KAW project applications 2023/24
Internal process KAW Project applications 2023/24
The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW) primarily grants funding in the natural sciences, technology and medicine. Projects in other disciplines can receive support given that they are related to issues relevant to natural sciences, technology and medicine.
Please read the Foundation’s guidelines for project grants to determine if your project falls within the Foundation’s frameworks and purposes of the announcement. News regarding this year’s announcement appears below.
According to KAW's regulations, project applications to KAW must undergo an internal prioritization process at Uppsala University. A pre-application, signed by the relevant Head of Department, who then certifies that the department acknowledges and can accept the terms and conditions of a Wallenberg grant should therefore be submitted. Pre-applications serve as the basis for further evaluation and prioritization.
The internal prioritization process consists of several steps of evaluation and prioritization at the respective disciplinary domains, as well as at university level. In the prioritization process, the Foundation’s assessment criteria as well as Uppsala University’s research strategies and objectives are taken into account. Prioritized applicants will then be allowed to submit a full application to KAW.
The KAW foundation has decided that the following applies in the 2024 call for proposals:
- Uppsala University is allowed to nominate 15 projects
- 40 % of the nominated projects must be led by a researcher with the underrepresented gender.
Pre-application timetable
- Pre-application: Monday 2 October 2023
- Meeting for prioritisation of applications: October-November 2023
- Decision on which applicants may submit their applications to KAW: November 2023
- Applicants finalise their applications: November 2023- January 2024
- Text for the Vice-Chancellor’s letter of endorsement in accordance with the template is sent to Research Support: Beginning of January 2024
- The Vice-chancellor's letter of endorsement is signed: During the second half of January 2024
- External deadline for submission to KAW: 1 February 2024
How to submit a pre-application
- Pre-applications Science and Technology
- Pre-applications Medicine and Pharmacy
- Pre-applications Humanities and Social Sciences: email Oddný Notstrand
Questions regarding KAW Project applications are to be referred to:
- Science and Technology: Carolina Rydin , Ulrika Huss Melin
- Medicine and Pharmacy: Maria Ferletta, Carin Marciszko
- Humanities and Social Sciences: Oddný Notstrand
When Uppsala University is a co-applicant
Researchers at Uppsala University intending to be co-applicants for the application from another higher education institution are to report this by e-mail to the contact person listed above. This is because the evaluation panels needs an overall picture of the applications in which Uppsala University is participating.