Deadline: 29-Mar-22
The Swedish Research Council is seeking applications for the Research Project Grant within Development Research to give researchers the freedom to formulate their own research idea, method and implementation, and to solve a specific research task within a limited period.
Project grants in development research are funded by the Government’s development aid funds, and the research shall be of particular relevance to the fight against poverty and for sustainable development in low income countries.
Focus
- The goal of the call for project grants within development research is to reinforce Swedish research of the highest quality with particular relevance to the fight against poverty and for sustainable development in low income countries.
- Development research shall contribute to knowledge about the causes and consequences, and possible solutions of poverty. It shall contribute to knowledge about sustainable development and links between sustainable development and the fight against poverty and other societal challenges in low income countries and regions. The fight against poverty shall be understood in a multi-dimensional way, and therefore not just as lack of material assets, but also lack of power and influence over the own situation, and as lack of choice, of security, and of respect of human rights.
- The Swedish Research Council invites applications from all disciplines and subject areas, such as humanities, behavioural sciences, economics, social sciences, educational sciences, natural sciences, engineering sciences, environmental sciences, urban planning, medicine and health, and also welcomes interdisciplinary projects.
- The research funding must only be used in accordance with the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee DAC’s guidelines for what can be classified as aid. The research shall be of particular relevance to low income countries, that is be based on phenomena, circumstances and/or challenges that are specific to, or more noticeable in, low income countries than in other countries. Collaboration and/or other research activities can be conducted also in other countries.
Funding Information
- The minimum amount you may apply for is 400 000 SEK per year, including indirect costs. The maximum amount you may apply for is 1 500 000 SEK per year. The maximum amount you may be awarded in total is 4 500 000 SEK.
- Grant period: 1–4 years
Eligibility Criteria
- The applicant for a project grant must be an individual researcher together with their organisation (a Swedish Swedish Higher Education Institution (HEI) or another Swedish organisation that fulfils their criteria for administrating organisations for Swedish Research Council grants.).
- You shall be the project leader and have scientific responsibility for the project. The time you set aside for the project (your activity level, that is the percentage of a full-time equivalent) must be suited to the task and its implementation throughout the grant period.
- You must hold a Swedish doctoral degree or an equivalent foreign degree, awarded no later than the deadline for this call. For applicants with Swedish doctoral degrees, the award date listed in Ladok applies.
- You do not have to be employed by the administrating organisation at the time of application, but you must be employed at the start of and throughout the grant period and any further additional availability period. The employment must equal at least 20 per cent of a full-time equivalent.
For more information, visit https://www.vr.se/english/applying-for-funding/calls/2021-11-17-research-project-grant-within-development-research.html