Published 5 September 2024
The European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant 2024 has awarded 494 researchers in Europe up to 1,5 million euro, to develop their research project and to building their own research teams. 22 of them have a Swedish host institution.
Keywords: ERC International calls Horizon Europe
Published 3 September 2024
DARIAH stands for Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities and is a European research infrastucture that supports digital research and teaching across the arts and humanities. The Swedish membership means that the infrastructure be...
Keywords: Artistic research Humanities and social sciences Research infrastructure
Published 3 September 2024
The Swedish Research Council’s Scientific Council for Medicine and Health is now welcoming proposals for members of the review panels for 2024. Please read the instructions and submit your proposal no later than 30 November 2024.
Keywords: Medicine and health Review panels
Published 30 August 2024
The national research infrastructure SciLifeLab is to receive 70 million SEK via the EU programme Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) to invest in a training programme for postdocs. The programme is intended to contribute to innovative research and...
Keywords: International calls International collaboration Research infrastructure Horizon Europe
Published 26 August 2024
The Government’s proposed new law on certain research databases creates new opportunities to collect and handle personal data without ethical approval. The law is proposed to come into force on 1 January 2025.
Keywords: Ethics Research infrastructure Research policy
Published 20 August 2024
This autumn and next year, the European Research Council (ERC) has millions of euros in research funding available for applicants. All calls are open for researchers in all scientific disciplines. The Swedish Research Council supports researchers at ...
Keywords: ERC International calls
Published 11 July 2024
It has now been decided who will receive an ERC Proof of Concept Grant in the first round of the call 2024. Three researchers are affiliated to a Swedish university and have been granted funding.
Keywords: ERC International calls
Published 13 June 2024
On 5 August, a new call will open within the visiting researcher programme MSCA4Ukraine. Swedish higher education institutions who are interested in hosting researchers from Ukraine can apply for funding under the call.
Keywords: International calls Horizon Europe
Published 30 May 2024
COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) is funding 60 network projects that aim to promote collaboration between academia, business, the public sector, and research institutes. Two of the projects receiving funding are coordinated by re...
Published 30 May 2024
The Swedish Research Council has conducted gender equality observations at the meetings where research grant applications are assessed. We use the observations to follow up our own work and safeguard a gender-equal review process.
Keywords: Assessment Gender equality
Published 7 May 2024
The Swedish Research Council is backing four new recommendations for promoting science communication. The recommendations have been developed by Science Europe, and are the result of a high-level conference on science communication held in Brussels i...
Keywords: Science communication
Published 2 May 2024
In August, the Swedish Research Council will be opening a call for grants to research environments in 6G. The call is part of the Government’s initiative to develop the next generation of wireless systems. The grant shall be used to build up strong r...
Keywords: Application Natural and engineering sciences
Published 25 April 2024
There is now an opportunity to contribute to shaping the next work programme within the EU’s framework programme for research and innovation, Horizon Europe. The deadline for submitting feedback is 6 May.
Keywords: Horizon 2020 International collaboration
Published 15 April 2024
The Swedish Research Council and Vinnova have signed a five year declaration of intent with the US National Science Foundation (NSF), which will facilitate research and innovation collaborations between Sweden and USA.
Keywords: About the Swedish Research Council International collaboration
Published 11 April 2024
The ERC has published the results of last years call for ERC Advanced Grant. 255 researchers from 20 different countries are awarded the grant. 10 of them are affiliated to a Swedish host institution.
Keywords: ERC International calls
Published 9 April 2024
The European Commission, together with the countries in the European Research Area (ERA) and other stakeholders, has developed guidelines for responsible use of generative AI in research and innovation.
Keywords: International collaboration Horizon Europe
Published 9 April 2024
More dialogue is needed between the research community and decision-makers to ensure decisions made are based on scientific knowledge. A new report from Science Europe has proposals for how this dialogue can be improved.
Keywords: International collaboration Research impact Science communication
Published 20 March 2024
Last autumn, the Swedish Research Council, Formas, Forte, and Vinnova made a focus decision to fund publishing using publishers that only produce journals with full open access. Agreements have now been entered into with four publishers.
Keywords: About the Swedish Research Council
Published 14 March 2024
The Nordic countries have teamed up with Canada and the USA to launch a NordForsk call on the sustainable development of the Arctic. The Swedish Research Council is one of the funders. The deadline for pre-proposals is 4 June 2024.
Published 5 March 2024
We have now published overall statistics for applications and grant decisions for 2023. To make the statistics more useful, we have divided up the subjects differently compared to previous years.
Keywords: About the Swedish Research Council Statistics
Published 23 February 2024
As from 2022, all clinical studies funded by the Swedish Research Council shall be registered in a public database. A recent follow-up shows that the majority of the clinical studies awarded funding in 2022 have been registered.
Keywords: Clinical research Clinical therapy research Medicine and health
Published 15 February 2024
It is now possible for researchers who applied for the grant Post Doctoral European Fellowship 2023 within Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) programme, and were the highest ranked reserves, to receive funding from the Swedish Research Council. Th...
Keywords: International calls International collaboration Horizon Europe
Published 12 February 2024
The Government is making a change to the Swedish Research Council’s instructions, which means that we can fund research infrastructure of national interest for a longer period, extending from the current 6 years to 10 years. The purpose is to improve...
Keywords: Research infrastructure
Published 1 February 2024
The Swedish Research Council rejects the proposal for three new public agencies in our response to the consultation document proposing a new public agency structure for funding research and innovation. We consider that the proposal has too narrow a s...
Keywords: About the Swedish Research Council Research policy Scientific quality
Published 18 January 2024
It has now been decided who will recieve an ERC Proof of Concept Grant in the last round of the call 2023. Two researchers are affiliated to a Swedish university. In addition, two researchers from the reserve list from the second round have been g...
Keywords: ERC International calls
Published 12 January 2024
The Swedish Research Council, together with NORDUnet and the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat, has been awarded EU funding for the first part of the Polar Connect project. The goal is a fibreoptic connection via the Arctic linking the Nordic region...
Keywords: Sunet
