Project Research Grant

Conditions

Applicant

Co-workers are those researchers, with a doctoral degree, most relevant to the implementation of the proposed project.

Required qualifications

Grant period

Costs and grant amount

If the project involves a doctoral student, project funding may not be used to pay salary for the time that the doctoral student is teaching or participating in postgraduate education.
 

Continuation grants

Administration

The Swedish Research Council requires that a final financial report be submitted for every grant. Starting with the 2011 round of applications, we will check to confirm that the project leader has submitted a final financial report from every previous grant received. This check will be done on April 19th. If a final financial report is missing, the current application will be rejected. If you have questions concerning the financial report, please contact your representative of the administrative entity.

Note! This applies to final reports dated 31 March 2011 or earlier.

Employer and terms of employment

Special areas for project research grants

• Globalisation of society
• Linking the molecules of life

Application content

• Summary
• Popular science description
• Budget information
• Research programme (Appendix A)
• CV (Appendix B)
• Publication list (Appendix C)
• Signatures (Appendix S)

If you have a project that has not been concluded, and for which a final report has not been submitted, you must also attach:

• Preliminary report of the project: (Appendix a8)

Other appendixes may be required in certain cases, see below:

• Globalisation of society (Appendix a7)
• Linking the molecules of life (Appendix b1)

Summary

• what will be done
• how the research will be conducted, what scientific methods will be used
• what is important about the planned research.

The text should quickly orient the reader to the purpose and implementation of the research. Write in a style that allows people from other research backgrounds to easily comprehend the information.
 
Fill in the summary on the form in the application system.
 

Popular science description

• Describe what will be done and why.
• Emphasise the basic research.
• Explain in what way the new knowledge can be important.

The popular science description is an important tool when the Swedish Research Council informs others about the research we finance. If we award funding for your application we have the right to use the description for informational purposes.
 
Fill in the popular science description on the form in the application system. The popular science description as well as your address should be written in Swedish.

Budget information

Equipment applied for within the project should be included in the total acquisition costs for the year you intend to acquire it. Depreciation costs for equipment cannot be included.

Fill in the budget information on the form provided in the application system. Note: Use thousand Swedish kronor (SEK 1000s) to indicate the amounts.

Research programme (Appendix A)

The research programme, including other appendixes, should be written in English since the Swedish Research Council uses international reviewers.
 
The research programme must include the following information, under separate headings:

• Purpose and aims. Present the overall purpose and specific goals of the research project (or equivalent).
• Survey of the field. Summarise your own and others´ research and previous findings in the research field. Provide key references.
• Project description. Summarise the project´s design. Describe theory, methods, timetable,  implementation and co-workers (if any) function in the project.
• Significance. Describe the project´s significance to the research field.
• Preliminary results. Describe your own experiments and prestudies in the research field.
• Part of project cost. Indicate the percentage of the total project cost that you are requesting from the Swedish Research Council, per year.
• Budget. Motivate shortly each post in your budget.

Present the following under a special heading, if relevant to the application:

• Equipment. Describe the basic equipment for the project that you and your group have at your disposal.
• International and national collaboration. Describe the collaboration that you and your group have with foreign and Swedish researchers and research groups. Report on international collaboration that you participate in, or are associated with, through your research. You may use project research grants from the Swedish Research Council to co-finance EU projects with corresponding orientations within the Seventh Framework Programme. If you are planning such collaboration, account for this in the research programme.
• Ethical considerations. Present the ethical issues that the project (or equivalent) faces, and describe how they will be addressed in your research.
• Other grants. Describe funding awarded to other participating researchers (those listed on the application form) and list any grants requested from other funders of importance to the project. If you intend to seek multiple project research grants, or have been awarded project research grants from any areas of the Swedish Research Council, the research programme must clarify the relationship between these projects. Describe your motivation for submitting one or more additional applications.

CV/Scientific qualifications (Appendix B)

1. Higher education degree(s) (year, subject area)
2. Doctoral degree (year, discipline/subject area, dissertation title, and supervisor).
3. Postdoctoral work (year and placement).
4. Qualifications as research fellow/associate professor (year).
5. Current position, period of appointment, share of time spent in research.
6. Previous positions and periods of appointment (specify type of position).
7. Interruptions in research. Indicate if active research time has been interrupted to the extent that it affected the opportunity to acquire qualifications, e.g. by parental leave, illness, clinical internship/residency, positions of trust in trade union organisations and student organisations, or other similar reasons. Specify the reason(s) and give the time and dates of the interruption.
8. Individuals who have completed their doctoral degree under your supervision (name, year of disputation [i.e. oral public defence of PhD thesis]) or postdoctoral period under your main supervision.

Lastly, provide other information of importance to the application.
 
Items that do not apply to you should be left blank.

Publication list (Appendix C)

1. Peer-reviewed articles
2. Peer-reviewed conference contributions (the results of which are not presented in other publications)
3. Review articles, book chapters, books
4. Patents (give date and registration)
5. Open access computer programs that you have developed
6. Popular science articles/presentations

Note! Include only articles (or equivalent) that have been published or accepted for publication.

Signatures (Appendix S)

• the described research, position, and equipment will be allocated space in the institution during the time and extent described in the research programme
• the institution approves the cost estimate presented in the application
• you have reported your side-line occupations and commercial ties, and nothing has emerged that would conflict with good research practice.
• necessary permission and approval have been granted to the project, e.g. regarding ethical review.

You must discuss the above points with the representative of the administrative entity before he/she approves and signs the application. The administrative entity is responsible for assuring that the project complies with the terms and conditions established by Swedish legislation.
 
Send Appendix S by regular mail to the Swedish Research Council.
 
Remember! Appendix S, complete with signatures, must be received by the Swedish Research Council not later than 3 working days after the closing date for applications.
 
You will find the address and closing date for applications in the section, “When and how to apply".

Preliminary report of project (Appendix a8)

Briefly describe the scientific results achieved to date in the previously awarded project; results that have not been reported to the Swedish Research Council earlier. Specify the title and registration number of the previous project, and describe the relationship between that project and the planned project. The description may not exceed two A4 pages.

Instructions for applying

• Write the application and appendixes in English since the Swedish Research Council may need to use international reviewers. The obligatory popular science description and your address should be written in Swedish.
• You are responsible for the completeness of the application, i.e. that all application forms and appendixes are filled in properly. The Swedish Research Council does not process incomplete applications. Failure to comply with the instructions will be taken into account in the evaluation.
• We do not accept additional information after the closing date for applications (apart from such information that we expressly request).
• If funding from another funding body is awarded for the same or similar purpose described in this application, notify the Swedish Research Council as soon as possible.
• Attach only the material that we expressly request. Other material, e.g. letters of recommendation or offprints will not be evaluated.
• You may submit only one application for each project and type of grant.
• In the application, list as co-workers the persons with a doctoral degree that are most relevant for implementing the proposed project. If the space on the application form is insufficient to include everyone, the additional contributors can be mentioned in the research programme (Appendix A).
• Write the appendixes in A4 format, using a 25 mm margin and Times New Roman 12 font. When we print out the applications, we use a resolution of 200-300 dpi and possibly greyscale. Hence, you should adapt your images to that standard. Remember that the pdf files must not be password protected.
• The application form automatically requests the required appendixes.

General terms and conditions for applications

Evaluation and decisions

This is how we evaluate your application (information will be available soon)
Evaluation panels
Addressing conflicts of interest at the Swedish Research Council

Decisions

Disbursement of awarded funds will begin in January 2012 at the earliest.

When and how to apply

Please note!
Previously we have experienced overload problems in our application system during the final days before the application deadline. Hence, we encourage you to submit your application in good time.

Contacts

Questions about application content

Linking the Molecules of Life

Globalization of Society

Technical questions

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