The Board of the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies has at its meeting on 30 September 2024 made the decisions on which research projects that will receive funding in this year’s calls. The assessment work in the Foundation’s various assessment panels has resulted in recommendations to the Foundation’s Board, which has now decided to grant a total of SEK 69 million to 16 research projects.

The projects will be conducted at Södertörn University, the grant administrator.

Two and three-year projects

Funding support for a project is available for an individual researcher or small group of researchers. The project period is two or three years and the amount of grant is a maximum of SEK 2 million a year. The Foundation has approved 12 project applications in this year’s application round.

Project number	Project leader	Title	University	Amount granted
24-PR2-0004	Petra Österlund	The GDR folk music scene and its contacts with Sweden 1960 –1995	Södertörns Högskola	2 792 000 kr
24-PR2-0005	Andrei Stsiapanau	Unfolding the Ignalina NPP Archives: Soviet Nuclear Infrastructure in the Baltic States	Vytautas Magnus Universitet	4 477 000 kr
24-PR2-0006	Piotr Wawrzeniuk	From Soviet legacy to existential war: evolution of Ukrainian military culture 1991-2023	Försvarshögskola	5 884 000 kr
24-PR2-0009	Livia Olah	Vulnerability and partnership dynamics in the Baltic Sea region: Similarities and differences within and between Eastern European and Nordic countries	Stockholms Universitet	5 997 000 kr
24-PR2-0010	Dmitrii Dorogov	The Return of Repressive Psychiatry: Biopolitics of Mental Health in Putinite Russia	Södertörns Högskola	4 193 000 kr
24-PR2-0011	Emma Hagström Molin	Knowledge disruptions. A study of destructions, movements, and resurrections of archives and libraries in the Baltic Sea Area, c. 1650–1815.	Södertörns Högskola	4 174 000 kr
24-PR2-0016	Stefano Fogelberg Rota	Baltic Queen: Christina’s Legacy in the Baltic area during the Swedish Great Power Era	Södertörns Högskola	4 084 000 kr
24-PR2-0017	Eva Schwarz	The cultivation of force – An investigation into emotional practices of teaching the use of force in Swedish and German Police Education	Södertörns Högskola	5 986 000 kr
24-PR2-0020	Susanna Witt	De/colonizing Ukraine: Practices of Russification and Modes of Resistance 1922–1991	Stockholm Universitet	6 000 000 kr
24-PR2-0021	Elinor Andrén	Submarine Landslides and Potential Tsunami Events in the Baltic Sea: Enhancing Geohazard Understanding for Submerged and Coastal Infrastructures	Södertörns Högskola	5 999 000 kr
24-PR2-0022	Alexandra Urakova	Queering the Canon: Silenced Undercurrents in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature	Tampere Universitet	4 137 000 kr
24-PR2-0025	Ekaterina Rybkina	Wired Empire: Telegraph and Techno-Diplomacy in the Caucasus, 1850s–1917	Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg	3 557 000 kr

Postdoctoral projects

Funding support for a postdoctoral project is available for an individual researcher who has recently obtained a doctoral degree. The project period is two years and the salary funding may cover 80–100% of a full-time annual position. The Foundation has approved 4 postdoctoral project applications in this year’s application round.

Project number	Project leader	Title	University	Amount granted
24-PD2-0003	Kristina Wejstål	Fencing off Europe: The Enforcement of Fundamental Rights at EU’s Eastern Borders	Göteborgs universitet	2 779 000 kr
24-PD2-0004	Åsa Nilsson Austin	Sediment secrets: A 300-year exploration of the impact of aquatic vegetation biodiversity on blue carbon storage in the Baltic Sea	Stockholms universitet	3 179 000 kr
24-PD2-0005	Lovisa Olsson	Women’s Mobility and Migration Patterns in the Baltic Sea Region, 1360-1560	Södertörns högskola	2 961 000 kr
24-PD2-0008	Kārlis Sils	Political Street Violence in Interwar Rīga: Echoes of Imperial Collapse?	European University Institute	2 818 000 kr

Join us on Monday, November 25, 2024, at 10:00 AM for a virtual information session about the various grants offered by the foundation in 2025. During the meeting, you’ll receive valuable tips from the research committee and Södertörn University on how to apply, and there will be an opportunity for you to ask questions. The meeting will be held in English. Please register by November 22 by sending an email to info@ostersjostiftelsen.se. Dont miss out!

Sara Packalén, with a Ph.D. in theoretical philosophy and extensive experience in research funding and administration, has been appointed as the Research Director of the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies. Her most recent position was at the Swedish Research Council as a research secretary.

“We are proud and delighted to welcome Sara Packalén to the Foundation; we have succeeded in making an excellent recruitment,” says Chairman Peter Hedström. “The foundation will continue to work towards advancing excellence in research, and Sara will play a crucial role in helping us achieve our goals.”