Luleå University of Technology receives close to SEK 17 million in research funds from the Swedish Research Council to five different projects, including non-flammable and environmentally friendly batteries for electric vehicles and the conversion of carbon dioxide into chemicals. Read more at ltu...

The EURAXESS Smart Talks podcast, about the most interesting topics for the global research community, is now live! You are invited to listen to fascinating episodes on current issues - the gender gap in academia, careers beyond academia, and entrepreneurship. You can listen to the Smart Talks...

VR, the Swedish Research Council is Sweden’s largest governmental research funding body, and supports research of the highest quality within all scientific fields. See all open calls and upcoming calls at https://www.vr.se/english

Stay up-to-date on current research calls. See Vetenskapsrådet (The Swedish Research Council)

The Swedish Research Council is Sweden’s largest governmental research funding body, and supports research of the highest quality within all scientific fields. Every year, we pay out almost 7 billion SEK to support Swedish research. Read more about the open and upcoming calls at vr.se

The Nobel Prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel are awarded in Stockholm. The official programme of the Nobel Week in Stockholm begins on 6 December with an informal get-together for the 2017...

Watch recordings from the Nobel Week Dialogue at www.nobelprize.org/nobel-week-dialogue

On 9 December 2019 in Gothenburg.      Into the unknown: Uncertainty, risk and opportunity. We can never know everything; all of our choices have elements of the unknown. As individuals and as a society we face many risks and uncertainties, but these can also be turned into opportunities. Indeed...

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...

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...