Published 22 June 2022
We are now reviewing the user-friendliness of our application system Prisma. Why not take this opportunity to give us your views in a survey, and take part in the continued development work? The deadline for responses is 21 August.
Keywords: Application
Published 21 June 2022
On 7 September, we will be opening a call for funding of centres of excellence. This new grant is intended to support the build-up and development of environments that promote research collaboration on a joint theme, and at the same time contribute t...
Keywords: Application
Published 17 June 2022
During 2022, the Swedish Research Council’s scientific councils and committees will produce research reviews within their respective subject areas. This autumn, we will introduce the option of making comments on the first draft.
Keywords: Research policy Research overview
Published 15 June 2022
Researchers can now apply for funding from the Swedish Research Council to plan, implement and evaluate major collaboration and communication initiatives relating to research. On 17 August, we are opening our first call for grants to researchers’ com...
Keywords: National research programme within migration and integration Science communication
Published 14 June 2022
13 June the opening of LUMI was inaugurated. LUMI is the largest supercomputer to date, constructed within the European collaboration on supercomputers, EuroHPC Joint Undertaking. With LUMI, European researchers will have a tool of world class that e...
Keywords: Research infrastructure
Published 9 June 2022
It has now been decided who will receive an ERC Proof of Concept Grant in the second call for 2022. One of the researches awarded the grant is affiliated to a Swedish university.
Keywords: ERC International calls
Published 7 June 2022
On 31 May, Formas, Forte, the Swedish Research Council and Vinnova presented a further development of the joint proposal for a model for quality-based resource allocation that they presented in 2021. The proposal is the result of a joint Government m...
Keywords: Evaluation Research policy Scientific quality
Published 2 June 2022
Katarina Bjelke will be taking over as Director General of the Swedish Research Council after Sven Stafström. This was announced by the Government today, Thursday 2 June. Katarina Bjelke will take up her new position on 15 September.
Keywords: About the Swedish Research Council
Published 18 May 2022
The summer school will take place on 14–21 August 2022 at Varbergs Kusthotell, and is aimed at postdocs, doctoral students and masters students at Swedish universities or research institutes. This year’s theme is “X-rays and Neutrons for a Sustainabl...
Keywords: International collaboration Research infrastructure
Published 6 May 2022
We are now starting the move to our new office at Hanverkargatan 11B in Stockholm. We will still be located in the centre – from the Central Station, it is a 10 minute walk to the new office.
Keywords: About the Swedish Research Council
Published 4 May 2022
How has the health and education of children and young persons been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic? This question is the starting point for a Nordic research programme established by NordForsk. The call opens in September.
Keywords: International collaboration
Published 4 May 2022
Up until 29 May, you can nominate candidates for the Athena Prize, Sweden’s largest prize for research and innovation.
Keywords: Science communication
Published 26 April 2022
The ERC has published the results of last years call for ERC Advanced Grant. The average grant is 2,5 million EUR paid across five years. 253 researchers from 21 countries are awarded the grant. Six of them are affiliated to a Swedish host institutio...
Keywords: ERC
Published 25 April 2022
Swedish companies have done well in the competition for orders from ESS, and thousands of jobs have been created in Sweden and the EU because of the facility. This is shown in a new report with an analysis of the socio-economic effects of Swedish inv...
Keywords: ESS in Sweden
Published 22 April 2022
The Swedish Research Council has decided to support researchers fleeing the war in Ukraine by contributing financially to the Swedish section of Scholars at Risk. SAR-Sweden is working to secure funding so that researchers needing protection can be o...
Keywords: About the Swedish Research Council International collaboration
Published 12 April 2022
Increased knowledge, national coordination and regular mappings of unclear areas and obstacles. This is the way forward for improving the utilisation of health data for research and innovation. We are now beginning the work of establishing national s...
Keywords: Clinical research Clinical therapy research Medicine and health
Published 6 April 2022
Researchers in artistic and practice-based research are now invited to submit proposals for presentations at this year’s Symposium on Artistic Research. The symposium will be held on 17–18 November, and focuses on the opportunities for artistic resea...
Keywords: Artistic research
Published 6 April 2022
High quality and good opportunities to contribute to societal benefits summarise the applications approved within the research initiatives for post-COVID syndrome and follow-up studies of COVID-19 vaccines. In relation to studies of COVID-19 vaccines...
Keywords: Clinical research Clinical therapy research Evaluation Medicine and health COVID-19
Published 1 April 2022
Lars Heikensten is now attached to the Swedish Research Council to provide support in the negotiations between the ESS member countries about the allocation of future operating costs for the facility. Lars Heikensten took up the position on 1 March, ...
Keywords: ESS in Sweden Research infrastructure
Published 17 March 2022
The ERC has published the results of the call for Consolidator Grants. The grants are intended for researchers whose PhDs were awarded 7-12 years ago, and the average grant is 2 million EUR paid across five years. 15 of the researchers to receive a g...
Keywords: ERC Horizon Europe
Published 16 March 2022
The call for travel grants to EuroScience Open Forum 2022 in Leiden, the Netherlands, 13–16 July 2022, is now open. The call is aimed at young researchers – PhD candidates and postdocs – based in Sweden irrespective of their nationality, as well as a...
Keywords: Science communication
Published 14 March 2022
The Government urges higher education institutions (HEIs) and research funding bodies to ensure that contacts and collaborations with governmental institutions in Russia and Belarus are suspended immediately. This statement was made by Anna Ekström, ...
Keywords: International collaboration
Published 11 March 2022
The Swedish Research Council allows persons applying for a grant from us to collaborate with researchers active in Russia or Belarus within the framework for their application. This is on condition that the researchers active in Russia or Belarus hav...
Keywords: International collaboration
Published 9 March 2022
The need for large-scale computation and data management is becoming ever greater within an ever larger number of research fields. In order to fulfil the needs of researchers at Swedish higher education institutions, a new organisation will take over...
Keywords: Research infrastructure
Published 3 March 2022
On 2 March, Anna Ekström, Minister for Education, issued a statement that all research collaboration with Russia and Belarus should be suspended. Sven Stafström, Director General of the Swedish Research Council, emphasised the importance of different...
Keywords: International collaboration
Published 9 February 2022
The database AcademiaNet has been operating since 2010, and makes prominent female researchers more visible. The purpose is to increase the proportion of women in leading positions within the world of research. The Swedish Research Council contribute...
Keywords: Gender equality
Published 7 February 2022
It has now been decided who will recieve an ERC Proof of concept grant in the first call 2022. The grant is made available to those who already have an ERC award, and will cover activities at the very early stage of turning research outputs into a co...
Keywords: ERC
Published 4 February 2022
The international collaboration GENDER-NET Plus has published recommendations to promote gender equality in research funding. The Swedish Research Council has led the work.
Keywords: Gender equality
Published 20 January 2022
The Swedish Research Council is now inviting applications for a grant to Swedish higher education institutions for expenses incurred in the recruitment of researchers who have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant and who had planned to locate their res...
Keywords: ERC
Published 14 January 2022
The Swedish Research Council is appointing a Secretary General for Clinical Research. The position is entirely new, and will be held by Jonas Oldgren, who is a professor in coagulation research, and a senior consultant cardiologist. He will take up h...
Keywords: About the Swedish Research Council Clinical research Clinical therapy research
Published 13 January 2022
The Swedish Research Council has decided to adopt new guidelines for clinical studies funded by us. As from 2022, all clinical studies shall be registered in a public database. Currently, the results of only 50–60 per cent of all clinical studies are...
Keywords: Clinical research Ethics
Published 13 January 2022
Greater weight given to undirected research in research policy, and brave decisions relating to investments in research infrastructure. These are issues that Irene Wennemo, the new Chair of the Swedish Research Council’s Board, highlights as importan...
Keywords: About the Swedish Research Council
Published 10 January 2022
The European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant 2021 has awarded 397 researchers in Europe up to 1,5 million euro, to develop their research project and to building their own research teams. 14 of them have a Swedish host institution.
Keywords: ERC International calls
