Grant for investment in existing research infrastructure

The Swedish Research Council has decided on the applications to be awarded grants within Grant for investment in existing research infrastructure. Our total grant amount for 2021-2025 is 364 million SEK.

Decision published 14:00 30 June 2021

Please note that only notice in Prisma guarantees that a grant has been approved.

A total of 35 applications were received, of which two were from women and 33 from men. 24 grants were awarded, two from women and 22 from men.

Please note that the list above does not include any amounts. The granted amounts will be set together with the specific terms and conditions.

The call was open to all applicants but only those applications that was evaluated as being of national interest and provide opportunity for high quality research where granted. Also strategic consideration was included in the evaluation of applications.

What happens after the grant decision?

Decision and final statement in Prisma

In conjunction with the publication of the decision, each applicant will receive an email with the final panel evaluation and the specific terms and conditions. The applying organization shall respond no later than 15 August 2021 and state if they accept specific terms and conditions.

During August 2021 the Director of the Swedish Research Council will make the final decision on the specific terms and conditions. Only then will the decision and the panel evaluations be available in the organization account in Prisma.

This is how you find the statements/decisions in Prisma:

A message is shown in the Tasks module on Prisma’s starting page.

Your statement can be found by

going to the tab Applications and grants
select the page Applications in the left-hand menu
click on the arrow to the right of the Event log button.

When does payment of the grant start?

Payment of the grant will start no sooner than October 2021. The grant is then paid out monthly, provided the “Approval of terms and conditions” have been signed. The infrastructure’s host university will receive the grant, and shall then administer payments to the other contributing HEIs.

How your application has been assessed

You can read more about how your application has been assessed in the call text under “How your application is assessed”. You can find a link to the call on the right-hand side of this page.