Individual grants
After a call for proposals, an individual researcher at a university or a research institute can apply for funding. This can be intended for a specific project or for the researcher's own group.
Financing time: 3-6 years, SEK 1-3 million / year.
Examples of programs include:
Successful Research Leaders
The aim of the programme is to further support and promote the career of the most successful participants in the two first rounds of the Future Research Leaders programme, announced in 2000 and 2003, respectively.
See who they are.
Ingvar Carlsson Award
The program aims to give returning post-docs the opportunity to launch independent and innovative research in Sweden. The program includes a leadership course.
See who they are.
Future Research Leaders
The program aims to identify and support young, highly promising researchers with leadership potential and to offer them grants to build their research teams to be internationally competitive. The program also includes a leadership training for grant recipients.
Read more in the report: Future research leaders 2005.
Read more in the report: Individual grants for the advancement of research leaders 2002.
See who they are.
Senior Individual Grant
Grants to allow senior researchers with a desire to take on new challenges, to do so. The researchers should have a strong research career behind them.
Junior Individual Grant
JIG-allocations were intended as an aid to promising young scientists to begin the process of recruiting students and building a research group.