Instructions for E-application - Wallenberg Academy Fellows 2013 prolongation grant

General

Swedish universities and institutions of higher education are invited to nominate researcher for the Wallenberg Academy Fellows 2014 prolongation grant (years 6-10).
The E-application states what information and appendices are mandatory. In order to be dealt with correctly, the application must be detailed and complete. Incomplete applications will be omitted.

In accordance with Foundation rules, the vice-chancellor (or the equivalent) must approve the application. In regards to indirect cost, the Foundation´s policy for project grants will be applied.  Because the application form is adapted to the Foundation’s Annual grant applications, follow the below instructions on how to fil in the nominations for the Wallenberg Academy Fellows 2014 prolongation grant.

Application period and closing date for nominations

The application period begins March 2, 2019 and a complete nomination must be received by the Foundation before April 5, 2019.

Complete documentation for each nominee must be submitted electronically, by the universities, to the Foundation in accordance with the routines for grant applications. The complete budget form is not required with the nomination, only submit a brief description of the amount applied for.

Instruction E- application

Grant recipient
Enter the name of the university, college, academy, or the like.

Principal investigator
The principal investigator should be the nominated candidate.

Project, project summary
State “Wallenberg Academy Fellows 2014 Prolongation”

Start date – End date
State 2020-01-01 respectively 2024-12-31

Amount applied for
State 8.75 million Swedish kronor

Purpose
Select “Forskningsprojekt” from drop down list

Research field
Choose your research field (medicine, technological, natural sciences, humanities and social sciences) from drop down list

Fellow applicant
Here you should state the name of the vice chancellor of the nominating university or institution of higher education and the organization number.

Financing
Mark the box where it says “no other financing will be applied for”. The grant cannot be combined with a VR consolidator grant.

Project summary
The project summary is a brief popular scientific summary of the research of the nominee in English (max 2000 characters including blanks)

Appendices

Documents attached should all be English except for the Brief popular scientific summary in Swedish.

It is possible for a WAF 2014 grantee to apply for a WAF prolongation, one year later (i.e. with WAF 2015) if the Fellow can, on request, prove documented parental leave or sick leave for more than six months during the project period.

Project budget

Should not be included in this application, for technical reasons only a blank form is appended.

  • A project proposal (maximum six A4 pages)
  • The person’s research qualifications, i.e. CV (maximum two A4 pages) covering positions held, awards won and postdoctoral research stays, if any.
  • A short (maximum two A4 pages) account of the person’s career, i.e. primarily his or her academic achievements together with information of present support from Universities or other financial support.
  • A list of all publications in peer-reviewed journals, with the ten most important publications marked. If relevant, an H-index (Web of Science, Scopus or Google Scholar) together with number of publications and number of quotes the H-index is based on, is attached. Google Scholars preferably use Harzing’s Publish or Perish. For nominations in the field of humanities, a list of the nominee´s scientific work should be enclosed.


Vice chancellor approval/ the University nomination

Each nomination must contain a brief presentation of the reasons why the nominee´s activities are considered a key component of the research profile of the university and a description of the nomination process, i.e. the arguments, evaluations and processes on which the nomination was based (maximum two A4 pages).

Popular scientific summary

A brief popular scientific summary in Swedish (maximum one A4 page).  

* Documents attached should all be English except for the Brief popular scientific summary in Swedish, one A4 page equals a maximum of 3500 characters including blanks.