Published 21 Oct 2021
In its work on developing a call for a research infrastructure for large-scale computing resources, the Swedish Research Council is now inviting views from users. How should we structure the call, and what requirements should we set for the research ...
Keywords: Research infrastructure
Published 19 Oct 2021
A platform is needed where public agencies, higher education institutions and other actors can collaborate to make higher education, research and innovation more international. This the the conclusion of a new report from the Swedish Council for High...
Keywords: International collaboration
Published 13 Oct 2021
The Swedish Research Council has decided to allocate 26 million SEK to fund ENABLE-2, a platform for developing antibiotics at Uppsala University, during 2021–2022.
Keywords: Antibiotic resistance
Published 12 Oct 2021
New members are to be appointed to the Swedish Research Council’s board and scientific councils for the period 2022–2024. Electors, appointed by Sweden’s higher education institutions, have now chosen election committees that will propose new members...
Keywords: About the Swedish Research Council
Published 08 Sep 2021
Nominate members of review panels in medicine and health 2022. The Swedish Research Council’s Scientific Council for Medicine and Health is now welcoming proposals for members of the review panels for 2022. Please read the instructions and submit yo...
Keywords: Medicine and health Review panels
Published 07 Sep 2021
Is it possible to compare the quality of Swedish research in an international perspective? To answer this question, the Swedish Research Council has developed a new model for evaluating research, and tested it for political science. The evaluation sh...
Keywords: Evaluation Research impact Scientific quality
Published 27 Aug 2021
She is a professor of industrial biotechnology, and is very interested in finding solutions to society’s great challenges. In her new role, she wants to work towards increasing multidisciplinary opportunities in research infrastructure, and to broade...
Keywords: About the Swedish Research Council Research infrastructure
Published 20 Aug 2021
The report on national research infrastructure, which was recently submitted to the Government, has been eagerly awaited, and we are reading it with great interest. We can already now express our support for the proposal to set up a new public agency...
Keywords: Research infrastructure Research policy
Published 28 Jun 2021
The Swedish Research Council has initiated a process to establish a new organisation that can meet Swedish research's need for large-scale calculation and storage resources. As a first step, the Council for Research Infrastructures, RFI, at the Swedi...
Keywords: Research infrastructure
Published 24 Jun 2021
The first calls for proposals in the EU's new framework program for research and innovation have now opened. The main work program of Horizon Europe for the period 2021–2022 has a budget of a total of 14.7 billion euro. Information meetings about the...
Keywords: International calls Horizon Europe
Published 24 Jun 2021
The differences between women’s and men’s career development in higher education are small, but women encounter obstacles on the way to a professorship. This is shown in a study by the Swedish Research Council, where around 2 000 researchers answered...
Keywords: Gender equality Mobility and career Gender
Published 14 Jun 2021
Six research environments will share a total of 100 million SEK for follow-up studies of COVID-19 vaccines. The research environments are based on collaborations between different regions, and will focus on different aspects of health and medical car...
Keywords: Clinical therapy research Medicine and health COVID-19
Published 14 Jun 2021
She is a professor of modern languages, focusing on didactics, with a great interest in languages and language learning, as well as language didactics. In her new role, she wants to work towards more collaboration and internationalisation in educatio...
Keywords: About the Swedish Research Council Educational sciences
Published 02 Jun 2021
The Swedish Research Council is preparing the launch of four new national research programmes. They will stretch over 10 years, and will concern areas such as the consequences of digitisation, crime, segregation, and viruses and pandemics. The first ...
Keywords: Research impact
Published 01 Jun 2021
Today, and on behalf of the Government, Formas, Forte, the Swedish Research Council and Vinnova are presenting a new joint proposal for a new model for quality-based resource allocation of new funding within the direct government grant. The model is ...
Keywords: Scientific quality
Published 21 May 2021
The Swedish Research Council’s dialogue meeting on 29 April, concerning the place of communication in Swedish third cycle higher education attracted participants from several HEIs and organisations – from course managers to doctoral students in vario...
Keywords: Science communication
Published 06 May 2021
Researchers in artistic and practice-based research are invited to submit proposals for presentations at this year’s symposium on artistic research. The symposium will be held on 24–25 November, on the theme of Articulations. The deadline for prop...
Keywords: Artistic research
Published 06 May 2021
Today, the new Swecris website is launched. The project database has been redesigned, and is moving to the Swedish Research Council’s website. In conjunction with the move, we are also launching an entirely new API.
Keywords: Swecris
Published 22 Apr 2021
It has now been decided who will get an ERC Advanced grant. In total, 209 researchers will share more than 500 million euro. Seven of them have a Swedish host institution.
Keywords: ERC International calls
Published 16 Apr 2021
The research environments that received funding under the Swedish Research Council’s ten-year investment in strong research environments have reached their midterm point. A successful initiative that fulfils the goals in the opinion of an internation...
Keywords: Evaluation Research policy
Published 16 Apr 2021
More knowledge about new varieties of coronavirus is urgently needed. The European Commission is therefore mobilising €123 million from Horizon Europe for four calls focusing on COVID-19 and new variants of the coronavirus. The last application date ...
Keywords: International calls COVID-19 Horizon Europe
Published 14 Apr 2021
In autumn 2020, the Swedish Research Council reviewed its two committees within clinical research. The review resulted in a number of recommendations to the Government, including the closing down of the Committee for Clinical Studies, which has now b...
Keywords: About the Swedish Research Council Clinical research
Published 08 Apr 2021
Ensure that clinically active personnel have more time for research, and create financial incentives that promote infrastructure, competence provision and national coordination in clinical research. These are some of the Swedish Research Council’s ei...
Keywords: Clinical research Evaluation Statistics COVID-19
Published 10 Mar 2021
Every two years, a Swedish higher education institution (HEI) hosts a development research conference in collaboration with the Swedish Research Council and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA). We are now seeking an HEI to...
Keywords: Development research
Published 03 Mar 2021
On 23 March, we are opening a call for research environment grant for follow-up studies of COVID-19 vaccines. You can already read our advance information and start preparing the application.
Keywords: Application COVID-19 Applying COVID-19
Published 26 Feb 2021
She is a professor of design in theory and practice, but also a visual artist and docent in landscape architecture. With her broad knowledge basis and interdisciplinary experience, Maria Hellström Reimer is looking forward to developing a dialogue ab...
Keywords: About the Swedish Research Council Artistic research
Published 23 Feb 2021
Within the new framework programme Horizon Europe, the European Research Council (ERC) is making large amounts of research funding available for applicants in 2021. All calls are open for all subject areas. The first call opens on 25 February.
Keywords: ERC Horizon Europe
Published 15 Feb 2021
The Government has tasked the Swedish Research Council to allocate 150 million SEK to research into COVID-19 vaccine and long COVID. “We are working as fast as we can to issue calls for the funding,” says Madeleine Durbeej-Hjalt, Secretary General fo...
Keywords: COVID-19
Published 15 Feb 2021
Within STINT’s Joint China-Sweden Mobility programme has 15 million SEK been awarded to 30 projects for the period 2021–2024. The Swedish Research Council is contributing 5 million SEK.
Keywords: Decision International collaboration
Published 05 Feb 2021
The Swedish Energy Agency has awarded around 125 million SEK to 25 different projects under the call for curiosity-driven research into sustainable energy systems.
Keywords: Decision
Published 04 Feb 2021
The 2021 Committee for Clinical Treatment Research has now been appointed. Eight of the members are new and five are re-elected. The new chairman is Miia Kivipelto.
Keywords: Clinical therapy research
Published 02 Feb 2021
This is the question for a new study of gender equality among researchers in Sweden that the Swedish Research Council will be conducting during 2021. On 29 January a questionnaire was sent to around 4 800 researchers, with questions about their worki...
Keywords: Gender equality
Published 29 Jan 2021
Sweden was the first country in Europe to launch a national data portal for research into COVID-19. The portal has expanded as more and more research projects have made their data available, new projects have started, and new data services have been ...
Keywords: COVID-19
Published 25 Jan 2021
As from 2021, we are restructuring the review panels within Natural and Engineering Sciences. The purpose is to achieve a more even distribution of applications between them.
Keywords: Assessment Natural and engineering sciences
Published 15 Jan 2021
The Government’s research bill for 2021–2024 proposes major investments in research. For the Swedish Research Council, this involves increased funding for research infrastructure and undirected research, as well as initiatives within a number of spec...
Keywords: About the Swedish Research Council Research policy
Published 11 Jan 2021
How can communicating research become a natural part of third cycle higher education? Researchers and communicators are developing a joint proposal.
Keywords: Science communication
Published 07 Jan 2021
It has now been decided who will recieve an ERC Proof of Concept Grant in the third and last call 2020. 55 researchers from 17 different countries were awarded this grant. Three of those are affiliated to a Swedish university.
Keywords: ERC International calls
