Applied Welfare Research 2024

About the call

Focus area

The focus of the call is based on eight prioritised areas, presented in the strategic agenda of the programme:

• The effects of interventions
• Methods for needs assessment for individuals
• Early/preventive measures of the social services
• Implementation and change management
• Coherent service provision initiatives
• User participation
• Digitalisation and welfare technology
• Non-profit and entrepreneurial providers of social services

Grant type and funding amounts

Four grant types are available within this call:

• Project grants support individual research projects to investigate and answer a defined question. The research projects should be planned and carried out in collaboration with the social services. There is no maximum amount for this type of grant, but the requested budget must be justified in the application.
• Programme grants strengthen and promote the expansion of research environments and enable research groups to address new issues and work with them over a longer period of time. The research programmes should be planned and carried out in collaboration with the social services. Maximum of SEK 24 million.
• The practice-oriented research fellow grant aims to promote the link between research and social services practice and gives persons with a PhD working with social services issues outside of the academy the opportunity to carry out research and translate their research experience into practice. There is no maximum amount for this grant type, but applied salary for the main applicant may not exceed more than 50 percent of full-time employment.
• Collaboration grants can be used to finance activities that contribute to a knowledge-based and knowledge-developing practice within the social services or to strengthen the conditions for practice- and client-related research. The activities should be carried out in collaboration between research and practice and the grant can be applied for by a constellation consisting of at least one researcher and one representative from practice. Maximum of SEK 1 million per year for two years.
  

Eligibility requirements

• Project grants and programme grants: You must have completed a doctoral degree when the call closes and the main applicant must be linked to an approved administrating organisation.

• Practice-oriented research fellow grants: You must have completed a doctoral degree when the call closes and the main applicant must be linked to an approved administrating organisation.The principal applicant must work within social services or an equivalent organization and must be affiliated with an approved administrating institution.
• Collaboration grants: The main applicant must be linked to an approved administrating organisation.

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