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FAS – Organisation

The Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research supports and initiates basic and applied research with a view to improving our knowledge about working life, public health and welfare. www.fas.se. FAS – Organisation. FAS – Organisation.

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FAS – Organisation

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  1. The Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research supports and initiates basic and applied research with a view to improving our knowledge about working life, public health and welfare. www.fas.se

  2. FAS – Organisation

  3. FAS – Organisation • Activities are led by the Secretary-General. The Board consists of researchers and representatives of the public interest (12 members). • The secretariat (23 employees) is tasked with assisting the Council’s evaluation committees, the administration of grants, ongoing evaluations and analyses as well as dissemination and information

  4. Main areas of research fundingSkr 300 million annually • Work and health • Work organisations • Labour market issues • Public health • Welfare and social policy • Social services and social relations

  5. FAS is responsible for co-ordinating Swedish research concerning • Functional disabilities • International migration and ethnic relations (IMER) • The elderly • Social science aspects of alcohol research • Research on children and youth

  6. Funding instruments • Dissemination of knowledge • Networks • Conferences/symposia • Publication grants • Research • Project grants • Programme grants • Centres of excellence • Research positions • Post-doc awards • Internationalisation • Travel grants • Scholarships for research and post-doc studies abroad • Grants for visiting researchers

  7. International • FAS supports and stimulates international collaboration • FAS is employing the services of international experts for evaluations • FAS is a member of the European Science Foundation and is also part of other networks of research-funding agencies • FAS is partner in three ERA-NETs; ERA-AGE and WORK-IN-NET and NEW OSH ERA

  8. FAS EU policy • Goal: • It is our task to promote and initiate international research partnerships. We want to encourage and stimulate our scientists to lead and/or participate in European and global research collaborations and thereby: • create research platforms • enhance transfer of knowledge • increase research funding from international • resoruces • increase research mobility

  9. Main channels: • EU:s framework programmes, FP7 • http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ • Workprogrammes to cover FAS:s areas • Informing scientists about the possibilities in • relevant workprogrammes • Planning grants for Scientists that want to participate in FP7 projects

  10. FAS ”Planeringsbidrag” for EU-proposals, read more at www.fas.se • • Coordinator for a Cooperative projects, • max 150 000 skr • • Leading partner in an application for a Cooperative projects, max 50 000 skr • • Coordinator for a Marie Curie-network, • max 50 000 kr • • Marie Curie-postdoc (MC IEF, MC IOF) 10 000 kr

  11. Call identifier: FP7-HEALTH-2007-B Deadline: 18 September 2007, at 17.00 3. OPTIMISING DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE TO EUROPEAN CITIZENS 3.1. TRANSLATING THE RESULTS OF CLINICAL RESEARCH OUTCOME INTO CLINICAL PRACTICE INCLUDING BETTER USE OF MEDICINES, AND APPROPRIATE USE OF BEHAVIOURAL AND ORGANISATIONAL INTERVENTIONS AND NEW HEALTH THERAPIES AND TECHNOLOGIES 3.2. QUALITY, EFFICIENCY AND SOLIDARITY OF HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS INCLUDING TRANSITIONAL HEALTH SYSTEMS 4. OTHER ACTIONS ACROSS THE HEALTH THEME

  12. Overarching issues of strategic importance Child health Childhood and adolescent mental disorders, Combined forms of diabetes in children, Promoting healthy behaviour in children and adolescents, Health care intervention research – improving pre-natal and maternal care. Implications for child health and paediatric diseases should be taken into account whenever appropriate in all research projects in this Theme. Health of the ageing population Increasing the participation of elderly in clinical trials, Understanding and combating age-related muscle weakness, Impairment of touch and proprioception at old age, Health systems and long term care of the elderly, and Health outcome measures and ageing population. Whenever appropriate, the projects funded under this Theme should take into consideration the research aspects related to prevention, diagnostics and treatment of age-related diseases and the impact on quality of life of older people.

  13. ESF (European Science Foundation) • http://www.esf.org/ • ECRP program, an open call within the EUROCORES program for Social Science and Humanities • EUROCORES programs • ESF Research Network Program • ESF (European Social Fund) • http://ec.europa.eu/employment_social/esf2000/index_en.html • FAS is participating in Monitoring committies • Other dedicated areas for International • research collaborations, • Asia/China

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