The aim of the distinguished professor programme is to create preconditions for the most prominent researchers to conduct long-term, ground-breaking research with great potential for achieving scientific breakthroughs. The grant shall also enable the...

Date: 31 January 2024 – 5 March 2024

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...

Date: 31 January 2024 – 12 October 2017

The Council for Research Infrastructures, RFI, has decided how the proposals for new or upgraded infrastructure submitted in last year’s need inventory shall be prioritised. Just over 30 of the proposals we received in the inventory were placed in Ca...

Date: 22 July 2020

The purpose of the graduate schools is to build up and strengthen scientific expertise and the long-term need for competence within the mining and minerals research. The initiative is based on a Government mandate.

Date: 27 August 2025 – 30 September 2025

The purpose of the network grant is to create an opportunity for a broad constellation of researchers, clinicians, innovators and experts to create a national network for coordinating a research question, sharing research data, or using infrastructur...

Date: 29 April 2020 – 18 August 2020

Our society is in a very difficult situation, caused by the Corona virus epidemic. New knowledge about how society should act to handle the epidemic is absolutely necessary, and demands both short-term and long-term research and innovation initiative...

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...

The Swedish Research Council fund research by issuing calls for grant applications in open competition. In order to provide Swedish research with the best possible prerequisites, we fund research infrastructure, both in Sweden and abroad.

The Swedish Research Council has in total prepared 7 456 applications during 2025. Of these, 1 043 applications have been granted approximately 5.6 billion SEK.*