The period of application/nomination starts on June 17th and a complete application shall be submitted to the Foundation no later than October 5th.
E-application
Step 1 - Grant recipient
Fill in name of University.
Step 2 - Main applicant
Personal information for the main applicant, the responsible researcher at the nominating University, including institution/department where the main activities are carried out. Nominations to the guest researcher program can be made by researchers carrying out their main activities in Sweden, as well as deans, directors and vice presidents at Swedish Universities.
Step 3 - Project
Project title: Nomination of foreign guest professors
Start/ending date
2019-01-07 or 2020-01-01, ending date after 1 – 12 months.
Amount applied for:
Fill in amount applied for, specified in the budget form attached to the application.
Purpose:
Choose “Research project” from the droplist.
Area:
Choose Mathematics from the droplist.
Step 4 - Co-applicant
Fill in name of the nominating researcher.
Step 5 - Funding
No other funding is applied for/will be applied for.
Step 6 - Project summary
Brief popular scientific summary of the project of the responsible researcher in English (max 2 000 char. incl. spaces)
Step 7 - ATTACHMENTS
All appendices shall be written in English except for the brief popular scientific summary and in pdf-format.
Project description
The project description should consist of three parts where the first part shall describe the research group/institution at the Swedish University, the second part shall describe the benefits of tying the researcher to the Swedish research group. The third part is a short research plan, written by the nominated guest professor, max 6 A4-pages or 21 000 characters including spaces.
Brief popular scientific summary in Swedish
In addition to the above scientific summary in English, a brief popular scientific summary in Swedish, max one page, size A4, 3 500 characters including spaces, shall be attached.
Budget
A budget in accordance with the standard budget application form shall be attached to the application.
CV
A CV of the nominated guest Professor including a list of publications (five selected academic works, incl. motivation) shall be attached.
Vice-chancellor certification
In accordance with Foundation rules, the vice-chancellor (or the equivalent) must approve the application. A special appendix with the signature of the vice-chancellor (or the person designated by the vice-chancellor to act in his or her place) should be attached to the application. The vice-chancellor must certify that the project application has undergone internal prioritization and that faculty resources will be placed at the disposal of the researcher(s) in cases where such resources are included in the budget submitted. The vice-chancellor must furthermore certify that indirect costs beyond those approved by the Foundation will be covered by the university and that indirect project costs will be accounted for in accordance with the established model.
Other appendices
Not mandatory.