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Forest Damage Centre funds 34 projects
Published: 07 June 2022
The steering comittée at the Forest Damage Centre suggests to the dean to fund 34 projects from the budget for 2022. In total 67 applications came in, an impressive amount of skilled and creative projects which gave the reference group and evaluation group a real challenge.
Unfortunately the sum of applied funds was bigger than the available funds and this led to hard prioritizing. The Forest Damage Centre allocates 14.5 million SKR of which 12.9 million is spent on research projects. 57% of the fundning is spent on new projects and 43% is spent on continutation of projcts that were funded during 2021.
|
Subject |
SEK |
Share Funds |
Share Applications |
|
Insects |
4,000,000 |
27 |
29 |
|
Fungae |
5,900,000 |
40 |
35 |
|
Wildlife |
460,000 |
3 |
3 |
|
Fire/drought |
700,000 |
5 |
3 |
|
Snow/windfall |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Social |
775,000 |
5 |
6 |
|
Heureka |
2,800,000 |
19 |
24 |
|
SUM |
14,600,000 |
There was also eleven applications for PhD-projcts to the Forest Damage Centre. The steering committée recommends the funding of 9 of them. Sex will be in collaboration with external partners and 3 will be run within SLU. Three of the PhD-projects focus on grazing damonages, two on pathology, two on plant production and on each on continous cover forestry and frost damage.