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Upcoming call
20 August - 16 September 2025
Grant for research communication in artistic research
The purpose of the grant is to enable holders of earlier and/or ongoing research grants from the Swedish Research Council to plan, implement and evaluate communication activities that entail dialogue or co-creation with identified groups outside academia.
Subject area: Artistic Research
Support form: Science communication support
Grant form: Grant for research communication
Focus: Artistic research
Applicant: Individual researcher who holds a research grant from the Swedish Research Council. Even holders of previous research grants may apply, provided the availability period ended on December 31 2022, or later.
Participating researchers: Up to 6 other researchers may be invited to join the application
Grant period: 6–24 months
Grant amount: 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.
Start of grant period: January 2026
Application period: 20 August 2025 (14.00/2 p.m.) – 16 September 2025 (14.00/2 pm)
Publication of grant award: No later than the beginning of December 2025
Other requirements for applicants
Applicant
To apply under this call, you must be or have been the holder of a grant from the Swedish Research Council, with a availability period that ended (or will end) on 31 December 2022 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, consolidator grant, grant for employment as a half-time researcher in a clinical environment, grant for research time), a distinguished professor grant, or a research environment grant.
Your application for a communication grant must be connected to the previously awarded or ongoing grant.
Collaboration
The project shall include collaboration with a communicator curator, producer, creator, collaboration coordinator, collaboration lecturer, artist, project coordinator, designer, or other relevant professional expertise.
The communication project must be carried out in collaboration or cooperation with its specified target group(s)/stakeholder(s)
Allowed costs
You can apply for a grant for costs directly related to the implementation of the communication project, such as salaries, retained expertise, rental of external premises, or remuneration to participants in collaboration activities.
The grant must not be used for scientific conferences, as well as 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.
Do you have questions about this call?
We cannot give you any specific information about the call until the call has opened. Until then, you can ask general questions about our calls by email: utlysningar@vr.se
We recommend that you read our Guide for applicants before the call opens.