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In 2025, we are issuing a call for grants to research collaborations in medicine and health

Next year, the Swedish Research Council will be issuing a call for project grants to enable cross-sector collaboration in medicine and health. The grant is aimed at established researchers, and makes it possible to employ a postdoc conducting research both at a higher education institution and at an organisation or a company.

The purpose of the grant is to support interaction between higher education institutions and the surrounding community, and to increase researcher mobility between different sectors.

“There are currently few sources of funding for basic research projects based on collaboration between academia and the surrounding community. With this call, researchers in both academia and the business sector can get new research ideas and perspectives, which can enrich basic research,” says Madeleine Durbeej-Hjalt, Secretary General of the Scientific Council for Medicine and Health at the Swedish Research Council.

The research is intended to answer a question that is best studied in collaboration between a higher education institution and an external party. Both parties need to have knowledge that is relevant for the area, and that can be used to answer the question.

“Through this grant, new relationships between academia and the surrounding community can be initiated in strategic research areas. Concrete collaboration projects also have great potential for leading to innovation that can be implemented in health and medical care, and thereby improve people’s health in the long term,” says Charlotte Häger, member of the Scientific Council for Medicine and Health and a professor at Umeå University.

The value and quality of the collaboration will be part of the assessment. The collaboration organisation needs to contribute actively to the postdoc’s career development and the research, for exampel through co-funding of the research project, support, and supervision.

The project grant can only be used to cover salary costs for the postdoc. Other costs arising in the research project must be financed using other funding.

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