Eleven marine projects receive research grants

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30 October 2025

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Sustainable fisheries, melting glaciers and alien microscopic species. These are three examples of research projects at the University of Gothenburg that are sharing SEK 49 million in grants from the Swedish Research Council and Formas.

Support from Formas

Biotic resistance and metabolic niches in the fish fauna of the future (MetaNiche)

Leon Green, Department of Biology and Environmental Sciences
Career support for early-career researchers: SEK 5 891 014

Melting boundaries: Revealing greenhouse gas emissions from emerging Arctic landscapes

Tobia Politi, Department of Marine Sciences
Career support for early-career researchers: SEK 5 999 606

Fisheries management cooperation and consultation: Pathways to sustainable fisheries and seafood self-sufficiency

Sebastian Linke, InSchool of Global Studies
Effekt! From research to use.: SEK 3 951 380

Making co-cultivation in the sea accessible through inclusive activities

Per Knutsson, Department of Marine Sciences
Effekt! From research to use: SEK 3 791 410

Microbial feed from Swedish biogas - business models, verification and implementation in aquaculture

Henrik Sundh, Department of Biology and Environmental Sciences
Effekt! From research to use: SEK 3 778 443

From waste to value - sustainable water treatment through sequential biomass production and aquaculture (SWAP)

Gunilla Toth, Department of Marine Sciences
Effekt! From research to use: SEK 4 000 000

Support from Swedish Research Council

Biodiversity as insurance for ecosystem functioning across multiple scales

Lars Gamfeldt, Department of Marine Sciences
Project grant: SEK 4 350 000

Females ornament from a life history perspective

Charlotta Kvarnemo, Department of Biology and Environmental Sciences
Project grant: SEK 4 350 000

On the dark side of phytoplankton life cycles and their role in CO2 sequestration

Helle Ploug, Department of Marine Sciences
Project grant: SEK 4 200 000

FAME: Fjord Alien Microeukaryotes - New Drivers of Ecosystem Functioning?

Irina Polovodova Asteman, Department of Marine Sciences
Project grant: SEK 4 460 000

Alkalinity generation in eelgrasses: An overlooked carbon sequestration mechanism?

Gloria Reithmeier, Department of Marine Sciences
Starting grant: SEK 4 800 000

About the calls

The research funding bodies, the Swedish Research Council and Formas, announce research funding annually. The projects that receive support from Formas relate to the calls for proposals Career Support for Early-Career Researchers and Effekt! From Research to Benefit. The projects that receive support from the Swedish Research Council come from calls for proposals in the natural sciences and engineering sciences.

Area

Sustainability and environment Ocean Science and Information Technology Society and economy