Programmes and initiatives

Research

Research profiles

Long-term research initiatives that strengthen the national and international position of research environments.

Creates opportunities for long-term profiling and positioning of selected areas of research
Creates competitive advantages for companies and stimulates a broaden collaboration between the business sector and the academia

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Research projects

Research project for researchers who in collaboration with business partners addresses a scientific question.

Strengthen and/or renew the research
Strengthen the companies’ competitiveness through new knowledge and competence

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Synergy projects

Implementation of several research projects where researchers in collaboration with business partners addresses integrating research question.

Integrates and develops the research and education towards scientific profiling
Develops beneficial knowledge for the companies’ competitiveness

Career support & capacity building

Associate senior lectureships

Strategic recruitments of early-career researchers.

Long-term capacity building and development of research and education environments through strategic recruitment
Contributes to knowledge development, collaboration with industry, and increased mobility within academia

Open for applications

Capacity building

Strategic recruitments of international guest researchers or appointmens of adjunct professors or senior lecturers.

Gives universities the opportunity to develop research and education through new collaborations
Contributes to mobility and capacity building in academia and the business sector

Early academic career

Research project for an early career researcher who in collaboration with business partners addresses a scientific question.

Strengthen and/or renew the research through the strategic recruitment of a promising early career researcher
Increases the competitiveness of business actors through new knowledge and competence

Education

Education for working professionals

Development and implementation of business-relevant educational activities at second cycle level for working professionals.

Strengthen and develops the university’s ability to manage educational activities tailored to professionals’ competence development
Provides the business sector with relevant and appropriate competence development

Industrial graduate schools

Development and implementation of doctoral education in collaboration with the business sector.

Strengthen the capacity of research within strategic areas
Increases the competitiveness of the business sector through competence development in the companies

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Second cycle education

Development or further development of second cycle study programmes that are business-relevant.

Strengthen the integration of research and education
Contribute to provision of competence within the business sector

Special initiatives

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Jubilee Doctoral Students

Employment and education of doctoral students with collaboration expertise.

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KK-miljö

A tool for the university’s management to create a long-term, structured development process for strong research and educational environments.

Provides opportunities to strengthen and profiling the research and education within a defined part of a universitie’s academic activity
Strengthen the long-term and strategically capacity of research and education in co-production with the business sector

Swedish Foundations’ Starting Grant

A collaboration between seven private funders who believe in supporting prominent early-career researchers.

Visiting academic scholars from Ukraine

Funding to host visiting academic scholars from Ukraine.

Previous programmes and initiatives

Campus Total Defence

Strategic collaboration between Swedish universities aiming to strengthen the Swedish total defence organisation through tailored courses and research.

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NU

Development and implementation of online courses at at least second cycle level.