Natural and Engineering Sciences
- Project grant
- Starting grant
- Consolidator grant
- Visiting professorship (Tage Erlander)
- International postdoc 1 & 2
Medicine and health
- Project grant
- Half-time research position in a clinical environment
- Starting grant
- Consolidator grant
- Project grant for research into pandemics and their effects on society and public health
- Research project grant for development of methods to replace, reduce and refine animal experiments (3R)
- Doctoral programme
- International postdoc 1 & 2
- Proof of Concept within the infection area
Humanities and social sciences
- Project grant
- Doctoral programme grant within humanities and social sciences
- Doctoral programme grant within migration and integration
- Visiting professorship (Kerstin Hesselgrens & Olof Palmes)
- International postdoc 1 & 2
- Network grant for research into the Holocaust, victims of the Holocaust and anti-Semitism
- Visiting researcher grant in research into the Holocaust, victims of the Holocaust and anti-Semitism
- Research environment grant – humanities and social sciences
- Grant for research communication in migration and integration
- Project grant for research into crime
- Project grant for research into the social consequences of digitalisation
- Project grant for research into segregation
Educational sciences
- Project grant
- Network grant
- Exploratory workshops
- International postdoc 1 & 2
- Consolidator grant
Development research
- Project grant
- Network grant
- International postdoc
- Starting grant
Clinical therapy research
- Research environment grant
- Grant for planning of clinical therapy research
Artistic research
- Project grant
- International postdoc
- Research environment grant
Free research
The largest part of the funding are within free research, which means grants that are not limited to a particular area.
One of the Swedish Research Council´s goals for achieving gender equality within our area of activities is to have the same approval rate and the same average grant amount for women and for men.
Please note that grants for research infrastructure are not reported on this page.
Area of science | Number of applications | Number of appoved applications | Approval rate | Total amount approved |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Humanities and social sciences | 1374 | 173 | 13 % | 944 727 711 |
Clinical therapy research | 85 | 18 | 21 % | 195 193 901 |
Artistic research | 77 | 12 | 16 % | 75 716 000 |
Medicine and health | 1426 | 334 | 23 % | 1 541 879 560 |
Natural and engineering sciences | 1814 | 365 | 20 % | 1 384 170 000 |
Educational sciences | 281 | 43 | 15 % | 191 242 288 |
Development research | 241 | 60 | 25 % | 209 981 761 |
Total | 5298 | 1005 | 19 % | 4 542 911 221 |
Applicants | Number of applications* | Approval rate | Average grant per year |
|---|---|---|---|
Women | 2132 | 18 % | 1 201 106 |
Men | 3113 | 19 % | 1 133 973 |
Total | 5245 | 19 % | 1 159 640 |
* Doctoral programme, Visiting researcher programme and Visiting professorship are not included.
Applicants | Number of applications* | Approval rate | Average grant per year |
|---|---|---|---|
Women | 741 | 16 % | 1 315 836 |
Men | 955 | 15 % | 1 165 980 |
Total | 1696 | 16 % | 1 233 083 |
*Project grants within artistic research are not included.
Approval rate and average grant per type of funding
Type of funding | Number of applications | Approval rate | Average grant per year |
|---|---|---|---|
Half-time research position in a clinical environment | 44 | 14 % | 1 850 000 |
Starting grant | 663 | 16 % | 1 136 541 |
Internationell postdok | 289 | 25 % | 1 073 962 |
Totalsumma | 996 | 18 % | 1 134 792 |
Type of funding | Number of applications | Approval rate | Average grant per year |
|---|---|---|---|
Research environment grant | 145 | 14 % | 3 277 580 |
Exploratory workshop | 9 | 67 % | 151 184 |
Doctoral programme | 38 | 50 % | 4 370 320 |
Visiting researcher | 1 | 100 % | 1 925 758 |
Visiting professorship | 14 | 29 % | 2 312 074 |
Network grant | 45 | 51 % | 408 022 |
Total | 252 | 29 % | 2 944 955 |
Type of funding | Number of applications | Approval rate | Average grant per year |
|---|---|---|---|
Project grant, undirected | 3333 | 20 % | 1 065 478 |
Project grant, focus | 434 | 13 % | 1 314 462 |
Proof of Concept | 17 | 59 % | 1 051 854 |
Totalsumma | 3784 | 19 % | 1 081 630 |
Administration organisations | Number of applications | Total amount approved |
|---|---|---|
Karolinska Institutet | 159 | 712 722 006 |
Uppsala University | 145 | 691 370 821 |
Lund University | 137 | 593 849 783 |
Stockholm University | 107 | 469 524 822 |
University of Gothenburg | 97 | 489 787 812 |
Others | 83 | 401 229 083 |
KTH, Royal Institute of Technology | 68 | 255 820 333 |
Linköping University | 60 | 264 886 217 |
Umeå University | 54 | 218 306 542 |
Chalmers University of Technology | 35 | 130 578 500 |
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences | 32 | 123 772 000 |
Not a Swedish university | 28 | 191 063 302 |
Total | 1 005 | 4 542 911 221 |
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