KTH secures grants for national research infrastructures
Published Oct 25, 2023
Recently, the Swedish Research Council (VR/Vetenskapsrådet) made decisions for its call for Grants for Research Infrastructure of National Interest 2023. Of the 21 grants awarded, KTH is involved in ten, either as host or partner.
The Swedish Research Council's (VR) call amounted to a total of 965 million SEK for the period 2024 to 2028.
Out of the ten approved applications, KTH is host in three. These are:
- National Microscopy Infrastructure (NMI)
- National Genome Infrastructure (NGI)
- A Toroidal LHC Apparatus (ATLAS) / A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE)
In the remaining seven infrastructures, KTH is involved as partner. They are:
- Accelerator based Ion Technology Centre with Uppsala University, KTH and Linköping University.
- Språkbanken , coordinated by the University of Gothenburg.
- HUMINFRA , coordinated by Lund university.
- Fusion och EUROfusion ( InfraFusion with Uppsala university and Chalmers).
- MyFab with Uppsala university och Chalmers
- National Bioinformatics Infrastructure Sweden (NBIS) with SciLifeLab.
- Swedish Biodiversity Data Infrastructure (SBDI ) with the Swedish Museum of Natural History, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, the Karolinska Institute, Linnaeus University, Lund University, Stockholm University, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Umeå University, University of Gothenburg, and Uppsala University.