Institutional Grants for Younger Researchers: Eligibility and conditions

The main applicant must be a researcher who is currently active at a Swedish university or institution of higher education and who has completed their PhD not more than seven years before the closing date for applications.

Applicants are eligible for collaboration with researchers in any country and any area of research. Each application may cover one Swedish and one or two foreign partners, one of which must be the Main foreign partner.

Grants can range up to SEK 400 000 per year for up to three years. Applications should cover the whole of the project period. The STINT grant should be used for the exchange between the cooperating partners. Money granted may only be used to cover the costs of the foreign partners while staying at the Swedish institution and, conversely, those of the Swedish partner while staying at the foreign institution. The costs of seminars, workshps, courses and other activities in the cooperation project may be met out of the STINT grant.

STINT will not support applications where the main aim is to support the foreign partner.

Funds may be granted on condition that core funding for the collaborating groups is provided by another source during the whole project period. The STINT grants may not be used to pay salaries at the home department or for the purchase of scientific equipment. A small percentage of the grant may—after consultation with STINT and with its permission—be used to cover some additional costs that are directly associated with the exchange visits (such as laboratory costs etc.).

An approved grant will include overhead/administrative costs and university VAT. The Main applicant´s institution may, in accordance with the agreement between STINT and the Swedish universities and institutions of higher education, charge at the most 17.5% in overheads and 8% university VAT. The conditions of the grant will be set out in a contract.

Projects granted support shall begin their collaboration with a planning phase.

Each grantee will be limited to one grant under this programme, and applications may not be made under both the Institutional Grants for Younger Researchers and the Institutional Grants Programme in the same year.