Forskar Grand Prix

Background and challenge

Forskar Grand Prix is Sweden’s largest presentation competition for researchers. Researchers and doctoral students have four minutes to present their research, with the audience and jury voting together. Regional heats take place across Sweden, often during ForskarFredag, and the final is organised by Vetenskap & Allmänhet together with Formas, Forte and Vetenskapsrådet.

The website needed to serve several audiences at once: researchers looking to enter, organisers of regional heats, and schools and members of the public wanting to follow the competition and vote.

Solution

Forskar Grand Prix got its own WordPress website within Vetenskap & Allmänhet’s multisite network, sharing a theme with the main website and ForskarFredag while retaining the competition’s own visual identity.

The regional heats, final and finalists have dedicated pages, while an entry guide and practical tips support researchers from application to stage. The news feed can be filtered, and past competitions remain accessible through an archive and a hall of fame.

The final is listed in Vetenskap & Allmänhet’s events calendar and also appears in the competition’s news feed. Based on the SEO analysis, each regional heat was given its own page to help people find it in search results. We maintain and develop the website ahead of each new competition.