Grant for research communication in artistic research

Requirements for applicants

The following requirements must be fulfilled 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 grant relates to communication of artistic research, which covers research on an artistic basis in all artistic areas, such as

• architecture
• visual art (fine art), including audio-visual media
• circus
• dance and choreography
• design
• film, photography and moving image
• arts and crafts
• curatorial practices
• literature
• music
• opera
• performance
• theatre
• multi-disciplinary artistic activities.

Applicant

The applicant shall be an individual researcher with a high level of research competence in an artistic field, together with their organisation (Swedish higher education institution, HEI), or some other Swedish organisation that fulfils our criteria for administrating organisations for Swedish Research Council grants). We must have approved your organisation 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.

You shall be the project leader and be responsible for the project described. 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.

At the time of applying, you must be or have been the recipient of a previous grant that ended (or will end) on 31 December 2020 or later (see below for the relevant grant forms). Your application for the communication grant shall be linked to the previously awarded or ongoing grant/project.

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 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 reject 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. Further information about the grants you may apply for during the same year are shown on the page Several grants simultaneously.

What applies for my previous grant from the Swedish Research Council?

To apply under this call, you must be or have been the holder of a grant from the Swedish Research Council, with a grant period that ended (or will end) on 31 December 2020 or later. Your previously awarded grant must be a project grant (including a project grant for international collaboration), one of our career support funding forms (international postdoc, starting grant, consolidation grant, grant for employment as a half-time researcher in a clinical environment, or for research time), a distinguished professor grant, or a research environment grant.

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 can include up to 6 participating researchers in your application who are active in the artistic area or other fields of knowledge. Participating researchers are other researchers whose artistic or scientific research competence will be crucial for the implementation of the planned project. They 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. Please describe any further participating partners and their roles in the project plan (see instructions under “Project plan” below).

Collaboration outside academia

The purpose of the grant is to enable the applicant to plan, implement and evaluate communication activities that entail dialogue or co-creation with identified groups outside academia. The project shall include collaboration with a curator, producer, creator, collaboration coordinator, collaboration lecturer, artist, project coordinator, designer, communicator or other relevant professional expertise. You must describe the format for the collaboration, and the person’s role in the project in the project plan.

Costs and grant amounts

You can apply for a grant for costs directly related to the implementation of the communication project, such as

• salaries (including your own salary), however no more than corresponding to the person’s activity level in the project
• contracted experts
• rental of external premises
• remuneration to participants in collaborative activities

The grant must not be used for scientific conferences, activities that are necessary to fulfil ethical requirements (such as meetings with public agencies), internal training, or other inputs that fall within the framework for ordinary research or communication activities.

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 must not be paid out as salary during teaching or other departmental duties.

The amounts you may apply for are the following:

• Minimum 200 000 SEK, maximum 500 000 SEK for grants lasting 6–12 months.
• Minimum 400 000 SEK, maximum 1 000 000 SEK for grants lasting 13–24 months.

Grant period

The grant period is 6–24 months, starting in January 2025.

The first payment will be made in January 2025 at the earliest.

What must the application contain?

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.

We prefer that you complete your application in English, but you may also use Swedish. The popular science description shall always be written in Swedish, however.

The information we request under each tab in the application form is described below.

Descriptive information

Abstract

In the abstract, please describe in brief the following:

• What is to be done: purpose and aims
• How the project will be implemented: project organisation, time plan and activities
• What is important about the planned project

The abstract shall provide a summary of the purpose and implementation of the project. 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 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 project about?

• What is important about the planned project

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 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.

Project description

Project plan

The project plan shall be forward-looking and consist of a brief but complete description of the project. It may cover a maximum of 6 page-numbered A4 pages in Arial, font size 11, single line spacing and 2.5 cm margins, including references and any images.

The project 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 communication project.

Project organisation

Clarify how you and any participating researchers will contribute to the implementation of the project. Explain in particular how the time allocated by you (that is, your activity level) as project leader is suitable for the task, including the relationship with your other undertakings. Describe and explain the competences and roles of the participating researchers and other personnel, during what phase they are participating in the project, and also any other key persons who are important for the implementation of the project.

Significance

Describe briefly how the project relates to your previously awarded research project, and the impact the communication project may have in the short and long term. Formulate the project’s potential concrete added value for individuals in the target group, and for the project team itself. State how the project is planned so that these added values can be achieved.

Communication plan

Describe the communication activity/-ies under the following headings:

• Target group: State what characterises the group the project is intending to reach, and how the target group can benefit from the project’s knowledge and activity/-ies. State how the project reasons in terms of representation, and how you plan to take into account views arising during the project process.
• Activity/-ies: Describe the design and what will be implemented in the communication project, and how the activity/-ies will reach or involve the target group intended. State where the activity/-ies will take place, in what format, and how active the target group is intended to be.
• Time plan: Describe summarily the time plan for the project during the grant period. Describe also any crucial risks or obstacles that may impact on the implementation, and your plan for managing these.
• Follow-up: Describe how the project and the activity/-ies will be followed up. Describe the planned follow-up method, and describe how the method is intended to show how the goal and purpose have been achieved, and added value created for the target group.

Provide the following information also. If a heading is not relevant to your application, please state this under the heading.

Equipment

Describe the basic equipment you and your team have at your disposal for the project.

Description of previously awarded grant from the Swedish Research Council

Please describe your previously awarded project/grant that the communication grant is linked to. State the project title, grant format, Swedish Research Council case number and amount, grant period and availability period for your previously awarded project/grant. You can find information about the criteria for your previous grant in your Prisma account and the “Approval of Conditions” you received from the Swedish Research Council.

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.

Collaboration outside academia

Describe who the project will include collaboration with outside academia, such as curators, producers, creators, collaboration coordinators, collaboration lecturers, artists, project coordinators, designers, communicators or other relevant professional expertise.

The description may cover a maximum of 500 characters including blank spaces.

Description of merits

Describe how the merits you state in your CV and list of publications and other research outputs confirm your competence as project leader and responsible for implementing the proposed project.

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.

Publications and other research outputs

The applicant’s publications and other research outputs

Please attach your list drawn up according to the headings and information below. The list may cover a maximum of 5 page-numbered A4 pages in Arial, font size 11, single line spacing and 2.5 cm margins.

Sort the outputs 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. You cannot supplement the application with outputs after the deadline for the call.

1. Selection of research outputs

List the 10 publications or other outputs that are the most important for confirming your competence as project leader and responsible for implementing the proposed project. Describe how you contributed to each output, and its relevance to the research project described (maximum 4 lines per output). Highlight your name in bold in the author list/corresponding.

2. Relevant peer-reviewed research outputs from 2016–2024

In this part, the outputs listed under Item 1 shall also be included if they were published during the period in question. Sort them with your name highlighted in bold in the author list/corresponding under headings (type of output) in the following order:

• Original articles
• Conference contributions, the results of which are not included in other publications
• Edited volumes
• Research review articles
• Books and book chapters
• Artistic work
• Other outputs that do not fit under any of the headings above Please note that intellectual property rights shall be shown in the CV section of the application.

3. Relevant non peer-reviewed research outputs från 2016-2024

In this part, the outputs listed under Item 1 shall also be included if they were published during the period in question. Sort them with your name highlighted in bold in the author list/corresponging under the respective headings (type of output) in the following order:

• Artistic work
• Publications including popular science books/presentations
• Preprints
• Other outputs that do not fit under any of the headings above Please note that intellectual property rights shall be shown in the CV section of the application.

Participating researchers’ publications and other research outputs

If you have any participating researchers, you shall attach their lists joined up into one file.

The list for each researcher shall include the 10 publications or other research outputs that are the most relevant for the implementation of the project, 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.

The outputs may be of the following types and must be 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.

Peer-reviewed research outputs

• original articles
• conference contributions
• edited volumes
• research review articles
• books and book chapters
• artistic works
• other outputs

and

Non peer-reviewed research outputs

Budget and research resources

Project personnel

State the activity level (per cent of a full-time equivalent) of all personnel active in the project, that is, you, any other researchers, doctoral students and other personnel. Please also state the salary you are applying for, for yourself and/or other personnel in the project, both as a percentage of a full-time salary and as actual annual amounts (including social security contributions). Please state the amounts in Swedish krona, rounded to the nearest 1 000 SEK.

Other costs

Describe other costs in the project (premises costs or operating costs). Please state annual amounts in Swedish krona, rounded to the nearest 1 000 SEK.

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 about 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.

Administrating organisation

Please state the administrating organisation and project site.

Participants

Here you may invite other participating researchers and administrators to your application.

CV

Under this tab, please upload your relevant CV information from your personal account in Prisma. The information/merits shall confirm your competence as project leader and responsible for implementing the proposed project. Any 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 information on employment format)
• Longer relevant employment
• Post-doctoral visits (state also as employment if applicable)
• Researcher exchanges of relevance to the research described
• Any longer interruptions in the research that have impacted on your opportunity to gain merit as a researcher.

Merits and awards

• Docentship/associate professorship
• Persons you have supervised (postdoctoral and doctoral students; state the number of persons in each category and list the names of the maximum 10 most relevant)
• Relevant grants you have received in competition (list maximum 10)
• Your most relevant prizes and awards (list maximum 10)
• Any other merits of relevance to the application, including previous experience in science communication.

Intellectual property rights

For example, patents and open access computer programs developed by you; state up to 10 of your most relevant.

How your application is assessed

Quality is the fundamental criterion when the Swedish Research Council allocates grants to artistic research. Your application is evaluated in competition with the other applications on the basis of the following evaluation criteria.

Evaluation process

Your application for grant for research communication is evaluated by a review panel where the members are Swedish and international researchers and communication experts within the artistic field.

At least three members review and grade your application individually. If extra competence is needed, your application might also be evaluated by an additional, external, reviewer. The entire review panel (not including any external reviewers) then meets at a review panel meeting to discuss and prioritise the applications, and to make a proposal for a decision to the Committee for artistic research.

Review panel

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 assessment of the quality of the application.

Here you will find a more comprehensive description of the Swedish Research Council's assessment of applications.

Evaluation criteria and guiding questions

The evaluation of the quality of your application is made based on two criteria, Communication quality of the proposed project, and Relevance for the call. The criteria are assessed on a three-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.

Communication quality of the proposed project (1–3)

Guiding questions:

• How clear and well-motivated are the project's aims and objectives?
• How well does the application specify which target groups outside of academia the project aims to reach out to, engage in dialogue with, and collaborate with?
• How well described are the project's activities, collaborations and time planning? How well suited are the planned elements to reach the set goals and target groups?
• To what extent do the proposed activities involve a further development of the original artistic research project's forms of expression and presentation?
• How well does the application describe the way the project management will be carried out? How well integrated are goals and methods in the project management?
• To what extent is the project innovative with regard to research communication within the artistic research field?
• Is the planned follow-up reasonable and adequate in relation to the purpose, aims and budget?

Relevance to the call (1–3)

Guiding questions:

• To what extent does the application concern communication with relevance to artistic research? To what extent are the target groups outside of academia relevant in relation to the project's purpose, aims and significance for society at large?
• How well does the application specify which competencies in the form of engaged resources are required to realize the project? Is the content and scope of the specified resources reasonable given the design and size of the project?
• To what extent does the applicant, in combination with other participating and engaged resources, have the competence required to communicate research outside of the academy?
• To what extent is it clear which artistic research results the project is based on? How well does the application show how the project relates to the research that the applicant conducts/has conducted? How relevant is the justification of the project in relation to cited previous research?
• How well is the potential value of the project to the target groups outside of the academy described, for continued research and/or for continued collaboration in the project’s network?