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


2012

Regleringsmyndigheter i Östeuropa: Organisering för effektivitet

Field: Nationalekonomi
Project leader: Mats Bergman
Project type:

Delegation and organizational design within central government, from the ministries to the authorities, has been little studi...

Rum, makt och ideologi

Field: Filosofi
Project leader: Sven-Olov Wallenstein
Project type:

Through an investigation relating to the concepts of power, space, and ideology, the project aspires to determine central asp...

The Roma Genocide in Ukraine 1941-44: History, memories and representations

Field: Historia
Project leader: Piotr Wawrzeniuk
Project type:

The study of the Roma genocide in Ukraine has been fundamentally neglected. There are many unanswered questions concerning th...

What does it mean to be a father? State, civil society and citizen discourses about fatherhood in Russia

Field: Statsvetenskap
Project leader: Johnny Rodin
Project type:

The project’s aim is to deconstruct fatherhood discourses in Russia. Fatherhood is studied via three subprojects, focusing ...


2011

Conditions for Participatory Environmental Governance in a Regional Context: The Baltic and Adriatic Sea Regions

Field: Statsvetenskap
Project leader: Mai-Brith Schartau
Project type:

In a more globalized world, with multiple governance levels and sources of authority, participatory
governance, with stron...

Driving Forces for Environmental Policy-Making and Capacity Building in the Baltic Sea Region

Field: Samtidshistoria, miljövetenskap
Project leader: Simo Laakonen
Project type:

An integrated study on the environmental history of pollution and protection at national level in the
Baltic Sea Region in...

Evolutionary adaptation to environmental disturbance in marine ecosystems: genetic ecotoxicology in the Baltic Sea

Field: Miljövetenskap
Project leader: Mats Grahn
Project type:

The project will address the question of if and how biodiversity at the genetic level influence
the ability of species and...

Governments in Europe – Bringing in the Baltic and East Central European Democracies

Field: Statsvetenskap
Project leader: Torbjörn Bergman
Project type:

This project connects ten senior scholars in the Baltic and East Central Europe countries with Södertörn University for the...

Health and Population Developments in Eastern Europe in the Conditions of Economic Crisis

Field: Sociologi, medicinsk sociologi
Project leader: Ilkka Henrik Mäkinen
Project type:

While average life expectancy in Western EU countries increased by almost five years between 1986
and 2008, in several Eas...

Journalism in change – professional journalistic cultures in Russia, Poland and Sweden

Field: Journalistik
Project leader: Gunnar Nygren
Project type:

Journalism is a key factor in public sphere, in political communication as well as in formation of
identities in society. ...

Kampen om kulturen. En studie av kulturpolitisk förändring i Litauen och Sverige

Field: Företagsekonomi
Project leader: Jenny Svensson
Project type:

Cultural policy has traditionally emphasized ideas about education and refinement, equality, and
democracy; and of culture...

Molecular epidemiology, molecular evolution and vaccine development of Tick-borne encephalitis virus within the Baltic Sea region

Field: Biokemi, molekylärbiologi, miljövetenskap
Project leader: Magnus Johansson
Project type:

Tick-Borne Encephalitis virus (TBEV) cause severe CNS disease. Several factors, including climatechanges, have affected the T...

Parenting and Islam: Somali Mothers in Finland

Field: Religionsvetenskap
Project leader: Rannveig Haga
Project type:

Although the situation of Muslim immigrant youth is frequently scrutinized in the media and is a topic of great concern for p...

Politisk kultur och retorik i det svenska Östersjöväldet

Field: Retorik
Project leader: Annika Ström
Project type:

In the light of the present debate on how to define the concept of political culture, the project Rhetoric
and Political C...

Servicesamtal på distans – svenska färdtjänstanvändares interaktion med telefonister i Estland och Moldavien

Field: Lingvistik
Project leader: Ingela Tykesson
Project type:

In the globalized job market of today, businesses are increasingly turning to call service centers located abroad to provide ...

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. The Urban Arenas of the Baltic Middle Classes. A ”Long 19th Century” Study.

Field: Historia
Project leader: Martin Wottle
Project type:

The aim of the project is to study the development of the bourgeoisie in urban centres around the Baltic Sea during ’the lo...

The Structural Funds in the New Europe. A pilot study

Field: Sociologi, statsvetenskap
Project leader: Apostolis Papakostas
Project type:

The EU Structural Funds belong to the most tangible aspects of Europeanisation and are of vital importance for the new EU mem...


2010

Audiences in the Age of Media Convergence: Media Generations in Estonia and Sweden

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

It is often argued that young people are among the first to adopt new media technologies, and that they are especially keen o...

Britta Stenholm and Stellan Arvidson: Creators of opinion – Swedish networks and concealed powers in the Cold War. A discourse-historical linguistic study

Field: Lingvistik, historia, tyska
Project leader: Birgitta Almgren
Project type:

The aim of this project is to investigate cultural processes, ideological currents of thoughts in the Swedish society through...

Contemporary (Post) modernity? Canonization Processes of Advanced Art in Germany and Sweden 1977 – 2007

Field: Konstvetenskap
Project leader: Dan Karlholm
Project type:

This research project serves to enhance our understanding of the evaluation and temporalization of advanced art in Northern E...

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.