Requirements
2024/01/02
- Stays abroad must be a part of RJ Sabbatical. RJ prefers for sabbaticals to be divided into maximum of two periods. One of these periods is to be of at least 30 consecutive days.
- The applicant is responsible for the planning and all practical arrangements for the time abroad (insurance, accommodation, visa and the like). This is done in consultation with the researcher’s own HEI and the foreign host institution.
- Researchers applying for RJ Sabbatical must be permanently employed at a Swedish higher education institution.
- Final reports for any previous research grants from RJ must have been submitted by the application date.
- Only one RJ Sabbatical application may be submitted per application occasion.
- Applicants who have previously received RJ Sabbatical grants, can apply again no earlier than five years after the final report has been submitted.
- Only one researcher may be included per application.
- The grant never covers more than the work time of the applicant’s permanent position.
- Researchers with RJ Sabbatical grants are required to conduct research for the entire time covered by their employment. Exceptions are only possible for supervision of PhD students, up to a maximum of 10 per cent of full-time employment and no more than the amount committed to at the start of the RJ Sabbatical. The supervision of PhD students is not funded by RJ.
- Researchers who are drawing retirement pension or will start drawing one during the period covered by the funding may not apply for an RJ Sabbatical grant.
- The applicant is responsible for ensuring that the research is compatible with the ethical guidelines established by the Swedish Research Council and that ethical review is carried out where necessary.
- All Swedish higher education institutions are approved grant administrators. RJ reserves the right to determine what other organisations can be approved for each application.