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Tips from KI Grants Office about current calls.

Tips from KI Grants Office regarding current calls

Karolinska Institutet awards grants from a large number of foundations and from donations. The foundations and donations award research and travel grants.

Tips from KI Grants Office about current calls

Tips from KI Grants Office about current calls

Tips from KI Grants Office regarding current calls

Tips from KI Grants Office about current calls.

Tips from Grants Office regarding current calls

An article in The Conversation written by a KI researcher broke a record in the number of readers. Associate Professor Karin Modig's article on centenarian biomarkers received almost 2.4 million reads and was translated into several languages.

Doctoral students & researchers: The calendar is up to date and filled with seminars and workshops!

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On January 25, a method support day was organized by Clinicum to introduce researchers to the coordinated method support offered to researchers at KI and Region Stockholm. The meeting was held in the Sune Bergström Hall at Karolinska University Hospital.

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From January 1, 2024, researchers at KI can publish articles open access without having to pay a publication fee in all journals from the publishers Frontiers, MJS Publishing (formerly Medical Journals Sweden) and PLOS. The agreements are financed by the Swedish Research Council, Forte, Formas and Vinnova.

Tips from Grants Office regarding current calls

Tips from KI Grants Office about current calls.

All employees and affiliates have a personal profile page on ki.se. On the evening of December 14, your current page will be replaced by a new one that retrieves all the information from KI RIMS. If you have made changes to the text on your current page after September 7, you need to redo them in KI RIMS.

Tips from Grants Office regarding current calls

Tips from Grants Office regarding current calls

In October, KI submitted suggestions to the government for its research and innovation policy bill, which will be presented at the end of 2024. KI stresses the importance of basic research and free competition on research funding as well as educational investment in the form of increased compensation per student and more university places. KI also suggests a national research programme for life science centred on research and technical development.

Challenges in the development and testing of the technical environments require the KI RIMS project to have more time to work. This means that the publication of the new profile pages on ki.se is postponed from November 9 to the evening of December 14.

KI RIMS is KI's new Research Information Management System. Starting from October 25, you as an employee or affiliate can log in and see and manage the information that has been collected about you.

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With only six years left until 2030 when the Sustainable Development Goals are to be achieved, this year's Sustainability Forum was organised with a focus on the role of universities in sustainability work. The organisers were the University Alliance Stockholm Trio. 

Fill out a survey which aims to evaluate the users' experiences of KI's core facilities. The survey results will be used to follow-up and analyse previous improvements.

The course aims to give doctoral students an opportunity to reflect on the importance of academic research and how this can lead to societal change.

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In the autumn, the University Library had the opportunity to invite an external speaker to discuss 'Patent and Publishing.'

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CLINICUM is part of the region-wide initiative that aims to strengthen the quality of clinical and translational research. In its entirety, CLINICUM consists of a central function and seven nodes which represent the care provider organizations in Region Stockholm and SLSO. The nodes' activities aim to offer scientific advice and to provide methodological support and guidance in the planning and execution of research projects.

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Tips from KI Grants Office about current calls.

The Government has appointed a new research committee - a group of experts - to act as advisors prior to their upcoming Research and Innovation Policy Bill. KI researcher Anna Wedell is one of the fifteen elected members.

The project Systems support for research information continues the implementation of KI RIMS and will during the summer focus on further technical development and designing user support.

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Alone, remotely, in the middle of a pandemic – this is how life in the Brussels office of the University Alliance Stockholm Trio began for the EU veteran Dan Andrée. It went at half-speed at first, but now, two and half years later, the office in the EU’s political cradle is bursting with activities.

KI RIMS is a system that collects data and information from several different systems used within KI. When KI RIMS is up and running, it will be easier for KI's researchers to maintain their CV and Qualifications portfolio, something that has been requested by many.

Tips from Grants Office regarding current calls

Tips from Grants Office regarding current calls

A new Swedish biobank act comes into force on July 1. It is expected to make it easier for researchers to use biobanks – i.e. collections of samples of human and fetal tissue – and to collaborate.

The web page Research Support & Services has recently been developed to provide an overview of the support and specialised competences available to all researchers, both at their departments and at other units at KI.

Readership of news articles written by KI researchers for The Conversation jumped 62 percent on the year in 2022. Since KI became a member two years ago, 43 researchers have penned over 42 articles, reaching around 3.8 million readers worldwide. “I have never experienced such a response to my research before,” says postdoc Filip Gedin.

The procurement process for a Research Information Management System (RIMS) has now been completed and KI has chosen a supplier.

Several researchers at KI have offered to host Ukrainian colleagues. Initiatives have been launched through, among others, the organisation EMBO, which supports research and researchers in the field of life science.

The process of procuring a Research Information Management System (RIMS) is now in its final stages – we are evaluating candidates.

The planned procurement process of a Research Information Management System (RIMS) is continuing. The project group has compiled KI’s needs and a requirements and is now in the process of requesting tenders from potential suppliers. The system will create a cohesive support to improve the availability, findability, and management of KI's research information for both internal and external stakeholders. The procurement is expected to be completed in early May 2022

Researchers and other employees, as well as external users, need to access information about ongoing and completed research at KI more easily. Improved visibility and availability of research information is included in Strategy 2030. The Steering Group for Information Management at KI has now decided to procure a Research Information Management System (RIMS).

Do you have difficulty finding detailed information about Karolinska Institutet’s research and researchers on the website? If so, you are probably not alone. A project is now underway to improve search possibilities and presentation of research information within the framework of KI’s Information Management Programme and Strategy 2030.  

A year has passed now since Karolinska Institutet, the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) and Stockholm University formed the university alliance Stockholm trio. Together, the three academic institutions seek to develop and promote the international research and education environment of the Stockholm region, and will establish a joint office in Brussels. Veteran of the EU scene, Dan Andrée is now laying the foundations of the office.

Karolinska Institutet's information management strategy was developed in Spring 2019 and is part of Strategy 2030. The aim is to create concrete, common and established ways forward for the management of information and data at Karolinska Institutet.