• The ACCESS Forum is open to researchers from all research fields.

    Participants can be senior researchers, early career researchers* and PhD-students.

    Participants who are currently employed at one of the 17 ACCESS universities are given priority.

    *An early career researcher has been awarded their PhD within the last 8 years.

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    Due to space limitations, participation in the Forum is limited. Participation is therefore not guaranteed, even if you have your own funding source.

    There will be an internal selection process done by each university and the ACCESS Steering Committee, with feedback given from the PIs of the Research Themes. This selection process will take into account the applicant's motivation for participating in their selected Research Theme and their deemed relevance to the theme.

    The selection process will also attempt to ensure a diversification of participants in regards to gender balance, ACCESS-universities represented and a balanced number of PhD, young and experienced researchers.

    Selected participants will be informed of the decision in mid-late June 2025.

  • ACCESS Forum Research Themes are unique, interdisciplinary workshops that aim to bring together researchers from a variety of disciplines in order to share knowledge related to the Research Theme and discuss challenges facing our world. As the participants come from a wide range of academic disciplines, you can expect to learn new perspectives and methods to tackle the challenges inherent in your Research Theme. At its core, ACCESS is aimed at building networks and connections between Sweden and Chile to support sustainability research to better our world.

    You should not expect an ACCESS Forum to mimic a normal academic conference, in which all participants are experts on a specific niche discipline. Instead, ACCESS intentionally breaks down the barriers to bring together perspectives across the academic sphere and spanning across continents. The goal is to create new interdisciplinary networks of researchers who can collaborate further after the Forum through shared research data, grant applications, joint coursework, university visits and more.

    All of our Research Themes are based in one or several of the SDG focus areas we have for the Forum 2024 which are: SDG 3, 11, 14, 15, and 16. Read more about these here.