Project grant for research collaboration between South Korea and Sweden

The following requirements must be fulfilled in order for you to be eligible to apply for the grant. We carry out checks, and reject applications that do not fulfil the requirements.

Please note that “Swedish” and “Korean” in this call text refer to the researcher’s country of affiliation and not nationality.

Applicant

The applicant for the project grant must be the Swedish project leader in a joint research collaboration application with a project leader in South Korea. You shall be the project leader and have scientific responsibility for the project. The time you set aside for the project (your activity level, that is the percentage of a full-time equivalent) must be suited to the task and its implementation throughout the grant period.

You must hold a Swedish doctoral degree or an equivalent foreign degree, awarded no later than the deadline for this call. The degree award date we use is the date you fulfilled all the requirements for a doctoral degree, such as mandatory courses, oral defence and an approved doctoral thesis. For applicants with Swedish doctoral degrees, the award date listed in Ladok applies.

Grants from the Swedish Research Council shall be administered by a Swedish university or HEI or another Swedish public organisation that fulfils our criteria for administrating organisations Opens in new window.. Your organisation must therefore be approved as an administrating organisation for you to apply. The administrating organisation must sign your application in Prisma no later than 7 calendar days after the deadline for this call.

If you are awarded a grant, you must be employed by the administrating organisation at the start of and throughout the grant period and any additional availability period, unless the Swedish Research Council approves an exception from this requirement. The employment must equal at least 20 per cent of a full-time equivalent. You do not have to be employed by the administrating organisation at the time of applying.

Number of applications and previous grants

The requirements described in this section only apply to applicants (project leaders).

What grants may I apply for simultaneously from the Swedish Research Council?

You may only submit one application for this grant under this call. There are no other restrictions regarding applying for other grants during the same year.

What requirements apply if I already have a grant from the Swedish Research Council?

There are certain restrictions if you are the project leader of an ongoing grant, that is to say where the grant period (payment period from the Swedish Research Council) overlaps the grant period of the grant the application relates to. Please note that the availability period, that is to say the time during which you have the right to use your grant, is normally longer than the grant period. Information about the requirements for your grant can be found in the “Approval of terms and conditions” you received from the Swedish Research Council. You can apply for a project grant within the South Korea-Sweden joint call for Covid-19 even if you are already a project leader for an ongoing project grant, provided your ongoing grant has a different focus and a different project idea.

The table below shows information and other restrictions on the grants you may apply for if you already have an ongoing grant. Grants under this call are counted as ”Focused project grants” in the table.

Table: Grants you may apply for if you have an ongoing grant Opens in new window.

Note: If you have been the project leader for previous grants from the Swedish Research Council that have ended, final financial reports for all of these must have been submitted within the permitted time frame in order for you to apply for a new grant. Please contact your administrating organisation if you are unsure whether all your final financial reports have been submitted.

What applies for applications to or grants from other funding bodies?

If your application to the Swedish Research Council relates to the same project idea as a grant you have already been awarded by, or are applying for to another funding body, please describe this in your application to the NRF.

Costs and grant amounts

You can apply for a grant for all types of project-related costs, such as

• salaries (including your own salary), however no more than corresponding to the person’s activity level in the project
• premises
• running costs (such as consumables, travel including stays at research facilities, publication costs and minor equipment)
• depreciation costs

Grants must not be used for scholarships. If a doctoral student participates, project funds may not be paid out as salary during teaching or other departmental duties.

The grant is awarded in a standard amount of 1 500 000 SEK, including indirect costs.

Grant period

The grant period is 13 months, starting from December 2020.

The first payment will be made in December 2020.

Please refer to the NRF call text and the application form in Prisma in parallel with reading the instructions below, which describe the call-specific content of the application to the Swedish Research Council. More information on what to do in practical terms is available in our Guide for applicants Opens in new window..

Sections of the application

The application form in Prisma contains the following tabs:

• Descriptive information
• Research description
• Administrating organisation
• Participants (only administrators in this call)
• CV

The information we request under each tab is described below.

Descriptive information

Abstract

In the abstract, please describe in brief the following:

• What is to be done: purpose and aim
• How the research will be carried out: project organisation, time plan and scientific methods
• What is important about the planned research

The abstract shall provide a summary picture of the purpose and implementation of the research. Please use wording to ensure persons with another subject specialisation can understand the information.

The description may cover a maximum of 1 500 characters including blank spaces. This is approximately one third of an A4 page in Arial, font size 11, single line spacing.

Popular science description

Describe the project in such a way that a person who is not familiar with the subject can understand it. Describe what is to be done, and why. Explain also in what way the new knowledge may be important.

The popular science description is an important tool when we inform about the research funded by the Swedish Research Council. If we grant your application, we reserve the right to use the description for information purposes.

Note: The popular science description must be written in Swedish, unlike the rest of the application.

The description may cover a maximum of 4 000 characters including blank spaces. This is approximately one A4 page in Arial, font size 11, single line spacing.

Research description

Ethical considerations

Describe the ethical issues raised by your project or equivalent. You must also describe how you plan to address ethical dilemmas that may arise. Please justify why the research should be carried out against the background of the ethical issues you have identified. How do your research questions and expected results measure up in relation to the ethical issues? Please also state whether the research involves any handling of personal data, or experiments on animals or human subjects. If no ethical issues are raised, please justify this.

The justification may cover a maximum of 4 000 characters including blank spaces. This is approximately one A4 page in Arial, font size 11, single line spacing.

Application for the Joint research collaboration

Here you shall attach a copy of the final Joint research application submitted to the NRF.

Administrating organisation

Please state the administrating organisation and project site.

Participants

Here you may invite any participating administrators to your application.

CV

Under this tab, please upload your relevant CV information from your personal account in Prisma.

Education: Third cycle higher education (doctoral degree)

Work: Current employment (including whether it is permanent employment or not).

+ How your application is assessed

The scientific assessment of the application is carried out by the National Research foundation of Korea, please refer to the call text on NRF’s website. You can also read more here External link, opens in new window..

The scientific assessment of the application is carried out by the National Research foundation of Korea, please refer to the call text. Pdf, 474.2 kB, opens in new window. (Pdf, 474.2 kB) You can also read more here. External link, opens in new window.