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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
2015
The impact of civil society organisations on the educational achievements of young people in marginalised urban areas of Stockholm and St. Petersburg
Young people from lower socioeconomic strata living in marginalized urban areas have substantially more difficulties in schoo...
The Phenomenology of Suffering in Medicine: Explorations in the Baltic Sea Region
Human suffering is a phenomenon absolutely central to medicine and medical ethics. To relieve suffering is a basic mission of...
Via Satellite – Transnational Infrastructures in European Television History
With only four days notice, the Soviet Union and its allies in the Eastern Bloc withdrew from the 1967 television broadcast, ...
2014
“Man builds and gets destroyed himself”: Aesthetics of the sublime in Soviet Russian Literature
This is a multidisciplinary project at the crossroads of Russian cultural history, post-Soviet studies, literary theory, aest...
Being and Becoming: A phenomenological perspective on formative dimensions of pre-school education in Sweden and Germany
This project investigates how participants in contemporary preschool education, teachers and children, understand the meaning...
Can Seed Banks facilitate the Conservation and Restoration of Species and Genetic diversity in Fragmented Semi-Natural Grasslands of the Baltic Sea Region?
The Baltic Sea region is home to the most species rich plant community in the world: semi-natural grasslands. This imposes a ...
Cultural and religious diversity in primary school (CARDIPS)
Cultural and religious diversity are becoming characteristics of the countries around the Baltic Sea, as well of most of the ...
Hegelian Marxism
How have Marxist theorists in the Eastern and Central Europe during the last century used the Hegelian philosophy with purpos...
Horse Cultures in Transition: interaction and ethics between human and horse in Sweden and Poland
Current cultural transformations reflects how the human being increasingly questions its traditional position as master of na...
Islamophobia in Germany, Poland and Russia, with Particular Attention to Its Christian Dimension
Islamophobia is certainly not a new phenomenon in Europe, but in recent decades this problem has increased significantly. The...
Paradox at Road’s End. The Simultaneous Fall of the Baltic German Elite and the Emancipation of its Women, 1905-1939.
The aim of this project is to seek knowledge about and understanding of the situation and experience of Baltic German women b...
Queer(y)ing Kinship in the Baltic Region
Queer(y)ing kinship in the Baltic Region is an empirically based and theoretically driven project in interdisciplinary gender...
Spaces of Expectation: Mental Mapping and Historical Imagination in the Baltic Sea and Mediterranean Region
The Baltic and the Mediterranean are focal areas of regional imagination that have been affected by the ‘new geography’ a...
Symbiotic leader-media relations? Exploring interaction between prime ministers and the media in Finland, Lithuania, Poland and Sweden
This research programme explores leader-media relations – mainly interactions between prime ministers (and their communicat...
The Domestic Paradox: A comparative study of representations of home and family life in art cutting through an east west divide
For Walter Benjamin the home at the beginning of the 20th Century was like a universe for the private citizen. To represent t...
Understanding the Long Arc of Financial Crises in the Baltic and Nordic Region. Comparing Causes, Management and Consequences of Financial Crises in a Region.
Financial crises are phenomena that appear with certain regularity, but unpredictable cause and timing. As economic historian...
UPPBASER – Understanding Past and Present Baltic Sea Ecosystem Response – background for a sustainable future
The Baltic Sea is today one of earth’s most endangered semi enclosed seas as a result of increased anthropogenic pressure man...
2013
Cooperating for sustainable regional marine governance – The case of fisheries and nutrient run-off from agriculture to the Baltic Sea
This project takes it point of departure in the findings of the recently closed BONUS/Baltic Sea Foundation project RISKGOV ...
European Values under Attack? Democracy, Disaffection and Minority Rights in the Baltic states
This project addresses the backlash against European values in a post-communist setting, i.e. the manifold instances of popul...
Fish in Water? Surveillance in Post-Communist Societies
The aim of the study is to broaden the knowledge-base on regulation and practices of surveillance in post-communist societies...
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.