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Nine projects awarded grants for research into sustainable development of the Arctic

Published 24 March 2025

It has now been decided who will get grants under Nordforsk’s initiative for research into sustainable development of the Arctic. The call is aimed at researchers in the Nordic countries, and in Canada and USA.

Swedish List discontinued

Published 17 March 2025

Since 2019, the Swedish Research Council has complied the annual Swedish List, a register of peer-reviewed journals in Swepub – the database for scientific publications at Swedish higher education institutions. As from this year, we are discontinuing...

Help influence the range of instruments at ESS

Published 13 March 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...

Remove the bottlenecks – how to make more people use ESS and MAX IV

Published 5 March 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 ...

Kristina Hagström-Ståhl is the new scientific adviser in artistic research

Published 3 March 2025

She is primarily active within the performing arts area, and has worked as a researcher and teacher in Sweden and USA. In her new role, Kristina Hagström-Ståhl is looking forward to making artistic research more relevant, both within the research com...

Important success factors for researchers have been identified

Published 3 March 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...

55 researchers in Sweden awarded MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship 2024

Published 18 February 2025

It has now been decided who will get a grant under the two postdoc calls made in 2024 within the EU programme Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions, MSCA. 55 of the 1 700 researchers awarded grants have a Swedish host department.

Nordforsk announces grants for responsible use of Artificial Intelligence

Published 14 February 2025

Nordforsk will open a call for proposals on the responsible use of Artificial Intelligence (AI). This call is announced as a collaborative effort between the Nordic and Baltic countries. The Swedish Research Council is one of the funders. The deadl...

Four new calls

Published 13 February 2025

In April, we will open four calls for proposals, in addition to those previously announced for 2025.

Four researchers in Sweden to receive ERC Proof of Concept Grant 2024

Published 23 January 2025

It has now been decided who will recieve an ERC Proof of Concept Grant in the last round of the call 2024. Four researchers are affiliated to a Swedish host institution.

Updated methods for the use of official personnel statistics

Published 23 January 2025

Official personnel statistics for the higher education sector have in recent years become ever worse at capturing who is awarded a doctoral degree. This information is central for the Swedish Research Council’s research policy analyses. For this reas...

Collaboration agreement with UK on the neutron source ISIS extended

Published 22 January 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.

Sweden a member of SKAO – opens up new opportunities in radio astronomy

Published 21 January 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.

The Swedish Research Council participates in collaboration on the publishing platform Open Research Europe (ORE)

Published 15 January 2025

Ten European research funding and performing organisations in Europe are uniting to fund the publication platform Open Research Europe (ORE), among them the Swedish Research Council, Formas, and Forte. The collaboration means that researchers in the ...