Swedish Research Council/Sida: Call for Research Project Grant on Sustainability and Resilience

Deadline: 8 May 2018

Applications are open for Research Project Grant 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.

This grant is funded jointly by the Swedish Research Council and Sida through the Swedish Government’s development aid funds, and by Formas’ and Forte’s research appropriations. The research shall be relevant to poverty reduction and for sustainable development in low-income countries.

Aims

The aims of the call are to:

strengthen Swedish research within the area of sustainability and resilience in relation to climate and environmental changes from a poverty perspective. Here, democracy, welfare, conflicts, human rights and gender equality may be important aspects of particular relevance to the fight against poverty and for sustainable development, focusing primarily on low income countries and regions
contribute to capacity building within research in low income countries and lower middle income countries
strengthen the capacity among junior researchers within the area at Swedish HEIs
increase the collaboration between researchers in Sweden and researchers in low income and lower middle income countries

Funding Information

The grant amount will be Minimum 400 000 SEK per year and maximum 2 000 000 SEK per year.

Eligibility Criteria

This call is for research project grants within Development Research, with focus on “Sustainability and resilience – Tackling consequences of climate and environmental changes” with relevance to low income countries.
The applicant for a research project grant must be an individual researcher.
Applicants 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.
Applicants 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 criteria 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.

How to Apply

Applications must be submitted electronically via given website.

Eligible Countries: Afghanistan, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Armenia, Albania, Angola, Zimbabwe, Bolivia, Algeria, Bangladesh, Cabo Verde, Antigua and Barbuda, Benin, Cameroon, Argentina, Bhutan, Congo, Azerbaijan, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Belarus, Burundi, Egypt, Belize, Cambodia, El Salvador, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Central African Republic, Georgia, Botswana, Chad, Ghana, Brazil, Comoros, Guatemala, China (People’s Republic of), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Honduras, Colombia, Djibouti, India, Cook, Islands, Eritrea, Indonesia, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Jordan, Cuba, Gambia, Kenya, Dominica, Guinea, Kosovo, Dominican Republic, Guinea-Bissau, Kyrgyzstan, Ecuador, Haiti, Micronesia, Equatorial Guinea, Kiribati, Moldova, Fiji, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Mongolia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Lesotho, Morocco, Gabon, Liberia, Nicaragua, Grenada, Madagascar, Nigeria, Guyana, Malawi, Pakistan, Iran, Mali, Papua New Guinea, Iraq, Mauritania, Philippines, Jamaica, Mozambique, Sri Lanka, Kazakhstan, Myanmar, Swaziland, Lebanon, Nepal, Syrian Arab Republic, Libya, Niger, Tajikistan, Malaysia, Rwanda, Tokelau, Maldives, Sao Tome and Principe, Tunisia, Marshall Islands, Senegal, Ukraine, Mauritius, Sierra Leone, Uzbekistan, Mexico, Solomon Islands, Viet Nam, Montenegro, Somalia, West Bank and Gaza Strip, Montserrat, South Sudan, Namibia, Sudan, Nauru, Tanzania, Niue, Timor-Leste, Palau, Togo, Panama, Tuvalu, Paraguay, Uganda, Peru, Vanuatu1, Saint Helena, Yemen, Saint Lucia, Zambia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Serbia, South Africa, Suriname, Thailand, Tonga, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Venezuela, Wallis and Futuna