Pages about "COVID-19"
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06 Apr 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
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15 Nov 2021
The Swedish Research Council is allocating 50 million SEK to 14 research projects into post-COVID syndrome. The research shall contribute to developing knowledge within health and medical care, and improving diagnosis and therapy alternatives for pat...
Keywords: Clinical research Clinical therapy research Medicine and health COVID-19
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14 Jun 2021
Six research environments will share a total of 100 million SEK for follow-up studies of COVID-19 vaccines. The research environments are based on collaborations between different regions, and will focus on different aspects of health and medical car...
Keywords: Clinical therapy research Medicine and health COVID-19
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Call |
20 Apr 2021
The purpose of the project grant is to fund research into remaining or late-onset symptoms following COVID-19 infection (post-COVID syndrome).
Keywords: Application COVID-19 Applying COVID-19
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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 ...
Keywords: International calls COVID-19 Horizon Europe
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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...
Keywords: Clinical research Evaluation Statistics COVID-19
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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.
Keywords: Application COVID-19 Applying COVID-19
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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...
Keywords: COVID-19
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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 ...
Keywords: COVID-19
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09 Nov 2020
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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04 Nov 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has affected the ability of the ALF regions to conduct clinical research. The Government is now making an addition to the ALF agreement, so that the regions can use their 2020 funds also during 2021.
Keywords: ALF Clinical research COVID-19
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28 Oct 2020
Since the pandemic begun this spring, 260 clinical studies relating to COVID-19 have been approved by the Swedish Ethical Review Authority. Getting results from most of these studies will take time, and for several studies it might be a challenge to ...
Keywords: Clinical research Clinical therapy research Medicine and health COVID-19
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27 Oct 2020
It has now been decided who will get grants under Nordforsk’s initiative on research into COVID-19. The call, which was open between May and June, was aimed at researchers from the Nordic countries, Estonia and Latvia. The purpose was to develop new ...
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23 Sep 2020
The Swedish Research Council is providing 10 million SEK to fund the ImmCoVA clinical study. The study is expected to run for three years, and focuses on immune blockers to counteract excess reaction of the immune system to the infection caused by CO...
Keywords: Clinical research Clinical therapy research Medicine and health COVID-19
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22 Sep 2020
The six regional nodes within Clinical Studies Sweden will receive an additional 8 million SEK in total, or 1.3 million SEK each, to further expand their abilities to support clinical studies linked to COVID-19.
Keywords: Clinical research Clinical therapy research COVID-19
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Article |
17 Sep 2020
The six regional nodes within Clinical Studies Sweden will receive an additional 8 million SEK in total, or 1.3 million SEK each, to further expand their abilities to support clinical studies linked to COVID-19.
Keywords: COVID-19
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08 Sep 2020
The six regional nodes within Clinical Studies Sweden will receive an additional 8 million SEK in total, or 1.3 million SEK each, to further expand their abilities to support clinical studies linked to COVID-19.
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01 Sep 2020
Biobank Sweden will receive 10 million SEK from the Swedish Research Council to coordinate the collection of and access to samples linked to COVID-19. This will not only make the process easier for researchers, but also for patients and society as a ...
Keywords: Medicine and health Research infrastructure COVID-19
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03 Jul 2020
The Swedish Research Council has made its award decision on the call for project grants for research into coronavirus and COVID-19. A total of 23 researchers will share 33 million SEK during 2020.
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12 Jun 2020
Three calls opening on 10 June focus on research into virus and disease conditions caused by viruses. The calls are aimed at researchers at the beginning of their careers. Next year we will issue a call for project grants.
Keywords: COVID-19
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05 Jun 2020
257 applications have been received for the call for project grants for research into coronavirus and COVID-19. In July, the decision will be made on who will be awarded funds.
Keywords: COVID-19
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03 Jun 2020
The six regional nodes within Clinical Studies Sweden will each receive a grant of 2 million SEK, or 12 million SEK in total, to strengthen their ability to support clinical studies linked to COVID-19.
Keywords: Clinical research Clinical therapy research COVID-19
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03 Jun 2020
Today sees the launch of a national data portal for research into COVID-19, coordinated by SciLifeLab and the Swedish Research Council. It will now be easier for researchers to find and share relevant research data.
Keywords: Open science Open access to data COVID-19
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Call |
28 May 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic has developed as a public health emergency of global proportions. Intensified research and development efforts on how the coronavirus affects human diseases are urgently needed. The Swedish Research Council and National Science ...
Keywords: Application COVID-19
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20 May 2020
It is now easier for researchers to see the type of data included in the Swedish Intensive Care Registry, SIR. The register has been linked to the metadata tool RUT.
Keywords: Registry-based research COVID-19
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19 May 2020
Sweden is participating in a major clinical study conducted by WHO, aimed at testing a number of antiviral medicines on patients around the world who are being treated for COVID-19.
Keywords: Clinical research Clinical therapy research Medicine and health COVID-19
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14 May 2020
A large part of the Swedish Research Council’s funding of virus research in recent years has gone to research into viruses that are already known, such as HIV and influensa. Research into other types of virus that have caused major epidemics in socie...
Keywords: COVID-19
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Article |
14 May 2020
A large part of the Swedish Research Council’s funding of virus research in recent years has gone to research into viruses that are already known, such as HIV and influensa. Research into other types of virus that have caused major epidemics in socie...
Keywords: COVID-19
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13 May 2020
We still lack much knowledge about the coronavirus. During May and June several calls focusing on virus research are therefore opening.
Keywords: COVID-19
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Call |
12 May 2020
The purpose of the grant is to allow Swedish researchers to address Covid-19 related issues in collaboration with South Korean researchers, with the aim of exploring direct measures that can be implemented within a short time frame, such as new metho...
Keywords: Application Medicine and health COVID-19
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Call |
12 May 2020
The purpose of the project grant is to give researchers the freedom to formulate by themselves the research concept, method and implementation, and to solve a specific research task within a limited period. The initiative is a Government mandate aime...
Keywords: Application COVID-19
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Call |
12 May 2020
The aim of the grant is to give junior researchers the opportunity to establish themselves as independent researchers in Sweden within basic virology and fundamental disease mechanisms caused by viruses. The Swedish Research Council rewards research...
Keywords: Application Medicine and health COVID-19
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Call |
12 May 2020
The purpose of the grant is to give persons who are in the process of securing an independent research career in Sweden the opportunity to conduct long-term research in basic virology and fundamental disease mechanisms caused by viruses.
Keywords: Application Consolidation grant Medicine and health COVID-19
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12 May 2020
The purpose of the grant is to give researchers who have recently been awarded a doctoral degree by a Swedish higher education institution the opportunity to increase their research competence and international networks to later establish independent...
Keywords: Application Medicine and health COVID-19
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07 May 2020
The use of antibiotics is increasing during the corona pandemic, and this is expected to increase the number of antibiotic resistant bacteria. We now need research into links between the new coronavirus and secondary infections, says Jan-Ingvar Jönss...
Keywords: Antibiotic resistance COVID-19
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17 Apr 2020
The Swedish Research Council will receive 100 million SEK extra in the spring budget to support research on COVID-19. In addition to the Government’s initiative, the Swedish Research Council will strengthen basic virus research with 100 million SEK o...
Keywords: About the Swedish Research Council COVID-19
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09 Apr 2020
Our society is in a very difficult situation, caused by the Corona virus epidemic. New knowledge about how society should act to handle the epidemic is absolutely necessary, and demands both short-term and long-term research and innovation initiative...
Keywords: COVID-19
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Article |
30 Mar 2020
Our society is in a very difficult situation, caused by the Corona virus epidemic. New knowledge about how society should act to handle the epidemic is absolutely necessary, and demands both short-term and long-term research and innovation initiative...
Keywords: About the Swedish Research Council COVID-19
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30 Mar 2020
Pressure on Sunet’s network and services has been very high ever since the Government recommended that teaching should be carried out remotely for some time to come. This is particularly noticeable on Zoom, Sunet’s service for e-meetings.
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27 Mar 2020
If you have a grant from the Swedish Research Council, you can now use part of your funding for research related to Sars-CoV-2 and COVID-19 for a limited period.
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18 Mar 2020
The Government’s recommendations about remote teaching and remote working means that many more people than usual will be using Sunet’s network and IT services. Sunet is therefore expanding to allow for the increased load.
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18 Mar 2020
As a result of the current COVID-19 situation, the Swedish Research Council has now extended the deadline for financial reporting of grants from us. If you were due to submit a financial report to us by 31 March, you now have one extra month to do so...
Keywords: Application COVID-19
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17 Mar 2020
Due to Covid-19, the application time will be extended for calls within Horizon 2020.
Keywords: Horizon 2020 COVID-19
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17 Mar 2020
Because of the COVID-19 emergency, the Swedish Research Council is extending the application deadline for twelve calls.
Keywords: About the Swedish Research Council COVID-19
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17 Mar 2020
100 000 more users now have access to the e-meeting service Zoom. This makes it easier for higher education institutions, HEIs, in the Nordic countries to hold their meetings and classes remotely.
Keywords: About the Swedish Research Council Sunet COVID-19
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13 Mar 2020
The Swedish Research Council could grant an extension to the availability period of research projects at risk of being delayed due to COVID-19.
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05 Mar 2020
Are you one of those who are to submit a scientific report for a grant from the Swedish Research Council no later than 31 March 2020? Now we have extended the deadline so that the last day to submit instead will be 30 April.
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27 Feb 2020
The Coronavirus COVID-19 is currently spreading around the world. Other global viral infections are likely to affect us in the future. To be better prepared ahead of the next viral outbreak, the Swedish Research Council is launching a special initiat...
Keywords: Medicine and health COVID-19