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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
2016
Effects of SSRI exposures early in life on juvenile and adult behavior in three-spine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) and possible effects in the Baltic Sea.
Various drugs have been found in effluents from sewage treatment plants (STP). Swedish studies have demonstrated a wide spect...
Firm demography and entrepreneurship in Eastern and Central Europe and in the Baltic region.
The present project proposal focuses on entrepreneurship and firm dynamics in the Nordic-, Central- and East European economi...
Independence in higher education: A comparative study of Sweden and Russia.
Since the Bologna Declaration in 1999, independence is a concept that has gained much importance in higher education, especia...
Police, Experts and Race: Handling the “Gypsy Plague” in Denmark, Sweden and Latvia, 1930-1945.
In September 2013, Dagens Nyheter ran the headline “The Police Register Thousands of Romanis”. This, of course, horrified...
Propaganda and management of information in the Ukraine-Russia conflict: From nation branding to information war.
The conflict between Ukraine and Russia has once again reminded the world that wars are not only fought with guns and physic...
Remembering Poland and Eastern Europe: Nostalgia, Memory, and Affect in Diasporic Women’s Writing.
“Remembering Poland and Eastern Europe” has the aim of examining representations of Eastern Europe in fiction, autobiographi...
Returning to Europe and Turning Away From “Europe”? Post-Accession Attitudes in Central and Eastern Europe.
This project addresses the recent backlash against European values in a post-communist setting, i.e. the manifold instances o...
Terra, patria, urbs. the construction of collective identities in the Swedish Baltic Empire during early-modern times.
This project examines, from perspectives of rhetoric and the history of ideas, the construction of collective identities in t...
2015
Abroad-recruited physicians’ education on medical Swedish in Poland
Foreign-educated physicians have become increasingly important for the Swedish healthcare sector. Most of the Swedish county ...
Adverse childhood experiences, alcohol use in adulthood and mortality: Examining the associations using retrospective survey data and record linkage in Estonia
Longitudinal research suggests that childhood socioeconomic and psychosocial environment impact on health status in adulthood...
Auditing the school sector – a comparative study of systems of school inspection in Sweden, Finland and Poland
In recent decades auditing – including activities such as supervision, evaluation, quality assurance, scrutiny, inspection, c...
Challenging the myths of weak civil society in post-socialist settings: ‘Unexpected’ alliances and mobilizations in the field of housing activism in Poland
Projektsammanfattning
There are many gaps in the scientific lit...
Driving forces of democracy. Context and characteristics in the democratization of Finland and Sweden 1890-2020
In an international comparison, the democracies of Sweden and Finland appear to be unusually stable political cultures. Howev...
Gender and Political Cultures of Knowledge in Germany, Poland, and Sweden
The shift towards a so-called knowledge society has generated a rapidly growing scholarly interest in how knowledge is produc...
Late Pleistocene and Holocene climate forcing on the Baltic Sea
During autumn 2013 the first ever scientific drilling expedition in the Baltic Sea was carried out within the International O...
Marine Spatial Planning in the Baltic Sea Region – Integrating Scales, Sectors and Knowledge
Threats to the Baltic Sea marine environment and natural resources posed by disparate activities such as overfishing, shippin...
New Media and the Dynamics of Civil Society in the New EU Democracies: A Paired Comparison
This project is positioned at the intersection of three research traditions with often overlapping objects of inquiry, and ye...
Nuclear legacies: Negotiating radioactivity in France, Russia and Sweden
Of about 540 commercial nuclear reactors in the world, 100 have already been taken out of use. In the near future, many more ...
Sustainable Communities through Digital Design
Urban farming makes a suitable case for investigating how values and ideas are shared, communicated and reproduced through di...
The Gateway to Russia: Memory Politics, Materiality and Collective Identities – St Catherine Swedish Congregation in St Petersburg around the turn of two Centuries
The Gateway to Russia: Memory Politics, Materiality and Collective Identities – St Catherine Swedish Congregation in St Peter...
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.