Pages about "Research infrastructure"

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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...

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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...

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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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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...

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31 Mar 2021

The European Synchrotron, the ESRF, is an international research centre based in Grenoble, France.

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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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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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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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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.

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10 Sep 2020

The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) opens its scientific laboratories and facilities to people working in academia and research organisations, industry, small and medium enterprises, and more in general to the public and private sec...

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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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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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27 Apr 2020

A collaboration between Sweden’s six healthcare regions, aimed at strengthening the prerequisites for conducting clinical studies in Sweden.

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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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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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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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01 Nov 2018

The Swedish Research Council has decided on approved applications within Grant for accessibility to infrastructure

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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 ...

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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...

Keywords: Research infrastructure Sustainable development

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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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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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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...

Keywords: Research infrastructure Research overview

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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18 Oct 2018

National infrastructure coordinating a number of field stations for land-based experimental ecology.

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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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18 Oct 2018

National infrastructure for analysis of geological samples.

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18 Oct 2018

International infrastructure for research into aurora borealis, plasma physics and atmospheric physics. Coordinated from Kiruna.

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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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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 19 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 SKA.

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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

Operates a Swedish solar telescope on La Palma.

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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

Operates, maintains and develops Sweden's university data network, and also offers a range of online services for research IT and education. The Swedish Research Council is responsible for Sunet.

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18 Oct 2018

A national computer infrastructure that provides computer resources for large-scale computation operations and storage in all disciplines. Provides advanced user support for both national computer resources and resources within PRACE.

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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

Swedish LifeWatch, SLW, and Biodiversity Atlas Sweden, BAS, are national e-infrastructures within biodiversity, which are currently funded separately by the Swedish Research Council, but on condition of a merger.

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12 Oct 2018

A distributed European infrastructure that measures and quantifies greenhouse gas uptake and emission between land/water and atmosphere. Sweden hosts the European portal function, ICOS Carbon Portal.

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12 Oct 2018

European Extremely Large Telescope, E-ELT, has been developed by the European Southern Observatory (ESO), where Sweden is one of the member countries. 

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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, BIS, includes all universities with a medical faculty and associated university hospital principals (county councils and regions).

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11 Oct 2018

European germanium detector project, part of the Swedish involvement in FAIR.

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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...

Keywords: Medicine and health Research infrastructure

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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...

Keywords: ESS in Sweden Research infrastructure

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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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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...

Keywords: About the Swedish Research Council Registry-based research Research infrastructure

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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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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...

Keywords: About the Swedish Research Council Research infrastructure

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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...

Keywords: ALF Clinical research Clinical therapy research Medicine and health Registry-based research Research infrastructure

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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...

Keywords: Grant for research infrastructure of national interest Research infrastructure

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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...

Keywords: Research infrastructure Sunet

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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...

Keywords: Registry-based research Research infrastructure

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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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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...

Keywords: Decision Research infrastructure

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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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Grant decision |

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.

Keywords: Decision Grant for research infrastructure of national interest Research infrastructure

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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...

Keywords: Grant International collaboration Medicine and health Natural and engineering sciences Research infrastructure Research project grant

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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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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 ...

Keywords: ESS in Sweden Research infrastructure Research policy

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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...

Keywords: Research infrastructure Sustainable development

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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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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...

Keywords: Evaluation Research infrastructure

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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 ...

Keywords: Natural and engineering sciences Research infrastructure

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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...

Keywords: Interdisciplinary International collaboration Research infrastructure

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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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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 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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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 ...

Keywords: Medicine and health Research infrastructure Statistics

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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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