Funding and projects

All projects have been placed at the Södertörn University. The projects are listed in chronological order according to the year of funding. Research projects funded by the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies, as a rule, last for three years. For further information on the projects, visit the University’s website, contact the respective project manager or the Foundation’s secretariat.

Publications
For publications visit the DiVA-portal. To access all publications registered with The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies (Östersjöstiftelsen) as funder use this link. For publications related to individual projects use simple search, choose “BETA – Projects” option and search on the project’s name. Please note, this function is under development.

Projects granted by the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies from 2008 onwards can also be found in SweCRIS, a national database of grant-funded research.

Project database


2017

A Sunken War: The Baltic during the Second World War

Field: Arkeologi
Project leader: Anna McWilliams
Project type:

Atlantic, allies against German forces – portrayed as good against evil. But when you turn your gaze to the Baltic the sit...

Academia in the midst of ethnic controversy. The ‘politics of belonging’ in respect to Latvians and Baltic Germans in interwar Latvia, 1919-1939.

Field: Historia
Project leader: Per Bolin
Project type:

During the interwar period, 1919-1939, many states in Central and Eastern Europe faced the dilemma of developing new states m...

Anti-racist contentions in the Baltic Sea region – a study of anti-racist activists’ interplay with politicians and civil servants.

Field: Sociologi
Project leader: Magnus Wennerhag
Project type:

The on-going refugee crisis and recent years’ electoral successes for right-wing parties with anti-migration stances have i...

Co-construction and recontextualisation of migrants’ narratives in the asylum process.

Field: Nodiska språk
Project leader: Hanna Sofia Rhenberg
Project type:

In this study, we examine narratives the way they are constructed in the interpreter mediated situation of asylum interviews ...

Collective Phronesis. A survey of collectivity, decision making and professional considerations in the welfare professions in Sweden and Germany.

Field: Praktisk kunskap
Project leader: Jonna Lappalainen
Project type:

The project examines whether, and if so how, Phronesis (Practical Wisdom) could be understood as a collective capability, an...

In the Services of the of the SMEs? The Patent Systems and the SMEs in the Baltic Sea Region.

Field: Företagsekonomi
Project leader: Christina Wainikka
Project type:

Innovation is pivotal to economic growth and societal transformation. The concern then is to determine the means to uphold a...

Medical boundaries contested: Sweden, Germany and the exchange of medical knowledge 1952-1989

Field: Idéhistoria
Project leader: Maria Björk
Project type:

The project will explore the exchange of medical knowledge between Sweden and Germany during the post-war period, focusing o...

Politics by Other Means: Policy Professionals in Comparative Perspective.

Field: Sociologi
Project leader: Stefan Svallfors
Project type:

The project analyses the work and life-worlds of policy professionals – people who are employed to affect politics and polic...

Religion and Politics in Ukraine: The Influence of Churches and Religious Traditions in Formation of Collective Memory

Field: Historia
Project leader: Yulia Yurchuk
Project type:

Religious and political spheres in Ukraine are tightly connected. One of the fields where such deep connection can be observ...

The (dis)connected refugee: The role of communication technologies in trust-building in Sweden and Germany.

Field: Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap
Project leader: Heike Graf
Project type:

The general public is currently witnessing large numbers of people fleeing from war and misery in their home countries. For ...

The Baltic economies: Catalysts for the internationalization of Swedish SMEs?.

Field: Nationalekonomi
Project leader: Patrik Tingvall
Project type:

Decades of globalization have fundamentally reshaped global trade. Deeper economic integration has not only led to increased...

The relocation of transcendence: The sacred of the seculars around the Baltic sea.

Field: Religionsvetenskap
Project leader: David Thurfjell
Project type:

The peoples of Denmark, Estonia and Sweden stand out when it comes to their views of religion and nature. When asked whether...

Transnational Art and Heritage Transfer and the Formation of Value: Objects, Agents, and Institutions.

Field: Cultural Studies
Project leader: Irina Sandomirskaja
Project type:

This is a transnational multidisciplinary study of art and cultural heritage in states around the Baltic Sea and transregion...


2016

A New Region of the World?

Field: Konstvetenskap
Project leader: Charlotte Bydler
Project type:

From company towns to fishing towns, international cities to closed cities, military towns to Sámi settlements, confined b...

Activism, civilizing mission and national project. Sweden and the Finnish Civil war 1918 in a transnational perspective.

Field: Historia
Project leader: Lars Ekdahl
Project type:

It is often claimed that the Scandinavian countries during the twentieth century were pioneers in democratic development, pea...

Art, culture, conflict: transformations of museums and memory culture in the Baltic Sea region after 1989.

Field: Konstvetenskap
Project leader: Dan Karlholm
Project type:

This project aims to map, analyze and interpret transformations of exhibitions of culture and art at museum institutions, art...

Between East and West: Ideology, aesthetics and politics in the musical relations between Sweden and the GDR 1949–1989.

Field: Etnologi
Project leader: Petra Garberding
Project type:

Germany has since the 19th century been an important country of interest for musicians and composers from Sweden, both as a ...

Brands resonating co-authors.

Field: Företagsekonomi
Project leader: Karin Winroth
Project type:

Brands are mediators. It means that brands intercede the demand and supply of products through the organisation, co-ordinati...

Collaboration, Synthesis, Spatiality – On the Ideas and Ideals in some Post-War Artist Groups.

Field: Konstvetenskap
Project leader: Håkan Nilsson
Project type:

My aim in this research project is to discuss a development that abstract art and modernist architecture took in Europe durin...

Decolonizing Phenomenologies

Field: Filosofi
Project leader: Nicholas Smith
Project type:

The project combines a decolonial critique of Husserl’s phenomenology (Smith) with an analysis of contemporary forms of sub...

Funding and projects

All projects have been placed at the Södertörn University. The projects are listed in chronological order according to the year of funding. Research projects funded by the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies, as a rule, last for three years. For further information on the projects, visit the University’s website, contact the respective project manager or the Foundation’s secretariat.

Publications
For publications visit the DiVA-portal. To access all publications registered with The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies (Östersjöstiftelsen) as funder use this link. For publications related to individual projects use simple search, choose “BETA – Projects” option and search on the project’s name. Please note, this function is under development.

Projects granted by the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies from 2008 onwards can also be found in SweCRIS, a national database of grant-funded research.