The Faculty for Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences (NJ) have decided to continue to support research schools 2017-2021. Applications from both existing research schools as new initiatives are welcomed!
Research school activities should be open to all PhD students at SLU and together ideally involve all faculty PhD students. Resource allocation will be regulated to some extent by the respective graduate school's scope, size and content.
Research schools that are supported, will receive funding for the entire four-year period. A follow-up of the research schools will be made after two years and depending on the results, resource allocation may be adjusted.
Research school activities are planned for a four-year period to starts autumn 2017 and to be ended in spring 2021 (the budget is for technical reasons, from 2017 to 2020).
The application process will include a two-step procedure. Step 1 involves those who are interested to pursue a graduate school to submit an application with an overview of the entire four-year period, including the general budget. These applications will be reviewed by the Postgraduate Studies Board (Fun-NJ). In step 2, based on a selection by Fun-NJ, a number of proposals will be awarded grants for further planning. At this stage, Fun-NJ might suggest some adjustments, restructuring or further "co-planning" between research school teams . Based on the more detailed and possibly revised proposals, Fun-NJ will propose to the NJ-faculty board which research schools should be run and awarded funds for the four year period.
More about purpose and goals, assessment of applications and time frame in the "Call for applications-Research Schools for PhD-students, 2017-2020"
Fill in the application template and send it to to registrator@slu.se, not later than 22 December 2016.
SLU's board and the NJ faculty have decided to continue to support research schools. The call is aimed at both existing research schools as new initiatives. The new venture is valid for a period of four years and are in the order of 6 000 thousand per year at NJ Faculty.
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Petra Fransson, Researcher at the Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology
Petra.Fransson@slu.se, +4618-671864