The grants were all considered to have met the criteria set for the call, i.e. that they involve collaboration between at least two research environments at Link枚ping University and that they are of relevance to the profile area, specifically to the four areas of 鈥漞nvironment and climate change鈥�, 鈥漨igration鈥�, 鈥漝igitalization and democracy鈥� and/or 鈥漞nvironmental technology and production systems鈥�. All five are innovative projects that were considered to have the potential to achieve set goals within the given time- and financial frameworks and that aim to contribute with something more than project applications, such as major program applications, method development and/or developed collaborations with external actors. When the decision was taken, it also considered whether the applicants who included salary costs in their budgets already have research funding in their position and/or already existing funding for the same project.
Overall, the selection of grants awarded together represents a breadth of research environments at Link枚ping University and cover all four extra relevant areas identified by the profile area mentioned above.