KTH leads in Swedish Research Council grant awards

Of a total of SEK 167.5 million that the council will award over the next four years, KTH research projects are to receive SEK 55 million.

“It is really gratifying, and it shows that KTH's research is definitely on the rise,” says Bjorn Birgisson, Vice President for Research at KTH. “Our research base has been deepened, strengthened and renewed.”

Of the more than 2,000 applications competing for nearly SEK 940 million in the period 2014-2017, only 15 percent received grants – a total of 303 awards divided into three categories: project grants, project grants for young researchers, and industrial projects.

The list of approved grants shows KTH in first place followed by Lund University, which received awards totaling nearly SEK 154 million.

Last year, KTH was granted about 14 percent, or SEK 212 million, of a total of 1.475 billion crowns. This year, KTH’s portion of the total comes to 17 percent.

“If you look at wider picture, KTH has risen in the rankings in recent years and we are number one in Sweden in terms of approved projects,” Birgisson says. “That is a very good trend, overall.”  says Bjorn Birgisson.

Among those KTH research projects receiving grants is, “Droplet-based microfluidics for enzyme and biomarker screening". An example of a young researcher project that was awarded a grant is, “The dynamic bacterial community: a metagenomic analysis of virus microbe interaction in the marine ecosystem”.

Jill Klackenberg

See the entire list at the Swedish Research Council homepage.