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18 Apr 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

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18 Apr 2023

The Swedish Research Council has made an evaluation of Swedish research in physics based on the Swedish Research Council's model for national evaluations of research subjects. The focus of the evaluation is scientific quality and societal impact. The...

Keywords: Evaluation Research impact Scientific quality

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31 Mar 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

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25 Aug 2022

This is a further developed proposal for a new model for quality-based allocation of the increased direct governmental funding to higher education institutions that the government has announced, for research and education at third-cycle level. The n...

Keywords: Evaluation Research policy Scientific quality

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07 Jun 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

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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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07 Sep 2021

Is it possible to compare the quality of Swedish research in an international perspective? To answer this question, the Swedish Research Council has developed a new model for evaluating research, and tested it for political science. The evaluation sh...

Keywords: Evaluation Research impact Scientific quality

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07 Sep 2021

A pilot evaluation The Swedish Research Council has carried out an evaluation of political science as a research subject, using a new model for national evaluations of research subjects and thematic research fields. The purpose of the new model is t...

Keywords: Evaluation Humanities and social sciences Research impact Scientific quality

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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...

Keywords: Evaluation Research policy

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13 Apr 2021

During 2019–2020, the Swedish Research Council carried out a mid-term evaluation of the implementation of the grant International recruitment of distinguished researchers, which was announced in 2013 and 2014. The purpose of the evaluation of the 19...

Keywords: Evaluation Research policy

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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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21 Aug 2020

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: ALF Clinical research Evaluation Scientific quality

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06 Mar 2020

The Swedish Research Council and Formas have funded 40 Linnaeus Centres with a total of 2.7 billion SEK during the years 2006–2018. We have now conducted a final evaluation. Did the Linnaeus grant have the effect intended? What has it meant for Swedi...

Keywords: Evaluation Research impact Research policy Scientific quality

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04 Mar 2020

The Swedish Government has invested more than 5 billion SEK in strong research environments, such as Centres of Excellence. The conference will discuss the merits of the ten year programme establishing Centres of Excellence at the Swedish higher educ...

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04 Mar 2020

The Linnaeus grants were presented as a new grant format in the Swedish Government’s research policy bill 2004/05. The aim of the grant was to strengthen the ability of Swedish higher education institutions to prioritise and profile Swedish research ...

Keywords: Evaluation Research impact Research policy Scientific quality

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12 Dec 2019

The Linnaeus grants were presented as a new grant format in the Swedish Government’s research policy bill 2004/05. The aim of the grant was to strengthen the ability of Swedish higher education institutions to prioritise and profile Swedish research ...

Keywords: Evaluation Research impact

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14 Feb 2019

Many reports by the Swedish Research Council (SRC) have identified a growing need for e-infrastructures for research. However, in Sweden, the current e-infrastructure landscape is relatively fragmented and many actors provide different kind of servic...

Keywords: Evaluation Open science Research infrastructure

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24 Oct 2018

The final evaluation of the Linnaeus grants will take place in 2019. We are now inviting contact persons and representatives from each Linnaeus Centre to an information meeting ahead of the evaluation. During the meeting, we will be presenting the ev...

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30 Apr 2018

The final evaluation of the Linnaeus grants will take place in 2019. We are now inviting contact persons and representatives from each Linnaeus Centre to an information meeting ahead of the evaluation. During the meeting, we will be presenting the ev...

Keywords: About the Swedish Research Council Evaluation Gender equality

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30 Apr 2018

The final evaluation of the Linnaeus grants will take place in 2019. We are now inviting contact persons and representatives from each Linnaeus Centre to an information meeting ahead of the evaluation. During the meeting, we will be presenting the ev...

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30 Apr 2018

The final evaluation of the Linnaeus grants will take place in 2019. We are now inviting contact persons and representatives from each Linnaeus Centre to an information meeting ahead of the evaluation. During the meeting, we will be presenting the ev...

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26 Apr 2017

In 2015, the Swedish Research Council (SRC) initiated the implementation of a new model for prioritising and funding of national RIs, where the universities are given more responsibility not only for co-funding but also for prioritisation and governi...

Keywords: Evaluation Research infrastructure

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25 Jun 2015

The commission is regarding a model for resource allocation to universities and university colleges involving peer review of the quality and relevance of research. In March 2013, the Swedish Government commissioned the Swedish Research Council, in c...

Keywords: Evaluation Research policy

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11 May 2015

The Swedish Research Council, Formas, Vinnova and the Swedish Energy Agency have evaluated the Strategic Research Area initiative launched by the Swedish Government Bill on Research Policy in 2008. The Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Lif...

Keywords: Evaluation Research policy Scientific quality

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09 May 2014

With the Linnaeus grants the Swedish Research Council and the Swedish Research Council Formas, provide support for 40 research centres in different research areas.The aim of the Linnaeus grants is to enhance support for research of the highest qualit...

Keywords: Evaluation Gender equality Research policy

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10 Apr 2014

The report is a result of the investigation initiated by the Swedish Research Council regarding the needs of e-infrastructure among Swedish scientists. The report provides an overview of existing e-infrastructures today, as well as seven subject fie...

Keywords: Evaluation Research infrastructure

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10 Mar 2014

The MONA (Microdata Online Access) system is Statistics Sweden´s (SCB) standard tool to make microdata available for research and statistical purposes. MONA was put into operation in 2004. Since 2006, parts of MONA development and all access costs fo...

Keywords: Educational sciences Evaluation Humanities and social sciences Medicine and health Natural and engineering sciences

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10 May 2013

An international expert Panel has been invited by the Swedish Research Council (VR) to evaluate Sunet (Swedish University Computer Network), which is the national research and education network (NREN) of Sweden. The conclusions and recommendations of...

Keywords: Evaluation Research infrastructure

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10 Apr 2013

In accordance with the agreement from 2010 between the funders of the MAX IV Project (Lund University, the Swedish Research Council, Vinnova and Region Skåne), a panel was appointed to evaluate and follow up the project and the operations at the MAX ...

Keywords: Evaluation Research infrastructure

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11 Feb 2013

An expert panel has evaluated Swedish research in engineering mechanics. The report describes the evaluation process and the expert panel’s observations and conclusions on engineering mechanics in Sweden.

Keywords: Evaluation Natural and engineering sciences

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10 Aug 2012

The Swedish government allocated new funds to finance the expansion of strategically important national research infrastructure in its research bill “A Boost for Research and Innovation” (Bill 2008/09:50). The Swedish Research Council was tasked with...

Keywords: Evaluation Research infrastructure

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02 Jul 2012

In 2008, the Swedish Research Council announced a general grant and funds for a research school (both for five years) within the scope of the SIMSAM Initiative (SIMSAM = Swedish Initiative for research on Microdata in the Social And Medical sciences)...

Keywords: Evaluation Medicine and health

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11 Jun 2012

In 2008, the Swedish Research Council initiated the transformation of SSD (Swedish Social Science Data Service) into SND (Swedish National Data Service). According to the agreement between the Swedish Research Council and the University of Gothenburg...

Keywords: Evaluation Humanities and social sciences Medicine and health

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09 Apr 2012

The Linnaeus Grant is an initiative of the Swedish Research Council and the Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning (Formas) to support strong research centres at Swedish universities. This report presents...

Keywords: Evaluation Gender equality Research policy

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10 Feb 2012

SNIC – the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing. The report includes recommendations for SNIC to achieve its goals.

Keywords: Evaluation Research infrastructure

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10 May 2011

Quality assessment of the criminal science programme 1994–2004. The report has two overall objectives: The first is to perform a quality assessment of the criminal science programme which was initiated by HSFR on behalf of the Swedish government in 1...

Keywords: Evaluation Humanities and social sciences

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11 Apr 2011

The Swedish Research Council has evaluated three communities for gender research, which are called “Centres of Gender Excellence”. In 2006, the Swedish Research Council approved applications from the universities in Uppsala, Umeå and Linköping/Örebro...

Keywords: Evaluation Gender equality Research policy

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10 Nov 2010

An international committee has evaluated Swedish mathematics research funded by the Swedish Research Council or the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research from 2002 to 2006. The results are presented in this report.

Keywords: Evaluation Natural and engineering sciences Research policy

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11 Oct 2010

Research on biological diversity was awarded special grants by the Swedish government in 2001 which were to be managed by the Swedish Research Council and the Swedish Research Council Formas. The research councils appointed two committees in 2010 wit...

Keywords: Evaluation Natural and engineering sciences Research policy

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10 Sep 2010

The Review panel has scrutinized the revised design of the MAX IV facility as described in the Background Report, dated September 2009, provided by MAX-lab. The revised accelerator and technical design as well as the science case were carefully compa...

Keywords: Evaluation Research infrastructure Research policy

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10 Aug 2010

This report reviews aspects of measuring impacts and outcomes of medical research. A core working group appointed at an international workshop in 2007, organised by the Scientific Council for Medicine within the Swedish Research Council, was tasked w...

Keywords: Evaluation Medicine and health Research policy

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09 Jul 2010

Onsala Space Observatory (OSO) is a Swedish national facility for radio astronomy. The evaluation of this facility’s activities conducted in 2009 shows that Onsala is handling its large number of assignments and projects well and that the quality of ...

Keywords: Evaluation Research infrastructure Research policy

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10 Jun 2010

The university research communities that received grants in the second call for proposals of the ten-year “Linnaeus Grant” in 2008 have now been evaluated. An international panel of experts has examined the organisation, partnerships and leadership o...

Keywords: Evaluation Gender equality Research policy

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05 May 2010

Environments surrounding outstanding infrastructures are not only essential for the advancement of science; they also generate innovation, influence social climate, and attract talent. Also, corporations with needs for high-level expertise prefer to ...

Keywords: Evaluation Research infrastructure

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09 Apr 2010

A midterm evaluation of the eight projects awarded grants in 2007 has been conducted within the scope of the call for proposals called “Medical Technology for Better Health”. The call for proposals was a joint five-year initiative, totalling SEK 81 m...

Keywords: Evaluation Medicine and health Natural and engineering sciences

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10 Feb 2010

Swedish social science research in the field of sustainable development has a lot to offer international research and society. External funding in the field has quadrupled in the past ten years, but new ideas and bold initiatives along with commitmen...

Keywords: Evaluation Humanities and social sciences

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11 May 2009

Research is increasingly being evaluated using indirect methods that measure supply and demand – publication and citation. In light of this background, the Swedish Research Council’s Scientific Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences has teste...

Keywords: Evaluation Humanities and social sciences Interdisciplinary

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10 Apr 2009

In 2008, the Swedish Research Council and the Academy of Finland initiated an evaluation of the status of clinical research in Sweden and Finland. The study was conducted in November 2008 – March 2009 by an international panel of senior clinical scie...

Keywords: Evaluation Medicine and health

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10 Sep 2008

Twenty-nine scientists and their research supported by the Swedish Research Council (at eight universities) in the field of Inorganic Chemistry are reviewed by an international expert panel. Each review in this report includes an evaluation of the re...

Keywords: Evaluation Natural and engineering sciences

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09 May 2008

This publication contains two reports, each suggesting an alternative organisation of Swedish polar research. Both reports identify the present organisation as fragmented and unclear with respect to responsibilities for long term planning and interna...

Keywords: Evaluation Research infrastructure

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10 Apr 2007

Within the Swedish Research Council an overall framework for the evaluation of research support was adopted by the Committee for Educational Sciences (CES) in February 2005. As areas to be evaluated in 2006, the CES chose Democratic Values, Gender an...

Keywords: Educational sciences Evaluation

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10 Aug 2006

Synchrotron-based research has moved from being a challenge within accelerator physics alone to becoming a versatile and widespread scientific tool. Today, a state-of-the-art light source attractsa broad range of scientific communities with the uniqu...

Keywords: Evaluation Research infrastructure

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10 Apr 2006

Over the years, Swedish researchers in biomedical engineering, together with leading clinicians have contributed several groundbreaking technologies that have successfully competed worldwide. In order to ”diagnose” the status of Swedish biomedical ...

Keywords: Evaluation Natural and engineering sciences

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10 Apr 2006

Within the Swedish Research Council an overall framework for the evaluation of research support was adopted by the Committee for Educational Science (CES) in February 2005. As areas to be evaluated in 2005, the CES chose didactics in Swedish, mathem...

Keywords: Educational sciences Evaluation

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10 Mar 2006

How are the concepts of quality and excellence in science applied and developed within various fields of research? What are the advantages and problems in the present understanding of excellence with regard to gender research? In October 2005 the Sw...

Keywords: Evaluation Gender equality Research policy

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10 Feb 2006

Synchrotron radiation is a useful tool in many scientific fields including nanoscience and condensed matter physics, materials science and engineering, structural chemistry, environmental science and geosciences, life sciences and medical imaging and...

Keywords: Evaluation Research infrastructure

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10 Jan 2006

A panel of international experts was appointed in September 2005 by the Scientific Council for Natural and Engineering Sciences and was given the task of carrying out the evaluation of quaternary geology in Sweden. The evaluation took place in Stockh...

Keywords: Evaluation Natural and engineering sciences

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11 Apr 2005

The Council for Natural and Engineering Sciences (NT) at the Swedish Research Council decided early in 2004 to evaluate the research within Swedish Condensed Matter Physics. A panel of international experts was appointed in April 2004, with a Swedish...

Keywords: Evaluation Natural and engineering sciences

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10 May 2002

The quality and future potential of three major academic semiconductor laboratories in Sweden-the Semiconductor Laboratory (the Royal Institute of Technology), the Ångström Laboratory (Uppsala University) (Chalmers University of Technology) - are eva...

Keywords: Evaluation Natural and engineering sciences

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11 Mar 2002

Swedish Research in Political Science. What is the level of Swedish research? In order to get a comprehensive overview of the state of art in an international perspective, the Swedish Research Council has engaged a number of distinguished scholars to...

Keywords: Evaluation Humanities and social sciences Research policy

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10 Dec 1997

What is the level of Swedish research in the Humanities and Social Sciences? To get an overall overview of state-of-the-art in an international perspective, the Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences (HSFR) engaged engaged a number of di...

Keywords: Evaluation Humanities and social sciences