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


2013

Nation branding

Field: Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap
Project leader: Göran Bolin
Project type:

Nation branding – where nation-states in conjunction with international branding consultants execute marketing campaigns fo...

Psychological mechanisms underlying political orientations in an old and a new democracy – A comparative study between Sweden and Latvia

Field: Psykologi
Project leader: Maria Sandgren
Project type:

The aim of this project is to study the psychological aspects of individual political orientation (i.e., identifying oneself ...

Ships at War – An Archaeological and Historical Study of Early Modern Maritime Battlefields in the Baltic

Field: Marinarkeologi
Project leader: Johan Rönnby
Project type:

The project is a cooperation between the disciplines of archaeology and history and a part of the aim to formulate joint proj...

Soviet Nordic Minorities and Ethnic Cleansings on the Kola Peninsula

Field: Historia
Project leader: Andrej Kotljarchuk
Project type:

The project deals with Soviet nationalities politics towards Nordic minorities on the Kola Peninsula. The 1926 Soviet census ...

The Bund in Sweden 1946-1954 : a Jewish workers’ movement at the crossroads

Field: Samtidshistoria
Project leader: Håkan Blomqvist
Project type:

The purpose of this project, The Bund in Sweden 1946-1954 : a Jewish workers’ movement at the crossroads, is to illuminate ...

The Early Modern Academic Culture in the Baltic Sea Region

Field: Idéhistoria, retorik
Project leader: Erland Sellberg
Project type:

The Baltic Sea region plays no prominent role in standard works on the history of European universities. This project will th...

The labour movement in the Baltic Sea region: a new world of crises and insecurity (1970-2010)

Field: Samtidshistoria
Project leader: Kjell Östberg
Project type:

The research project “The Labour Movement in the Baltic Sea Region (Arioso)” has been working as a close-nit research env...

The paradox of the Polish cultural identities

Field: Litteraturvetenskap
Project leader: Janusz Korek
Project type:

The over-all aim of the project is to study cultural identity discourses in Polish exile literature after 1945 using M. Fouca...

The vision of Eurasia: Eurasianist influences on politics, culture and ideology in Russia today

Field: Idéhistoria
Project leader: Mark Bassin
Project type:

The aim of this project is to evaluate the degree to which the concepts, arguments, and tropes of Eurasianism have penetrated...

Urban Social Movements in the Post-Soviet Context: Opportunity Structures and Local Activism in Moscow and Vilnius

Field: Sociologi
Project leader: Kerstin Jacobsson
Project type:

The project proposes to study local activist groups in Moscow and Vilnius, active in the field of housing and local environme...

Yuri Lotman’s Semiotic Theory in the Study of Cognition

Field: Litteraturvetenskap, slaviska språk
Project leader: Aleksei Semenenko
Project type:

The project aims to update and critically (re-)assess the legacy of the semiotician and literary scholar Yuri Lotman in the c...


2012

‘We are no second-rate quality citizens’. Negotiating ‘biological’ citizenship in social mobilizations around infertility issues and access to in vitro in Poland.

Field: Sociologi
Project leader: Elzbieta Korolczuk
Project type: Project

The project focuses on the social mobilizations concerning infertility and in vitro in Poland during the last decade. The mai...

Anarchists in Eastern and Western Europe- a Comparative Study

Field: Sociologi
Project leader: Magnus Wennerhag
Project type:

During recent years, scholarly attention has been given to civil society in Eastern Europe, and to a certain degree also to t...

Endocrine disruption in fish: Effects on behaviour and reproduction, development of biomarkers and assessment of risk levels in the Baltic Sea

Field: Molekylärbiologi, zoologi, ekologi
Project leader: Inger Porsch Hällström
Project type:

Endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) interfere with the function of the hormone system of all vertebrates and several non-ve...

Fred, nya identitetskonstruktioner och kosmopolitiska, interkulturella lärandeprocesser i det globaliserade samhället. Ungas värderingar i Östersjöregionen: Tjeckien, Polen och Sverige.

Field: Internationell pedagogik
Project leader: Katrin Goldstein-Kyaga
Project type:

The aim of the project is to investigate if, and in that case, how new identity constructions and cosmopolitan, intercultural...

HUR DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT GÖR SKILLNAD. En jämförande studie om hur frågor om etnisk och nationell mångfald hanteras i massmedieorganisationer i Sverige och Tyskland

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

The development towards diversity in the working life is necessary both on the basis of globalization and as a human rights i...

Information, infrastructure in the Baltic Area. Nodes, News and News Agents, c.1650 – 1700

Field: Historia
Project leader: Heiko Droste
Project type:

Early modern societies experienced a dynamic development, which in many respects can be explained with the formation of an in...

Mediernas diskurser om materiella och etniska klyftor. En jämförande studie i St Petersburg och Stockholm

Field: Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap
Project leader: Stina Bengtsson
Project type:

Research confirms that the media play a role for our views of reality, especially when we do not have much experience of our ...

Narratives of Europe: Perspectives from its North-East Periphery

Field: Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap
Project leader: Johan Fornäs
Project type:

This project investigates how Europe is identified in narratives from the greater Baltic region. It focuses on how “Europea...

Perceptions of the other: aesthetics, ethics and prejudice

Field: Estetik
Project leader: Cecilia Sjöholm
Project type:

Perceptions of the other; aesthetics, ethics and prejudice studies the relation between prejudice, perceptive predisposition ...

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.