NEWS The Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) has recently awarded grants to the two research infrastructures SwedPop and ArchLab, for which Umeå University is the fund administrator. SwedPop makes historical Swedish population data available for research, while ArchLab is an infrastructure for archaeological research. Both are considered by the Swedish Research Council to be research infrastructures of national interest.
Thomas Olofsson, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of research at Umeå University. Photo: Hans Karlsson
– Infrastructure such as this at our university can be seen as part of the “blood circulation” that is essential for many of our researchers, as well as researchers throughout the country, to continue conducting excellent research. It is therefore very gratifying that the funding we applied for has now been secured for several years to come, says Thomas Olofsson, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of research at Umeå University.
Other research infrastructures linked to Umeå University that were also awarded funding from this call for proposals from the Swedish Research Council were InfraVis, SwePrint, Protein Production Sweden (PPS) 2.0, SWERVE 2.0, SwedNMR and the Chemical Biology Consortium Sweden (CBCS), in which the university is participating as a co-applicant. In total, the Swedish Research Council granted approximately SEK 743 million for the years 2026-2030 to 20 infrastructures at eleven universities and institutions.
– This time, we received full funding for our applications to the Swedish Research Council. This success really shows that we are competitive and that it pays to write applications, so let's be inspired by the fact that we received full funding in this allocation and increase the number of applications going forward!
Read more about "Grant for research infrastructure of national interest" at Swedish Research Council's website.