Rekryteringar

Programme summary

• Provides funding for five different forms of employment
• Promotes mobility between academia and the business sector
• Strengthens and develops the capacity for business-relevant research and education
• The employments may run for between 3 months and 4 years depending on the form of employment
• Co-financing from the Foundation amounts to between 50 and 90 percent of the costs

Background of the programme

Solving future societal challenges requires both cutting-edge research results and a higher education of high quality. To achieve this, Sweden’s universities and university colleges need to be able to employ researchers and teachers who can contribute with relevant knowledge and competence. The Knowledge Foundation therefore offers funding through the programme Rekryteringar in order to make it easier for universities to make strategically important recruitments of key expertise. The programme enables the supply of new competence and new opportunities for collaboration and exchange. In this way, an influx of new perspectives and questions is created, that both contributes to more dynamic research environments and better connects the education to practice and professions.

Contribution to strong research and educational environments

The specific purpose of the Rekryteringar programme is to strengthen the scientific position and profile of an academic environment by the contribution of renewal.