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Distinguished professor grant within medicine and health
Upcoming calls
The aim of the distinguished professor programme is to create conditions for the most prominent researchers to conduct long-term, ground-breaking research with great potential for achieving scientific breakthroughs. The grant shall also enable the establishment and build-up of a major research environment of the highest quality around a leading researcher.
Medicine and Health
Research environment and collaboration support
Distinguished professor grant
Undirected within medicine and health
Individual researcher who completed a doctoral degree more than 12 years ago
No other researchers may be invited to join the application.
8 years
4 000 000 SEK per year
January 2026
29 January 2025 (14.00/2 p.m.) – 4 March 2025 (14.00/2 pm)
No later than beginning of December 2025
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Grant for research infrastructure of national interest
Open calls
The purpose of the grant is to support research infrastructure of national interest. This might refer to national infrastructure, or Swedish participation in international infrastructure. Only the research infrastructures/areas listed in the call text will be considered for funding under this call.
Research infrastructure
Infrastructure support
Research infrastructure
Research infrastructure of national interest
Organisation applicants only
No participating researchers may be invited to join the application.
1–5 years (The grant period applied for should end in an even year.)
No earlier than January 2026
4 December 2024 (14.00/2 pm) – 18 February 2025 (14.00/2 pm)
No later than December 2025
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Research project grant within educational sciences
Upcoming calls
The purpose of the project grant is to give researchers the freedom to formulate by themselves the research concept, method and implementation, and to solve a specific research task within a limited period.
Development Research
Project support
Individual researcher
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Tage Erlander visiting professorship
Upcoming calls
The purpose of the Swedish Research Council’s grant for visiting professors is to give higher education institutions the opportunity to develop a subject area by recruiting an internationally prominent professor during a limited period.
Natural and Engineering Sciences
Research environment and collaboration support
Visiting researcher grant
Natural and engineering sciences (see under the heading “Requirements for applicants” for further details).
Organisation. A representative of the host organisation shall be invited to be the project leader for the application.
No other researchers may be invited to join the application.
6-12 months
Maximum 2 000 000 SEK for the professorship.
January 2027
15 January 2025 (14.00/2 p.m.) – 18 February 2025 (14.00/2 pm)
No later than the end of June 2025
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Project grant for research into societal security
Upcoming calls
The purpose of the project grant is to give researchers the freedom to formulate their own research concept, method and implementation, and to solve a specific research task within a limited period. This is a project grant with focus, aimed at strengthening Swedish research into societal security.
Humanities and Social Sciences
Project support
Project grant with focus
Research into societal security
Individual researcher
Up to 6 other researchers may be invited to join the application
1–4 years. If you apply for a fourth year, this must be specifically justified in the application.
Minimum 400 000 SEK per year, maximum 1 700 000 SEK per year
January 2026
26 February 2025 (14.00/2 pm) – 1 April 2025 (14.00/2 pm)
No later than the end of November 2025
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Network grant within educational sciences
Upcoming calls
The purpose of the network grant is to support internationalisation and mobility through the development of long-term research collaboration within educational sciences between Swedish research teams and research teams in other countries.
Educational Sciences
Research environment and collaboration support
Individual researcher
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Visiting researcher grant in research into the Holocaust, victims of the Holocaust and anti-Semitism
Upcoming calls
The Swedish Research Council’s visiting researcher grant aims to give higher education institutions and other research organisations the opportunity to develop and strengthen a research field by recruiting an internationally prominent researcher during a short period.
Humanities and Social Sciences
Research environment and collaboration support
Organisation applicants only
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Olof Palme visiting professorship
Upcoming calls
The purpose of the Swedish Research Council’s grant for visiting professors is to give higher education institutions the opportunity to develop a subject area by recruiting an internationally prominent professor during a limited period.
Humanities and Social Sciences
Research environment and collaboration support
Organisation applicants only
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Network grant for collaboration in the area of viruses and pandemics
Upcoming calls
The network grant aims to support cross-disciplinary research networks in the area of viruses and pandemics, such as virus-caused diseases, pandemic preparedness, infection spread, public health, and societal effects. The grant is given for development and coordination of a research question, sharing research data, or using infrastructure that is relevant to research into viruses and pandemics.
Humanities and Social Sciences, Artistic Research, Medicine and Health, Natural and Engineering Sciences, Educational Sciences
Research environment and collaboration support
Individual researcher
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Consolidator grant within viruses and pandemics
Upcoming calls
The purpose of the grant is to give the most prominent junior researchers the opportunity to consolidate their research and broaden their activities as independent researchers. Within the framework of the call, the Swedish Research Council wishes to support researchers who have a scientifically interesting research concept, and who can convert and conduct the research task and thereby move the frontiers of research forward, or fill in existing gaps in knowledge.
Humanities and Social Sciences, Artistic Research, Medicine and Health, Natural and Engineering Sciences, Educational Sciences
Career support
Individual researcher
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Starting grant within viruses and pandemics
Upcoming calls
The purpose of the starting grant is to give junior researchers the opportunity to establish themselves as independent researchers in Sweden in the area of viruses and pandemics. The Swedish Research Council rewards research of the highest scientific quality in national competition.
Humanities and Social Sciences, Artistic Research, Medicine and Health, Natural and Engineering Sciences, Educational Sciences
Career support
Individual researcher
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Project grant for research into knowledge gaps in viruses and pandemics
Upcoming calls
The purpose of the project grant is to give researchers the freedom to formulate their own research concept, method and implementation, and to solve a specific research task within a limited period. The grant is aimed at accumulating knowledge about how to reduce the negative consequences for human life and health and for society, resulting from virus diseases and pandemics, and thereby prepare society ahead of future pandemics.
Humanities and Social Sciences, Artistic Research, Medicine and Health, Natural and Engineering Sciences, Educational Sciences
Project support
Individual researcher
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Project grant for research into the social consequences of digitalisation
Upcoming calls
The purpose of the project grant is to give researchers the freedom to formulate by themselves the research concept, method and implementation, and to solve a specific research task within a limited period. This is a project grant with focus, which aims at supporting research into the social consequences of digitalisation.
Humanities and Social Sciences, Artistic Research, Medicine and Health, Natural and Engineering Sciences, Educational Sciences
Project support
Project grant with focus
The societal consequences of digitalisation
Individual researcher
Up to 6 other researchers may be invited to join the application
1–4 years. If you apply for a fourth year, this must be specifically justified in the application.
Minimum 400 000 SEK per year, maximum 1 700 000 SEK per year
January 2026
26 February 2025 (14.00/2 pm) – 1 April 2025 (14.00/2 pm)
No later than the beginning of December 2025
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Project grant for research into crime
Upcoming calls
The purpose of the project grant is to give researchers the freedom to formulate their own research idea, method and implementation, and to solve a specific research task within a limited period. This is a project grant with focus, aimed at supporting research into crime.
Humanities and Social Sciences, Artistic Research, Medicine and Health, Natural and Engineering Sciences, Educational Sciences
Project support
Project grant with focus
Research into crime
Individual researcher
Up to 6 other researchers may be invited to join the application
1–4 years. If you apply for a fourth year, this must be specifically justified in the application.
Minimum 400 000 SEK per year, maximum 1 700 000 SEK per year
January 2026
26 February 2025 (14.00/2 pm) – 1 April 2025 (14.00/2 pm)
No later than the end of November 2025
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Project grant for research into segregation
Upcoming calls
The purpose of the project grant is to give researchers the freedom to formulate by themselves the research concept, method and implementation, and to solve a specific research task within a limited period. This is a project grant with focus, which aims at supporting research into segregation.
Humanities and Social Sciences, Artistic Research, Medicine and Health, Natural and Engineering Sciences, Educational Sciences
Project support
Project grant with focus
Research into segregation
Individual researcher
Up to 6 other researchers may be invited to join the application
1–4 years. If you apply for a fourth year, this must be specifically justified in the application.
Minimum 400 000 SEK per year, maximum 1 700 000 SEK per year
January 2026
26 February 2025 (14.00/2 pm) – 1 April 2025 (14.00/2 pm)
No later than the end of November 2025
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Project grant for employment of postdocs for cross-sectoral collaboration in medicine and health
Upcoming calls
The purpose of the project grant is to give researchers the freedom to formulate by themselves the research concept, method and implementation, and to solve a specific research task within a limited period. The focus of this grant aims to increase researcher mobility and support collaboration between higher education institutions and the surrounding society, both the business sector and public and non-profit sectors, to increase the quality and impact of research.
Medicine and Health
Project support
Individual researcher
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Network grant within educational sciences focusing on digitisation and STEM education
Upcoming calls
The purpose of the network grant is to support internationalisation and mobility through the development of long-term research collaborations in educational sciences focusing on digitisation and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education between Swedish research teams and research teams in USA.
Educational Sciences
Research environment and collaboration support
Network grant
Digitisation and STEM education
Individual researcher
A minimum of 1 and maximum of 4 researchers shall be invited to join the application. At least one of these shall be active at a higher education institution in USA.
1–3 years
Minimum 100 000 SEK per year, maximum 400 000 SEK per year
January 2026
26 February 2025 (14.00/2 pm) – 1 April 2025 (14.00/2 pm)
No later than the beginning of November 2025
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Research environment grant within educational sciences
Upcoming calls
The research environment grant within educational sciences aims to strengthen national and international research environments, and to enable strategic initiatives of high quality and excellence. The grant shall promote collaboration between a team of researchers working towards a joint research goal in the longer term, and contribute to career development.
Educational Sciences
Research environment and collaboration support
Research environment grant
Undirected within educational sciences
Individual researcher
Minimum 2 and maximum 6 other researchers shall be invited to join the application.
3–5 years
Minimum 1 500 000 SEK per year, maximum 3 000 000 SEK per year
January 2026
26 February 2025 (14.00/2 pm) – 1 April 2025 (14.00/2 pm)
No later than the beginning of November 2025
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Grant for planning of clinical study in therapy research
Upcoming calls
The purpose of the grant is to create opportunities for a constellation of researchers within academia and health and medical care to plan ahead with other actors for a future application for a grant for clinical studies in therapy research.
Clinical Therapy Research
Project support
Individual researcher
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Network grant for collaboration with the USA in cancer research
Upcoming calls
Network grants aim to give researchers the opportunity to create or develop networks, for example around a research area, for a limited period.
Medicine and Health
Research environment and collaboration support
Individual researcher
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Project grant for research into cyber and information security
Upcoming calls
The purpose of the project grant is to give researchers the freedom to formulate their own research idea, method and implementation, and to solve a specific research task within a limited period. This project grant with focus aimed at supporting research into cyber and information security in the field of natural and engineering sciences.
Natural and Engineering Sciences
Project support
Individual researcher
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Project grant for research on civil society
Closed calls
The purpose of the project grant is to give researchers the freedom to formulate their own research concept, method and implementation, and to solve a specific research task within a limited period. The focus of this grant aims to support research on civil society.
Humanities and Social Sciences
Project support
Individual researcher
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Exploratory workshops within educational sciences
Closed calls
The purpose of the grant is to support research into possible innovative research areas and creative research ideas in educational sciences. The grant may be used for research collaboration to test new research questions, methods, analyses, perspectives, data material, and to research opportunities to write applications and apply for international funding, etc.
Educational Sciences
Research environment and collaboration support
Individual researcher
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International postdoc within humanities and social sciences, including educational sciences (autumn call)
Upcoming calls
The purpose of the grant is to give newly qualified researchers with a doctoral degree from a Swedish university the opportunity to expand their networks and their competences by working abroad under secure employment conditions. The grant is also intended to promote the quality and renewal of Swedish research.
Humanities and Social Sciences, Educational Sciences
Career support
Individual researcher
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International postdoc within natural and engineering sciences (autumn call)
Upcoming calls
The purpose of the grant is to give newly qualified researchers with a doctoral degree from a Swedish university the opportunity to expand their networks and their competences by working abroad under secure employment conditions. The grant is also intended to promote the quality and renewal of Swedish research.
Natural and Engineering Sciences
Career support
Individual researcher
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Grant for research communication in artistic research
Upcoming calls
The purpose of the grant is to enable holders of earlier and/or ongoing research grants from the Swedish Research Council to plan, implement and evaluate communication activities that entail dialogue or co-creation with identified groups outside academia.
Artistic Research
Science communication support
Individual researcher
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International post doc within medicine and health (autumn call)
Upcoming calls
The purpose of the grant is to give newly qualified researchers with a doctoral degree from a Swedish university the opportunity to expand their networks and their competences by working abroad under secure employment conditions. The grant is also intended to promote the quality and renewal of Swedish research.
Medicine and Health
Career support
Individual researcher
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Exploratory worskshops within artistic research
Upcoming calls
The purpose of the grant is to support research into possible innovative research areas and creative research ideas in artistic research. The grant may be used for research collaboration to test new research questions, methods, analyses, perspectives, data material, and to research opportunities to write applications and apply for international funding, etc.
Artistic Research
Research environment and collaboration support
Individual researcher
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Doctoral programme grant within register-based research
Closed calls
The purpose of the grant is to educate doctoral students in fundamental and ground-breaking methods that are relevant to interdisciplinary and intersectoral register-based research. The grant shall also strengthen the recruitment pool and the quality within research fields that use register-based data.
Humanities and Social Sciences, Medicine and Health, Educational Sciences
Research environment and collaboration support
Doctoral programme grant
Register-based research
Organisation applicants only
A minimum of two further HEIs shall participate in the application. One contact person per participating HEI shall be invited as a participating researcher.
4 years
Maximum 2 500 000 SEK per year
January 2025
21 August 2024 (14.00/2 p.m.) – 17 September 2024 (14.00/2 pm)
No later than the beginning of December
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Starting grant within educational sciences
Upcoming calls
The aim of the grant is to give junior researchers the opportunity to establish themselves as independent researchers in Sweden.
Educational Sciences
Career support
Individual researcher
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Research project grant within natural and engineering sciences
Upcoming calls
The purpose of the project grant is to give researchers the freedom to formulate by themselves the research concept, method and implementation, and to solve a specific research task within a limited period.
Natural and Engineering Sciences
Project support
Individual researcher
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Starting grant within natural and engineering sciences
Upcoming calls
The aim of the grant is to give junior researchers the opportunity to establish themselves as independent researchers in Sweden.
Natural and Engineering Sciences
Career support
Individual researcher
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Research project grant within medicine and health
Upcoming calls
The purpose of the project grant is to give researchers the freedom to formulate by themselves the research concept, method and implementation, and to solve a specific research task within a limited period.
Medicine and Health
Project support
Individual researcher
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Research project grant for development of methods to replace, reduce and refine animal experiments (3R)
Upcoming calls
The purpose of the project grant is to give researchers the freedom to formulate their own research idea, method and implementation, and to solve a specific research task within a limited period. This is a project grant with focus, aiming to promote the development of methods to replace, reduce and/or refine experiments on animals according to the 3R principle.
Medicine and Health
Project support
Individual researcher
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Starting grant within medicine and health
Upcoming calls
The purpose of the grant is to give junior researchers the opportunity to establish themselves as independent researchers in Sweden.
Medicine and Health
Career support
Individual researcher
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Consolidator grant within medicine and health
Upcoming calls
The purpose of the grant is to give the most prominent junior researchers the opportunity to consolidate their research and broaden their activities as independent researchers.Within the framework of the call, the Swedish Research Council wishes to support researchers who have a scientifically interesting research idea, and who can convert and conduct the research task and thereby move the frontiers of research forward, or fill in existing gaps in knowledge.
Medicine and Health
Career support
Individual researcher
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Grant for research time in a clinical environment
Upcoming calls
The purpose of the grant is to give clinically active persons the opportunity to carry out research on a part-time basis in parallel with developing their clinical competence. The aim is to reinforce and renew medical and clinical research.
Medicine and Health
Career support
Individual researcher
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International post doc within artistic research
Upcoming calls
The purpose of the grant is to give newly qualified researchers with a doctoral degree from a Swedish university the opportunity to expand their networks and their competences by working abroad under secure employment conditions. The grant is also intended to promote the quality and renewal of Swedish research.
Artistic Research
Career support
Individual researcher
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Project grant within artistic research
Upcoming calls
The purpose of the project grant is to support research on artistic grounds. The grant gives you, the researcher, the freedom to formulate the research idea, method and implementation yourself, and to solve a specific research task within a limited period.
Artistic Research
Project support
Individual researcher
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Research project grant within humanities and social sciences
Upcoming calls
The purpose of the project grant is to give researchers the freedom to formulate by themselves the research concept, method and implementation, and to solve a specific research task within a limited period.
Humanities and Social Sciences
Project support
Individual researcher
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Grant for clinical study within therapy research
Upcoming calls
The purpose of the grant is to provide support for clinical therapy studies that are justified by the needs of health and medical care and are expected to lead to patient and societal benefit within a relatively short period of time. Therapy studies refers to both intervention and observation studies. Areas such as prevention, diagnostics, follow-up, implementation, care and rehabilitation are also included. The grant aims to enable a constellation of researchers within regions and academia to work towards a common research goal.
Clinical Therapy Research
Research environment and collaboration support
Individual researcher
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Kerstin Hesselgren visiting professorship
Upcoming calls
The purpose of the Swedish Research Council’s grant for visiting professors is to give higher education institutions the opportunity to develop a subject area by recruiting an internationally prominent professor during a limited period.
Humanities and Social Sciences
Research environment and collaboration support
Organisation applicants only
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International postdoc within natural and engineering sciences (spring call)
Upcoming calls
The purpose of the grant is to give newly qualified researchers with a doctoral degree from a Swedish university the opportunity to expand their networks and their competences by working abroad under secure employment conditions. The grant is also intended to promote the quality and renewal of Swedish research.
Natural and Engineering Sciences
Career support
Individual researcher
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International post doc within medicine and health (spring call)
Upcoming calls
The purpose of the grant is to give newly qualified researchers with a doctoral degree from a Swedish university the opportunity to expand their networks and their competences by working abroad under secure employment conditions. The grant is also intended to promote the quality and renewal of Swedish research.
Medicine and Health
Career support
Individual researcher
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International postdoc within humanities and social sciences, including educational sciences (spring call)
Upcoming calls
The purpose of the grant is to give newly qualified researchers with a doctoral degree from a Swedish university the opportunity to expand their networks and their competences by working abroad under secure employment conditions. The grant is also intended to promote the quality and renewal of Swedish research.
Humanities and Social Sciences, Educational Sciences
Career support
Individual researcher
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Exploratory workshops within artistic research
Closed calls
The purpose of the grant is to support research into possible innovative research areas and creative research concepts in artistic research. The grant may be used for research collaboration to test new research questions, methods, analyses, perspectives, data material, etc.
Artistic Research
Research environment and collaboration support
Exploratory workshops
Artistic research
Individual researcher
A minimum of 1 and up to 6 researchers shall be invited to join the application
1-2 years
Maximum 250 000 SEK per year
January 2025
21 August 2024 (14.00/2 p.m.) – 17 September 2024 (14.00/2 pm)
No later than the beginning of December 2024
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International postdoc within medicine and health (autumn call)
Closed calls
The purpose of the grant is to give newly qualified researchers with a doctoral degree from a Swedish university the opportunity to expand their networks and their competences by working abroad under secure employment conditions. The grant is also intended to promote the quality and renewal of Swedish research.
Medicine and Health
Career support
International postdoc
Undirected within Medicine and health
Individual researcher
No other researchers may be invited to join the application.
18–36 months
1 300 000 SEK per year, plus a further 50 000 SEK per year in total may be applied for, for one or more accompanying family members.
January 2025
21 August 2024 (14.00/2 pm) – 17 September 2024 (14.00/2 pm)
No later than the beginning of January 2025
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International postdoc within humanities and social sciences as well as educational sciences (autumn call)
Closed calls
The purpose of the grant is to give newly qualified researchers with a doctoral degree from a Swedish university the opportunity to expand their networks and their competences by working abroad under secure employment conditions. The grant is also intended to promote the quality and renewal of Swedish research.
Humanities and Social Sciences, Educational Sciences
Career support
International postdoc
Undirected within medicine and health
Individual researcher
No other researchers may be invited to join the application.
18–36 months
1 300 000 SEK per year, plus a further 50 000 SEK per year in total may be applied for, for one or more accompanying family members.
January 2025
21 August 2024 (14.00/2 pm) – 17 September 2024 (14.00/2 pm)
No later than the beginning of January 2025
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International postdoc within natural and engineering sciences (autumn call)
Closed calls
The purpose of the grant is to give newly qualified researchers with a doctoral degree from a Swedish university the opportunity to expand their networks and their competences by working abroad under secure employment conditions. The grant is also intended to promote the quality and renewal of Swedish research.
Natural and Engineering Sciences
Career support
Individual researcher
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Research environment grant for research on sixth-generation wireless systems (6G)
Closed calls
The purpose of the grant is to support the build-up of strong research environments, where teams of researchers work towards a joint research goal, both nationally and bi- or multilateral collaborations. The call is part of the Government’s initiative to develop the next generation of wireless systems (6G).
Natural and Engineering Sciences
Research environment and collaboration support
Research environment grant
Research into 6G
Individual researcher
Minimum 2 and maximum 6 other researchers shall be invited to join the application.
4 years
Minimum 4 000 000 SEK per year, maximum 8 000 000 SEK per year
21 August 2024 (14.00/2 p.m.) – 17 September 2024 (14.00/2 pm)
January 2025
No later than the beginning of December 2024