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Wallenberg Grants - Talk outline

• Funding opportunities from the Wallenberg Foundations: Background

• LiUs Internal Nomination Procedures & Our Role

• Knut & Alice Wallenberg Foundation-Research Project of High Scientific Value-Wallenberg Academy Fellows-Scholars and Clinical Scholars-Other

• Marianne & Marcus Wallenberg Foundation-Project grants and AI-specific call

• Marcus & Amalia Wallenberg Foundation-Project grants

The Wallenberg Foundations-Calls and Internal Procedures at LiU-

The Wallenberg Foundations

• Continuously support 1000 researchers, 500 PhDs, out of which60% has international PhDs, supporting internationalization at Swedish Universities

• Majority of grants from KAW• 2.2 Billion SEK in 2018• Mainly supports research within fields of Medicine,

Technology and Natural sciences

The Wallenberg FoundationsSupports strategic areas

The Wallenberg Foundations: LiUs Nomination Procedures

• Nomination is a requirement from the Foundation

• General Procedures at LiU:

➢ Departments inform researchers about upcoming calls-Targeted or general

➢ Procedures for pre-applications➢ Advisory board reviews documents and prioritizes candidates/

applications at an Advisory board meeting➢ Researchers informed

• Documents: ’Procedures and time-frames’ are available for past- and upcoming calls at https://insidan.liu.se/forskningsfinansiering/wallenberg/

The Wallenberg Foundations: Support from LiU Grants Office

• Start-up meetings

• Time plan for application procedures

• Review application

• Support with budget issues

• Coordinate support letter

• Act as contact point between researcher and Foundation

• Post grant: Clarify co-financing from LiU

Calls from the Knut & Alice Wallenberg Foundation

Research Project with High Scientific PotentialSupport research of highest international standard

• Primarily: Natural Science, Technology and Medicine(Other disciplines may recieve support on the condition that they arerelated to research questions of relevance of the above)

• Typically total of 15-50 million SEK, 3-5 years, 2-5 researchers (PIs)• Main PI to spend at least 70% time/position in Sweden (co-PI 50%)• Only participate in 2 projects (one as main and one as co-PI)• Focused on coherent research question where the complementary

expertise of the participating researchers enables them to address theircommon research question

• Priority to synergistic effect between the team members• Fundamental research, interdisciplinary

Research Project with High Scientific Potential at LiU


Research Project with High Scientific PotentialProcesses at Linköping University

• Pre-application deadline: October

• Reviewed and prioritized by the Advisory board

• All candidates informed of the decisions- early November

• Linköping University usually nominates 8 applications per call


Wallenberg Academy Fellows

Provide resources for Sweden’s most promising young researchers in Medicine, Natural sciences, Engineering & technology and Social science & humanities

• Universities are invited to nominate candidates for the program • Next deadline is in February 2021 (every two years)• 40% underrepresented sex, and for each internal nominee/ one

international/external nominee• PhD obtained after 1 January 2012 • The Swedish Academies will evaluate and select the most promising

researchers and the Universities will take long-term responsibility for theseindividuals

Support for cells that will form new organs

Acute Myeloid Leukemia


Wallenberg Academy FellowsProcesses at Linköping University

• Each Department prioritizes highly promising candidates• 40% under-represented sex, 1 internal per 1 external

(international) candidate• Candidates listed/suggested from each Department are reviewed and

prioritized by the Advisory Board• Usually LiU gets to nominate 12 researchers per call• All candidates are informed


Scholars

To provide Sweden’s leading senior researchers with ’long-term fundingwithout the distraction of pressure to secure external grants in order to carryout world-leading research’• Up to 20 million SEK• Possibility for extension• Next call is in 2023 • Universities can nominate a number of individual reseachers

• Linköpings University: 8 Prioritized by LiU Advisory board


Clinical Scholars

To strengthen Swedish clinical research by means of identifying the best clinical researchers, providing them with good conditions to undertake theirwork, and facilitate the impact of research results in the scientific and healthcare communities• Clinically active• 3 million/ year for 5 years, with a possibility for extension

• Universities can nominate a number of clinical researchers• Linköpings University: 2

Calls from the Knut & Alice Wallenberg

Scholarships: Deadline November 15th, 2019

Calls from the Marianne & Marcus Wallenberg Foundation

Research Project with High Scientific Potential

• Primarily for projects related to Social sciences• Projects should have a clear focus and a common research question• Typically 3-10 million SEK, 3-5 years, • Prioritized areas are new research areas and interdisciplinary research,

preferably with with a focus on IT and digital media• Can be applied for by single researcher or several PIs- employed by

Swedish Universities/ research institututes• 1 April every yearSame nomination procedures at LiU as for KAW calls

Calls from the Marianne & Marcus Wallenberg Foundation

Call for grants related to consequences of autonomous systems and AI

• Ethics and autonomous systems and AI• Economy of autonomous systems and AI• Law for autonomous systems and AI• Social consequences, including effects on the labor market of autonomous

systems/AI• Improved information systems for autonomous systems and AI

Calls from the Marcus & Amalia Wallenberg Foundation

Research Project with High Scientific Potential

• Primarily for projects related to Humanities and learning• Projects should have a clear focus and a common research question• Typically 1-5 million SEK, 3-5 years• Prioritized areas are new research areas and inter-disciplinary research,

preferably with with a focus on IT and digital media• Can be applied for by single researcher or several, employed by Swedish

Universities/ institutions.• 1 April every yearSame nomination procedures at LiU as for KAW calls