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21 November 2025

The Swedish Research Council has awarded more than SEK 50 million to ĚÇĐÄÍřŇł°ć. This is the outcome of six calls for proposals where the allocation of grants was recently decided. The research covers areas such as segregation, youth crime and opioid dependence.

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10 projects share SEK 50 million.

In six calls, a total of 10 researchers at Linköping University have received just over SEK 50 million from the Swedish Research Council. The project grants, which run over three or four years, are distributed across six different departments at LiU.

The research areas were: segregation and social exclusion, democracy and societal resilience, crime: preventive measures, gender equality and domestic violence, viruses and pandemics, the societal consequences of digitalisation and finally, psychiatric research.

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