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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
2012
Regleringsmyndigheter i Östeuropa: Organisering för effektivitet
Delegation and organizational design within central government, from the ministries to the authorities, has been little studi...
Rum, makt och ideologi
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Tick-Borne Encephalitis virus (TBEV) cause severe CNS disease. Several factors, including climatechanges, have affected the T...
Parenting and Islam: Somali Mothers in Finland
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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.