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In spring 2019, the Swedish Research Council (VR) will for the first time issue a call for international postdoc grants within development research. Other new grant formats are two calls linked to register-based research. One relates to grants for research environments, the other to graduate schools...

On 30 and 31 January 2019, Luleå University of Technology is in place at the Forum Equality 2019- Sweden's largest gender equality conference. Read more at the website of Luleå University of Technology

Nobel Week Dialogue, 9 December The event was live-streamed all day on 9 December. Watch it now at www.nobelprize.org/water Water is essential to the survival of humanity. Every drop is precious. This year the Nobel Week Dialogue will be turning its attention to a topic that is important to us all...

At the European Research Day in Ottawa, on 5 November 2018, the Swedish researcher Karin Björklund from Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg will be one of the speakers. She will share her mobility experience in the session: Transatlantic Research for Impact: Featuring best practices of...

The last Friday of September, science and research is celebrated in over 340 cities across Europe and neighbouring countries. In Sweden, activities are organised in around 30 cities across the country each year. Read more at https://forskarfredag.se/researchers-night

On 18 May, the Swedish Research Council together with Formas (Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning) and Vinnova – Sweden’s Innovation Agency signed a bilateral Memorandum of Understanding with the Brazilian organisations CNPq, FINEP and CONFAP. Read...

Concepts like ”post truth” and ”alternative facts” are being increasingly used, mainly in American politics, but also in debate internationally. Does this indicate a crisis of confidence in research? Not in Sweden anyway. A new report shows that the Swedes’ confidence in universities is greater than...

How can we increase international research mobility? We invite you to a day of information and discussions about internationalization and researchers' career development. See programme in Swedish below. The information will be given in Swedish   Informationsmöte om...

Joachim Frank, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 2017, will visit the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology on 12 June 2018 to give a lecture to employees, students and general public. Joachim Frank is a professor at Columbia University, New York, USA. He shared the Nobel Prize...

In order to achieve full and equal access to and participation in science for women and girls, and further achieve gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution A/RES/70/212 declaring 11 February as the International Day of Women and...