Master's students in the Master of Science programs, Entrepreneurship and Business Design (MPBDP) and Management and Economics of Innovation (MPMEI) can apply for a grant to do all or part of their thesis work abroad.

These scholarships exist due to a generous donation from the Sten A Olsson Foundation for Research and Culture targeting among others the areas of Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

The Sten A Olsson foundation for Research and Culture was founded in 1996 in honor of shipowner Sten A Olsson on his 80th birthday. At that time, Mr. Olsson had been active for more than half a century in the Gothenburg and Western Sweden area, laying the foundation to what today is the Stena Sphere, one of Sweden’s largest family-owned businesses.

The Sten A Olsson family has always had a great interest and will to support creative individuals as they strive to fulfill their goals. Through the Sten A Olsson foundation for Research and Culture, the family aims to target support and contributions to research and cultural activities mainly in the greater Gothenburg area and western parts of Sweden. Please look at stenastiftelsen.se

Links to an external site. for more information about the Foundation.

These travel grants cover longer-term stays at an international university or other established organization for a research-based MSc thesis. Examples of purposes for the grant money include visiting university labs and field work, such as interviews or ethnographies. The scholarships are in the range of 50.000 SEK per student.

Please submit: a 2 page project proposal, a very short budget, the name of your supervisor at Chalmers, the name of the organization you are visiting and the contact person, and your CV to Henrik Berglund, who is a member of the Stena foundation review committee. It is very important that you describe your host at the university or other established organization you are visiting.

Email to Henrik.Berglund@chalmers.se. To avoid ending up in the spam filter, please use the subject “STENASTIPENDIER”.