Deadline: 10 April 2018
Applications are open for the Swedish Research Council’s Research Project Grants in Development Research with an aim to give researchers the freedom to formulate by themselves the research concept, method and implementation, and to solve a specific research task within a limited period. Research project grants in Development Research are funded by the Government’s development aid funds, and the research shall be relevant to the fight against poverty and for sustainable development in low income countries.
The goal of the call for research project proposals in Development Research is to reinforce Swedish research with particular relevance to the fight against poverty and for sustainable development in low income countries. This means that the research shall be relevant to the overarching goal for Sweden’s international development collaboration; to contribute to creating prerequisites for better living conditions for people living in poverty and oppression, and thereby contribute to the goal for the policy for global development; namely fair and sustainable global development.
Within the framework for this grant, the research project shall be relevant to one or several of the countries classified as low income countries according to the OECD’s Development Aid Committee DAC’s list (columns “Least Developed Countries” and “Other Low Income Countries”). This means that the research project’s questions and results shall be of benefit for these countries, but collaboration and other research activities may be carried out in other countries also.
Collaboration with researchers in low income countries is encouraged, as is a multi- and inter-disciplinary perspective.
The research may aim either towards immediate benefit or towards knowledge that is potentially important to the goals of the call. It may cover everything from basic to applied research within all scientific disciplines.
Funding Information
The grant amount will be minimum 400 000 SEK per year and maximum 1 500 000 SEK per year
Eligibility Criteria
- The applicant for a research project grant must be an individual researcher.
- Applicant will be the project leader and have scientific responsibility for the project, and their level of activity in the project must be no less than 20 per cent of a full-time equivalent.
- Applicant must hold a Swedish doctoral degree or a corresponding foreign degree, awarded no later than the deadline for this call. The degree award date they use is the date applicant fulfilled all the criteria for a doctoral degree, such as mandatory courses, oral defense and an approved doctoral thesis.
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted electronically via given website.
For more information, please visit Research Project Grants in Development Research.