The aim of the Sweden-Korea Research Cooperation Programme is to increase the competitiveness of universities and other higher education institutions by developing and establishing international partnerships. The programme supports projects of high scientific quality which are clearly contributing to the activities of participating educational establishments.
Applicants should be working at a university in Sweden and have obtained their PhD. Projects may last for up to four years, conditional upon the acceptance of an interim report after two years. The proposed project must encompass at least one Swedish and at least one Korean party. A parallel application is to be submitted by the Korean party to the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF). Applicants may have on-going projects in the Initiation Grants programme, but otherwise there must not be any on-going STINT projects.
The ideal partnership project will have activities encompassing research as well as higher education, although STINT is able to support pure research partnerships. It is particularly important for young researchers and doctoral students to participate in the exchanges. In this programme, STINT wants to encourage new collaborative patterns and will not prioritise long-standing partnerships. The partnership must be balanced, i.e. the personnel exchange should not be primarily in one direction.