In the yearly round of applications of the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working life and Welfare (FORTE) CESAR received a 500.000 SEK grant to the project ‘Expanding and developing an interdisciplinary research network to improve cardiovascular care.’ The coming three years we would like to broaden and further develop our network and would like to use FORTE funding to extend the network. We also plan to intensify the career development of junior researchers, intensify the output and increase the interdisciplinary research funding opportunities. Finally, we plan to increase implementation and utilization of research.