Project grant for international research collaboration within rare diseases (EJP RD)

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.

Applicant

The applicant for the project grant shall participate in an EJP RD consortium with 4–6 partners from a minimum of 4 participating countries. You can see full eligibility requirements for the composition of the consortium in the call text on EJP RD’s website External link, opens in new window.. 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. For applicants with Swedish doctoral degrees, the award date listed in Ladok applies.

The applicant for a project grant must be an individual researcher together with their organisation (a Swedish HEI or another Swedish organisation that fulfils our criteria for administrating organisations for Swedish Research Council grants). For you to be eligible to apply, we must have approved your organisation as an administrating organisation. Please note therefore that Swedish researchers working for a company, for example, cannot be funded and may therefore not submit an application to the Swedish Research Council, even if they are part of a consortium application. The administrating organisation must sign the full application in Prisma no later than 7 calendar days after the deadline for this call.

The coordinator shall be employed by the administrating organisation at the time of application, but you must be employed at the start of and throughout the grant period and any further additional availability period. The employment must equal at least 20 per cent of a full-time equivalent.

Number of applications and previous grants

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

General information about overlaps between applications and grants

Your application must not cover costs for purposes that are already funded by the Swedish Research Council or any other funding body. Overlaps with other grants or applications may impact on the grant amount you are awarded, or be a reason for us to refuse your application.

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

You may only submit one application for this grant under this call, and you may only be the Swedish partner of one consortium in this call. The table below shows information and restrictions on the grants you may apply for during the same year. Grants under this call are counted as ”Focused project grants”.

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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. You can find information about the requirements for your ongoing grant in the “Approval of terms and conditions” you received from the Swedish Research Council.

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”. Please note that if you are the project leader for an ongoing project grant, this must have a different focus and a different project idea for you to be able to apply.

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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 EJP RD.

Costs and grant amounts

The grant may be used to fund 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.

The grant amount includes cover of indirect costs as a percentage of the direct costs, according to the model used by your administrating organisation. 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 maximum amount you can apply for for Swedish participation in a consortium is 4 500 000 SEK (approximately 450 000 EUR) in total. A maximum of 2 Swedish participants may apply for funds within the same consortium. The maximum amount for all Swedish participants together is therefore 6 000 000 SEK (approximately 600 000 EUR).

Please note that the exchange rate 1 EUR = 10.13 SEK shall be used to calculate actual amounts applied for in the application to EJP RD.

Grant period

You may apply for a grant to cover 3 years, starting in January 2023. The first payment will be made during January 2023 at the earliest.