Project grant for cross-sectoral collaboration within medicine and health

Information and support that facilitate the planning of the application

If the application includes a clinical study

Clinical Studies Sweden – regional support for your work

The six regional nodes that together form Clinical Studies Sweden offer various types of support for work on a clinical study. Examples include help with study protocols, permit applications, data management and statistics, infrastructures for implementation, and training in clinical research methodology. The nodes also have a good knowledge of and can provide contacts with relevant regional resources, such as research units, quality register centres, biobanks, and cancer centres. More information about Clinical Studies Sweden and what you need to consider when conducting a clinical study can be found at kliniskastudier.se. External link.

Registering and reporting clinical studies

There are guidelines for study registration and result reporting for the clinical studies funded by the Swedish Research Council, which means that information about the study shall be registered in a public study register, and that a summary of the results shall be published in the register. More information about registration is available here.

Practical tips and advice relating to register-based studies

On dataguiden.se, External link. you can find consolidated knowledge support about using register and health data in research. This includes information about different types of data sources and data holders, procedures for data extraction and permit applications, relevant laws and regulations, as well as the support available from various actors.

RUT (Register Utiliser Tool, in Swedish) External link. is a resource for researchers, providing information (metadata) about Swedish register and health data sources. The Metadata Catalog (Metadatakatalogen) offers an overview of the contents of registers and sub-registers at a general level. Simple filtering and sub-register comparisons are possible. The Metadata Tool (Metadataverktyget) describes register metadata in a standardized and detailed manner. It allows advanced searches and comparisons of various variables from multiple perspectives.

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 call aims to fund research of the highest quality that requires or benefits from collaboration between sectors. The grant is intended to enhance collaboration between higher education institutions and the surrounding society - industry, the public sector, and the non-profit sector in Sweden - in order to strengthen the quality and impact of the research. The collaboration should also contribute to the development of the research field and increase researcher mobility between sectors in Sweden.

Applicant

The applicant for a project grant must be an individual researcher together with a Swedish higher education institution (HEI) 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 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 issue date of the degree registered in Ladok applies.

You shall be the project leader and have scientific responsibility for the research activities 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. Please note that the postdoctoral researcher in the intended project cannot be the project leader or applicant.

You do not have to be employed by the administrating organisation at the time of applying, but you must be employed at the start of and throughout the grant period and any further availability period. The employment must equal at least 20 per cent of a full-time equivalent.

As an applicant you must have documented experience of supervision in an academic research environment, for example supervision of doctoral or postdoctoral students.

Collaborating part

The application must include collaboration with at least one organisation within the private or public sector that conducts research with high relevance for medicine and health in Sweden, where parts of the research project must be carried out at the collaborating part, in addition to the administrating organisation. A researcher employed by the collaborating part, and with research activity within this organisation, shall supervise the postdoc at the collaborating part and be invited as a contributing researcher in the application.

Please note that the administrating organisation of the application, other HEIs or regions cannot serve as collaborating parts. This also includes public sector-owned corporations, such as corporations owned by the regions.

Collaborating parts that do not participate in more than one application may be prioritised when grants are awarded.

The collaborating part is expected to contribute financially to the project, and this aspect will be taken into account in the assessment of the application.

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 by any other funding body. Also, it must not concern the same purpose/project that you know another researcher is applying for from the Swedish Research Council. 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 is found on the page Several grants simultaneously.

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 a grant with a grant period that overlaps the period of the grant the application relates to. Please note that the availability period, that is the time during which you have the right to use your grant, is normally longer than the grant period. You can find information about your ongoing grant in your account in Prisma and in the “Approval of terms and conditions” you received from the Swedish Research Council.

You may not apply for a grant in this call if you have an ongoing project grant for cross-sectoral collaboration within medicine and health. If you are the project leader for an ongoing research environment grant, you may submit an application under this call, provided that the project grant application is not part of the research environment grant.

If you already have an ongoing grant, then further information about the grants you may apply for is found on the page “Several grants simultaneously”.

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. If you are the project leader for an ongoing grant that ends at the end of the year, you may apply for a new grant without having submitted the final report, as long as the deadline to submit the report has not passed.

What applies for applications to or grants from other funding bodies?

If your application to the Swedish Research Council relates to the same project that another funding body has already awarded funding for, or that you are applying for from another funding body, please describe this.

Participating researchers

You shall include a minimum of 1 and a maximum of 6 participating researchers in your application. Participating researchers are other researchers with a doctoral degree or equivalent competence (not doctoral students) whose scientific competence will be crucial for the implementation of the planned research. They do not have to be employed by a Swedish HEI. At least one of the participating researchers shall be employed by the collaborating part, and within the employment conduct research highly relevant for medicine and health. The research activity shall be confirmed by a list of publications. Research within other employments is not enough to meet this demand. The collaborating researcher, employed by the collaborating part, shall supervise the postdoctoral researcher and have documented experience of supervising in a research environment, for example supervising of doctoral or postdoctoral students.

Participating researchers shall provide the necessary information themselves in Prisma, and upload these to the application. Any doctoral students and other collaboration partners and their roles shall be described in the research plan (please see instructions under “Research plan” below).

Costs and grant amounts

The grant amount is a standard of 1 150 000 SEK per year and is intended to cover salary costs for a non-named postdoctoral position. The grant amount includes cover of indirect costs and also includes social security contributions. Grants must not be used for scholarships. Please note that the research plan shall be adjusted to the grant amount.

The collaborating part must allocate sufficient resources and cover all costs related to the research project that arise within their organisation and should therefore co-finance the research project. Co-financing may be provided as in-kind contributions covering project-related costs within the partner organisation (such as equipment or consumables), or through cash contributions transferred to the HEI.

Grant period

The grant period is 24–36 months, starting from January 2027. The research plan shall be realistically delimited and possible to complete by the postdoc during the grant period.

The first payment will be made during January 2027 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.

International experts are involved in the scientific assessment of the applications. To ensure fair and equitable assessment and efficient processing, please therefore complete your application in English, apart from the popular science description, which you must write in Swedish.

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 research will be carried out: project organisation, time plan and scientific methods
• What is important about the planned research.

The abstract shall provide a summary of the purpose and implementation of the research. 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 research 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 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.

Other applications or grants

Describe briefly the different projects and their relationship if

• you are applying for, have applied for or intend to apply for other grants from the Swedish Research Council in the year in question
• you are receiving an ongoing grant from the Swedish Research Council with a grant period that wholly or partly overlaps the grant you are now applying for
• there are applications or grants relating to the same project with 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. Also verify that you are not applying for the same project that you know another researcher is also applying for, or has already been awarded funding for, from the Swedish Research Council.

Each 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, 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”.

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 that you have identified?
• 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.

Sex and gender dimensions

Please state whether sex and gender dimensions are applicable in your planned research, and justify your decision. Please note that we are not asking for information about the composition of the research team (women/men). Read more about sex and gender dimensions in research content.

The following applies:

• If you answer “Yes”: Please justify your answer, and describe also how you take account of sex and gender dimensions in the research plan. If you have stated that sex and gender dimensions are applicable, but still choose not to include them in your research plan, you will need to justify this here.
• If you answer “No”, and thereby do not consider that sex and gender dimensions are applicable for your planned research, you do not need to justify your decision.

The justification 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.

Research plan

The research plan shall be forward-looking and consist of a brief but complete description of the research task. It may cover a maximum of 8 page-numbered A4 pages in Arial, font size 11, single line spacing and 2.5 cm margins, including references and any images. References may be provided either throughout or at the end of the plan. All sources must be provided with complete information; links alone are not sufficient.

The research 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 project.

State-of-the-art

Summarise briefly the current research frontier within the field or area covered by the project. State key references.

Significance and scientific novelty

Describe briefly how the project relates to previous research within the area, and the impact the project may have in the short and long term. Describe also how the project moves forward or innovates the current research frontier.

Preliminary and previous results

Describe briefly your own previous research and pilot studies within the research area that make it probable that the project will be feasible. If no preliminary results exist, please state this. State also whether the project continues to build on research and scientific results from a previously awarded grant by the Swedish Research Council.

Project description

Describe the project design under the following headings:

• Theory and method: Describe the underlying theory and the methods to be applied in order to reach the project goal.
• Time plan and implementation: Describe summarily the time plan for the project during the grant period, and how the project will be implemented. Describe also any crucial risks or obstacles that may impact on the implementation, and your plan for managing these.
• Project organisation: Clarify how you, participating researchers and the postdoc 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 research undertakings. Describe and explain the competences and roles of the participating researchers in the project, and also other key persons (including any doctoral students) who are important for the implementation of the project.

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

Data analysis and statistics

Modern methods often generate complex data. Describe how you plan to analyse data collected in the project, and the statistical methods you will be using. If the project covers clinical studies, please include a power analysis.

Equipment

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

Need for research infrastructure

Specify the project’s need for international and national research infrastructure. The Swedish Research Council funds research infrastructures that are open to all. If you need to use other infrastructures instead, please justify this (also applies for local research infrastructure).

International and national collaboration

Describe your own and the team’s collaboration with researchers and research teams in or outside of Sweden. State whether you contribute to or refer to international collaboration in your research.

Independent line of research

If you are working or will be working in a larger group, please clarify how your project relates to the other projects in the group. If you are (continuing) working in the same team as your doctoral or postdoc supervisor, or if you are continuing a project that wholly or partly started during your doctoral or postdoc studies, you must also describe the relationship between your project and the research of your former supervisor.

Relevance

Describe how your project is relevant to the focus of the call (see the definition in the introduction of the call text) and how the project will, in the short and longer term, promote collaboration between sectors. Address the following:

• Why the research project depends on or benefits from collaboration between the administrating organisation and the collaborating part, and how the development of the research field may benefit from this specific collaboration
• The role of the collaborating part in the research project. Also describe how the postdoctoral researcher’s career development will benefit from the collaboration and time spent at both the administrating organisation and the collaborating part. It should be stated whether the collaborating part has previous experience in conducting or contributing to research, and which key competencies within the organisation may be crucial for the project's success
• Risk mitigation regarding the collaborating part’s role and commitments.

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.

Collaborating part

Provide the following information about the collaborating part (an organisation within the private, public, or non-profit sector in Sweden):

• Name of the collaborating part
• Number of months the postdoctoral researcher will spend at the collaborating part
• If part of the time at the collaborating part will be spent abroad, state the number of months abroad
• Supervisor at the collaborating part

If there are multiple collaborating parts, provide the information separately for each partner in the same free-text field. Start with the collaborating part where the postdoctoral researcher will spend the most time, and so on.

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 scientifically responsible for implementing the proposed research activities.

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 scientifically responsible for implementing the proposed research activities. 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 2018–2026

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 from 2018-2026

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 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

Attach all participating researchers’ lists merged 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 research activities 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.

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

Letter of support

The formal letter of support from the collaborating part must be signed by an authorised representative of the organisation who has the authority to allocate resources to the research collaboration. The project title, the applicant’s name, and the administrating organisation must be clearly stated, along with the name and role/position of the person who signed the letter. The letter must also include a description of the collaborating part. Please note that the letter of support is a necessary and important part of the application assessment and that it is not a letter of recommendation that is being requested.

The document may cover a maximum of 2 A4 pages, plus one additional page for a digital signature if needed. The letter of support must be written in English and must include the headings and information listed below. No additional information should be included.

Download the template for the letter of support here. docx, 48.3 kB. (docx, 48.3 kB)

Profile of the collaborating part

A description of:

• The collaborating part’s research and/or development/innovation activities in Sweden and their relevance and importance for the implementation of the research project.
• The research/innovation environment in which the postdoctoral researcher will be based, including relevant research and supervisory expertise, knowledge, as well as equipment and facilities relevant to the research project.
• How the collaborating part will contribute to the research project.

Prospects and risk mitigation

• The collaborating part’s ability to fulfil its commitments and contribute to the completion of the research project, and measures to ensure successful project delivery, for example in the event of financial challenges.

Commitment of the collaborating part

Information about/a description of:

• The collaborating part’s engagement in the research project, for example through co-funding.
• The supervisory and other personnel resources allocated by the collaborating part.
• The premises, equipment, and other infrastructure made available to the postdoctoral researcher and the research project by the collaborating part.

Career development

Describe the collaborating part’s plan for how the postdoctoral researcher can continue to develop their academic career during and after the grant period.

By signing the application in Prisma, the administrating organisation confirms these commitments.

Budget and research resources

Project personnel

State the activity level (per cent of a full-time equivalent) of all personnel active in the project. Please note that the postdoctoral researcher’s level of activity must correspond to full-time employment.

The grant is a standard amount, so you do not need to provide a budget in the application form.

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.

Also specify the collaborating part’s funding of the project, including the amount of the contribution. In the “Type of funding” field, indicate whether the funding is provided through in-kind contributions or by transferring cash funds to the administrating organisation.

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. The information/merits shall confirm your competence as project leader and scientifically responsible for implementing the proposed research activities. Participating researchers must upload their own CV information to the application.

The following information (where available) must always be included in the respective 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, such as invitations to lecture, leader assignments, representative assignments, membership of scientific organisations and similar.

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

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 for Project grant for cross-sectoral collaboration within medicine and health is evaluated using a two-step procedure.

First, a specific review panel assesses the relevance for the call. This panel is composed of secretary generals at the Swedish Research Council. The applications with the highest relevance for the call will proceed to the second step and be evaluated with respect to the other evaluation criteria by a review panel where the members are Swedish and international researchers. Each application in the second step is assessed and graded individually by at least five reviewers. 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 Scientific Council for Medicine and Health.

Review panel

To allow for more in-depth discussions of applications with higher quality and a reasonable chance of being funded, not all applications are discussed at the review panel’s meeting. The applications that are not discussed are those with insufficient relevance for the call and those that the panel members during their individual review have assessed having the lowest quality among the panel’s applications. Following the grant decision, all applications receive a final statement that includes the first review panel’s grading of the application’s relevance for the call. Applications in step two, will also receive grades for the other evaluation criteria from the second review panel. The applications that have been discussed in more detail at the panel meeting receive an individual final statement which, in addition to the grades, also contains a summary of the review panel’s discussion and joint assessment of the scientific 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 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 scale.

In addition to the basic criteria, your application is also evaluated using an additional criterion (Relevance) 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.

Scientific quality of the proposed research (1-7)

• Are the ethical considerations for the proposed project properly described and addressed? Does the applicant adequately consider risk/value/suffering for humans, animals, nature and/or society?
• To what extent does the proposed research address important preclinical and/or clinical scientific questions within the field of medicine and health?
• To what extent do the scientific approach, model, material, methodology and statistical analysis and power have potential to successfully address these questions?
• To what extent is the research project dependent on cross-sectorial collaboration? Will the research at the collaborating partner benefit the research project and the career development of the postdoc?
• To what extent are the hypothesis clearly defined and based on the appropriate literature and/or preliminary data?
• When relevant, how are issues relating to sex and gender perspectives justified and handled in the research plan?

Novelty and originality (1-7)

• To what extent has the project the potential to advance or challenge current knowledge in the field, rather than just adding additional details?
• To what extent is the project built on an original combination of ideas, preliminary data, and methodologies to address the question at hand?
• To what extent does the project have potential to advance scientific knowledge, technical capability, and/or clinical practice or health?
• To what extent will the postdoc and the applicant/collaboration acquire and bring new concepts, ideas, technologies, and methodologies to the higher education institution through the collaboration?
• To what extent is the collaboration novel, groundbreaking and unique, with the potential to transform the research field?

Merits of the applicant (1-7)

• To what extent is the applicant's research experience, expertise and scientific network suitable for the proposed project?
• How significant is the applicant's scientific productivity, impact and other merits in a national, and international perspective, and in relation to the applicant's career age?
• To what extent does the applicant have a documented independent line of investigation?
• To what extent does the applicant report publications as senior author? Focus is on the most relevant and recent publications (during the last eight years), with emphasis on quality more than quantity.
• To what extent has the applicant previously demonstrated that he or she can successfully lead a research project?

Feasibility (1-3)

• Does the applicant adequately consider relevant legal and formal requirements for the proposed research, such as ethical permits and guidelines?
• Do the applicant, participating researchers and collaborators, together have sufficient competence for completion of the project?
• Does the collaborating partner have the necessary capacity and financial stability to complete their part of the research project?
• Are the applicant's and postdoc's level of activity within the project sufficient regarding the proposed research project?
• Is the general design, the timeframe and infrastructure requirements realistic for implementing the proposed project?

Overall grade (1-7)

The above subsidiary criteria are weighed together into an overall grade, which reflects the review panel’s joint evaluation of the application’s scientific quality.

Relevance (1-3)

• To what extent will the collaborating partner contribute to the research project by providing co-funding, access to equipment, research infrastructure, and specific expertise?
• To what extent does the participating researcher conduct research within medicine and health with relevance to the research proposal at the collaborating partner in Sweden?
• How active is the collaborating partner in research within medicine and health?
• In relation to career age, how significant is the scientific productivity and impact of the participating researcher at the collaborating part?
• To what extent do the applicant and participating researcher at the collaborating part have experience from supervising doctoral students and/or postdocs in Sweden?
• Is the collaboration dependent on funding secured through this call?
• To what extent is the collaboration new and independent of the applicant’s current or previous involvement in the collaborating part?