Pages about "Research infrastructure"
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25 Jun 2025
The Swedish Research Council and Vinnova have collaborated to increase the usage of ESS and MAX IV. A new report shows that the initiative has produced results. It has led to increased benefits for both academia and industry, and has strengthened Swe...
Keywords: ESS in Sweden Research infrastructure
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24 Jun 2025
What will Sweden’s role be in an Arctic region that is impacted by climate change, geopolitics, and new digital infrastructure? On 17 June, key actors gathered onboard the Oden ice-breaker in Helsingborg harbour to discuss this topic. Katarina Bjelke...
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11 Apr 2025
The GGP is a social science infrastructure that plays an important role in research of central importance to societal development, demography, and family sociology.
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18 Mar 2025
The GGP is a social science infrastructure that plays an important role in research of central importance to societal development, demography, and family sociology.
Keywords: International calls International collaboration Research infrastructure Horizon Europe
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13 Mar 2025
Researchers in Sweden now have the opportunity to provide their views and influence ESS strategic roadmap for the development of future instruments at the facility. As a researcher, getting involved early is a way to influence the process and get the...
Keywords: ESS in Sweden Research infrastructure
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05 Mar 2025
Better support for user-adapted data analysis is needed at the research infrastructures ESS and MAX IV. This has been established by the authors of a new report. They have also identified several other bottlenecks that prevent researchers from using ...
Keywords: ESS in Sweden Research infrastructure
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03 Mar 2025
The early careers of successful researchers are characterised by international mobility, undirected research funding, plenty of research time, prominent and supportive research environments and opportunities to develop their own lines of research. Th...
Keywords: ERC Mobility and career Research infrastructure
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22 Jan 2025
The Swedish Research Council is extending the collaboration agreement on the neutron source ISIS, to safeguard access to neutron scattering resources for Swedish researchers.
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21 Jan 2025
In Australia and South Africa, telescopes are being built that when completed will be the most powerful in the world. Sweden has now signed a convention on membership of SKAO, the organisation behind the telescopes.
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14 Jan 2025
The first node of the emerging EOSC federation was launched in fall 2024. The node will supply research data and other resources. This webinar is about the EOSC EU node and how you may use it.
Keywords: Open science Research infrastructure Open access to data
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30 Dec 2024
This year, the Swedish Research Council received around 5 800 applications for research grants. 860 of these were awarded funding. In total, 4.55 billion SEK has been awarded to research at Swedish higher education institutions, and 2.81 billion SEK ...
Keywords: About the Swedish Research Council Artistic research Clinical therapy research Educational sciences Humanities and social sciences Medicine and health Natural and engineering sciences Research infrastructure
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10 Dec 2024
The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has appointed seven consortiums in Europe to establish AI factories with AI-optimised supercomputers. One of the seven AI factories is the Swedish MIMER at Linköping University.
Keywords: International collaboration Research infrastructure
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03 Dec 2024
The next sub-project in Polar Connect is now starting – where five Nordic actors join together to secure the global digital infrastructure of the future. The project also entails opportunities to collect data for research into the Arctic.
Keywords: Natural and engineering sciences Research infrastructure
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20 Nov 2024
The Swedish Research Council has been mandated by the Government to propose how Sweden’s e-infrastructure for research can be developed through coordination and organisational change. We have now appointed Pär Weihed as the investigator for this assi...
Keywords: About the Swedish Research Council Research infrastructure Open access to data
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11 Oct 2024
Shared science facilities are essential to more and more fields of research. The EU must support them in Framework Programme 10, Katarina Bjelke writes in a debate article in Science Business 10 October.
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16 Sep 2024
You are invited to a digital information meeting about the call for grants for research infrastructure of national interest 2025.
Keywords: Grant for research infrastructure of national interest Research infrastructure
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16 Sep 2024
It is now clear which new areas and existing research infrastructures are included in the call for grants to research infrastructure of national interest 2025. The call is open during the period 4 December 2024 – 18 February 2025.
Keywords: Application Grant for research infrastructure of national interest Research infrastructure
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16 Sep 2024
The Swedish Research Council, the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat and Nordunet invites you to a webinar about the project Polar Connect – a fibreoptic connection via the Arctic linking the Nordic region to Japan and South Korea. How can the resear...
Keywords: Research infrastructure Sunet
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Infrastructures |
03 Sep 2024
DARIAH-EU is a European research infrastructure that supports digital research and teaching across the humanities and arts. Through the infrastructure, researchers gain access to digital resources to create, connect, and share knowledge about culture...
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03 Sep 2024
DARIAH stands for Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities and is a European research infrastucture that supports digital research and teaching across the arts and humanities. The Swedish membership means that the infrastructure be...
Keywords: Artistic research Humanities and social sciences Research infrastructure
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30 Aug 2024
The national research infrastructure SciLifeLab is to receive 70 million SEK via the EU programme Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) to invest in a training programme for postdocs. The programme is intended to contribute to innovative research and...
Keywords: International calls International collaboration Research infrastructure Horizon Europe
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30 Aug 2024
How can ESS and MAX IV strengthen the Swedish life science and medtech sectors? That question is in focus at this year's ESS/MAX IV Summit in Mölndal.
Keywords: ESS in Sweden Research infrastructure
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26 Aug 2024
The Government’s proposed new law on certain research databases creates new opportunities to collect and handle personal data without ethical approval. The law is proposed to come into force on 1 January 2025.
Keywords: Ethics Research infrastructure Research policy
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Infrastructures |
09 Jul 2024
EU-OPENSCREEN ERIC enables chemical biology and early drug development by providing screening and chemistry facilities, as well as compound libraries through partners in the member states.
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Grant decision |
31 May 2024
The Council for Research Infrastructures, RFI, has decided how the 70 proposals submitted in last year’s needs inventory shall be categorised. 19 of the areas have been placed in Category A1, which means that they are highly prioritised and may be in...
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08 Apr 2024
The Council for Research Infrastructures, RFI, has decided how the 70 proposals submitted in last year’s needs inventory shall be categorised. 19 of the areas have been placed in Category A1, which means that they are highly prioritised and may be in...
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Infrastructures |
25 Mar 2024
ArchLab is a distributed research infrastructure that coordinates a number of laboratories that use natural science methods to tackle archaeological questions. The infrastructure is under construction and is coordinated from Umeå University.
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12 Feb 2024
The Government is making a change to the Swedish Research Council’s instructions, which means that we can fund research infrastructure of national interest for a longer period, extending from the current 6 years to 10 years. The purpose is to improve...
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09 Jan 2024
The Swedish Research Council’s Guide to infrastructure 2023 is a plan for how Swedish researchers in academia, the public sector and industry are to access the most sophisticated research infrastructure in Sweden and other countries. Research infras...
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02 Nov 2023
The Swedish Research Council’s input to the Government’s research and innovation bill presents our views on what needs to be done to strengthen the Swedish research system and create good preconditions for excellent research that is of benefit to soc...
Keywords: Research impact Research infrastructure Research policy Scientific quality
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31 Oct 2023
The Swedish Research Council, the Swedish Energy Agency, Formas, Forte, the Swedish National Space Agency and Vinnova have now submitted a joint document with recommendations ahead of the Government bill on research and innovation. Excellent research...
Keywords: Research impact Research infrastructure Research policy Scientific quality
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10 Oct 2023
The Swedish Research Council, together with FASM and SSUO, is inviting interested parties to a digital round-table discussion regarding organisations for users of X-ray facilities.
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22 Sep 2023
Welcome to a discussion on our future needs of the EuXFEL facility. Planning is now underway on how EuXFEL will be developed in the longer term.
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07 Sep 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
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24 Aug 2023
In what way can research infrastructure and knowledge at the universities as well as MAX IV and ESS help create more sustainable products and processes for the industries in the northern part of Sweden? That question is in focus at this year's ESS/MA...
Keywords: ESS in Sweden Research infrastructure
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29 Jun 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
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19 Jun 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.
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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.
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03 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 ...
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25 Apr 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
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Infrastructures |
14 Apr 2023
National organisation for high-performance computing, storage, and data services for academic users in Sweden. Coordinates national advanced user support for national computing resources and other high-performance computing resources such as EuroHPC
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29 Mar 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
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23 Feb 2023
How does digitalisation in research affect people and society today? What are the opportunities and challenges linked to collaboration on open data and research infrastructure? How can research infrastructure support new opportunities and benefits fo...
Keywords: Research infrastructure Open access to data
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13 Feb 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
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25 Nov 2022
Appendix to the Swedish Research Council’s Guide to Infrastructure 2022 At the Swedish Research Council we have a model of prioritisation of research infrastructure that is based on a two-year cycle. The first step of the cycle is an inventory with ...
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21 Nov 2022
ESS, and MAX IV, are strategically very important for Swedish research and innovation, and for strengthening our role as one of the world's foremost knowledge nations. The facilities will provide Sweden with unique conditions for conducting excellent...
Keywords: ESS in Sweden Research impact Research infrastructure Sustainable development
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18 Nov 2022
The Swedish Research Council’s Board has appointed five new members of the Council for Research Infrastructures, RFI, for the period 2023–2025. Björn O. Nilsson, continues as chair of the council.
Keywords: About the Swedish Research Council Research infrastructure
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13 Oct 2022
It is now clear which new areas and existing research infrastructures are included in the call for grants to research infrastructure of national interest 2023. The call is open during the period 30 November 2022–14 February 2023.
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23 Sep 2022
The Swedish Research Council and the Geological Survey of Sweden (SGU) invites to an afternoon on available research infrastructures of relevance to solid Earth geosciences. Welcome!
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06 Jul 2022
Pandemic, war, climate crisis – the green and digital transition is more urgent and necessary than ever before. What is the role of ESS and MAX IV in this work?
Keywords: ESS in Sweden Research infrastructure
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05 Jul 2022
As from 1 July, Sweden is a member of the European research infrastructure EU-OPENSCREEN ERIC. With the membership, Swedish research gains access to a network of international expertise within the area, and also access to the joint small molecule lib...
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05 Jul 2022
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is building the world’s largest optical telescope, ELT, in the Chilean desert. Right now, ESO is seeking a number of persons to work on the development of the telescope.
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29 Jun 2022
The Swedish Research Council has approved the application from Linköping University for the call Grant to infrastructure for national computational resources and associated services. The new organisation will become operational on 1 January 2023.
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14 Jun 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...
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13 Jun 2022
The Council for Research Infrastructures, RFI, has decided how the proposals for new or upgraded infrastructure submitted in last year’s needs inventory shall be categorised. Eight of the just over 40 areas in the inventory have been placed in Catego...
Keywords: Decision Research infrastructure
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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
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13 May 2022
SwedNMR provides increased access to NMR instrumentation and expertise within biomolecular NMR, materials NMR and translational NMR.
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13 May 2022
PPS is a distributed infrastructure that coordinates expertise, protein production systems, marking methods, protein refinement techniques and a range of services within recombinant protein production.
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13 May 2022
Infravis is a national research infrastructure for visualisation of data. Analysis of data is an increasingly important part of the work flow for research within academia, industry and public agencies.
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Infrastructures |
13 May 2022
The HUMINFRA infrastructure aims to create an internet-based information portal that summarises and links to digital resources.
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13 May 2022
SweDigArk is a distributed infrastructure for digital archaeology that provides expertise, services and resources for digitising archaeological data.
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Infrastructures |
13 May 2022
EPOS provides data about the solid ground (“everything beneath our feet”), a joint European freely accessible data portal.
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Infrastructures |
13 May 2022
Oden provides a research infrastructure with opportunities for multi-faceted studies of the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere, marine ecosystems, and also the sediment and geology of ocean floors.
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Infrastructures |
13 May 2022
SBDI is a portal for biodiversity data, with information about populations of plants, animals and other life forms. SBDI also provides analysis tools and updated taxonomies.
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13 May 2022
ACTRIS coordinates operations in several European countries where aerosols, clouds and trace gases are observed and studied. ACTRIS Sverige is the Swedish node, which includes several measuring stations.
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01 Apr 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
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09 Mar 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...
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Article |
10 Feb 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: ESS in Sweden Research infrastructure
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22 Dec 2021
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: Grant Research infrastructure
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22 Dec 2021
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: Grant Research infrastructure
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04 Nov 2021
The Swedish Research Council and the European Spallation Source ERIC (ESS) organised a digital information meeting on the process forward for Swedish in-kind contributions to ESS.
Keywords: ESS in Sweden Research infrastructure
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21 Oct 2021
In its work on how a research infrastructure for large-scale computing resources can be organised, the Swedish Research Council is now inviting views from users. How should the research infrastructure be structured, and what requirements should we se...
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30 Sep 2021
The Swedish Research Council is organising a hearing regarding the funding and organisation of national services for large-scale computing. We invite users, higher education institutions and other stakeholders.
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29 Sep 2021
Come and discuss about how academia and industry in Sweden can increase the societal benefits of the two world-leading research facilities ESS and MAX IV. Welcome to a digital meeting on 14 October.
Keywords: ESS in Sweden Research infrastructure Research policy
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27 Aug 2021
She is a professor of industrial biotechnology, and is very interested in finding solutions to society’s great challenges. In her new role, she wants to work towards increasing multidisciplinary opportunities in research infrastructure, and to broade...
Keywords: About the Swedish Research Council Research infrastructure
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20 Aug 2021
The report on national research infrastructure, which was recently submitted to the Government, has been eagerly awaited, and we are reading it with great interest. We can already now express our support for the proposal to set up a new public agency...
Keywords: Research infrastructure Research policy
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28 Jun 2021
The Swedish Research Council has initiated a process to establish a new organisation that can meet Swedish research's need for large-scale calculation and storage resources. As a first step, the Council for Research Infrastructures, RFI, at the Swedi...
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Call |
12 May 2021
The purpose of this project grant is for researchers and research groups active in Sweden, together with research groups at the UK national neutron Source ISIS, to participate in the development of instrumentation or methods for the European Spallati...
Keywords: Application Research infrastructure
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Publication |
25 Mar 2021
The Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC) is a national research infrastructure that makes available large scale high performance computing resources, storage capacity, and advanced user support, for Swedish researchers. SNIC is a cons...
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Call |
18 Mar 2021
The Swedish Research Council carries out a prioritisation of new needs for research infrastructure in a recurrent cyclical process over two years. The first stage of the process consists of a needs inventory, aimed at highlighting areas where the nee...
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03 Nov 2020
Welcome to an information meeting about the call for grants to research infrastructure of national interest.
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27 Oct 2020
The LUMI consortium, where the Swedish Research Council is a member, has signed an agreement to build a supercomputer. The LUMI super-computer will be built in Finland, and will provide world-class performance that offers great opportunities for Swed...
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Call |
29 Sep 2020
The purpose of the grant is to support research infrastructure of national interest. This might refer to national infrastructure, or Swedish participation in international infrastructure. The grant may be used for investment and operation, and may i...
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News |
29 Sep 2020
It is now clear which new areas and existing research infrastructures are covered by the call for grants to research infrastructure of national interest. The call is open during the period 2 December 2020–16 February 2021.
Keywords: Application Research infrastructure
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Article |
24 Sep 2020
It is now clear which new areas and existing research infrastructures are covered by the call for grants to research infrastructure of national interest. The call is open during the period 2 December 2020–16 February 2021.
Keywords: ESS in Sweden Research infrastructure
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Article |
24 Sep 2020
It is now clear which new areas and existing research infrastructures are covered by the call for grants to research infrastructure of national interest. The call is open during the period 2 December 2020–16 February 2021.
Keywords: ESS in Sweden Research infrastructure
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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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Infrastructures |
19 Aug 2020
DEMSCORE, Research infrastructure for Democracy, Environment, Migration, Social policy, COnflict, and REpresentation, is a research infrastructure facility under construction, aimed at fulfilling research needs for various types of social sciences co...
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12 Jun 2020
The Council for Research Infrastructures (RFI) within the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) commits a significant part of its annual budget to accelerator-based infrastructures in particle and nuclear physics. The funding covers membership f...
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29 Apr 2020
During 2020, the Swedish Research Council and Vinnova will be establishing a joint office to work towards maximising Sweden’s use of the research facilities European Spallation Source, ESS, and Max IV in Lund.
Keywords: About the Swedish Research Council ESS in Sweden Research infrastructure
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29 Apr 2020
During 2020, the Swedish Research Council and Vinnova will be establishing a joint office to work towards maximising Sweden’s use of the research facilities European Spallation Source, ESS, and Max IV in Lund.
Keywords: About the Swedish Research Council ESS in Sweden Research infrastructure
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Infrastructures |
27 Apr 2020
A collaboration between Sweden’s six healthcare regions, aimed at strengthening the prerequisites for conducting clinical studies in Sweden.
Keywords: Clinical research Research infrastructure
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Grant decision |
06 Mar 2020
The Council for Research Infrastructures, RFI, has decided how the proposals for new or upgraded infrastructure submitted in last year’s needs inventory shall be categorised. 25 of the areas in the inventory were placed in Category A.
Keywords: Decision Research infrastructure
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Call |
24 Feb 2020
The Swedish Research Council has been mandated by the Government to work towards ensuring researchers based in Sweden participate to a greater degree in the construction and development of research infrastructure, and towards making research infrastr...
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News |
16 Jan 2020
The Swedish Research Council’s Board has appointed five new members of the Council for Research Infrastructures, RFI, for the period 2020–2022. Jan-Eric Sundgren, chair of the council, has an appointment until 31 December 2020.
Keywords: About the Swedish Research Council Research infrastructure
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Call |
14 Nov 2019
The purpose of the call is to increase the interest of lower and upper secondary school pupils in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) by funding activities at national research infrastructures through ongoing grants from the Swedi...
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23 Sep 2019
The Swedish Research Council has decided to fund a new mobility programme focusing on neutron research and activities related to the the European Spallation Source ESS and the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex J-PARC.
Keywords: ESS in Sweden Research infrastructure
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Call |
05 Jul 2019
The partnership programme EuroHPC Joint Undertaking runs three calls aimed at supporting research and innovation within the HPC area, including High Performance Data Analytics.
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14 Jun 2019
The Swedish Research Council is part of a consortium together with Finland and six other countries that will now be building one of the world’s largest and fastest supercomputers.
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Call |
21 May 2019
The Swedish Research Council carries out a prioritisation of new needs for research infrastructure in a recurrent cyclical process over two years. The first stage of the process consists of a needs inventory, aimed at highlighting areas where the nee...
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Publication |
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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23 Nov 2018
The Swedish Research Council has decided to award grants to Swedish research infrastructures of approximately 4 billion SEK. This funding will remain in place for up to the next eight years. Max IV, the computer infrastructure SNIC and databases with...
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Grant decision |
01 Nov 2018
The Swedish Research Council has decided on approved applications within Grant for accessibility to infrastructure
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News |
01 Nov 2018
The Swedish Research Council’s Guide to research infrastructure has now been published. It indicates new needs and gives proposals for improvements to existing research infrastructure. The Guide forms a central part of the Swedish Research Council’s ...
Keywords: Research infrastructure Research policy
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Publication |
01 Nov 2018
The Swedish Research Council’s guide to research infrastructure is a plan for how Swedish researchers within academia, public sector and industry are to access the most sophisticated research infrastructure in Sweden and other countries. Research in...
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23 Oct 2018
A decision has now been made on the new areas and the existing research infrastructures that are covered by the call for grants to research infrastructure 2019. 14 new areas and 14 existing research infrastructures are covered, and may therefore appl...
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Call |
23 Oct 2018
The purpose of the grant is to support research infrastructure of national interest. This might refer to national infrastructure, or Swedish participation in international infrastructure. The grant may be used for investment and operation, and may in...
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Publication |
18 Oct 2018
At the Swedish Research Council we have a model of prioritisation of research infrastructure that is based on a two-year cycle. In the first year, an inventory of needs of research infrastructure in Sweden is conducted with the purpose to identify ne...
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Infrastructures |
18 Oct 2018
A social sciences longitudinal survey in the field of education, based on a database comprising ten nationally representative samples of students.
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Infrastructures |
18 Oct 2018
An infrastructure under construction with a view to making population data available for Swedish and international research through coordination of the most important historical population databases in Sweden, focusing on the period from the 18th cen...
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Infrastructures |
18 Oct 2018
Swedish National Data Service (SND) is a research data infrastructure that supports accessibility, preservation, and reuse of research data. The SND Search function makes it easy to find, use, and cite research data from a variety of scientific disci...
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Infrastructures |
18 Oct 2018
A European interdisciplinary, interview-based survey on health, ageing and retirement that aims, among other things, to enhance understanding of the consequences of the ageing population. The Swedish node is SHARE-S at Umeå University.
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Infrastructures |
18 Oct 2018
An infrastructure under construction, comprising eight complementary, high-quality longitudinal databases for research into working life, social relations and health throughout life.
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Infrastructures |
18 Oct 2018
An infrastructure under construction that aims to promote and facilitate Swedish research into ageing by means of integration of a number of national longitudinal population-based projects on ageing and health, and to enhance the quality and generali...
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Infrastructures |
18 Oct 2018
Statistics Sweden's standard tool for publication of microdata with a view to providing researchers in Sweden with cheaper, more effective access to well-documented and quality-assured registry data.
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Infrastructures |
18 Oct 2018
An institute set up by the EU in 1976 to help preserve Europe's cultural and scientific heritage. The university institute provides research and postgraduate education in the fields of economics, history, law, sociology and political sciences.
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Infrastructures |
18 Oct 2018
A survey of attitudes and behaviours that aims – among other things – to map and explain the interaction between Europe's changing structures and attitudes, increase comparability in surveys and develop and implement social indicators. The Swedish no...
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Infrastructures |
18 Oct 2018
CORS is made up of six research infrastructures for comparative social sciences research. CORS research focuses on studying how human behaviour, values, attitudes, health and quality of life differ from country to country. ESS-S and SHARE-S are part ...
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Infrastructures |
18 Oct 2018
Nationella språkbanken (Eng. 'National Language Bank') is a language technology infrastructure that gives access to both digital language data and advanced tools for work with language data.
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Infrastructures |
18 Oct 2018
A merger of twenty or so European social sciences data archives and a distributed infrastructure for social sciences data. SND is Sweden's service provider.
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Infrastructures |
18 Oct 2018
National infrastructure coordinating a number of field stations for land-based experimental ecology.
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Infrastructures |
18 Oct 2018
Riksriggen is a drilling rig for scientific surveys of the Earth's crust. IODP is an international programme for scientific drilling at sea, ICDP is the land-based equivalent.
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Infrastructures |
18 Oct 2018
National infrastructure for analysis of geological samples.
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Infrastructures |
18 Oct 2018
International infrastructure for research into aurora borealis, plasma physics and atmospheric physics. Coordinated from Kiruna.
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Infrastructures |
18 Oct 2018
X-ray free electron laser in Germany for research in a number of fields, including femtochemistry and molecular biology.
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18 Oct 2018
Petra III is a German synchrotron light facility at the DESY laboratory outside Hamburg, focusing on radiation in the X-ray area, for research in several scientific fields. Sweden funds Swedish Material Science beamline, SMS, which is a beamline at P...
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18 Oct 2018
A national distributed research infrastructure consisting of the four largest Swedish academic cleanroom-based nanotechnology laboratories.
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18 Oct 2018
Synchrotron light facility in Lund for research into fields such as materials science, biotechnology, medicine, energy and environmental engineering.
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18 Oct 2018
Facility for neutron scattering in the United Kingdom for research into fields such as geosciences, materials sciences, chemistry and biology. Sweden contributes to three diffractometers at ISIS: Polaris, HRPD and IMAT.
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18 Oct 2018
Facility for neutron scattering under construction in Lund for research into fields such as materials and life sciences, energy and environmental engineering.
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18 Oct 2018
Synchrotron light facility in France for studies in a number of scientific fields, including materials and structures. This facility will be upgraded in 2019-2020.
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18 Oct 2018
Database and biobank for twin studies in the field of epidemiological research.
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SIMPLER – Swedish Infrastructure for Medical Population-based Life-course and Environmental Research
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18 Oct 2018
Database and biobank based on 110 000 individuals in Sweden for epidemiological research.
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18 Oct 2018
A distributed infrastructure for advanced microscopy for research within life sciences.
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18 Oct 2018
National infrastructure for large-scale DNA sequencing and SNP genotyping.
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18 Oct 2018
A distributed research infrastructure providing bioinformatics support to Swedish life sciences research. NBIS is the Swedish contact point for the European bioinformatics infrastructure Elixir.
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18 Oct 2018
An international institute for basic research in the life sciences, operating primarily in Germany.
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18 Oct 2018
European distributed infrastructure for translational research. Provides research services in the form of infrastructure and expertise to clients from academia and industry.
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18 Oct 2018
Biobank organisation in 23 European countries aimed at making biological samples and data readily accessible for medical research and development in the field of health and medical care. The Swedish node is Biobank Sweden.
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18 Oct 2018
International radio astronomy project at the planning phase. Chalmers University of Technology participates in the development of components for SKAO.
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18 Oct 2018
Swedish facility with telescopes and measuring instruments for radio astronomy and geodesy. JIVE is a central organisation in the Netherlands for the European radio astronomy network EVN. Onsala Space Observatory is the Swedish node in EVN.
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18 Oct 2018
Nordic telescope on La Palma for optical astronomy. Sweden's involvement in NOT is being phased out and will cease entirely in 2020.
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18 Oct 2018
The infrastructure provides and develops competence within ion beam-based materials analysis and materials modification.
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18 Oct 2018
Experimental facility for fusion research being constructed in France and the European consortium within fusion research.
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18 Oct 2018
The Swedish solar telescope SST on La Palma, and the planned European solar telescope EST.
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18 Oct 2018
Neutrino detector at the South Pole for astroparticle physics.
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18 Oct 2018
Accelerator facility for nuclear, hadron and ion physics, being constructed in Germany.
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18 Oct 2018
Telescope in Chile for astronomy. Onsala Space Observatory (see below) is responsible for user support and data handling from the ALMA telescope.
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18 Oct 2018
Storage rings at Stockholm University for atomic, molecular and chemical physics.
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18 Oct 2018
Accelerator facility in Switzerland, mainly performing research in the field of particle physics. Sweden is contributing to three experiments and one computational infrastructure at CERN: ATLAS, ALICE, ISOLDE and WLCG.
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18 Oct 2018
Sunet operates, maintains, and develops Sweden’s university data network, and also offers a range of web services for research IT and education.
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18 Oct 2018
A European computer infrastructure that provides computing resources for large-scale operations in all disciplines, of an order of magnitude beyond national computer resources.
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18 Oct 2018
Nordic cooperation for collective e-infrastructure projects. The cooperation consists of a number of projects within different subject areas, among them the Nordic computing resources within WLCG (see CERN under Physics and engineering sciences) and ...
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12 Oct 2018
Observation system distributed across several European countries for measuring carbon dioxide exchange between the ground and the atmosphere. Sweden hosts the ICOS data portal, Carbon Portal. The Swedish node is ICOS-SE, which includes several measur...
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12 Oct 2018
ELT is being developed by the European Southern Observatory (ESO), where Sweden is one of the member countries. The Swedish Research Council also contributes to funding two instruments at ELT – MOSAIC and HIRES.
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Infrastructures |
11 Oct 2018
BioMS is a national distributed infrastructure for biological mass spectrometry and proteomics.
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11 Oct 2018
The national biobank infrastructure Biobank Sweden includes all universities with a medical faculty and associated university hospital principals (regions).
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11 Oct 2018
European germanium detector project, part of the Swedish involvement in FAIR.
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News |
14 Sep 2018
The Committee for Clinical Studies has decided to allocate 90 million SEK to the continuing work of building up a joint national research infrastructure for clinical studies. During 2018–2020, 30 million SEK per year will be allocated. At the meeting...
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Call |
27 Aug 2018
This call gives researchers in Sweden access to national research infrastructures in South Korea. The purpose of the research project grant is to give researchers the freedom to formulate the research concept, method and implementation, and to solve ...
Keywords: Medicine and health Natural and engineering sciences Research infrastructure Research project grant
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23 Aug 2018
Welcome to our annual workshop on the European Spallation Source, ESS, in Lund! This year, together with Vinnova and the Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth, we want to inspire, look forward and place the Swedish inputs in a European cont...
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01 Jun 2018
The summer school takes place 25 August – 1 September 2018 at Rügen Island in Germany and invites PhD students, Master (diploma) students in their final research year, and young postdoctoral researchers at Swedish research institutions or universitie...
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Call |
01 Jun 2018
The Swedish Research Council has been mandated by the Government to work towards ensuring Swedish researchers participate to a greater degree in the construction and development of research infrastructure, and towards making research infrastructure m...
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Article |
31 May 2018
The Swedish Research Council has been mandated by the Government to work towards ensuring Swedish researchers participate to a greater degree in the construction and development of research infrastructure, and towards making research infrastructure m...
Keywords: About the Swedish Research Council Research infrastructure Sunet
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30 May 2018
The Swedish Research Council has been mandated by the Government to work towards ensuring Swedish researchers participate to a greater degree in the construction and development of research infrastructure, and towards making research infrastructure m...
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Article |
30 May 2018
The Swedish Research Council has been mandated by the Government to work towards ensuring Swedish researchers participate to a greater degree in the construction and development of research infrastructure, and towards making research infrastructure m...
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Article |
18 May 2018
The Swedish Research Council has been mandated by the Government to work towards ensuring Swedish researchers participate to a greater degree in the construction and development of research infrastructure, and towards making research infrastructure m...
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Article |
18 May 2018
The Swedish Research Council has been mandated by the Government to work towards ensuring Swedish researchers participate to a greater degree in the construction and development of research infrastructure, and towards making research infrastructure m...
Keywords: Research infrastructure Sunet
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Article |
18 May 2018
The Swedish Research Council has been mandated by the Government to work towards ensuring Swedish researchers participate to a greater degree in the construction and development of research infrastructure, and towards making research infrastructure m...
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18 May 2018
The Swedish Research Council has been mandated by the Government to work towards ensuring Swedish researchers participate to a greater degree in the construction and development of research infrastructure, and towards making research infrastructure m...
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Article |
30 Apr 2018
The Swedish Research Council has been mandated by the Government to work towards ensuring Swedish researchers participate to a greater degree in the construction and development of research infrastructure, and towards making research infrastructure m...
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Article |
30 Apr 2018
The Swedish Research Council has been mandated by the Government to work towards ensuring Swedish researchers participate to a greater degree in the construction and development of research infrastructure, and towards making research infrastructure m...
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Call |
12 Oct 2017
The Swedish Research Council carries out a prioritisation of infrastructure in a recurrent cyclical process over two years. The first stage of the process consists of a needs inventory, aimed at highlighting areas where the needs for new research inf...
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20 Sep 2017
In September 2017 the Swedish Research Council has reached a decision on funding of a number of research infrastructures. In total, approximately 4 billion SEK was allocated to infrastructures over the next up to eight years.
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14 Sep 2017
The Röntgen-Ångström Cluster (RÅC) is a Swedish-German research collaboration within structuralbiology and material sciences. The aim of the grant is to strengthen research in materials scienceand structural biology that uses neutron and/or synchrotr...
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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...
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Call |
07 Mar 2017
The purpose of the grant is to support infrastructure of national importance. Such infrastructure can be national or international. The grant can be used for coordination, development, construction, upgrading, investment in and operation of research ...
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02 Jan 2017
ESS (European Spallation Source) is a multi-disciplinary research facility built outside Lund. At ESS it will be possible to study all types of materials, including cells and molecules, using neutron beams. This proposal for a strategy to stimulate ...
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04 Jul 2016
Over the course of 2014, the Swedish Research Council carried out a review of the processes involved in the prioritisation, funding and organisation of national and international research infrastructure. As a first step, an inventory of infrastructur...
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10 Sep 2015
The Swedish Research Council’s guide to research infrastructures is a guide for Sweden’s needs of national and international research infrastructures. It forms the basis for discussions on the financing of future infrastructure within the Swedish Res...
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10 Aug 2015
Well functioning e-infrastructures, such as digital communication, storage and computing capacity, together with human resources to aid in the usage of these infrastructures, are a prerequisite for most scientific disciplines today; both to support r...
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Article |
01 Dec 2014
Well functioning e-infrastructures, such as digital communication, storage and computing capacity, together with human resources to aid in the usage of these infrastructures, are a prerequisite for most scientific disciplines today; both to support r...
Keywords: Artistic research Decision Development research Educational sciences Humanities and social sciences Medicine and health Natural and engineering sciences Research infrastructure Statistics
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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...
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10 Apr 2014
This report contains both the Swedish and English version. The Swedish Polar Research Secretariat and the Swedish Research Council share the responsibility for national level planning of Swedish polar research. The government agencies have drawn up ...
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10 Feb 2014
The conference "Joint Nordic Focus on Research Infrastructures – Looking to the Future" was held in November 2013 as part of the programme during the Swedish chairmanship of the Nordic Council of Ministers. The two-day conference focused solely on No...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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02 Mar 2012
Research environments with world-class infrastructures are essential for the advancement of science. They also generate innovation, influence the social climate, and attract talent. The Swedish Research Council’s guide to infrastructures presents an ...
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10 Feb 2012
SNIC – the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing. The report includes recommendations for SNIC to achieve its goals.
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Publication |
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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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01 Jul 2009
This brochure presents some of the main sources of research funding 2007–2009 in Sweden.
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10 Jul 2008
Biobanks containing human tissue material constitute an indispensable resource for successful biomedical research. Sweden’s extensive and often well-documented sample collections give us the possibility to study numerous urgent medical questions and ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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