Conditions for payment of KID-funding
KID-funding is a block grant for partial financing of doctoral students at KI and is currently equivalent to approximately 50 percent of the costs of a doctoral student’s salary.
The grant can only be used for salary costs for one doctoral student and cannot be used for any other expenses. The salary is paid out by the department where the doctoral student is admitted. The department is reimbursed with an annual standard amount from the Committee for Doctoral Education. A maximum of four annual amounts can be paid out.
Yearly standard amount
The annual KID amount for 2026 is SEK 386 000, including indirect costs.
Requisition and payment of KID-funding
Payment of KID-funding for the first year is made via a requisition form (rekvisitionsblankett), while payments for the remaining years (year 2-4) are lifted into the regular resource allocation at KI and paid out monthly (‘i tolftedelar’).
To receive the first yearly payment, the principal supervisor must fill in and submit:
- A KID agreement (including mandatory attachments)
- A requisition form
The above are sent to the responsible KID Policy Officer as soon as a doctoral student has been admitted to doctoral education.
Cut-off Date for Year 1 Payments
Requisitions submitted 1 January–30 June:
A full annual amount is paid to the department during the current calendar year.
Requisitions submitted 1 July–31 December:
No payment is made during the current year. Instead, the funding is paid through the regular resource allocation during the following calendar year.
Years 2–4
Payments for years 2–4 are made automatically through the regular resource allocation and are paid out monthly.
Requisition form
Upper section – completed by the department (in Swedish).
Rekvisition avser: Select Doktorand inom KID and then selext the department.
Medel rekvireras för: State the principal supervisor’s name, the doctoral student’s name, and the diary number of the KID Call (diarienummer) specified at the top of the KID agreement.
Projekt: Provide the project number to which the funding should be disbursed.
Verifikationstext: Specify the code of the department, the name of the principal supervisor, the name of the doctoral student and “KID-medel” (for example C1, Lisa Nilsson, Sven Karlsson, KID-medel).
Institutionens referens: Provide the name of the person responsible for administering funding at the department.
The lower section of the form is completed by the responsible Policy Officer at the Central Administration.
Conditions for payment
A principal supervisor who applies for and is granted more than one type of KI funding to support a doctoral student, for example through KID and through the Research School in Health Science (FiH), can only receive one such type of funding for the same project (principal supervisors can themselves choose which one).
The decision on allocation of KID-funding is made by the Committee for Doctoral Education. The decision is valid provided that:
- A doctoral candidate is admitted to doctoral education at KI, within one year after receiving the decision on allocation of KID-funding.
- Doctoral education is planned according to what is indicated in the submitted application and follows the current rules and regulations for doctoral education at KI.
N.B.! If a doctoral student completes doctoral education in less than four years, or for any other reason terminates their PhD studies, the principal supervisor must promptly notify the KID Policy Officer and the KID Steering Group.