Research infrastructures

Research Infrastructure includes, for example, research installations, facilities for database research or extensive computer networks used in Sweden or internationally by a number of research groups that are a precondition for high-quality research.

The Research Council allocated around SEK 882 million for research infrastructures 2009.

Here you can read some texts about research within research infrastructures.

Research portraits within research infrastructures

ICOS – A Network of Observation Sites for Climate Research
A tight network of observation sites across Europe will enhance our knowledge about the exchange of greenhouse gases between the ground and the atmosphere. Nine observation sites in Sweden participate in a project that receives funding from the Swedish Research Council.
Biobanking Infrastructure: BBMRI
Biobanks containing blood and tissue specimens from many tens of thousands of individuals are a fundamental resource in medical research. Large Swedish biobanks are joining together in a national infrastructure with the ambition to form the world´s largest biobank.
Detailed Studies of the Strong Force
– Meet Thomas Nilsson
Professor Thomas Nilsson, Department of Fundamental Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, has a Project Research Grant from the Swedish Research Council. Here you can read an interview with him.
Waiting for the muscles of ESS
Meet Lars Börjesson, a physicist and  secretary-general at the Swedish Research Council. He is called "the man behind ESS".