Announcement - KID-funding

Annual standard amount

Conditions for Applying

The following eligibility requirements must be met to apply for KID-funding:

• The principal applicant must be a KI researcher with a PhD who intends to recruit and act as principal supervisor to a doctoral student. The applicant must have obtained a “green-light" approval from his/her department.
• The principal supervisor must be active at the same department that the doctoral student will be admitted to.
• The principal supervisor can only apply as principal supervisor in one application per call; however, this restriction does not apply to the role of co-supervisor. If an applicant appears as principal supervisor on two grant applications, both applications will be considered invalid.
• Co-applicants must be researchers with a PhD who intend to act as co-supervisors to the recruited doctoral student.
• Note! New for 2025: There can be maximum two co-supervisors in the application. A co-supervisor is expected to actively contribute to and follow the development of the doctoral student. Other collaborators may be mentioned in the research plan.
• Note! New for 2025: The applying principal supervisor and at least one of the co-supervisors should come from the same department and should be the same individuals appointed as principal and co-supervisors by the Head of Department when the doctoral student is admitted.
• Please note, a principal supervisor who has been granted KI funding to support a doctoral student in 2024 (i.e. through KID or through the Research School in Health Science, FiH) is not eligible to apply for a KID grant as principal supervisor in 2025. 
• A principal supervisor who applies in several ongoing calls (for example both KID and FiH) will only be allocated funds in one of these calls.

It should also be noted that:

• Only those who have not already been admitted to doctoral education can be recruited to a KID project.
• All rules that apply to supervision and doctoral education at KI also apply to those who receive KID funding.

How do I apply?

The intended principal supervisor applies electronically in KI Prisma during the application period. You create your application in KI Prisma by filling in the text fields, retrieving information from your personal account, and attaching the requested appendices. Please avoid stating your own, or anyone else’s, personal identity number in the application other than in those places where it is specifically requested.

To the application form in KI Prisma

Most of the fields to be completed in Prisma have user support that tells you what to do, as well as provides answers to frequently asked questions.

Create a personal account in Prisma

Before you can apply, you need to create a personal account in Prisma where you can save your personal information and CV (if you already have a Prisma account, you can use it to apply for KID funding). You only need to enter information once, it can then be supplemented or changed when necessary.

Remember to create your personal account in good time. The application you register in Prisma will be linked to your personal account.

What information should the application include?

As some of the KID reviewers do not have Swedish as their native language, the entire KID application should be written in English. 

Please note that the review panels are composed of researchers with expertise in a variety of fields. It is therefore vital that your application is written in such a way that everyone in the panel can assess it.

The application form in KI Prisma contains the following tabs:

For the pre-application

1. Basic information (project title, etc.)

2. Applying supervisors (name, contact information, etc.)

3. Short summary of the project (max. 6000 characters)

4. Doctoral education environment and supervision

• Describe the doctoral education environment (max. 1500 characters)
• How do you plan to organise the supervision of the suggested project? (max. 1500 characters)
• Describe how the supervisors’ competences and expertise are of relevance to the project (max. 1500 characters)

5. Mandatory attachment: A "green light" approval!

For the complete application

6. Ethical approvals (existing or planned)

7. Outcomes for doctoral education

Describe the planned activities that will contribute to achieving the outcomes for doctoral education. You can find information and inspiration on the KI website Outcomes for doctoral education according to the Higher Education Ordinance.

• Knowledge and understanding (max. 1500 characters)
• Proficiency and ability (max. 1500 characters)
• Judgement and approach (max. 1500 characters)

8. Project’s feasibility

• Describe what is needed, in terms of space, equipment and time, to make the project feasible, and how you plan to provide what is necessary for project feasibility (max. 1500 characters)
• Describe any alternative plans for the project/doctoral student in case chosen approaches and suggested goals fail (max. 1500 characters)
• Time plan (max. 600 characters)

9. Mandatory attachments

• Principal supervisor’s ”green light”-decision (NOT to be re-attached; follows from the pre-application)
• Research Plan (max 5 A4 pages, including the reference list, Times New Roman 12 pt.)
• 10 most project-relevant publications for each supervisor (the author order must correspond to the original)
• All publications of the principal supervisor, during the last 5 years (the author order must correspond to the original)

Text

Some text fields can be formatted, making it possible to change the font, alignment and font size, as well as insert tables and symbols. If you paste text written in a word-processing program (e.g. Microsoft Word) you may need to adjust the formatting afterwards using the tools in Prisma. Images cannot be inserted into text fields. We recommend that you use the fonts Arial, Calibri or Verdana.

All text fields have a limited number of characters, as indicated by the character counter. If you use too many characters, you will not be able to register your application.

Attached documents

Certain fields require you to attach an appendix designed as per the stated instructions. Appendices can only be attached as a file in PDF format. All appendices have a limited file size and number of pages. You will not be able to register an application with an appendix that exceeds the stated limits.

Registering your application

When you go into the Register application tab, the system will check if any obligatory information is missing and inform you of any necessary supplementation. Only when you click on the Register button will your application be registered.

Remember to review your application before you register it.

Once registered, you can find your application in your personal account in Prisma under the menu selection Applications in the Applications and grants tab. A registered application can be unregistered at any time, and where necessary be changed and reregistered, until the call is closed.

The content of your pre-application will be automatically transferred to your complete application if you are invited to submit one. You cannot supplement/change the text you have written in your pre-application.

Assessment and decision

The application will be assessed in competition with all other applications, based on the established review criteria.

Review criteria, review process and decisions

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