Published 20 September 2023
The deterioration in the national security situation entails new challenges for international collaboration within higher education, research and innovation. The Government has therefore mandated the Swedish Council for Higher Education, the Swedish ...
Keywords: International collaboration Research policy
Published 14 September 2023
Each year, the Swedish Research Council publishes a mapping, an analysis and an assessment of how the national work on open access to research data is developing. This year’s report shows that additional resources are needed to speed up the developme...
Keywords: Open science
Published 12 September 2023
On 7 September, the European Commission and the United Kingdom government agreed that the United Kingdom shall take part in Horizon Europe, the framework programme for research and innovation. The agreement means that it will now be easier for resear...
Keywords: International collaboration Horizon Europe
Published 8 September 2023
In early 2021, a call will open within the Joint Programme Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance (JPIAMR) collaboration, focusing on preventing and reducing the development and transmission of antimicrobial resistance. The Swedish Research Council a...
Keywords: Antibiotic resistance
Published 8 September 2023
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 2023.
Keywords: Medicine and health Review panels
Published 7 September 2023
We have now produced a strategic agenda for the national research programme in viruses and pandemics, for which the Swedish Research Council is responsible. The agenda points out five focus areas for research in the programme.
Keywords: National research programme in viruses and pandemics
Published 7 September 2023
In June, the Government decided that the Swedish Research Council shall no longer fund any new grant decisions under the Government grant for development research. However, now the initiative in sustainability and resilience will be funded after all.
Keywords: Assessment Development research Sustainable development
Published 7 September 2023
NATO’s innovation programme DIANA (Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic) is developing new technology in the defence area. Swedish organisations can now register interest in taking part as accelerators or tests centres in the program...
Keywords: International collaboration Research infrastructure
Published 5 September 2023
The European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant 2023 has awarded 400 researchers in Europe up to 1,5 million euro, to develop their research project and to building their own research teams. 19 of them have a Swedish host institution.
Keywords: ERC International calls Horizon Europe
Published 17 August 2023
This autumn, the European Research Council (ERC) has millions of kronor in research funding available for applicants. All calls are open for researchers in all scientific disciplines. The Swedish Research Council supports researchers at Swedish highe...
Keywords: ERC International calls Horizon Europe
Published 27 July 2023
It has now been decided who will receive an ERC Proof of Concept Crant in the second deadline 2023.
Keywords: ERC International calls Horizon Europe
Published 29 June 2023
On 27 June, Mats Persson, Sweden’s Minister for Education, and Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, Director of the US Department of Energy signed an agreement on research collaboration in the energy area. The Swedish Research Council is responsible for collaborati...
Keywords: International collaboration Natural and engineering sciences Research infrastructure Sustainable development
Published 28 June 2023
The ERC Scientific Council is in Stockholm 28–30 June. The Swedish Research Council hosts the meeting and takes the opportunity to invite the council and president Maria Leptin to a reception with researchers in Sweden who received grants from the ER...
Keywords: ERC International calls International collaboration
Published 27 June 2023
On 22 June, the Government decided that the Swedish Research Council shall not longer fund grants in development research. The decision is valid with immediate effect, but is not retroactive.
Keywords: About the Swedish Research Council Development research Sustainable development
Published 26 June 2023
The importance of research infrastructures and open data in the digital era was the theme of a conference held during Sweden’s presidency of the EU in Lund on 19–20 June. At the conference, Mats Persson, Minister for Education, presented a declaratio...
Keywords: Open science Open access to data
Published 21 June 2023
The Swedish Research Council’s grant to centres of excellence will fund 15 research environments. The quality of applications was very high. At the environments that are now receiving funding in strong competition, there are great opportunities for g...
Keywords: Decision
Published 19 June 2023
The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has selected Linköping University in Sweden to host and operate Arrhenius, a new world-class mid-range supercomputer.
Keywords: Research infrastructure
Published 31 May 2023
In a new report, the Swedish Research Council presents proposed measures for how Sweden shall achieve its research policy goals. A central point is that the quality perspective needs to permeate all parts of the research system.
Keywords: Research impact Research policy Scientific quality
Published 22 May 2023
The Swedish Research Council shall together with Forte analyse the needs for research in the field of women’s health and diseases. The work will lead to a proposal for how a research initiative in this area can be designed.
Keywords: Gender equality Medicine and health
Published 17 May 2023
On 4 October, the Swedish Research Council’s next needs inventory for research infrastructure of national interest opens. This year, two changes have been made.
Keywords: Research infrastructure
Published 9 May 2023
In 26th of May, the call Enhancing well-being for the future opens. The call is initiated by the European research networks NORFACE and CHANSE. Swedish participation is made possible through a collaboration between Forte and The Swedish Research Coun...
Keywords: Humanities and social sciences International calls
Published 5 May 2023
It has now been decided who will recieve an ERC Proof of Concept Grant in the first call 2023. Two researchers are affiliated to a Swedish university.
Keywords: ERC International calls Horizon Europe
Published 3 May 2023
In order for Sweden to continue being an internationally competitive research nation, we need to invest in research infrastructure. The Swedish Research Council’s Guide to research infrastructure 2023 highlights nine recommendations for meeting both ...
Keywords: Research infrastructure Research policy
Published 28 April 2023
The 2023 call for postdoctoral fellowships has now opened within the Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions. The deadline for applications is 13 September. The call is aimed at researchers who were awarded a doctoral degree no more than eight years ago.
Keywords: Application Horizon 2020 International calls
Published 28 April 2023
The Athena Prize is awarded for research and innovations that have been created in collaboration between health and medical care, academia and the business sector. You can take part and influence who gets the prize this year. The deadline for nominat...
Keywords: Clinical research Medicine and health
Published 25 April 2023
The summer school will take place on 20–27 August 2023 in Lüneburg, Germany, and is aimed at postdocs, doctoral students and senior masters students at Swedish universities or research institutes. This year’s theme is “Cutting-edge Neutron and X-ray ...
Keywords: International collaboration Research infrastructure
Published 25 April 2023
The Swedish Research Council and Vinnova have begun a collaboration with the US research funding body the National Science Foundation (NSF). Through the collaboration, researchers in Sweden can apply for grants to speed up the process from basic rese...
Keywords: Application International calls
Published 18 April 2023
Swedish research in physics is of high quality and has great impact, both nationally and internationally. This was established by the international panel that evaluated the research at 12 universities, using the model developed by the Swedish Researc...
Keywords: Evaluation Research impact Scientific quality
Published 31 March 2023
The ALF evaluation, which is published today, shows a positive development for the quality of Swedish clinical research. At the same time, there are areas for improvement in all ALF regions evaluated – for example, time for research is often de-prior...
Keywords: ALF Clinical research Evaluation
Published 30 March 2023
It is now possible for researchers who applied for the grant Post Doctoral European Fellowship, with a Swedish administrating organisation, under the EU’s call in 2022 and were the highest ranking reserves to receive funding from the Swedish Research...
Keywords: Horizon 2020 International calls
Published 30 March 2023
It has now been decided who will get ERC Advanced Grants under last year’s call. 218 researchers from 20 different countries are awarded the grant. 13 of them are affiliated to a Swedish host institution. A new record for Sweden!
Keywords: ERC International calls Horizon Europe
Published 29 March 2023
Quantum technology will impact on the whole of society, and major investments are being made worldwide in this field. Swedish research in quantum technology is strong, but with better national coordination and prioritisation, we can maximise the bene...
Keywords: Natural and engineering sciences Research infrastructure Research policy
Published 28 March 2023
AcademiaNet is a database that highlights prominent female researchers. The purpose is to increase the proportion of women in leading positions within the world of research. The Swedish Research Council contributes to the database financially, and by...
Keywords: Gender equality International collaboration
Published 21 March 2023
The European Commission, via the MSCA4Ukraine initiative, has decided to award support to 124 doctoral students and researchers from Ukraine to continue their research in another country. Six of the researchers will be hosted by Swedish higher educat...
Keywords: International collaboration Horizon Europe
Published 15 February 2023
The Swedish Research Council is responsible for a ten-year national research programme in the societal consequences of digitisation. There is now a strategic research agenda in place, to guide the work forward. A new call under the programme opened o...
Keywords: Research policy National research programme in the societal consequences of digitalisation
Published 14 February 2023
The Swedish Research Council is responsible for a ten-year national research programme in segregation. There is now a strategic research agenda in place, to guide the work forward.
Keywords: Research policy National research programme in segregation
Published 13 February 2023
The Swedish Research Council is funding in-kind deliveries from Swedish universities to ESS. Four new projects have now been awarded funding to contribute technical equipment or personnel to the research facility. Lund University is the main supplier...
Keywords: ESS in Sweden Research infrastructure
Published 10 February 2023
The six-year collaboration GENDER-NET Plus is about to end. The results from the research projects funded and other activities within the collaboration will be presented at a conference in Brussels on 13–14 February. The conference can be followed on...
Keywords: Gender equality International collaboration
Published 2 February 2023
The Swedish Research Council is responsible for a ten-year national research programme in criminality. There is now a strategic research agenda in place, to guide the work forwards.
Published 31 January 2023
The ERC has published the results of the call for Consolidator Grants. 12 of the researchers to receive a grant have a Swedish host institution, the majority of them do research in natural sciences and engineering.
Keywords: ERC International calls
Published 24 January 2023
The European Commission is currently holding an open consultation, where researchers and other actors can contribute with their experiences and opinions about the EU’s framework programme for European research and innovation collaborations. The deadl...
Keywords: International collaboration Research policy Horizon Europe
Published 24 January 2023
It has now been decided who will recieve an ERC Proof of Concept Grant in the last call 2022. Six of the researches awarded the grant is affiliated to a Swedish university.
Keywords: ERC International calls Horizon Europe
