Excellent research environments coming thick and fast
Five new centres of excellence are opening at Uppsala University during the spring semester. Photo: Getty images.
Many people at the University are currently busy planning excellent research environments.
The 2024 spring semester will be notable for the number of openings of excellent research environments. Five research environments at Uppsala University received funding in the Swedish Research Council’s centres of excellence call in autumn 2022.
The research environments at Uppsala University that have received funding in the centres of excellence call are:
- Chemical Mechanisms of Life.
- The Centre for Geometry and Physics.
- The Centre for Human Prehistory.
- The World in the Viking Age.
- Swedish Centre for Impacts of Climate Extremes.
Purpose of funding
Through this call, the Swedish Research Council seeks to support the build-up and development of research environments that promote research collaborations and contribute to higher education. The call was open to “pioneering and multi-disciplinary issues in all scientific disciplines”.
The call is based on a government assignment and the grants are intended to contribute to internationally leading research and make it possible for new research areas to emerge. One objective of the research centres will be to encourage the development of new inter- and multidisciplinary research areas. Researchers from different academic disciplines should be able to join the research environments for shorter or longer periods of time.
The research centres will receive SEK 4–6 million per year for five years. It may be possible to offer a further five years of funding.
A total of 15 research environments in Sweden received funding in the call for centres of excellence.
Anders Berndt