Closed call
17 August - 13 September 2022
Network grant for research into the Holocaust, victims of the Holocaust and anti-Semitism
The purpose of the grant is to support long-term collaboration within research into the Holocaust, victims of the Holocaust and anti-Semitism between Swedish research teams. The grant shall provide opportunities to establish or further develop a network around this specific research field, with participation of both senior and junior researchers from the research environments involved.
Support form: Research environment and collaboration support
Subject area: Humanities and Social Sciences
Focus: The Holocaust, victims of the Holocaust and anti-Semitism
Applicant: Individual researcher
Participating researchers: Minimum 1 and maximum 4 other researchers shall be invited to join the application. At least 1 of them shall be active at another higher education institution (HEI) than that of the applicant. Participating researchers shall represent researcher teams at their respective HEIs.
Grant period: 1–3 years
Grant amount: Maximum 500 000 SEK per year
Start of grant period: January 2023
Application period: 17 August 2022 (14.00/2 p.m.) – 13 September 2022 (14.00/2 pm)
Publication of grant award: No later than the end of December 2022
Please note:
- 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.
- This applies for collaborations with researchers in Russia and Belarus.
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Koordinator för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap
Anders Sundin
Specific instructions for the call
In addition to reading the call text, you also need to consult our Guide for applicants.
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.
Focus
The purpose of the grant is to support long-term collaboration within research into the Holocaust, victims of the Holocaust and anti-Semitism between Swedish research teams. The grant shall provide opportunities to establish or further develop a network around this specific research field, where both senior and junior researchers from the research environments involved participate.
Applicant
The applicant for a network grant must be an individual researcher together with their organisation (a Swedish Higher Education Institution, HEI, or another Swedish organisation that fulfils our criteria for administrating organisations for Swedish Research Council grants
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You shall be the project leader and have scientific responsibility for the research collaboration. The time you allocate for the collaboration (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.
You do not have to 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 (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?
On the page Several grants simultaneously Opens in new window. you can find information about the grants you may apply for during the same year. Please note that provided the applications relate to different collaborations, you may submit more than one application under this call for network grants, but if you are awarded several grants you must choose only one of them. Please note also that you may be included as a participating researcher in other applications, as long as the applications relate to different collaborations. You may not apply for any other network grant for the same collaboration.
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.
On the page Several grants simultaneously Opens in new window. you can find more information about what grants you may apply for if you already have an ongoing grant. Please note that if you are the project leader for an ongoing network grant from the Swedish Research Council, you cannot apply for the same collaboration under this call.
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 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 concept as a grant you have already been awarded by, or are applying for to another funding body, please describe this.
Participating researchers
You must include minimum 1 and maximum 4 participating researchers in your application. Participating researchers are other researchers with a doctoral degree or corresponding competence, who represent the researcher team participating in the network at their respective HEIs. At least 1 of them shall be active at another HEI than that of the applicant. The participating researcher do not have to be employed by a Swedish HEI.
Participating researchers shall provide the necessary information themselves in Prisma, and upload these to the application. Any further participating partners and their roles shall be described in the collaboration plan (please see instructions under “Collaboration plan” below).
Costs and grant amounts
The grant relates to costs associated with network building and research collaboration, such as
- research and/or working stays between the collaborating partners
- joint seminars, courses or workshops aimed at further developing the joint research basis and the research agenda
- preparation/planning of joint research applications
- joint publications and other joint information dissemination
- joint conferences.
The grant amount includes cover of indirect costs as a percentage of the direct costs, according to the model used by your administrating organisation. The grant may not be used for salaries or scholarships.
The maximum amount you may apply for is 500 000 SEK per year, including indirect costs.
The Swedish Research Council assumes that the administrating organisation will cover any costs in excess of the amount received.
Grant period
You may apply for a grant for a minimum of 1 year and maximum of 3 years, starting in January 2023. The first payment will be made during January 2023 at the earliest.
Please refer to the application form in Prisma in parallel with reading the instructions below, which describe the call-specific content of the application. More information on what to do in practical terms is available in our Guide for applicants.
Language
We prefer that you complete your application in English, but you may also use Swedish.
Sections of the application
The application form includes the following tabs:
- Descriptive information
- Research description
- Budget and research resources
- Publications
- Administrating organisation
- Participants
- CV
The information we request under each tab is described below.
Descriptive information
Abstract
The abstract shall include a brief description of the following:
- What is to be done within the collaboration: purpose and aims
- How the collaboration will be carried out: organisation, time plan and collaboration formats
- What is important about the planned research
The text shall provide an overview of the purpose and implementation of the research collaboration. 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 planned research collaboration in such a way that a person who is not a researcher can understand it. Do this by answering the following questions:
- What is the research collaboration about?
- Why is it important to research this?
- In what way may the new knowledge be important?
The popular science description is important when we inform about the research funded by the Swedish Research Council.
The text must be in Swedish and cover a maximum of 2 000 characters including blank spaces. This is approximately half an A4 page in Arial, font size 11, single line spacing.
Other applications or grants
Describe the relationship between the different projects if
- you are applying for or intend to apply for other grants from the Swedish Research Council
- you are receiving an ongoing grant from the Swedish Research Council with a grant period that wholly or partly overlaps with the grant you are now applying for
- there are current applications or grants with the same project concept/purpose at the Swedish Research Council or other funding bodies (from you or another researcher).
In all cases, you should also justify why you are submitting one or several further applications. If there are no other applications or grants, please state so. The description may cover a maximum of 2 000 characters including blank spaces. This is approximately half an A4 page in Arial, font size 11, single line spacing.
Research description
Ethical aspects
Legal and formal requirements
State whether the research covers the handling of personal data, or experiments on animals and/or studies involving humans.
If the research covers any of the above, you must also describe/state the approvals and permits your research project requires, and how you plan to obtain these. Describe any other permits that affect your application, such as whether parts of the research will be done in a country other than Sweden. If no approvals or permits are needed, please state so.
The description may cover a maximum of 2 000 characters including blank spaces. This is approximately half an A4 page in Arial, font size 11, single line spacing.
More information is available on the page Conducting ethical research Opens in new window. on the Swedish Research Council’s website.
Ethical considerations
Reflect on the ethical issues that may arise for your project, and describe these. 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. Examples of issues to reflect on:
- How do your research questions and expected results measure up in relation to the ethical issues?
- What (direct) risks (physical, mental, or integrity) will research persons or animals be exposed to?
- What long-term risks may arise from the research? Is there any risk that the research may be used in a way that is detrimental to animals, nature/the environment, or society (whole or parts of the same) in other respects?
- Is the research expected to contribute to other values over and above the knowledge gain? If so, to whom?
- How do you weigh up the risks (in particular short-term risks) against the value (which is often more long-term) of the research?
If no ethical issues are raised, please justify this. 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.
Collaboration plan
The collaboration plan shall be forward-looking and consist of a brief but complete description of the research collaboration. It shall cover a maximum of 10 page-numbered A4 pages in Arial, font size 11, single line spacing and 2.5 cm margins, including references and any images.
The collaboration plan must include the following headings and information, listed in the following order:
- Purpose and aims: State the overall purpose and specific aims of the research collaboration.
- Research idea: Describe the research theme and the joint research questions within the collaboration.
- Network description and mode of cooperation: Describe the following:
- Actual collaboration projects and joint research applications, and how these contribute to strengthening ongoing research at the participating HEIs.
- The contributions of the participating parties in relation to the research theme, and how they complement each other.
- The collaboration structure, that is to say the leadership and role allocation among the participating parties.
- Forms for collaboration: Specify planned activities, for example:
- Research and/or work stays, joint seminars, courses or workshops aimed at further developing the joint research basis and research agenda.
- How senior and junior researchers will be involved in the collaboration.
- Preparation/planning of joint research applications.
- Joint publications and other joint information dissemination.
- Joint conferences.
- Planned results: Specify clearly the planned result of the collaboration, for example the following:
- The added value of the network collaboration for the research and the research environments.
- The planned dissemination of results and new knowledge, co-production of publications and other contributions.
- How the collaboration will continue in operation after the end of the grant period.
Budget and research resources
Describe the costs for all planned activities within the network by specifying the items below. Please state the amounts in Swedish krona, rounded to the nearest 1 000 SEK.
- Costs of travel, accommodation and subsistence
- Costs of organising seminars and workshops
- Costs of joint publications
- Costs of joint conferences
- Other costs.
Total cost of the project
Prisma will automatically add up your budget items in a table. The total amount you are applying for shall also include indirect costs. You will have to add these to the table yourself. Here you can also add any additional costs that the project entails (for which you are not seeking funding under this call).
Indirect costs follow the model that your administrating organisation uses. Please contact your administrating organisation if you have any questions abut what constitutes indirect and direct costs.
Justification of the budget applied for
Justify briefly each cost applied for in your budget. 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.
Other funding
Please state your or any other researcher’s funding for the project over and above what is applied for in this application. Please state the amounts in Swedish krona, rounded to the nearest 1 000 SEK.
Publications
Applicant’s publication list
Please attach your publication list drawn up according to the headings and information below. The list shall cover a maximum of 5 page-numbered A4 pages in Arial, font size 11, single line spacing and 2.5 cm margins.
Sort the publications under each heading in reverse chronological order, so that the latest publication is at the top of the list. Please only include articles or equivalent that are published or accepted for publication at the time of applying. The author name order shall be identical to that of the published work. The application cannot be supplemented with publications after the deadline for the call.
1. Selection of publications: List the 10 publications of greatest importance to your application. Describe how you contributed to each publication, and its relevance to the research project described (maximum 4 lines per publication). Highlight your name in bold in the author list.
2. Relevant publications from 2014–2022: In this part, the publications listed under Item 1 shall also be included if they have been published during the period in question. Sort the publications, with your name highlighted in bold in the author list, under each heading (publication type) in the following order:
- Peer-reviewed original articles
- Peer-reviewed conference contributions, the results of which are not included in other publications
- Peer-reviewed edited volumes
- Research review articles
- Peer-reviewed books and book chapters
- Other publications including popular science books/presentations
Participating researchers’ publication lists
Attach all participating researchers’ publication lists merged into one file. The list for each researcher shall include the 10 publications that are the most relevant to the research described, and shall cover a maximum of 1 A4 page in Arial, font size 11, single line spacing and 2.5 cm margins. The name of the researcher in question shall be highlighted in bold and also be included in the page header of each list.
Please only include articles or equivalent that are published or accepted for publication at the time of applying. The author name order shall be identical to that of the published work. The application cannot be supplemented with publications after the deadline for the call.
The publications shall be of the types: Peer-reviewed original articles, conference contributions, edited volumes, research review articles, books and book chapters, and other publications including popular science books/presentations.
Administrating organisation
Please state the administrating organisation and project site.
Participants
Here you shall invite participating researchers and any participating administrators to your application.
CV
Under this tab, please upload your relevant CV information from your personal account in Prisma. Participating researchers must upload their own CV information to the application.
The following information (where available) must always be included in each CV:
- Education: First, second and third cycle higher education and specialist degrees.
- Work: Current employment (including employment form) and longer relevant employment held, postdoctoral visits (also included as employment if relevant), research exchanges relevant to the research described and any longer interruptions in the research that have impacted on your opportunity to gain merit as a researcher.
- Merits and awards: Docentship/associate professorship, supervisees (postdoctoral and doctoral students; state the number of persons in each category and list the names of the up to 10 most relevant to you), up to 10 of your most relevant grants awarded in competition, up to 10 of your most relevant prizes and awards, and up to 20 other merits relevant to the application.
- Intellectual property rights: For example, patents and open access computer programs developed by you; state up to 10 of your most relevant.
Scientific quality is the fundamental criterion when the Swedish Research Council allocates grants to research. Your application is evaluated in competition with the other applications on the basis of the following evaluation criteria.
Evaluation process
Your application is evaluated by a review panel where the members are Swedish researchers within humanities and social sciences.
At least three members review and grade your application individually. The entire review panel then meets at a review panel meeting to discuss and prioritise the applications, and finally to make a proposal for a decision to the scientific council for humanities and social sciences.
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Following the grant decision your application will receive an individual final statement containing the grades and a summary of the review panel’s discussion and overall assessment of the scientific quality of the application.
Evaluation criteria and guiding questions
The evaluation of the scientific quality of your application is made based on four basic criteria (Scientific quality of the proposed research, Novelty and originality, Merits of the applicant, Feasibility). The purpose of using several components is to achieve a multi-faceted evaluation. The criteria are assessed on a seven-grade scale, except for feasibility, which is assessed on a three-grade grade scale.
For each criterion, there are guiding questions to support the panel members’ evaluation of your application. These can also function as guidance for you when you write your application.
Scientific quality of the proposed research (1–7)
Guiding questions:
- To what extent does the network promote the development of research into the Holocaust, victims of the Holocaust and anti-Semitism?
- To what extent are the purpose and long-term goal of the network clarified and well justified?
- Are the joint research bases of the participating HEIs/research environments described clearly (theme, theory, method etc.)?
- Are the planned results from the network collaboration sufficient and adequate?
- Are the ethical considerations for the proposed project properly described and addressed? Does the applicant adequately consider the risk/value/suffering for humans, animals, nature and/or society when relevant?
Novelty and originality (1–7)
Guiding questions:
- To what extent do the concrete collaboration projects contribute to innovative research?
- To what extent does the network contribute scientific added value to research?
Merits of the applicant (1–7)
Guiding questions:
- To what extent does the applicant have good merits within the subject area and in terms of leading major international collaboration projects?
- To what extent do the participating researchers have good merits for the research theme?
Feasibility (1–3)
Guiding questions:
- To what extent does the network have a clear organisation for collaboration and leadership?
- To what extent do the roles of the participating parties contribute to the implementation?
- To what extent are the planned activities clearly specified and fit for the purpose?
- Are the costs reasonable and well justified in view of the purpose and design of the project?
- To what extent does the applicant adequately consider relevant legal and formal requirements for the proposed research, such as ethical permits and guidelines?
Overall grade (1–7)
The above subsidiary criteria are weighed together into an overall grade (1-7). Normally, the scientific quality of the application should be given the most weight in the overall assessment. The criteria novelty and originality and merits may only in exceptional cases outweigh weaknesses in scientific quality, and then only minor weaknesses.