Swecris - Swedish Research Council

About Swecris

Swecris is a national database, where you can see how the participating research funding bodies have distributed their funds to researchers in Sweden. The database contains data from both governmental and private research funding bodies. Swecris is administered by the Swedish Research Council on behalf of the Government.

Content and data quality

Participating funding bodies of Swecris, from which year data is avaliable and updating frequency:

Swecris covers the years from 2007 and onwards.

The Swedish Energy Agency: As from year 2010 and forward. Updated once per year. (Names of project leaders are not shown for the Swedish Energy Agency’s projects due to the principle on data minimisation in GDPR)
The Kamprad Family Foundation: As from year 2017 and forward. Updated once per year.
Formas (Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development): As from 2008 and forward. Suppleis data continuously.
Forte (Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare): As from 2008 and forward. Supplies data continuously.
Swedish Heart-Lung Foundation: As from 2018. Supplies data continuously.
Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU): Data available for 2008-2021.
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ - for the Advancement of the Humanities and Social Sciences): As from 2008 and forward. Suppleis data continuously.
Swedish National Space Agency: Data available for 2009–2017
Swedish Geotechnical Institute: As from year 2021 and forward. Updated once per year.
The Knowledge Foundation: As from year 2023 and forward. Updated once per year.
Swedish Research Council: As from year 2008 and forward. Supplies data continuously.
Vinnova – Sweden’s Innovation Agency: As from year 2008 and forward. Supplies data continuously.
Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies: As from year 2008 and forward. Updated once per year.

Funding bodies soon to be part of Swecris:

Karolinska Institutet
The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency

Subject classification

The research projects in the database are classified by subject according to Statistics Sweden’s classification standard from 2011. The subject classification shows the highest level (1-digit level). Each of these have two further subsidiary levels (3-digit level and 5-digit level). Research projects that lack classification are categorised as “unclassified”. As the classification was introduced in 2011, most of the older projects are unclassified.

Funding period and project period

Swecris shows the projects’ funding period (the period when a project receives funding) – from the start date to the end date. It also shows the project period (the period when a project is carried out) – from the start date to the end date.

When you filter by year on the website, it is the start year of the funding period that is used.

Amount awarded

Please note that this may change during the course of the project and following final reporting, due to changed preconditions for the project.

Language

Project titles and project descriptions are presented in the language used in the application. This may vary between Swedish and English.

Coordinating organisation

Swecris uses the concept of “coordinating organisation” for the organisation that receives and administers the grant. It is possible to filter by type of coordinating organisation, for example companies or non-profit associations.

Five grant types

Project grants. Support for research projects.
Grants for position or scholarships: Support for individual researcher’s career and long-term establishment in the research system.
Support for research environments: Grants to small or large research environments. This also includes support to stimulate national collaboration between different actors and research fields. They can consist of support for centre formations, or grants for recruitment of prominent researchers to strengthen a department, university or graduate school.
Research infrastructure: Support for planning, build-up and operation of research infrastructure. This also includes membership fees for international research infrastructure.
International cooperation: Support for international collaboration in research and internationalisation of research.

Personal data and personal identification

The name of the project leader, the person responsible for the application, is shown in Swecris. In some cases, the names of other project participants are also included. We recommend participating funding bodies to use unique identifiers, such as personal identity numbers and/or ORCID ID when supplying data to Swecris. However, unique identifiers are currently missing for a number of persons. This means that a single person may be listed several times.

Personal identity numbers, ORCID ID and email addresses are included in the database for quality reasons, and are not openly accessible.

Person-id (avaliable via the Swecris API) is set by the Swedish Research Council. The id kan be switched, thus not being a granted fixed identification.

CERIF standard

CERIF (Common European Research Information Format) is a European data standard for managing information related to research, such as projects, people, organizations, and their roles. In Swecris, data follow the CERIF standard as far as possible. When the CERIF standard was not applicable, Swecris data follow Swedish standards. This is the case for tor example research subjects or other classifications like organization and project types.

Export and API

All data in Swecris is openly accessible. As a user, you can search and filter data, and then export them to a CSV file.

This is how you open a CSV file in Excel:

Start Microsoft Excel and open the CSV file from inside the program.
Mark Column A, then click on the “Data” tab, and select “Text to columns”.
Select “Delimited fields” and click on “Next”.
Select “Comma” as “Delimitor” and click on “Next”.
Select “General” and click on “Complete”.

Download data direct via API

We want as many people as possible to be able to benefit from data in the Swecris database. For this reason, there is an API that you are welcome to use.

Contact us

If you have questions or comments on the content of Swecris, please contact us at info@swecris.se.

Who runs Swecris?

Swecris is run by the Swedish Research Council in close collaboration with a management team with representatives from Swedish funding bodies and higher education institutions. The team includes members from the funding bodies Formas, Forte, Vinnova, Riksbankens Jubileumsfond and the Swedish Research Council as well as from the higher education institutions Uppsala University, Stockholm University, the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Gävle University College, Karlstad University, Karolinska Institutet and Lund University.

Brief history

Up until 2012, the database was managed by Sweden ScienceNet (SSN) – a network including the ten largest universities in Sweden. The universities wanted an easy way to find and access information about their researchers’ grants, irrespective of research funding body. The work was coordinated by Uppsala University and funded by Vinnova.

In 2012, the Swedish Research Council was tasked by the Government to take on responsibility for developing and managing the database.

In 2016, the service was named Swecris and updated with a new database and a visualisation tool.

In 2021, the website Swecris.se was transferred to Vetenskapsrådet.se.

In 2021, the search function in Swecris was transferred to Vetenskapsrådet.se and received a new interface. A new API was also launched.