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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
2009
Endocrine disruption in fish: Risk identification, development of biomarkers and assessment of risk levels in the Baltic Sea.
Endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) interfere with the function of hormone systems of vertebrates and several invertebrate ...
Environmental Risk Governance of the Baltic Sea (RISKGOV)
Despite decades of substantial efforts by multiple actors on local, national, European and international levels to counteract...
Islands of Identity: Identity Building on Bornholm, Gotland, Åland, Saaremaa and Hiiumaa, 1800–2000
The project will study regional identity making on five large Baltic islands – Bornholm, Gotland, Åland, Saaremaa, and Hii...
Making Sense of Aisthesis: The Return of Sensibility
“Making Sense of Aisthesis: The Return of Sensibility” is a research project involving four scholars, Katarina Elam, Sara Dan...
National mobilization strategies and transnational networking: Social movements in East and West
The project aims at studying and comparing the societal conditions of mobilization of civil society and collective action in ...
Private Ownership in Sweden – Swedish Privatisation from an East European Perspective
Why was state ownership initiated and how was it so widely extended during the 20th century? Why has state owned property dur...
The Sea of Peace in the Shadow of Threats
The purpose of the project is to study the new security situation in the Baltic Sea region during the interwar period. The ma...
The transnational practice of regionalisation: a multidisciplinary study of visions, measurements and sense making in the Baltic Sea Region
The Baltic Sea Region – under transformation since the collapse of the Soviet Union – is clearly a region “in the makin...
2008
“Jag var en främling, vart jag än kom” Peter Weiss – en intellektuell i kalla krigets delade värld
Författaren Peter Weiss (PW) kom 1939 som flykting till Sverige där han dog 1982. Engagerad i svenskt/tyskt och västtyskt/...
Anaerobic ammonia oxidation (anammox): a proposed missing piece in the Baltic Sea nitrogen cycle
The Baltic Sea has low surface salinity and a steep halocline with anoxic bottom areas. The total reserves of nitrogen in the...
Balancing Integrity and Legal Security: A Comparison of Popular Surveillance in Germany, Sweden and Poland
This project intends to describe the development and use of surveillance technology in three states in the Baltic Sea area, G...
Digitala kreatörers värderingspraktik
Appreciation Practices Among Digital Creatives
Research question: How do...
East Meets West: Charismatic Christianity and Western Missions in Soviet Union, Russia and Ukraine
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the break up of the Soviet Union the peoples around the Baltic Sea have become more int...
Ecosystems as common-pool resources – Implications for building sustainable water management institutions in the Baltic Sea Region
In this project, we focus on governance of water resources and related ecosystem services in the Baltic Sea Region. The ongoi...
Familjen och den starka staten i ett Östeuropa/Östersjöperspektiv: frigörelse eller tvång?
Detta projekt rör sig i spänningsfältet mellan stat, familj och individ. Familjen betraktas här som en social institution...
Inter-religious Violence in Eastern Borderlands
Two cases will be deeply analyzed to see the degree to which and the circumstances in which neighbours participated in genoci...
Kroppen som gåva, resurs och vara: organtransplantationer i Östersjöområdet
Syftet med projektet är att på flervetenskaplig grund undersöka en medicinsk teknologi stadd i snabbförändring: organtra...
Landscape structure, patterns of biodiversity and conservation strategies in the Baltic Sea region
Natural landscapes vary substantially among different parts of the Baltic Sea region. Northern parts are forested, whereas ag...
Myten om “judebolsjevismen” – antisemitism och antikommunism i östersjöperspektiv
Myten om “judebolsjevismen” – d v s föreställningen att revolutionen i Ryssland och kommunismen varuttryck för judisk an...
Östersjöns Sjunkna Skepp. Tolkning och historisk betydelse
Östersjön är en av de bästa platserna i världen för skeppsarkeologer. En anledning till detta är att flertalet av de o...
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.