Decision published
05 June 2018
Total amount granted: 122 062 500 SEK
International postdoc grant
Spring call
In the 2018 spring call for international postdoc grant the Swedish Research Council approved 41 out of 246 applications. More than 122 million SEK will be allocated over the upcoming three years.
Decision published
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Please note that only notice via your personal account in Prisma guarantees that your grant has been approved.
Applicants | Number of applications | Number approved | Approval rate |
|---|---|---|---|
Women | 91 | 16 | 18 % |
Men | 155 | 25 | 16 % |
Total | 246 | 41 | 17 % |
Subject areas | Number of applications | Number approved | Approval rate |
|---|---|---|---|
Natural and engineering sciences | 103 | 16 | 16 % |
Humanities and social sciences | 82 | 13 | 16 % |
Medicine and health | 55 | 11 | 20 % |
Educational sciences | 3 | 1 | 33 % |
Artistic research | 3 | 0 | 0 % |
Total | 246 | 41 | 17 % |
Administrating organisations | Number of applications | Number approved | Approval rate | Total amount approved |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Lund University | 45 | 9 | 20 % | 26 250 000 |
Karolinska Institutet, KI | 21 | 6 | 29 % | 17 850 000 |
Stockholm University | 38 | 6 | 16 % | 17 850 000 |
Uppsala University | 32 | 5 | 16 % | 15 750 000 |
University of Gothenburg | 23 | 4 | 17 % | 11 550 000 |
Umeå Universiy | 16 | 3 | 19 % | 9 450 000 |
KTH Royal Institute of Technology | 20 | 2 | 10 % | 6 037 500 |
Chalmers University of Technology | 7 | 1 | 14 % | 3 150 000 |
Institute for Futures Studies | 3 | 1 | 33 % | 3 150 000 |
Swedish Museum of Natural History | 2 | 1 | 50 % | 3 150 000 |
Södertörn University | 4 | 1 | 25 % | 3 150 000 |
Örebro University | 5 | 1 | 20 % | 3 150 000 |
Linköping University | 12 | 1 | 8 % | 1 575 000 |
Other | 20 | 0 | 0 % | 0 |
Total | 246 | 41 | 17 % | 122 062 500 |
Host countries | Number of applications | Number approved | Approval rate |
|---|---|---|---|
USA | 76 | 18 | 24 % |
Great Britain | 38 | 8 | 21 % |
Denmark | 28 | 3 | 11 % |
Canada | 16 | 3 | 19 % |
Netherlands | 11 | 3 | 27 % |
Germany | 23 | 2 | 9 % |
Spain | 7 | 2 | 29 % |
New Zealand | 3 | 2 | 67 % |
Switzerland | 7 | 1 | 14 % |
Belgium | 2 | 1 | 50 % |
Poland | 1 | 1 | 100 % |
Ireland | 1 | 1 | 100 % |
Other | 62 | 0 | 0 % |
Totalt | 275* | 45* | 17 % |
*Applicants can choose more than one host country. The number of host countries is therefore higher than the total number of applications.
What happens next?
Within a couple of days, the decision and statement will be available in your personal account in Prisma. A message is shown in the Tasks module on Prisma’s starting page. You can find your statement in the tab Applications and grants. Please select the page Applications in the left-hand menu. To read the statement, please go to the list in the middle section of the page and click on the arrow to the right of the Event log button. Your research colleagues may receive their decisions and statements before you receive yours, or vice versa.
Read more about how to find your decision in Prisma.
External link.
If your application has been approved, a document describing the conditions for the grant, “Approval of Conditions”, is also published in your personal Prisma account. It may take up to three weeks before the document is published in Prisma. You and the head of department/corresponding must sign this as soon as possible, but no later than within 90 days.
Payment of the grant will start no earlier than July 2018, and it will be paid out monthly on condition that the “Approval of Conditions” have been signed. Your HEI will then administer the payments to you.
Yes, it is up to you and your employer to agree on when the project shall start, as long as this does not affect the availability period of the grant.
The review process is described under “How your application is assessed” in the call text. A link to the call is available in the right hand column of this page
Explanation of statistics
All amounts are shown in Swedish kronor (SEK).
The approval rate is the percentage share of all the applications received within a category that is awarded a grant.
The average grant is the average value of the grant amount awarded for the first year.
An administrating organisation is a higher education institution or other Swedish public organisation (that fulfils the Swedish Research Council´s requirements for administrating organisations).
A junior researcher is a researcher whose doctoral degree was awarded no more than eight years ago (at the time of application).
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