VR/Formas/RJ mentored grant-writing workshops: Early career and Project grants Spring 2023

Are you planning to apply for either an early-career research grant (starting grant/etableringsbidrag or similar) OR a Project grant from the Swedish Research Council (VR), Formas and/or Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) in the spring 2023?

If so, you may be interested in one of the grant-writing workshops organised by Junior Faculty and the Researcher Services at Uppsala University. The workshops have as target early career researchers at TekNat, MedFarm and HumSam.

Workshop 1: Mentored early-career workshop:

TekNat/MedFarm: You are between 2 and 7 years (for VR) or 8 years (for Formas) after completion of doctorate (in both cases adjusted for deductible time, e.g. parental leave) and plan to apply for an early-career project research grant (starting grant/etableringsbidrag or similar, not postdoc fellowships).

HumSam: You are early career and are planning to apply for any type of grant (VR, Formas and/or RJ) including postdoc grant (3 years after completion of doctorate) as a project leader.

Workshop 2. Peer-feedback mid-career workshop, all domains: You are more than 7-8 years after completion of doctorate and plan to apply for a project research grant (VR projektbidrag, Formas forsknings- och utvecklingsprojekt or RJ project or Infrastructure for Research) or similar.

During the writing workshops, groups of usually 3-5 applicants meet (with a mentor for the mentored workshops). The schedule and format of these meetings are decided by the mentors/groups but usually amount to between 2 and 4 meetings. Groups are formed based on similar topics/review panels as far as possible and all participants are expected to read and comment on each others’ applications. Mentors are researchers with ample experience in writing and reviewing grant applications.

Workshop schedule

§  Deadline to apply: Friday December 2 (see below for instructions on how to apply)

§  End of December: information of the groups formed is sent out to participants

§  Mid January: JF Kick-Off Seminar for the grant-writing workshop with VR/RJ/Formas (open for all, not just workshop participants)

§  Mid January to grant deadline in March/April (depending on grant): groups meet, usually 2-4 times, according to their own schedule

Good to know: The grant-writing workshop is a package of seminars, usually at least a kick-off seminar with information about VR and Formas and a another seminar related to grant application. Please, check out the Junior Faculty calendar for other seminars.

How to apply

The application form is available until December 2. Before you fill out this application form, please make sure that you have read through the guidelines from VR, Formas and/or RJ regarding the grant you plan to apply for. The calls for 2022 are not yet out, so use the information from the 2022 calls. To fill in the application, you will need to submit a title, preliminary project summary, primary and secondary review panel and a short motivation for participation in the workshop.

Note that we ask that you only apply if you are sure that you will be able to devote enough time to write your application, read and comment on the other participants’ applications and attend the workshop meetings. Participation is important so if you are accepted to the workshop but do not attend without valid reason, you may not be eligible for the 2023 workshop. For the mentored workshops, formation of workshop groups is always dependent on the availability of mentors and thus participation can never be guaranteed. 

Link to apply: https://doit.medfarm.uu.se/bin/kurt3/kurt/74500

If you have any questions, please contact the JF administrator at juniorfaculty@bmc.uu.se

Welcome with your application!

Junior Faculty

Are you planning to apply for either an early-career research grant (starting grant/etableringsbidrag or similar) OR a Project grant from the Swedish Research Council (VR), Formas and/or Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) in the spring 2022?

If so, you may be interested in one of the mentored grant-writing workshops organised by Junior Faculty and the Researcher Services at Uppsala University. The

workshops have as target early career researchers at TekNat, MedFarm and HumSam.

Workshop 1: Mentored early-career workshop:

TekNat/MedFarm: You are between 2 and 7 years (for VR) or 8 years (for Formas) after completion of doctorate (in both cases adjusted for deductible time, e.g. parental leave) and plan to apply for an early-career project research grant (starting grant/etableringsbidrag or similar, not postdoc fellowships).

HumSam: You are early career and are planning to apply for any type of grant (VR, Formas and/or RJ) including postdoc grant (3 years after completion of doctorate) as a project leader.

Workshop 2. Peer-feedback mid-career workshop, all domains: You are more than 7-8 years after completion of doctorate and plan to apply for a project research grant (VR projektbidrag, Formas forsknings- och utvecklingsprojekt or RJ project or Infrastructure for Research) or similar.

During the writing workshops, groups of usually 3-5 applicants meet (with a mentor for the mentored workshops). The schedule and format of these meetings are decided by the mentors/groups but usually amount to between 2 and 4 meetings. Groups are formed based on similar topics/review panels as far as possible and all participants are expected to read and comment on each others’ applications. Mentors are researchers with ample experience in writing and reviewing grant applications.

Workshop schedule

• Deadline to apply: Tuesday November 30 (see below for instructions on how to apply)
• End of December: information of the groups formed is sent out to participants
• Mid January: JF Kick-Off Seminar for the grant-writing workshop with VR/RJ/Formas (open for all, not just workshop participants)
• Mid January to grant deadline in March/April (depending on grant): groups meet, usually 2-4 times, according to their own schedule

Good to know: The grant-writing workshop is a package of seminars, usually at least a kick-off seminar and a seminar with Unit for Professional English on academic/grant application writing. Please, check out the Junior Faculty calendar for other seminars.

How to apply

The application form is available until November 30. Before you fill out this application form, please make sure that you have read through the guidelines from VR, Formas and/or RJ regarding the grant you plan to apply for. The calls for 2022 are not yet out, so use the information from the 2021 calls. To fill in the application, you will need to submit a title, preliminary project summary, primary and secondary review panel and a short motivation for participation in the workshop.

Note that we ask that you only apply if you are sure that you will be able to devote enough time to write your application, read and comment on the other participants’ applications and attend the workshop meetings. Participation is important so if you are accepted to the workshop but do not attend without valid reason, you may not be eligible for the 2023 workshop. For the mentored workshops, formation of workshop groups is always dependent on the availability of mentors and thus participation can never be guaranteed.

Link to apply: https://doit.medfarm.uu.se/bin/kurt3/kurt/35025

More information: https://www.juniorfaculty.uu.se/activities/mentored-and-non-mentored-grant-writing-workshops/

If you have any questions, please contact the JF administrator at juniorfaculty@bmc.uu.se

Welcome with your application!

Junior Faculty

General description of the workshop

The workshop is organized by Junior Faculty (JF) and Researcher Services at Uppsala University every year. It starts mid-January with a kick-off seminar (not compulsory, but highly recommended) with information on the VR/RJ/Formas grants. The kick-off is followed by meetings in the mentored groups (usually 3-5 participants per group). At the mentored grant-writing workshops, all participants are expected to read and comment on each other’s applications.

The number of participants is limited and depends on the availability of mentors. Therefore, we ask that you only apply if you are sure that you will be able to devote enough time to write your application and participate in the workshop.

Before you fill out the application form, please make sure that you have read through the guidelines from VR, RJ and/or Formas regarding the grant(s) you plan to apply for. If the calls have not yet been published, use the information on the calls from previous years.

If you have any questions, please contact JF administrator at juniorfaculty@bmc.uu.se.

Timeline

• Early November: workshop announced by e-mail sent to Junior Faculty’s mailing lists; the call is published under How to apply as well;
• End of November: application deadline;
• Early December: applicants receive an email with information about their group;
• Early January: kick-off seminar with the major national funding bodies (VR/RJ/Formas);
• Depending on available funding for the activity, JF may add a couple of seminars on how to write successful applications with an external company and/or Unit for Professional English (UPE);
• Mid-January until mid-March: mentored group meetings (scheduled by mentors/groups).

How to apply

You can apply for Junior Faculty’s mentored and non-mentored grant-writing workshop in November every year.

If you would like to apply, fill out the registration form. The registration form is published when the call for applications is active.

Date & time: Tuesday, 19 January, 13:00–15:00

13:00                    Introduction, Alexandra Petrulevich, Chair of Junior Faculty

13:05                    VR grants for junior researchers, Kristian Haller, VR representative

13:35                    Formas grants for junior researchers, Åsa Frisk, Formas representative

14:05                    Break

14:15                    How to write a successful grant from a reviewer perspective, Carolina Wählby, Professor at Department of Information Technology, Division of Visual Information and Interaction

14:35                    Successful story by John Hennessey, postdoc at the Department of History (HumSam)

14:45                    Successful story by Anders Mutvei, Researcher at Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology (MedFarm)

14:55                    Closing remarks

Junior Faculty’s VR/Formas grant writing workshops: Early career and Project grants for TekNat/MedFarm/Humsam spring 2021 

Are you planning to apply for either an early-career research grant (starting grant/etableringsbidrag or similar, not postdoc fellowships) OR a project grant from the Swedish Research Council (VR), Formas Riksbankens jubileumsfond (RJ), or Cancerfonden in 2021?

If so, you may be interested in one of the four workshops that are organised by Junior Faculty and the Researcher Services at Uppsala University.

Junior Faculty welcomes you to a seminar with insider and outsider tips on writing a successful grant application. The seminar is open to everyone, but directed mainly towards junior researchers (for TekNat and MedFarm, this means researchers applying for Starting Grants and similar, 2-7 (VR) or 2-8 (Formas) years after PhD).

The seminar features information from the university research support regarding their services and support related to grant applications. Further, representatives from VR and Formas will give useful information about the calls. Finally, researchers from UU that have served on the VR review panel will give advice on how to write a successful grant application.

Date and time: Jan 14, 2020 (13.00-15.30)
Location: Lecture hall B41, BMC , Uppsala

Sign up: No later than Jan 10 at http://doit.medfarm.uu.se/kurt15433 (note that registration will close at 115 participants)

Program:

13.00-13.05: Welcome by Junior Faculty

13:05-13:20: Information from representatives from UU Research Support

13.20-13.50: VR grants for junior researchers, Kristian Haller (VR)

13.50-14.20: Formas grants for junior researchers, Åsa Frisk (Formas)

14.20-14.55: How to write a successful grant application, a TekNat/MedFarm-perspective, Staffan Svärd (Dept. of Cell and Molecular Biology)

14:55-15:30: How to write a successful grant application, a HumSam-perspective, Christine Fawcett (Dept. of Psychology)

Fika will be served after the seminar.

Presentations from the seminar can be downloaded here.

Junior Faculty’s VR/Formas grant writing workshops: Early career and Project grants for TekNat/MedFarm/Humsam spring 2020 – please apply before November 30

Are you planning to apply for either an early-career research grant (starting grant/etableringsbidrag or similar, not postdoc fellowships) OR a Project grant from the Swedish Research Council (VR) or Formas in 2020?

If so, you may be interested in one of the four workshops that are organised by Junior Faculty and the Researcher Services at Uppsala University.

For researchers in TekNat/MedFarm:

Workshop 1: Mentored early career workshop: You are between 2 and 7 years (for VR) or 8 years (for Formas) after completion of doctorate (in both cases adjusted for deductible time, e.g. parental leave) and plan to apply for an early-career project research grant (starting grant/etableringsbidrag or similar, not postdoc fellowships).

New for this year! Workshop 2. Peer feedback mid-career workshop: You are more than 7-8 years after completion of doctorate and plan to apply for a project research grant (VR projektbidrag or Formas forsknings- och utvecklingsprojekt) or similar.

For researchers in HumSam:

Workshop 3. Mentored early career workshop. You are between 2 and 7-8 years (adjusted for deductible time, e.g. parental leave) after completion of doctorate and plan to apply for a project research grant (VR projektbidrag or Formas forsknings- och utvecklingsprojekt) or similar.

New for this year! Workshop 4. Peer feedback mid-career workshop: You are more than 7-8 years after completion of doctorate and plan to apply for a project research grant (VR projektbidrag or Formas forsknings- och utvecklingsprojekt) or similar.

During the writing workshops, groups of usually 3-5 applicants meet (with a mentor for the mentored workshops). The schedule and format of these meetings are decided by the mentors/groups but usually amount to between 2 and 4 meetings. Groups are formed based on similar topics/review panels as far as possible and all participants are expected to read and comment on each others’ applications. Mentors are researchers with ample experience in writing and reviewing grant applications.

Workshop schedule

- Latest Saturday November 30, 2019: submit an application to the grant writing workshop (see below for instructions on how to apply)

- December: formation of groups, information sent out to participants

- Mid January: 2 hour VR/Formas information seminar (open for all, not just workshop participants)

- Mid January to grant deadline in March/April (depending on grant): groups meet, usually 2-4 times, according to their own schedule

How to apply to a workshop

The joint application form is available at http://doit.medfarm.uu.se/kurt15120 until November 30, 2019. Before you fill out this application form, please make sure that you have read through the guidelines from VR and/or Formas regarding the grant you plan to apply for. The calls for 2020 are not yet out, so use the information from the 2019 calls (see below). To fill in the application, you will need to submit a title, preliminary project summary, primary and secondary review panel and a short motivation for participation in the workshop.

Note that we ask that you only apply if you are sure that you will be able to devote enough time to write your application, read and comment on the other participants’ applications and attend the workshop meetings. Participation is important so if you are accepted to the workshop but do not attend without valid reason, you may not be eligible for the 2021 workshop. For the mentored workshops, formation of workshop groups is always dependent on the availability of mentors and thus participation can never be guaranteed.

Links to VR/Formas instructions (NB, calls from 2019, may change for 2020):

Workshop 1. Mentored early career workshop TekNat/MedFarm

- VR-NT: https://www.vr.se/english/calls-and-decisions/calls/calls/2018-11-07-starting-grant-within-natural-and-engineering-sciences.html
- VR-MH: https://www.vr.se/english/calls-and-decisions/calls/calls/2018-11-07-starting-grant-within-medicine-and-health.html#0

- Formas: https://formas.se/en/start-page/archive/calls/2019-02-26-annual-open-call-2019---research-and-development-projects-for-early-career-researchers.html

Workshop 2, 3 and 4:

Links to VR/Formas instructions (NB, calls from 2019, may change for 2020):

- VR-NT: https://www.vr.se/english/calls-and-decisions/calls/calls/2018-11-07-research-project-grant-within-natural-and-engineering-sciences.html

- VR-MH: https://www.vr.se/english/calls-and-decisions/calls/calls/2018-11-07-research-project-grant-within-medicine-and-health.html

- VR-HS: https://www.vr.se/english/calls-and-decisions/calls/calls/2018-11-07-research-project-grant-within-humanities-and-social-sciences.html

- Formas: https://formas.se/en/start-page/archive/calls/2019-02-26-annual-open-call-2019---research-and-development-projects.html

If you have any questions, please contact Elisabeth Bolund (JF administrator) at juniorfaculty@bmc.uu.se.

Welcome with your application!

Junior Faculty organizes yearly grant writing workshops for VR/Formas, as well as ERC seminars, usually together with Researcher Services at Uppsala University. Upcoming seminars and workshops will be announced on this website and by e-mail.

Date & time: Thursday June 13, 2019, 13.00-15.00
Location: Betty Pettersson-salen, 14:031, Blåsenhus
No registration (but there is a small chance all seats will be taken)

Programme:
- Welcome by EU Project Coordinators
- Presentation of Junior Faculty
- Lena Renner, National Contact Point for ERC, The Swedish Research Council
- Helena Grennberg, ERC evaluator and Professor at Department of Chemistry - BMC, Uppsala University
- Tove Fall, recipient of ERC 2018 Starting Grant and Professor at Department of Medical Sciences
- Daniel Brandell, recipient of ERC 2017 Consolidator Grant and Professor at Department of Chemistry – Ångström Laboratory
- Coffee at 15.00

Welcome!
EU Support Office and Junior Faculty

This seminar will provide information about Swedish Research Council (VR) and Formas grants directed towards junior researchers (Starting Grants and similar, 2-7 (VR) or 2-8 (Formas) years after PhD) and advice on how to write a successful grant application. The seminar is aimed towards junior researchers applying for grants in the Medicine/Health and Natural Sciences/Technology areas. A similar seminar for HumSam will be organized one week earlier, please see separate announcement.

Date and time: Jan 16, 2019 (13.00-15.00)
Location: Lecture hall B21, BMC, Uppsala
Sign up: No later than Jan 11 at http://doit.medfarm.uu.se/kurt13082

Preliminary schedule:
13.00-13.15: Welcome (Junior Faculty and UU Research Support)
13.15-13.45: VR grants for junior researchers, Kristian Haller (VR)
13.45-14.15: Formas grants for junior researchers, Åsa Frisk (Formas)
14.15-15.00: How to write a (VR) grant application – experiences from a VR reviewer, Sanna Koskiniemi (Dept. of Cell and Molecular Biology, UU)

Fika will be served after the seminar.

Junior Faculty welcomes you to a seminar with insider and outsider tips on writing a successful VR project grant application. The seminar is open to everyone, but aimed at researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Our first speaker is Stina Bergman Blix (Dept of Sociology). She is an experienced applicant who will share her reflections on differences between successful and unsuccessful proposals.

Our second speaker is Gustaf Gredebäck (Dept of Psychology). He is has experience as a VR panel member and will share insights on how panels discuss proposals, what the decision process looks like, and key factors of good applications.

Date: Tue January 8, 13:15-14:30
Place: Sydney Alrutz @ Blåsenhus
Sign up: no later than January 6 at http://doit.medfarm.uu.se/kurt13079

Schedule (preliminary)
13.15-13.25: Welcome by Junior Faculty & Research Services
13.25-13.50: Stina Bergman Blix: Reflections from an applicant
13.50-14.15: Gustaf Gredebäck: Insights from a VR panel member
14.15-14.30: Q&A with Stina and Gustaf

Fika will be served after the seminar!

Are you a junior researcher in the Humanities and Social Sciences (HumSam) and planning to apply for a research project grant (projektbidrag) from the Swedish Research Council (VR) in 2019? If so, then Junior Faculty’s mentored grant writing workshop is probably something for you!

We have recruited several researchers with extensive experience in writing and reviewing grant applications to act as mentors in this workshop. Workshop applicants will be divided into groups of 3-5 people, each of which will be assigned one mentor. The groups will meet around 3 times in the period January-March 2019 to discuss and comment on each other’s applications (the frequency, schedule, and format of these meetings are decided by the mentors/groups). Mentor groups will be formed based on similar topics/review panels as far as possible.

Since the availability of mentors limits the number of participants, we ask that you only apply if you are confident that you will be able to devote time on writing your application, comment on the other participants’ applications and attend the workshop meetings.

Before you apply, please note that

• The workshop is intended for junior researchers (loosely defined as “anyone with a PhD, but without a permanent senior position”).
• We ask you to submit a preliminary project abstract as part of your application. For full details, see application form.
• If you are accepted to the workshop but do not attend without valid reason, you may not be eligible for the 2020 workshop.

Welcome with your application!

Are you a junior researcher planning to apply for a project research grant (starting grant/etableringsbidrag or similar, not postdoc fellowships) from the Swedish Research Council (VR) or Formas in 2019? If so, you may be interested in the VR/Formas grant writing workshop organized by Junior Faculty and the Researcher Services at Uppsala University. The workshop is open for junior researchers at the disciplinary domains for Science and Technology (TekNat) and Medicine and Pharmacy (MedFarm).

During the writing workshop, groups of one mentor and usually 3-5 applicants meet. The schedule and format of these meetings are decided by the mentors/groups but usually amount to between 2-4 meetings. Mentor groups are formed based on similar topics/review panels as far as possible and all participants are expected to read and comment on each others applications. Mentors are researchers with ample experience in writing and reviewing grant applications.

Since the availability of mentors limits the number of participants, we ask that you only apply if you are sure that you will be able to devote enough time to write your application, read and comment on the other participants’ applications and attend the workshop meetings. Participation is important so if you are accepted to the workshop but do not attend without valid reason, you may not be eligible for the 2020 workshop.

Are you planning to apply for a Starting Grant or similar from VR or Formas in 2018? If so, join us for a VR/Formas seminar featuring talks by Gergana Angelova Hamberg (VR), Elisabeth Göransson (Formas) and Staffan Svärd (professor at the Dept. of Cell and Molecular Biology and experienced VR reviewer). The seminar is organized by Junior Faculty and Researcher Services (Forskningssekreterarna) and aimed towards junior researchers applying for grants in the Medicine/Health and Natural Sciences/Technology areas.

Location: lecture hall B22, Biomedical Center (BMC) http://www.bmc.uu.se/find-your-way/?languageId=1

Program:
13.00-13.15: Welcome by Junior Faculty and Research Secretaries
13.15-13.45: Swedish Research Council (VR) grants for junior researchers - Gergana Angelova Hamberg, VR
13.45-14.15: Formas grants for junior researchers - Ola Thomsson, Formas
14.15-15.00: How to write a (VR) grant application - Staffan Svärd, Dept. of Cell and Molecular Biology
Fika will be served after the seminar.

Please sign up no later than 14 January using this link: http://doit.medfarm.uu.se/kurt11242

Are you a junior researcher (with PhD, but no permanent position) within the Humanities and Social Sciences and are planning to apply for research funding? If so, you may be interested in the funding workshop organized by Junior Faculty and the Researcher Services at Uppsala University.

Location: Plantskolan, Segerstedt building

Program:
09:00-09:10 Sabine Otto and Alexandra Petrulevich, Dept. of Peace and Conflict Research, and Dept. of Scandinavian Languages, respectively. Sabine and Alexandra, Junior Faculty steering group members, will inform about the activities and organization of Junior Faculty.

09:10-10:30 Gustaf Gredebäck, Professor of Developmental Psychology and Manager of Uppsala Child & BabyLab, Dept of Psychology, Uppsala University. Gustaf is a member of the Scientific Council for Humanities and Social Sciences (Ämnesrådet för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap), Swedish Research Council, and has been both member and chair of the Swedish Research Council evaluation panel for psychology. He has recieved funding from numerous funders in Sweden and abroad, among them ERC and Wallenberg foundations - he is currently a Wallenberg Academy Fellow. He has a very broad experience in evaluation and will speak about those roles, and share some thoughts about what to keep in mind when applying for external funding.

10:30-10:45 Fika

10:45 - 12:00 Anders Westlin, Agneta Emanuelsson, and Gustav Sigeman, Research officers and EU-coordinator, respectively, at the Faculty offices for the Humanities and Social Sciences at Uppsala University. Anders, Agneta and Gustav has ample experience in research administration, and will speak about available Research Services at Uppsala university, give some examples of funders and funding,and also  speak about the application processes and what to think about when you apply, e.g. the conditions for different types of grants.