Linköping, Sweden 27–31 August 2019 The European Conference on Molecular Electronics, ECME, has become the premier European Conference in the field, and ECME 2019 will belong to the prestigious series of biannual conferences previously organized in Italy (Padua, 1992), Germany (Kloster Banz, 1994)...

A new center for research and innovation in artificial intelligence was launched on 6 February at Lindholmen Science Park in Gothenburg. Vinnova is co-financing the center as part of an investment within AI. Read more at https://www.ai.se/en/news/ai-innovation-sweden-officially-launched

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

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...

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...