Guide to finding financiers
The question MIUN’s Grants Office most frequently gets asked is ‘could you help me to find funding within research field X?’. Here is a short guide with suggestions for where you can start to look on your own. If you get stuck while searching do however get in touch!
Google is actually by far the best place to find information about calls! Use a few keywords, e.g. ’call, sustainable energy production’ or ’research, sheltered accommodation, call’, or something similar. Google tends to show both current and older calls, and this way you will be able to get suggestions for financiers with calls within your field of interest.
Acknowledgements
This is an underestimated source of suggestions for financiers! Scrutinise the acknowledgement sections in a few of your favourite articles, preferably articles written by Swedish researchers if Swedish financiers are what you are looking for. It is, after all, usually stated in this section how the study in question was financed. If the article is within the field of interest to you, chances are that the financiers listed in the acknowledgement section would also find your research interesting.
Grants Office documents
Suggestions for new financiers can be found in the documents ’Swedish and Nordic External Funding Sources’ and ’Early career funding’, both of which have been put together by Grants Office.
Send us an e-mail if you’d like us to send them to you!
Academic positions
Are you perhaps looking for funding for a postdoc? On the page linked below you can find current calls intended to stimulate/facilitate researcher mobility.
Link to major postdoc fellowships at Academic positions
Global Grant
There was earlier a thick book that was available at Swedish libraries, a book that included information about all Swedish stipends and funds. Now this book has been replaced by the digital tool Global Grant. Global Grant was earlier included among the databases MIUN-users could get access to on the university library web page. Unfortunately it isn't any longer. However, it is included among the databases the municipal libraries in Östersund and Sundsvall give its library card holders access to. So if you have a library card in either of these municipalities, you can get access to Global Grant by logging on to the web page of the library in question.
You can select language (Swedish or English) at the top of the first page.
Click Search.
In order to limit the number of hits, select Purpose: ‘PhD’ (an alternative which, in the Swedish version, is called ‘Scientific research on the PhD-level and above’).
A new dialogue box will appear below; Academic subject. You can here select the subjects that are relevant to you. We however suggest that you select ’For study of any subject, no restrictions on subject’ in order to get more hits.
Deselect all alternatives for gender except for ‘Legal person’.
In your list of results, you can click on the foundations/financiers that interest you, so as to get more information.