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Swedish research has extensive contacts abroad.
Collaboration takes place largely through individual researchers' or research groups' joint projects with researchers in other countries. Sweden's traditionally very extensive collaboration with the USA, especially in medicine and natural sciences, has recently been supplemented by rapidly expanding European co-operation. Swedish membership of the EU has involved new sources of funding for Swedish researchers and scope for co-operation within the Union's Framework Programmes for research and technological development. In terms of the number of projects, overall Swedish participation during FP4 was greatest in biotechnology and biomedicine, socioeconomic research and the field of standards, measurement and assessment. In budgetary terms, the emphasis was on IT, biotechnology and agriculture and fisheries.