Swedish Research Council Research Environment Grant within Clinical Therapy 2020, Sweden

The following requirements must be fulfilled in order for you to be eligible to apply for the grant. We carry out checks to ensure unqualified applications are rejected from further processing.

The research shall be clinical-based and assumes access to healthcare structures and resources. Projects of relevance for this call are clinical therapy studies, aimed at producing reliable and implementable results that may be of benefit to patients and society within a relatively short period of time (within 2–10 years after completion of the project). National collaboration is a requirement, and the main part of the research in the application shall be conducted in Sweden. Of the funds set aside for this year’s call, one portion shall be allocated to projects answering to identified and prioritised needs for evidence, which is done in consultation with the Swedish Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Assessment of Social Services (SBU).

Applicant

The research environment grant within clinical therapy research is open to individual researchers. You are the project leader and have scientific responsibility for the project. You must set aside adequate time for the project throughout the grant period, with a scope (activity level) that corresponds to at least 20 per cent of a full-time equivalent.

You must hold a Swedish doctoral degree or a corresponding foreign degree, awarded no later than the deadline for this call. The degree award date we use is the date you fulfilled all the requirements for a doctoral degree, such as mandatory courses, oral defence and an approved doctoral thesis. For applicants with Swedish doctoral degrees, the award date listed in Ladok applies.

At the time of application and throughout the grant period, you must hold a clinical position in Sweden, such as employment as a physician, nurse, dentist or physiotherapist. The scope of this employment must correspond to a minimum of 20 per cent of a full-time equivalent. You must describe your clinical position in your application (see instructions under “Clinical position” below).

Grants from the Swedish Research Council shall be administered by a Swedish higher education institution or another Swedish public organisation that fulfils our criteria for administrating organisations. Your organisation must therefore be approved as an administrating organisation for you to apply.

If you are awarded a grant, you must be employed by the administrating organisation at the start of and throughout the grant period and any additional availability period, unless the Swedish Research Council approves an exception. The employment must equal at least 20 per cent of a full-time equivalent. You do not have to be employed by the administrating organisation at the time of applying.

Costs and grant amounts

The grant may be used to fund all types of project-related costs, such as

• salaries (including your own salary, however no more than corresponding to your activity level in the project)
• premises
• running costs (such as consumables, travel including stays at research facilities, publication costs and minor equipment)
• depreciation costs.

Grants may not be used for scholarships. If a doctoral student participates, project funds may not be paid out as salary for the period when the doctoral student is teaching. Only additional costs in conjunction with clinical studies are covered by the grant, not other medical care costs.

The minimum amount you may apply for is 400 000 SEK per year, including indirect costs. The maximum amount you may apply for is 20 million SEK over a three-year period, including indirect costs.

The Swedish Research Council assumes that the administrating organisation will cover any costs in excess of the amount received.

Grant period

The grant period is three years, starting in January 2020. The first payment will be made no earlier than December 2019.