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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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 ...
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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