Researchers in Sweden can apply for grants to host Ukrainian researchers within the framework of the EU’s MSCA4Ukraine program. The investment covers EUR 25 million and is aimed at hosts within the EU who want to host a PhD student or researcher with a PhD from Ukraine.

The research stay can be between 6 and 24 months and the conditions are the same as for regular MSCA programs. It is the host who coordinates the application and the program is open to research in all subject areas. The application portal opens on 24 October.

N.B! note that deadline is floating! Preliminary deadlines are:

• 11th November 2022
• 9th December 2022
• 9th January 2023

More information is available at the call’s webpage.

 

On November 17, the vice-chancellor made a decision to appoint the following five proposals to be included in the continued work of developing a profile area application to the Swedish Research Council in spring 2023, on the condition that the call is made. The five profile areas selected are: A Sustainable Digital Society, Age-related disease and therapy development, Cultural Heritage and Sustainability: towards an integrated approach (CULTSUS), Molecular Life Science, UGOT OCEAN. All faculties, the research committee, the vice-cahncellor’s management council and the university’s international advisors have been involved in the selection process. Now begins the process of preparing the university’s application. Read a longer article in the Staff Portal.

SAKS’ union committee Students in Research (SiF) is looking for researchers who want to supervise students interested in research. For this purpose, SiF has a list where you can sign up: https://forms.gle/PtM74cuQBRFCMweNA

The film from the general academy meeting held on Wednesday 16 November is now available on GU Play, Swedish only. You can watch the film until Thursday, December 1.
The seminar starts three minutes into the film.
Agneta Holmäng begins, followed by vice dean Lena Carlsson Ekander (4:35 into the film – profile areas), Mats Lilja (12:05 into the film – Sahlgrenska Life), Agneta Ekman (15:22 into the film – Skills Centre), Marie Hornfelt (20:13 into the film – EBM) and Eric Hanse (26:08 into the film – Geovetarcentrum)

The film is now expired.

A special investigator has been assigned to review the state organization for external research and innovation funding, i.e. the authorities tasked with funding research or innovation. The purpose of the inquiry is to ensure that the organization effectively supports research and innovation of the highest quality, is adapted to societal developments and promotes national and international collaborations as well as access to research infrastructure. The research funding inquiry is due to be completed in September 2023. In the spring, a tour of workshops will be conducted to collect views from the research community on the proposals that the investigation plans to submit to the government.

More information (in Swedish)

• Interview with special investigator Ingrid Petersson in VR’s newspaper Curie
• The directive on the government’s website

Now the registry research film from November 15 is posted on the web “Fracture registry research – methodology and development in the first 50 publications”. Can be viewed in GU Play up to and including November 30, then with login.
Here you will find the film: https://play.gu.se/media/t/0_lwbxua0j

The medical program at Sahlgrenska Academy is now looking for an overall EPA coordinator. EPA (Entrustable Professional Activities) is the model used for the teaching and assessment of ten nationally defined professional activities within clinical competence. To document these competencies, the medical program has a software, Ortac, where students, course leaders and course administrators work. As EPA coordinator, you support the medical program in the administrative processes related to EPA & Ortac. The scope of the assignment is initially 50 percent, planned start on January 1, 2023. You who apply must be permanently employed at Sahlgrenska Academy. You must have good experience in educational administration at Sahlgrenska Academy – experience from the medical program is highly desirable.

Apply by December 16, 2022.
Read further in the call – in Swedish.

The budget bill gives an extra SEK 750,000 to all hospital physicist programs next year, and the following year the government plans to double the investment. The money is to be used for clinical training. At University of Gothenburg, the funds will mean that clinically active hospital physicists, employed within the Region Västra Götaland , can be engaged, as an addition to the funds provided by the region.
“It is gratifying that we have a hospital physicist education that holds a very high standard and graduates hospital physicists who are in demand on the job market. A major challenge is to reach out to prospective students in order to get applicants with good conditions to complete the education”, says Mats Isaksson, professor of radio physics.

What problems are diabetes researchers trying to solve for us in their labs right now? And how close are they to the next breakthrough? The Diabetes Lab is a new, popular science podcast from the Swedish Diabetes Association that joins hands with Sweden’s leading diabetes researchers and dives into new findings and progress. Program leader is science journalist Maja Lundbäck, who is also research editor for the magazine Allt om Diabetes.Through the podcast, the association wants to offer facts conveyed in a simple way, and perhaps also invite a little hope. One of the podcast’s first guests is professor Anders Rosengren. You can find the podcast on most platforms, for example Spotify.

Gunnel Hensing, professor of social medicine at the Institute of Medicine, receives SEK 3,819,000 from AFA insurance to investigate managers’ conditions, both individually and organizationally, to work with measures against the harmful use of alcohol in workplaces. The project runs until December 2025 and is expected to produce results that can be developed into new methods for alcohol prevention, as well as new knowledge about how these methods can be used concretely in workplaces. Managers are important for effective preventive work against the harmful use of alcohol, according to previous research. Despite that, there is currently a lack of research on what conditions managers have to work with alcohol prevention.