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  • 2025 calls – new calls and dates

    Published 12 November 2024

    Dates have now been set for 41 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.

  • New members for two scientific committees at the Swedish Research Council

    Published 12 November 2024

    The Swedish Research Council’s Board has appointed members to the Committee for Artistic Research and the Committee for Educational Sciences for the period 2025–2027. The mandate period is three years, and members may be reappointed for a further thr...

  • Nine research projects with Swedish participation receive the ERC Synergy Grant 2024

    Published 5 November 2024

    The ERC has now published the results from the Synergy grant call 2024. The grant is aimed at research teams with two to four researchers who work in synergy to jointly solve a research question. In total, 57 projects are sharing more than 571 millio...

  • New calls in 2025 for digitisation, criminality, and segregation

    Published 21 October 2024

    Next year, it will be possible to apply for project grants within three of our national research programmes: the societal consequences of digitisation, criminality, and segregation. We welcome applications from all scientific fields, and also cross-d...

  • In 2025, we are issuing a call for grants to research collaborations in medicine and health

    Published 21 October 2024

    Next year, the Swedish Research Council will be issuing a call for project grants to enable cross-sector collaboration in medicine and health. The grant is aimed at established researchers, and makes it possible to employ a postdoc conducting researc...

  • New report summarises the Swedish Research Council’s work in development research

    Published 16 October 2024

    Development research is an important research field for addressing global challenges and fighting poverty. It also contributes to the internationalisation of Swedish research and education. The funding from the Swedish Research Council has been alloc...

  • Debate: EU needs to boost investment in research infrastructures

    Published 11 October 2024

    Shared science facilities are essential to more and more fields of research. The EU must support them in Framework Programme 10, Katarina Bjelke writes in a debate article in Science Business 10 October.

  • Henrik Ekengren Oscarsson is the new Secretary General for Humanities and Social Sciences

    Published 10 October 2024

    He is Professor of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg, and focuses particularly on election research. In his new role, Henrik Ekengren Oscarsson wants to protect academic freedom and research independence, and also strengthen Sweden as...

  • Election committees chosen for election of the Swedish Research Council’s board and scientific councils

    Published 10 October 2024

    New members are to be appointed to the Swedish Research Council’s board and scientific councils for the period 2025–2027. Electors, appointed by Sweden’s higher education institutions, have now chosen election committees that will propose new members...

  • Promising junior researchers given different preconditions for career development

    Published 2 October 2024

    Many promising junior researchers awarded grants from the Swedish Research Council have good preconditions for career development at their higher education institutions, a new report shows. But this does not apply to all. This risks making research c...

  • New edition of the Swedish Research Council’s publication Good Research Practice

    Published 2 October 2024

    There is now a new, re-worked edition of the Swedish Research Council’s publication Good Research Practice. The publication provides guidance for reflection on ethics throughout the research process, and is aimed at researchers at all stages, but als...

  • Swedish EOSC Forum opened

    Published 25 September 2024

    The Swedish Research Council has started a Swedish forum for discussions, exchange of experiences and thoughts about the European open research cloud, EOSC. The aim is to strengthen the conditions for joint national development and forward direction ...

  • These may apply for grants for research infrastructure 2025

    Published 16 September 2024

    It is now clear which new areas and existing research infrastructures are included in the call for grants to research infrastructure of national interest 2025. The call is open during the period 4 December 2024 – 18 February 2025.

  • 22 researchers in Sweden to receive an ERC Starting Grant 2024

    Published 5 September 2024

    The European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant 2024 has awarded 494 researchers in Europe up to 1,5 million euro, to develop their research project and to building their own research teams. 22 of them have a Swedish host institution.

  • Sweden joins DARIAH-EU

    Published 3 September 2024

    DARIAH stands for Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities and is a European research infrastucture that supports digital research and teaching across the arts and humanities. The Swedish membership means that the infrastructure be...

  • Nominate members of review panels in medicine and health 2025

    Published 3 September 2024

    The Swedish Research Council’s Scientific Council for Medicine and Health is now welcoming proposals for members of the review panels for 2024. Please read the instructions and submit your proposal no later than 30 November 2024.

  • SciLifeLab to receive 70 million SEK from the EU to train postdocs in life science

    Published 30 August 2024

    The national research infrastructure SciLifeLab is to receive 70 million SEK via the EU programme Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) to invest in a training programme for postdocs. The programme is intended to contribute to innovative research and...

  • New law on research databases creates new opportunities for Swedish research

    Published 26 August 2024

    The Government’s proposed new law on certain research databases creates new opportunities to collect and handle personal data without ethical approval. The law is proposed to come into force on 1 January 2025.

  • Dates set for ERC calls 2024–2025

    Published 20 August 2024

    This autumn and next year, the European Research Council (ERC) has millions of euros in research funding available for applicants. All calls are open for researchers in all scientific disciplines. The Swedish Research Council supports researchers at ...

  • Three researchers in Sweden to receive ERC-2024-Proof of Concept Grant DL1

    Published 11 July 2024

    It has now been decided who will receive an ERC Proof of Concept Grant in the first round of the call 2024. Three researchers are affiliated to a Swedish university and have been granted funding.

  • New call under the MSCA4Ukraine initiative

    Published 13 June 2024

    On 5 August, a new call will open within the visiting researcher programme MSCA4Ukraine. Swedish higher education institutions who are interested in hosting researchers from Ukraine can apply for funding under the call.

  • Two researchers in Sweden to receive funding from COST, the EU’s network programme

    Published 30 May 2024

    COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) is funding 60 network projects that aim to promote collaboration between academia, business, the public sector, and research institutes. Two of the projects receiving funding are coordinated by re...

  • Is the assessment of applications gender-equal?

    Published 30 May 2024

    The Swedish Research Council has conducted gender equality observations at the meetings where research grant applications are assessed. We use the observations to follow up our own work and safeguard a gender-equal review process.

  • Strengthen science communication

    Published 7 May 2024

    The Swedish Research Council is backing four new recommendations for promoting science communication. The recommendations have been developed by Science Europe, and are the result of a high-level conference on science communication held in Brussels i...

  • New call – research environment grant in 6G

    Published 2 May 2024

    In August, the Swedish Research Council will be opening a call for grants to research environments in 6G. The call is part of the Government’s initiative to develop the next generation of wireless systems. The grant shall be used to build up strong r...

  • Influence the next work programme within Horizon Europe

    Published 25 April 2024

    There is now an opportunity to contribute to shaping the next work programme within the EU’s framework programme for research and innovation, Horizon Europe. The deadline for submitting feedback is 6 May.

  • New research collaboration with USA on 6G, quantum technology, AI and other areas

    Published 15 April 2024

    The Swedish Research Council and Vinnova have signed a five year declaration of intent with the US National Science Foundation (NSF), which will facilitate research and innovation collaborations between Sweden and USA.

  • 10 researchers in Sweden to receive an ERC Advanced Grant 2023

    Published 11 April 2024

    The ERC has published the results of last years call for ERC Advanced Grant. 255 researchers from 20 different countries are awarded the grant. 10 of them are affiliated to a Swedish host institution.

  • New guidelines for using AI in Europe

    Published 9 April 2024

    The European Commission, together with the countries in the European Research Area (ERA) and other stakeholders, has developed guidelines for responsible use of generative AI in research and innovation.

  • Science Europe: How to strengthen the dialogue between researchers and decision-makers

    Published 9 April 2024

    More dialogue is needed between the research community and decision-makers to ensure decisions made are based on scientific knowledge. A new report from Science Europe has proposals for how this dialogue can be improved.

  • Agreements completed with four publishers of open access journals

    Published 20 March 2024

    Last autumn, the Swedish Research Council, Formas, Forte, and Vinnova made a focus decision to fund publishing using publishers that only produce journals with full open access. Agreements have now been entered into with four publishers.

  • NordForsk announces grants for sustainable development of the Arctic

    Published 14 March 2024

    The Nordic countries have teamed up with Canada and the USA to launch a NordForsk call on the sustainable development of the Arctic. The Swedish Research Council is one of the funders. The deadline for pre-proposals is 4 June 2024.

  • New statistics for applications and decisions

    Published 5 March 2024

    We have now published overall statistics for applications and grant decisions for 2023. To make the statistics more useful, we have divided up the subjects differently compared to previous years.

  • Just over 75 per cent of clinical studies registered after one year

    Published 23 February 2024

    As from 2022, all clinical studies funded by the Swedish Research Council shall be registered in a public database. A recent follow-up shows that the majority of the clinical studies awarded funding in 2022 have been registered.

  • The Swedish Research Council is funding MSCA Post Doctoral European Fellowship reserve candidates

    Published 15 February 2024

    It is now possible for researchers who applied for the grant Post Doctoral European Fellowship 2023 within Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) programme, and were the highest ranked reserves, to receive funding from the Swedish Research Council. Th...

  • Research infrastructures will be able to get funding for 10 years

    Published 12 February 2024

    The Government is making a change to the Swedish Research Council’s instructions, which means that we can fund research infrastructure of national interest for a longer period, extending from the current 6 years to 10 years. The purpose is to improve...

  • Swedish research can be enhanced without expensive reorganisation

    Published 1 February 2024

    The Swedish Research Council rejects the proposal for three new public agencies in our response to the consultation document proposing a new public agency structure for funding research and innovation. We consider that the proposal has too narrow a s...

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

    Published 18 January 2024

    It has now been decided who will recieve an ERC Proof of Concept Grant in the last round of the call 2023. Two researchers are affiliated to a Swedish university. In addition, two researchers from the reserve list from the second round have been g...

  • EU funding for the Swedish project Polar Connect

    Published 12 January 2024

    The Swedish Research Council, together with NORDUnet and the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat, has been awarded EU funding for the first part of the Polar Connect project. The goal is a fibreoptic connection via the Arctic linking the Nordic region...

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