Closed call

20 April - 23 August 2022

Grant for accessibility to infrastructure

The Swedish Research Council has been mandated by the Government to work towards ensuring researchers based in Sweden participate to a greater degree in the construction and development of research infrastructure, and towards making research infrastructure more accessible and more used by the business and public sectors.

Support form: Infrastructure support

Subject area: Research infrastructure

Focus: Accessibility to infrastructure

Applicant: Individual researcher or organisation

Participating researchers: Up to 6 other researchers may be invited to join the application.

Grant period: 1-4 years

Grant amount: Minimum 400 000 SEK per year

Budgetary framework: A total of around 80 million SEK has been allocated for the call, and at least 10 grants may be funded.

Start of grant period: January 2023

Application period: 20 April 2022 (14.00/2 pm) – 23 August 2022 (14.00/2 pm)

Publication of grant award: No later than the beginning of December 2022

Please note:

  • Applications may be submitted by organisations or by individual researchers. The importance of the application is not affected by the type of applicant submitting the application.
  • As from 2022, new criteria apply for approval of administrating organisations for grants awarded by the Swedish Research Council. You therefore need to make sure that your organisation fulfils the requirements and has been approved by us as an administrating organisation for calls issued after 1 January 2022.
  • Please note also that the instructions for your description of ethical considerations in the application have changed as from this year. Furtermore, we also ask you to describe the management of risks or obstacles to the implementation of the project in the research plan.

Specific instructions for the call

In addition to reading the call text, you also need to consult our Guide for applicants.