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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
2010
Do history and factors in early life contribute to social inequalities in health in the region of former Soviet Union? Evidence from Estonia
Several factors, in particular those related to adult experience and life style, have been suggested as explanations for the ...
East of Cosmopolis: The world citizen and the paradox of the undocumented
The main purpose of this project is to discuss and problematize ideas and understandings of the cosmopolitical. Cosmopolitani...
Immigrant Integration Policy and the EU: Convergence in national integration policies?
An on-going scientific discussion concerns whether we are presently seeing a policy convergence in integration policy in Euro...
Journalism Education – formation of professional identity in changing media systems
The aim is to investigate journalism education in relation to models of journalism and professional values in Russia (M.V. Lo...
Markets & Regions – A project on region building and the long-term sustainability and potential integrative effects of capital mobility and investment in the Baltic Sea Region
Establishment of markets and creation of regions are acknowledged as slow and incremental processes, but there are also examp...
Media, Communication, and the Social Performance of Environmentalism: Comparing Ecological Collectives on Two Sides of the Baltic Sea
Scholars often treat environmentalism as a hard-science concern. But environmental change necessarily involves human thoughts...
Mourning Becomes Electra. Gender discrimination and human rights
Mourning Becomes Electra. Gender discrimination and human rights – altered relations among international organs, states...
Polish and Swedish doctors in Swedish health care – A study of occupational cultures
Doctors represent a seemingly universal profession, sharing a set of competences and a partly similar view on their role as d...
Public Discourse and Environmental Risks: Exploring gas pipeline plan and flooding scenarios in the Baltic Sea Region
Environmental risks transcend traditional boundaries and raise a need for new governing and communication strategies. It also...
Rapid Social Change and its Effects on Public Health in St. Petersburg, 1880-1914
The value of focusing on health in the past and using this knowledge as a tool to help understand what is happening in the pr...
Teaching religion and thinking education on the Baltic-Barent brim
Across Europe, national educational systems provide forceful links between states and citizens. The mandatory school is a pri...
The crucial importance of Swedish language and Swedish exile in the aesthetic renewal of modernism in the literary works of Peter Weiss
For more than 10 years Peter Weiss wrote as well in Swedish as in German, and apparently the real importance of the Swedish l...
The development of Russian financial market and its institutional actors: From the fall of the Soviet Union to the financial crisis 2008
The overall purpose of the project is to investigate the emergence and further development of the Russian financial markets...
The emergence of racism. On beliefs about language use and linguistic discrimination among two professional groups in Sweden and Germany
Linguistic choices play an important role in how we identify and classify each other and ourselves, i.e. we speak and refer t...
The story of crucian carp in the Baltic Sea region – History and a possible future
The overall purpose of this research project is to focus, in an interdisciplinary perspective, on the history and current sta...
2009
Archaeological traces. Past migrations, interaction and spatial patterns in the Baltic Sea area.
The project departs in the contradiction between the sedentary and place bound character of archaeological thought and data, ...
Becoming an Adult in Eastern and Western Europe: Interrelationships between Policies, Practices and Attitudes
All European countries share concerns about changing structure of the population, decreasing fertility and increasing ageing,...
Chemicals in textiles: managing environmental and health risks from products with complex product chains
The project aims at increased understanding of private and public purchasing organizations’ conditions, difficulties and op...
Construction and normalisation of gender online among young people in Estonia and Sweden
The aim the project is to study how gender is created, expressed and normalized in online environments among young people (ag...
Cultural feminism! The interaction between culture and activism in the new Women’s liberation movement in Sweden and West Germany
As a protest movement, the feminist, non-governmental mobilization and separatist organizing of the Women’s liberation move...
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.