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.

Six research environments will share a total of 100 million SEK for follow-up studies of COVID-19 vaccines. The research environments are based on collaborations between different regions, and will focus on different aspects of health and medical car...

Dates have now been set for 42 of the Swedish Research Council’s calls next year. Many of them are recurrent, but some will be issued for the first time. More calls will be added later.

The dates are now set for more than 40 calls that the Swedish Research Council will open next year. Most of the calls are recurrent, others we have done on a few previous occasions, and some will be issued for the first time. More calls will be added...

In spring 2019, the Swedish Research Council will for the first time issue a call for international postdoc grants within development research. Other new grant formats are two calls linked to register-based research. One relates to grants for researc...

This year, the Swedish Research Council has received many more applications for research grants than in previous years: just over 7,400 applications. Of these, 1,043 have been approved. In total, we have awarded 5.62 billion SEK to research at Swedis...

We currently have 30 calls planned for 2020. Most relate to grants that we issue calls for every year. For the first time we will issue a call for exploratory workshop grants within educational sciences. Another new feature is a call aimed at increas...

In 2019, a total of 30 researchers in Sweden received grants from the ERC under the calls for Starting Grant, Consolidator Grant and Synergy Grant. A further six researchers were awarded funds under the call for Advanced Grant 2018. We have spoken to...

The Government urges higher education institutions (HEIs) and research funding bodies to ensure that contacts and collaborations with governmental institutions in Russia and Belarus are suspended immediately. This statement was made by Anna Ekström, ...

We have now submitted our official comment on the report “En långsiktig, samordnad och dialogbaserad styrning av högskolan (SOU 2019:6)” (“Long-term, coordinated and dialogue-based direction of higher education”). The report proposes, among other mea...