Project database

The goal of the project is to investigate the character and dynamics of transnational abortion activism, a phenomenon that ca...

The project responds to the ongoing policy debate about artistic freedom and the role of artists in the context of the neolib...

Benjamin Höijer (1767–1812) is often described as the most brilliant thinker in the history of Swedish philosophy, but he ...

Crimes are a social problem and they come with considerable costs. Crime trends generally vary substantially over time in all...

Despite numerous calls for action and policy efforts by international organizations, the public response to the global climat...

This project investigates how animals represented in post-revolutionary literature and film contributed to expanding human pe...

The project explores the philosophical, theological, and literary developments within the Jewish minority of the Baltic Sea r...

Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and 2022 invasion of Ukraine has reshaped security in the Baltic Sea Region. Finland and...

The aim of the study is to explore the dynamic linkages between gender, expert knowledge and policy in the field of migration...

The full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, provoked an unprecedented level of forced migration from Ukra...

Sustainable society implies investing in children and reaching effective implementation of the rights of the child. It requir...

The proposed research project addresses the question of the relationship between Marxism and philosophy, a complex issue that...

This project will examine contemporary forms of networked misogyny in Germany, Sweden and Russia. It aims to understand how m...

This project aims to investigate how male and female servants were cared for by their masters in times of hardship and how th...

The project examines the Holocaust in Eastern Upper Silesia, a territory annexed by Nazi Germany from Poland after the invasi...

This project is an environmental and technological history of the nuclear age in Ukraine. It highlights major peaceful and mi...

This research proposal focuses on waterfront development in Baltic and Black Sea port cities. Up until recently, internationa...

The project asks what role major societal transition play on older individuals’ working lives. European countries are under...

Recent decades have witnessed a drastic increase in the amount of data gathered from the Baltic Sea with the use of digital t...

The EU has adopted a Just Transition (JT) Fund to support regions most adversely impacted by transitions to a carbon-free Eur...

With a focus on pleasure travel and consumption this project contributes with a unique perspective on the Baltic Sea, as some...

The aim of the project is to study the circulation, reception, and reshaping of ideas of the Swedish intellectual Ellen Key (...

The HSUD-DRNI network is formed to strengthen international collaboration between the individual researchers and academic ins...

The populations of the Baltic Sea region are among the fastest aging in Europe and there is an overall need for more research...

The Internet Research Agency (IRA) is a so called “troll-farm”, which is based in St. Petersburg and has ties to Kremlin....

This project focuses on language contact between Finnish and Finland Swedish, as well as between Danish and Sweden Swedish. M...

The main objective of the proposed Research Network Project is to establish a dynamic network dedicated to map key areas wher...

The production and consumption of local food is often advocated as an alternative to the unsustainable global and industrial ...

This project aims to provide insights into school dropout processes and post-dropout school-to-work transitions (STW) in Swed...

Constitutional stability among post-Soviet countries is challenged by recurring institutional conflict, autocratic presidents...

This project’s overall ambition is to explore Polish art in Sweden between 1968 – 2018. The timeframe is chosen because it ...

The project sheds light on an understudied aspect of post-war fascism: the mobilization of East European ‘expatriate fascist ...

During the last years, sustainable urban development became the focus of agenda for both governmental agencies and citizens i...

This project sets out to comparatively analyse civil society’s resilience and resourcefulness in Poland, Hungary, Romania, ...

The aim of this project is to understand how visual professionals at news organisations classify, make, and present photograp...

Main purpose of the project “UniSus: The role of universities in sustainable development. Collaboration, academic freedom.....

The aim of this project is to examine a philosophical strategy that is not overtly political, yet serves as resistance to tot...

This project seeks to understand the process through which Germany has reemerged as a highly regarded Kulturnation, after hav...

The Covid 19 pandemic has accelerated the digitalization of education and triggered prospects for the development of “smart...

Authoritarian persistence and democratic backsliding in the Baltic Sea region remain a key puzzle for researchers and policym...

Global climate change mitigation is the most important alternative to face the threats to our planet but poses ample challeng...

Popular music is an important field for symbolic resistance to political power in post-Soviet countries like Russia, Belarus,...

In recent times, on an international level, the conflict of commemoration between contemporary art and an older, nationalist ...

The purpose of this network is to explore the aspiration born in the circle of East-European and German thinkers of Jewish de...

Illustrating Neutral Nature appears self-contradictory, as any illustration is culturally produced, and thus, never fully neu...

How was information disseminated and received in and between ghettos in Nazi-occupied Poland? Was knowledge sharing inside an...

The significance of justice and equality in energy transitions has been increasingly acknowledged by scholars and politicians...

The main objective in the Research Network Project “Mapping key challenges to sustainability transitions in agriculture and f...

This project investigates “good motherhood” as a part of the new (femo)nationalism and helps to review the similarities a...

This project takes a broad approach to the reception of Pippi Longstocking in the German Democratic Republic (GDR)....

The project examines the multiplicity of discourses about healthiness or otherwise of dietary meat, in their genesis and evol...

Over the past decade, Finland, Serbia, and Sweden’s national systems of early childhood education and care (ECEC) have grap...

Eutrophication is a major environmental threat to the Baltic Sea, which have resulted in widespread “dead bottoms”, ecosy...

The project investigates the implementation of automated decision-making in the welfare sector in the Baltic Sea region being...

Can conscription help build national communities out of divided societies? Service in the armed forces can be a tool for soci...

The project aims to investigate how conservatoire music education shapes belongings in terms of nation and gender, during tim...

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) is a collective name for approx. 5000 synthetic chemicals used in a myriad of prod...

The network is novel not only in its theoretical framework, which places the Holocaust and the Romani genocide in a comparati...

This project aims to elucidate multilingual administrative writing in the Swedish Baltic empire during the emergence of natio...

One of the main reasons for migrating is the pursuit of better opportunities for oneself and for one’s children than what a...

Baltic and Eastern European countries offer several important case studies to broaden scholars’ understandings of governments...

The increase in anthropogenic activities in the last century has made the Baltic Sea polluted and the most hypoxic area in th...

This project aims at investigating so-called post-communist communism as it is developed by members of the Ljubljana School o...

Today’s European countries are countries of immigration (and emigration). Mainstream news media systematically speak about ...

The network is aimed at analyzing what is occurring with respect to studies of racism, racialization, ethnic discrimination a...

Although ‘internationalization’ tends to be is associated with positive connotations such as ‘innovation’ and ‘prog...

In the wake of #metoo and the reports of female actresses being more exposed to sexual harassment than their male co-workers,...

Mercury (Hg) remobilized from the earth crust by natural and anthropogenic processes and methylated in natural environments c...

This postdoc project suggests studying media use at the frontline in Eastern Ukraine (primarily by soldiers but also by civil...

The present research aims to bridge the diverse cultures of the Baltic region through reconstruction and analysis of cross-na...

The project deals with the place of Russian revolutionary heritage in the memory politics of post-Soviet Russia. It studies t...

Recent accounts of the state of democracy in the world report an increasing trend of democratic backsliding. The autocra...

In the 1990s, post-Soviet rural economies suffered from a staggering decline in production and accelerating outmigration. Sin...

The Internet has for decades been imagined as a safe space for sexual exploration. But with the current popularity of social ...

The goal of this project is to study genetic changes in sediment revived diatom populations subjected to human and climate in...

This proposal concerns a study on the concept of solidarity in general and international solidarity in particular and&nb...

Today in Central and Eastern Europe, nationalist rhetoric is increasingly pitted against the concept of liberal democracy, de...

The Great Terror in the Soviet Union 1937–38 was to a high degree accomplished on ethnic grounds. Especially citizens of Ge...

With the migration crisis of 2015 and onwards, the dilemma of whether to receive orreject migrants has re-entered public deba...

Bear traces: a study of the bear in national romantic literature around the Baltic Sea The bear is the Nordic region’s larg...

The general aim of this multidisciplinary research project is to increase the knowledge and understanding of how landscape ch...

Better understanding of how individuals in neighboring cultures in the Baltic Sea region approach interdependent decision-mak...

Since 1989/1991, the Baltic-Nordic Region (BNR) has evolved into a laboratory for a nongeopolitical form of regionalism, conc...

The project compares reforms of higher education governance in Finland and Sweden from 1965 until today, with a focus on how ...

Today, representative democracy, and thus party democracy, is often said to be in varying stages of crisis. In Europe, electi...

Despite the overall aim of marine spatial planning (MSP) to deliver sustainable seas for the purpose of sustainable societies...

The aim of my investigation is to examine Gulag memoirs in their double role as, on one hand, historical testimony and, on th...

The Relation between Work and Political Emancipation from a Central and Eastern European Perspective: Autocreation, Work and ...

This interdisciplinary research project aims to investigate the role of oblivion in the construction of memory, heritage and ...

This project studies the collaboration and exchanges in population and family policy between population associations in Finla...

While news remains a crucial conduit of information about society and the world, its consumption, production and distribution...

The focus of this project is feminist comic art and graphic novels from Sweden, Finland, Germany, and Russia. The multidisci...

This project examines the history and current relevance of continentalist ideas and their influence in national and internati...

The project aims to study the development of concepts of the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) in German academic-political discourse, ...

In the Swedish political debate, the key to the labour market is commonly considered to be proficiency in Swedish. At the sam...

The aim of this project is to study the strategies which Estonian single mothers use to manage their social protection (both ...

The project aims at mapping the Roma communities in 19th century Romania using historical sources in Romanian and Russian arc...

This project examines the use of revisionist World War Two narratives within the far right in post-Soviet East and West. The ...

With today’s digital technology and online environments the photojournalistic profession is challenged. Even if both amateu...

This project analyses the religious component of nation-building in contemporary Belarus and its implications for the develop...

This project is the first to comprehensively investigate national and transnational surrogacy in Baltic, Central and Eastern ...

Society and ecological health depend on ecological processes and functions, the so-called ecosystem functions. These function...

How is outer space envisioned in Russia? What are the visions of a Russian presence in space? What is the role of space inRus...

Within the chosen timeframe of this project ranging from the onset of Neolithic (in Sweden some 6000 years ago), it is quite...

The aim of the present research project is to explore how existential issues occur and are dealt with in health care against ...

Even though European mainstream migration studies have for long centred on first generation immigrants, research onmigrant’...

The proposed project studies the dairy industry in the Baltic rim, with particular focus on dairy firms in the Nordic and Ba...

Atlantic, allies against German forces – portrayed as good against evil. But when you turn your gaze to the Baltic the sit...

During the interwar period, 1919-1939, many states in Central and Eastern Europe faced the dilemma of developing new states m...

The on-going refugee crisis and recent years’ electoral successes for right-wing parties with anti-migration stances have i...

In this study, we examine narratives the way they are constructed in the interpreter mediated situation of asylum interviews ...

The project examines whether, and if so how, Phronesis (Practical Wisdom) could be understood as a collective capability, an...

Innovation is pivotal to economic growth and societal transformation. The concern then is to determine the means to uphold a...

The project will explore the exchange of medical knowledge between Sweden and Germany during the post-war period, focusing o...

The project analyses the work and life-worlds of policy professionals – people who are employed to affect politics and polic...

Religious and political spheres in Ukraine are tightly connected. One of the fields where such deep connection can be observ...

The general public is currently witnessing large numbers of people fleeing from war and misery in their home countries. For ...

Decades of globalization have fundamentally reshaped global trade. Deeper economic integration has not only led to increased...

The peoples of Denmark, Estonia and Sweden stand out when it comes to their views of religion and nature. When asked whether...

This is a transnational multidisciplinary study of art and cultural heritage in states around the Baltic Sea and transregion...

From company towns to fishing towns, international cities to closed cities, military towns to Sámi settlements, confined b...

It is often claimed that the Scandinavian countries during the twentieth century were pioneers in democratic development, pea...

This project aims to map, analyze and interpret transformations of exhibitions of culture and art at museum institutions, art...

Germany has since the 19th century been an important country of interest for musicians and composers from Sweden, both as a ...

Brands are mediators. It means that brands intercede the demand and supply of products through the organisation, co-ordinati...

My aim in this research project is to discuss a development that abstract art and modernist architecture took in Europe durin...

The project combines a decolonial critique of Husserl’s phenomenology (Smith) with an analysis of contemporary forms of sub...

Various drugs have been found in effluents from sewage treatment plants (STP). Swedish studies have demonstrated a wide spect...

The present project proposal focuses on entrepreneurship and firm dynamics in the Nordic-, Central- and East European economi...

Since the Bologna Declaration in 1999, independence is a concept that has gained much importance in higher education, especia...

In September 2013, Dagens Nyheter ran the headline “The Police Register Thousands of Romanis”. This, of course, horrified...

The conflict between Ukraine and Russia has once again reminded the world that wars are not only fought with guns and physic...

“Remembering Poland and Eastern Europe” has the aim of examining representations of Eastern Europe in fiction, autobiographi...

This project addresses the recent backlash against European values in a post-communist setting, i.e. the manifold instances o...

This project examines, from perspectives of rhetoric and the history of ideas, the construction of collective identities in t...

Foreign-educated physicians have become increasingly important for the Swedish healthcare sector. Most of the Swedish county ...

Longitudinal research suggests that childhood socioeconomic and psychosocial environment impact on health status in adulthood...

In recent decades auditing – including activities such as supervision, evaluation, quality assurance, scrutiny, inspection, c...

There are many gaps in the scientific literature on social movements dealing with housing during state socialism and after th...

In an international comparison, the democracies of Sweden and Finland appear to be unusually stable political cultures. Howev...

The shift towards a so-called knowledge society has generated a rapidly growing scholarly interest in how knowledge is produc...

During autumn 2013 the first ever scientific drilling expedition in the Baltic Sea was carried out within the International O...

Threats to the Baltic Sea marine environment and natural resources posed by disparate activities such as overfishing, shippin...

This project is positioned at the intersection of three research traditions with often overlapping objects of inquiry, and ye...

Of about 540 commercial nuclear reactors in the world, 100 have already been taken out of use. In the near future, many more ...

Urban farming makes a suitable case for investigating how values and ideas are shared, communicated and reproduced through di...

The Gateway to Russia: Memory Politics, Materiality and Collective Identities – St Catherine Swedish Congregation in St Peter...

Young people from lower socioeconomic strata living in marginalized urban areas have substantially more difficulties in schoo...

Human suffering is a phenomenon absolutely central to medicine and medical ethics. To relieve suffering is a basic mission of...

With only four days notice, the Soviet Union and its allies in the Eastern Bloc withdrew from the 1967 television broadcast, ...

This is a multidisciplinary project at the crossroads of Russian cultural history, post-Soviet studies, literary theory, aest...

This project investigates how participants in contemporary preschool education, teachers and children, understand the meaning...

The Baltic Sea region is home to the most species rich plant community in the world: semi-natural grasslands. This imposes a ...

Cultural and religious diversity are becoming characteristics of the countries around the Baltic Sea, as well of most of the ...

How have Marxist theorists in the Eastern and Central Europe during the last century used the Hegelian philosophy with purpos...

Current cultural transformations reflects how the human being increasingly questions its traditional position as master of na...

Islamophobia is certainly not a new phenomenon in Europe, but in recent decades this problem has increased significantly. The...

The aim of this project is to seek knowledge about and understanding of the situation and experience of Baltic German women b...

Queer(y)ing kinship in the Baltic Region is an empirically based and theoretically driven project in interdisciplinary gender...

The Baltic and the Mediterranean are focal areas of regional imagination that have been affected by the ‘new geography’ a...

This research programme explores leader-media relations – mainly interactions between prime ministers (and their communicat...

For Walter Benjamin the home at the beginning of the 20th Century was like a universe for the private citizen. To represent t...

Financial crises are phenomena that appear with certain regularity, but unpredictable cause and timing. As economic historian...

The Baltic Sea is today one of earth’s most endangered semi enclosed seas as a result of increased anthropogenic pressure man...

This project takes it point of departure in the findings of the recently closed BONUS/Baltic Sea Foundation project RISKGOV �...

This project addresses the backlash against European values in a post-communist setting, i.e. the manifold instances of popul...

The aim of the study is to broaden the knowledge-base on regulation and practices of surveillance in post-communist societies...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This research project aims at studying changes in taste structures and cultural preferences among Estonian and Swedish studen...

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

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

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

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 studies the relation between prejudice, perceptive predisposition ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The suggested project attempts to reconsider the idea of “commonality”. It envisages the concept of a
common ground for so...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Several factors, in particular those related to adult experience and life style, have been suggested as explanations for the ...

The main purpose of this project is to discuss and problematize ideas and understandings of the cosmopolitical. Cosmopolitani...

An on-going scientific discussion concerns whether we are presently seeing a policy convergence in integration policy in Euro...

The aim is to investigate journalism education in relation to models of journalism and professional values in Russia (M.V. Lo...

Establishment of markets and creation of regions are acknowledged as slow and incremental processes, but there are also examp...

Scholars often treat environmentalism as a hard-science concern. But environmental change necessarily involves human thoughts...

Mourning Becomes Electra. Gender discrimination and human rights – altered relations among international organs, states...