosh | Keystone Actors in Global Environmental Governance Identifying and Analyzing Industry Leverage Points for Sustainability Diplomacy |
Negar Gohari | Controlled nucleation for wear-resistant CVD thin films |
Programme for Scholarship Recipients
As a scholarship recipient, you’ll be invited to take part in three workshops organized by UU Innovation, focusing on innovation and project management:
- From Problem to Solution
- From Results to Implementation
- Pitch Training
You will also be invited to present your project at a final seminar in May, attended by Sveriges Ingenjörer and other partners.
Your work will be acknowledged in the media by both Sveriges Ingenjörer and Uppsala University.
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