With an RJ Sabbatical grant, senior lecturers and professors can spend six to twelve months completing research that is already at an advanced stage and write syntheses. Stays abroad are a part of RJ Sabbatical, thus promoting international ties for Swedish research and education.

The grant is intended to enable grantees to conduct research to the full extent of their employment.

The research period must be devoted to completing ongoing research projects that have reached an advanced stage or to writing major works or syntheses likely to be regarded as representing significant scholarship. Grants may be for applications that will result in monographs or in journal articles.