A complete application is submitted through RJ’s application system. The application must contain the following parts:

Summary

Write the summary in Swedish and English. The summary may contain up to 1,500 characters including spaces and should describe the research task, its purpose and how it will be conducted. Formulate the summary so that a layperson can understand it. If the application is approved, the summary will be posted unedited on rj.se/en.

Project description

Write the project description in English. The description may contain up to 80,000 characters including spaces. Include the following:

The research question
The purpose
The theory and method
The programme plan with subprojects and a description of the implementation of the programme
The plan for coordinating the programme and keeping it coherent
The programme’s contribution to the research front and the most important work in the research area
The research leader’s and the researchers’ roles in the programme and relevant skills
The current employment situation of all the researchers
The plan for how information about the programme and the research results will be communicated, both within the academic community and in society at large.
 RJ’s guidelines for open access to scientific production.

Budget

Name research staff. List them as project participants with their monthly salaries, employer’s social-insurance contribution top-up (LKP) and working time in the programme.
Add any salaries for unnamed researchers, including LKP, under Operating costs.
Report working time and salary costs, including LKP, for any non-research staff, such as assistants and technical staff, under Operating costs. Do not name them.
Specify SEK 0 as the monthly salary of project participants who are not being paid in the programme.
Specify costs for disseminating results under Operating costs.
Specify publication costs (including open access) under Publication Support.
Do not list any indirect costs or university-wide fees (e.g., IT, premises and administration) in the application.
RJ adds an additional amount to each grant for indirect costs and costs of premises based on RJ’s own model for determining such costs. This also includes costs arising at other research units, both in Sweden and abroad.

Budget specification

Write the budget specification in Swedish or English. Specify and explain all budgeted costs. Unspecified or unexplained expenses will not be approved.

The grant administrator must approve the application, and the research leader and head of department or equivalent must sign the application electronically when the application is submitted. RJ will only process signed applications.

Data management plan

A data management plan for data generated within the research funded by RJ must be prepared. The plan should not be submitted, but the research leader and grant administrator guarantee through their signatures that a data management plan will be in place when the project begins, and that the plan is maintained and followed.

Read more about data management plans.

RJ Programmes 2026(2)

Overview

Dr Fredrik Lundmark