The purpose of the Nordic Gender Fund is to strengthen the infrastructure for research in the Nordic region on norms, ideas and structures that reproduce and maintain inequalities based on, for example, gender, race/ethnicity, sexuality, class and age. The Fund's first call for proposals in November 2024 resulted in 103 applications, of which seven were granted funding.
A total of SEK 500,000 was allocated as funding for activities aimed at starting or strengthening 1) scientific networks 2) organising scientific conferences 3) scientific journals. In addition to networks, conferences and journals, it was also possible to apply for other activities that promote research infrastructure, as defined by the applicant. All activities must be carried out between 1 January and 31 December 2025.
A new call from the Nordic Gender Fund will be issued in autumn 2025.
Information about the fund and the upcoming call will be published continuously on the website of the Swedish Secretariat for Gender Research.
The following projects received funding from the Nordic Gender Fund 2024:
Queer(y)ing Asylum Symposium
The International Queer(y)ing Asylum Network is organising the Queer(y)ing Asylum Symposium in October 2025, for researchers, activists and policy makers. The aim is to exchange knowledge, network and disseminate research on the consequences of policy changes in the Nordic countries for lgbti+ asylum seekers. The symposium will also contribute to a continuous dialogue between researchers, practitioners, activists and policy makers.
Queer(y)ing Asylum Symposium
‘Surviving SOGICE’
The ‘Surviving SOGICE’ project will establish a digital platform to raise awareness and promote policy action on SOGICE (Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Change Efforts) in Europe. "Surviving SOGICE will build an open archive of testimonies from survivors and relevant media. The platform is part of a PhD project at the University of Bergen, Norway.
‘Surviving SOGICE’
Special issue about children and childhood in the Nordics
A special issue of the Nordic journal Barn – forskning om barn og barndom i Norden (Children – research om children and childhood in the Nordics) will be published, to strengthen the development of new research on gender and childhood in the Nordic region. The special issue will also establish a Nordic platform for cross-disciplinary dialogues on gender research in Nordic childhood studies, and promote new collaborations between researchers across disciplines and national borders.
Special issue of the Nordic journal Barn
Interdisciplinary network for research on gender and games
The Interdisciplinary Network for Research on Gender and Games (INRGG) is being launched through a series of three workshops, of which the Nordic Gender Fund is contributing to one. The workshops will bring together PhD students and early career researchers in the Nordic countries and Europe, working on gender and games from different disciplinary, theoretical and methodological backgrounds. As the network becomes more established, senior researchers will also be invited.
Interdisciplinary network for research on gender and games
g25 - national gender research conference, Sweden
In October 2025, the Mid Sweden University, campus Staare/Östersund will host the national conference for gender research in Sweden: g25 - Feminist Coalitions for Livable Worlds - Where, when, and for whom? The conference theme focuses on pressing societal challenges, such as the climate crisis, militarisation and oppression, inequality, colonialism, racism, conservatism, threats and hatred against LGBTI+ and gender research.
g25 Feminist Coalitions for Livable Worlds: How, Where and for Whom?
Nordic journal on gender research
Tidskrift för genusvetenskap is published three times a year and is one of the oldest scientific journals for interdisciplinary gender research in the Nordic countries. Publisher is the Swedish Gender Studies Association (ÄG), which brings together all gender studies forums, centres and institutions in Sweden.
Tidskrift för genusvetenskap
Queering Dementia Symposium
The international network Critical Dementia Studies is organising the symposium ‘Queering dementia’ in June 2025. The aim is to highlight ongoing research on LGBTQ people's lived experiences of dementia and on the role of gender and sexuality in person-centred care, and to provide a platform for theoretical and methodological discussions on dialogue between researchers in queer and trans studies and dementia research.
Queering Dementia Symposium
