Information to applicants

The Foundation Extensus, Uppsala yearly announces research grants in ecological botany, mainly in the below prioritised disciplines. Note! Maximum of 50 000 SEK per application.

Funds may be granted for research including, equipment, travel costs and costs for publication.

Granted funding should primarily be used for plant ecological research within the following areas, without order of priority.

• A. Plant ecological research, particularly concerning primeval forest
       and related conservation issues.
• B. Research concerning deciduous tree ecology, in particular regeneration and
       geographical distribution as well as speciation questions.
• C. Research dealing with wetland ecology and conservation,
       in particular periodically flooded wetlands along river Dalälven.

Instructions to applicant:

Applications should be sent to Stiftelsen Extensus not later than 15 February 2024.

The application should include project description, information on earlier results, CV and information on whether funding is applied for and/or received from other sources.

The application should include contact information, and may comprise maximum three pages, plus curriculum vitae maximum two pages, all information in one file pdf.

One applicant can not receive funding more than two consecutive years.

Successful applicants are kindly asked to send a short report on the results and also publications generated from the project.

The application should be:

• 1) Written in given template: click to download.
• 2) Signed and sent as one electronic copy in separate emails to:
• karinbbengtsson@gmail.com and kmik.lonn@gmail.com
• This is to ensure that the application is received.

 

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