Decision published
31 October 2024
Total amount granted: 1 286 187 000 SEK
Natural and engineering sciences
The Swedish Research Council has decided on the applications to be awarded grants within Natural and engineering sciences 2024. Our total grant amount for 2025-2028 is almost 1,29 billion SEK.
Decision published
Please note that only notice in Prisma guarantees that a grant has been approved.
Approval rates
Applicants | Number of applications | Number of grants | Approval rate |
|---|---|---|---|
Women | 297 | 58 | 20 % |
Men | 972 | 193 | 20 % |
Total | 1269 | 251 | 20 % |
Applicants | Number of applications | Number of grants | Approval rate |
|---|---|---|---|
Women | 128 | 20 | 16 % |
Men | 291 | 37 | 13 % |
Total | 419 | 57 | 14 % |
In the budget for project grants and starting grants managed by the Scientific Council for Natural and Engineering Sciences, a minor amount is reserved for a redistribution process for reserve-listed applications. In 2024, this related to 20 project grants and 5 starting grants in the redistribution pot, compared to the 228 project grants and 52 starting grants that were allocated directly by the review panels.
The main purpose is to even out imbalances that have arisen across the aggregated review panels, and to strive for gender-neutral success rates for each grant type. For starting grants in particular, the success rate has diverged noticeably between the genders during the last few years, which is contrary to the Swedish Research Council’s guidelines.
Experiences from previous years show that it is difficult to compare and rank reserves from different review panels based on quality criteria. The highest ranked reserves can therefore be regarded as being of equal overall quality.
For this reason, this year an attempt was made to use randomisation to award additional grants from the review panels’ reserve lists.
For starting grants, women applicants had achieved significantly higher success rates. For this reason, only the review panels where the first reserve was a man took part in the drawing of lots. For project grants, the review panels’ aggregated success rate was gender-neutral. Therefore, no consideration was paid to applicant gender when drawing lots for these.
The number of lots was allocated in proportion to the number of applications assessed by each review panel. The review panels’ ranking of reserves was the starting points for the lot-drawing.
According to the Scientific Council, the process worked satisfactorily, avoids any conflict of interest problems, and respects the proposals by the review panels.
Grant amounts (SEK)
Applicants | Total grant amount | Average grant amount per year |
|---|---|---|
Women | 241 369 000 | 1 044 887 |
Men | 794 018 000 | 1 040 653 |
Total | 1 035 387 000 | 1 041 637 |
Applicants | Total grant amount | Average grant amount per year |
|---|---|---|
Women | 88 000 000 | 1 100 000 |
Men | 162 800 000 | 1 100 000 |
Total | 250 800 000 | 1 100 000 |
Administrating organisation
Administrating organisation | Number of approved grants | Total grant amount |
|---|---|---|
Uppsala University | 57 | 238 320 000 |
Lund University | 50 | 211 291 000 |
KTH, Royal Institute of Technology | 42 | 176 048 000 |
Stockholm University | 30 | 123 373 000 |
Chalmers University of Technology | 27 | 114 245 000 |
Linköping University | 26 | 109 398 000 |
University of Gothenburg | 21 | 85 518 000 |
Umeå University | 19 | 79 102 000 |
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences | 16 | 67 912 000 |
Karolinska Institutet | 3 | 13 828 000 |
Karlstad University | 3 | 12 800 000 |
Lulea university of technology | 3 | 11 562 000 |
Swedish Museum of Natural History | 2 | 8 560 000 |
Linnaeus University | 2 | 8 412 000 |
Mälardalen Univeristy | 2 | 8 080 000 |
Swedish Institute of Space Physics | 2 | 7 150 000 |
Malmö University | 1 | 4 150 000 |
Halmstad University | 1 | 4 000 000 |
Örebro University | 1 | 2 438 000 |
Total | 308 | 1 286 187 000 |
What happens after the grant decision?
A few days after the grant decision has been published, you can see the decision and final statement for your application on your account in Prisma. A message is shown on Prisma’s starting page under the heading “Tasks”.
How to find the final statement:
- Go to tab “Applications and grants”
- Select “Applications” in the left-hand menu
- Click on "Details"
Note! Your research colleagues may receive their decisions and final statements before you receive yours, or vice versa.
All applications receive final statements that contain grades for all evaluation criteria. A certain proportion of the applications with the lowest grades are not discussed in detail at the panel meeting, and will therefore not receive detailed written comments on the grades. This enables more in-depth discussion of applications that have a reasonable chance of being funded.
Read more about how to find your decision in Prisma.
External link.
If your application has been approved, the document “Approval of terms and conditions” will be published on your account in Prisma. It describes the terms and conditions for the grant. You and the head of department (or corresponding) must sign the “Approval of terms and conditions” as soon as possible – but no later than after 30 days.
Note! The document “Approval of terms and conditions” (Godkännande av villkor) is published in Prisma within five days after the grant decision has been published.
The first payment will normally be made during January. The grant is then paid out monthly, provided the “Approval of terms and conditions” have been signed.
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 grant’s availability period – the period during which you are allowed to use the grant.
For research project grants, this usually means that you must start the project within 1 year.
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.
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