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Do you have creative ideas on how we should collaborate with external parties or develop SLU collaboration in general?
SLU is now offering the possibility of receiving seed money in the form of an external collaboration cheque to test if your idea is viable.
The purpose of these collaboration cheques is to support innovative initiatives that preferably meet all of the criteria below:
The activity should match the SLU definition of external collaboration: Collaboration is a means or a process that requires two or more parties to achieve a common goal that would not have been possible for them to achieve on their own. When it comes to collaboration, people are the most important resource.
The maximum amount is SEK 100,000. The Council for External Collaboration will assess the applications and decide if they should be approved and whether to grant the full amount or parts of it. You can e.g. apply for funds to cover meetings and seminars related to your project/idea.
Only half of the requested amount may be used to pay salaries. However, during the Covid-19 pandemic – primarily the 2021 spring semester – this criterion does not apply as meetings are expected to take place online. In addition to external parties, it is an advantage if the activity involves more than one faculty and more than one department per faculty.
Initiatives that can be viewed as preparatory work to actual external collaboration, such as in-house collaboration training, may also be granted funds. Ideas that do not involve a lot of funds are also welcome.
You may not receive funds for activities that were due to take place anyway, or which are scheduled to be funded by other already approved funds. Funds are not awarded for activities that are not SLU priorities or where external collaboration does not involve parties outside academia (except for in-house collaboration training as mentioned above).
As of January 2022, the distribution of collaboration cheques will be paused indefinitely as the Council for External Collaboration evaluates the collaboration cheque scheme.
Applications may be a maximum of three A4 pages with a 12 point font size. All the information below must be included. The assessors will base their decision strictly on the applications and will not accept any other type of information. Therefore, you must ensure that you include all the necessary information. If you need help with partnership agreements in connection with your activity, feel free to contact SLU Holding. Make sure you include the following:
The secretary of the Council for External Collaboration ensures that the ranted funds are transferred to your account. Carry out the activity and submit a short report no later than 1 December. The report should be a maximum of 2 A4 pages and contain the following:
Submit the report to the secretary of the Council for External Collaboration, Mariette Manktelow. Funds that have not been used must be returned.