Summary 

Write the summary in Swedish and English. The summary may contain up to 1,500 characters including spaces and should explain why the research task is important, its purpose and how it will be conducted. Formulate the summary so that a layperson can understand it. If the application is approved, the summary will be posted on RJ’s website. 

Project description 

Write the project description in English and formulate it to allow RJ’s multidisciplinary review panel to assess its scientific quality. The description may contain up to 15,000 characters including spaces and is to present: 

• Specified time period and location for all stays abroad 
• A plan explaining how RJ Sabbatical will allow the completion of already begun research and how this will result in publication. Describe the previously completed work along with any remaining work. 
• The research question 
• The purpose 
• The theory and method 
• The contribution to the international research front 
• How the stay abroad can lead to international contacts and collaboration of benefit for the applicant’s home higher education institution even after RJ Sabbatical has been concluded. 
• A short curriculum vitae with details on the applicant’s current position 
• Whether and, if so, how RJ’s grant will be combined with research time included in the researcher’s position at the home institution. 

Budget 

• List costs for salary and employer’s social-insurance contribution top-up (LKP). 
• List costs related to the sabbatical abroad (including any costs for accompanying family members) under Operating costs. RJ awards up to SEK 55,000/month for listed expenses during the RJ Sabbatical period and assumes that the grant administrator, as the responsible employer, will cover any costs beyond this amount. 
• Specify costs for open access and production support. 
• Do not list any indirect costs or university-wide fees (e.g., IT, premises, and administration) in the application. 
• RJ adds an additional amount to each grant for indirect costs and costs of premises based on RJ’s own model for determining such costs. This also includes costs arising at other research units, both in Sweden and abroad. 

Budget specification 

Write the budget specification in Swedish or English. Specify and explain all budgeted costs. Unspecified or unexplained expenses will not be approved.  

The grant administrator must approve the application, and the project leader and head of department or equivalent must sign the application electronically in connection with when the application is submitted. RJ will process only signed applications. 

Data management plan

You need a data management plan for the data generated in the research for which we have awarded the grant. You are not to submit the plan to us, but the project leader and grant administrator guarantee through their signatures that a data management plan will be in place when you begin your project and that the plan will be maintained and followed.