Published 11 Dec 2019
On 13–15 December, the Swedish Research Council is co-organising the Joint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance (JPIAMR) event ‘Hacking AMR 2019’ together with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Norwegian Research...
Keywords: Antibiotic resistance Medicine and health
Published 10 Dec 2019
Today, the ERC published the results of the call for Consolidator grants. The grants are intended for researchers whose PhDs were awarded 7-12 years ago. A total of 301 researchers will share more than 600 million EUR, to be used to conduct excellent...
Keywords: ERC
Published 05 Dec 2019
We currently have 30 calls planned for 2020. Most relate to grants that we issue calls for every year. For the first time we will issue a call for exploratory workshop grants within educational sciences. Another new feature is a call aimed at increas...
Keywords: Grant
Published 05 Dec 2019
Maria Thuveson, former head of the Department of Research Funding, replaces Ann Fust at the position as Executive Director at the Swedish Research Council.
Keywords: About the Swedish Research Council
Published 29 Nov 2019
The Swedish Research Council’s Scientific Council for Medicine and Health is now welcoming proposals for members of the review panels for 2020. Please read the instructions and submit your proposal no later than 15 February.
Keywords: Medicine and health Review panels
Published 26 Nov 2019
A Swedish strategic research agenda on antibiotic resistance have been launched. It has been developed in broad collaboration by eleven government agencies, creating a solid basis for future research.
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Published 20 Nov 2019
We launched a new web site in 2018. After evaluating it, the navigation and structure is being adjusted.
Keywords: About the website
Published 14 Nov 2019
We have now decided when our calls will open and close in 2020. One change from previous years is that we will not be issuing calls for conference grants.
Keywords: Application
Published 31 Oct 2019
Our input to the upcoming Government research bill identifies the issues that we consider the Government needs to address in order to meet the major societal challenges and to achieve the over-riding research policy goals.
Keywords: Research policy
Published 31 Oct 2019
Research and innovation are crucial for providing society with the knowledge it needs to find solutions to societal challenges. The Swedish Energy Agency, Formas, Forte, the Swedish National Space Agency, the Swedish Research Council and Vinnova are ...
Keywords: Research policy
Published 11 Oct 2019
The ERC has now published the results from the Synergy grant call. The grant is aimed at research teams with two to four researchers who work in synergy to jointly solve a research question. In total, 37 research teams are sharing more than 360 milli...
Keywords: ERC International collaboration
Published 07 Oct 2019
The ERC has launched a competition to encourage ERC researchers to try to make their research reach out to the wider public. The winners will be presented at a prize-giving ceremony at next year’s EuroScience Open Forum, ESOF, in Italy.
Keywords: ERC
Published 23 Sep 2019
The Swedish Research Council has decided to fund a new mobility programme focusing on neutron research and activities related to the the European Spallation Source ESS and the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex J-PARC.
Keywords: ESS in Sweden Research infrastructure
Published 09 Sep 2019
It has now been decided who will get an ERC Starting grant. In total, 408 researchers will share more than 6 billion SEK, to be used in developing their research and building up their own teams. 14 of them have a Swedish host institution.
Keywords: ERC
Published 04 Sep 2019
The call for travel grants to EuroScience Open Forum 2020 (ESOF 2020) in Trieste, Italy, 5–9 juli 2020, is now open. The call is aimed at young researchers – PhD candidates and postdocs – based in Sweden irrespective of their nationality, as well as ...
Keywords: Science communication
Published 26 Aug 2019
The EU Commission is now preparing the design of the new framework programme for research and innovation, Horizon Europe. This programme will take over from the current Horizon 2020 on 1 January 2021.
Keywords: Horizon 2020 International collaboration
Published 21 Aug 2019
This autumn large amounts of research funding are made available for applicants by the European Research Council (ERC). All calls are open for all subject areas. The Swedish Research Council supports researchers and research officers at Swedish highe...
Keywords: ERC
Published 19 Aug 2019
We have now submitted our official comment on the report “En långsiktig, samordnad och dialogbaserad styrning av högskolan (SOU 2019:6)” (“Long-term, coordinated and dialogue-based direction of higher education”). The report proposes, among other mea...
Keywords: Scientific quality
Published 05 Jul 2019
Do you work within clinical research and have access to healthcare structures and resources? Now you can apply for project grants worth 400 000 SEK – 1.2 million SEK for planning of clinical therapy research.
Keywords: Clinical research Clinical therapy research
Published 27 Jun 2019
Today, the Swedish Research Council and several other parties signed an entirely new agreement with Springer Nature. The agreement means that researchers can publish articles without paying any publication fees in all of Springer Nature’s almost 600 ...
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Published 14 Jun 2019
The Swedish Research Council is part of a consortium together with Finland and six other countries that will now be building one of the world’s largest and fastest supercomputers.
Keywords: Research infrastructure
Published 10 Jun 2019
This year, Sweden and South Korea are celebrating 60 years of diplomatic relations. In conjunction with the visit to Sweden of South Korea’s president, the Swedish Research Council and the National Research Foundation of Korea are arranging a network...
Keywords: International collaboration
Published 22 May 2019
Two calls are open within the work programme Future and Emerging Technologies, FET, with 160 and 52 million euro each to apply for - deadline in September.
Keywords: Horizon 2020 International calls
Published 21 May 2019
The EU’s next framework programme for research and innovation, Horizon Europe, will include a new initiative known as “missions”. The EU Commission is now looking for high-level independent experts to provide advice and support to the Commission in i...
Keywords: International collaboration Research policy
Published 13 May 2019
The updated Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) from the Joint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance (JPIAMR) presents an overview of recent developments and future needs for AMR research. The SRIA outlines six key priority t...
Keywords: Antibiotic resistance
Published 10 May 2019
At the Swedish Research Council, we are currently working on completing the Research barometer 2019 – an overarching description of Swedish research and development in international comparison.
Keywords: Research policy Statistics
Published 03 May 2019
The Swedish Government has adopted a national roadmap for the European Research Area (ERA). The Swedish Research Council will now update an earlier draft action plan for the agency.
Keywords: ERC
Published 23 Apr 2019
25 researchers at Swedish higher education institutions have been awarded grants within two calls made by the European Research Council (ERC) in 2018: Starting Grant and Consolidation Grant. On 5 April, the Swedish Research Council held a reception f...
Keywords: ERC Horizon 2020 International calls
Published 21 Mar 2019
The Swedish Research Council is contributing a total of 1.6 million SEK to three projects within STINT’s Joint Japan-Sweden Research Collaboration for the period 2019–2022.
Keywords: International collaboration
Published 18 Mar 2019
Due to problems at our server provider, Prisma has been partly unavailable during the weekend. We will therefore prolong the application time with 24 hours.
Keywords: Application
Published 15 Mar 2019
Researchers in Sweden are welcome to apply for grants from the the Belmont Forum call on climate, environment and health. The call supports international interdisciplinary projects with participating researchers from at least three of the participati...
Keywords: International calls
Published 29 Jan 2019
UNESCO’s recommendations for science and researchers are used as a joint reference in research collaboration across national borders. They were updated in conjunction with the 70th anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights.
Keywords: Ethics International collaboration
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