The Foundation’s secretariat is closed from 20th December 2024 until 6th January 2025.
The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Apply for funding via the Foundation’s application system Apply. See more information under For researchers.
| Calls for applications | Last application date | Notification | Last application date in stage 2 | Decision |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Two- and three year projects | Stage 1: 31 January 2025 at 3:00 pm | Stage 1: March 2025 | Stage 2: 25 April 2025 at 3:00 pm | October 2025 |
| Postdoctoral projects | Stage 1: 31 January 2025 at 3:00 pm | Stage 1: March 2025 | Stage 2: 25 April 2025 at 3:00 pm | October 2025 |
| Grand projects | 31 January 2025 at 3:00 pm | May 2025 | – | October 2025 |
| Research networks | 31 January 2025 at 3:00 pm | – | – | May 2025 |
| Conference grants | 28 February, 30 May, 30 September 2025 at 3:00 pm | – | – | March, June, October 2025 |
| Publication grants | 28 February, 30 May, 30 September 2025 at 3:00 pm | – | – | March, June, October 2025 |
On 25 November 2024 the Foundation held an information meeting before calls for applications in 2025. See the presentation from the information meeting.
2025 the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies announces calls for the following forms of support:
The calls for applications open on 16 December 2024 at 9 am. On the same day, new instructions for applications in 2025 will be posted on the Foundation’s website.
The last application date for projects, postdoctoral projects, grand projects and research networks is Friday 31 January 2025 at 3 pm.
Conference and publication grants can be applied for continuously between 16 December 2024 and 30 September 2025. Decisions are made three times a year. Deadlines for submission of applications before respective decision are: 28 February, 30 May and 30 September 2025.
On Monday, 27 November 2023 at 9:00-11:00 am the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies organises an information meeting before calls for project applications in 2024. The meeting takes place online (Teams) and is held in English. The Foundation’s secretariat, members of the Foundation’s research committee and representatives from Södertörn University will participate.
Register your participation not later than 22 November 2023 to ulrika.mansson@ostersjostiftelsen.se.
On the Foundation’s website, you can find all information concerning the upcoming application round. Available here are instructions, an overview of the forms of support, information about which forms of support you are eligible to apply for, questions and answers, and a description of research relevance to the Baltic Sea Region and Eastern Europe.
Warm welcome!
The instructions apply to five forms of support: two- and three-year projects, postdoctoral projects, research networks, conference grants and publication grants. Calls for grand projects are announced every two years. The call is suspended in 2024 and the next call will be announced in 2025.
The instructions are separate for each form of support. The instructions, an overview of the forms of support, questions and answers, as well as a tables explaining who can apply for which grant are available in both Swedish and English. See For researchers.
See detailed information in the instructions for each form of support.
All the calls open on Monday 8 January 2024 at 9:00 am.
The last application date for two- and three-year projects and postdoctoral projects in stage 1 as well as research networks is Wednesday, 31 January 2024 at 3:00 pm.
Applications for conference and publication grants may be submitted on ongoing basis until 29 November 2024 at 3:00 pm. Decisions are taken four times annually: in March, June, September and December. Deadlines for submission of applications before respective decision are: 29 February, 31 May, 31 August and 29 November 2024.
An information meeting about the 2024 calls for applications will be held online on Monday, 27 November 2023 at 9:00-11:00 am. The meeting will be held in English. More information will be published on the website.
The Board of the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies has at its meeting on 11 October 2023 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 96,5 million to 17 research 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 11 project applications in this year’s application round.
| Title | Project manager | Department | Amount granted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crimes and socio-economic development in the Baltic Sea Region and Eastern Europe in comparative perspective | Marcus Box | The School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University | SEK 5,717,000 |
| Networked misogyny in Sweden, Germany and Russia: articulations, intersections and transnational flows | Maria Brock | The School of Culture and Education, Södertörn University | SEK 5,864,000 |
| In the Shadows of War: Belonging, Identities, and Hierarchies in Intra-regional Migration in Central and Eastern Europe after Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine | Florence Fröhlig | The School of Historical and Contemporary Studies, Södertörn University | SEK 5,795,000 |
| Crafts crossing the Baltic: development and transmission of osseous technologies in the Baltic Sea region c. 9500–3000 BCE | Sara Gummesson | The School of Historical and Contemporary Studies, Södertörn University | SEK 5,999,000 |
| Ukraine and the Global Nuclear Order: an Environmental and Technological History | Tatiana Kasperski | The School of Historical and Contemporary Studies, Södertörn University | SEK 3,872,000 |
| Culturally adapted behavioral interventions for promoting residential energy conservation in the Baltic Sea region | Andrius Kažukauskas | The School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University | SEK 5,992,000 |
| Gender and Expert Knowledge. A Study of Migration and Integration Policies in Germany, Poland and Sweden | Teresa Kulawik | The School of Culture and Education, Södertörn University | SEK 6,000,000 |
| Artrepreneneurs on the Edge Between Artistic Autonomy and Marketization: Organizing Creative Practice in the Baltic Sea Region (ArtR) | Ann-Sofie Köping Olsson | The School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University | SEK 5,999,000 |
| From a “Sea of Peace” to a “NATO lake”? A feminist security analysis of island militarisation in the Baltic Sea | Sanna Strand | The School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University | SEK 5,747,000 |
| The benevolent patriarch? How crises reveal early modern households’ labour organisation and the reach of patriarchal care across the Baltic Sea, 1723–1809 | Carolina Uppenberg | The School of Historical and Contemporary Studies, Södertörn University | SEK 3,574,000 |
| #SolidarityWithPolishWomen: Transnational Abortion Activism in Eastern Europe and the Baltic Sea Region | Katarzyna Wojnicka | The School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University | SEK 4,773,000 |
See summaries of the approved two- and three-year 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 5 postdoctoral project applications in this year’s application round.
| Title | Project manager | Department | Amount granted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lawyer’s practical knowledge of children’s rights principles towards sustainable society – Experiences of Sweden and Serbia | Milena Banic | The School of Culture and Education, Södertörn University | SEK 2,773,000 |
| The Other Victims of Auschwitz: The Murder of Sick Prisoners in Upper Silesian Forced Labour Camps for Jews | Susanne Barth | The School of Historical and Contemporary Studies, Södertörn University | SEK 2,606,000 |
| Music and Sustainability as Affective Assemblage: The Baltic Sea Festival and its Engagement with Scientific Research on Environmental Sustainability of the Baltic Sea Region | Elin Kanhov | The School of Culture and Education, Södertörn University | SEK 2,790,000 |
| Waterfront visions: Baltic and Black Sea urbanism after postsocialism | Vassilis Kitsos | The School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University | SEK 2,550, 000 |
| Marxism as an Event in Philosophy: Slovenian and Yugoslav readings of Marx between 1960–1990 | Lea Kuhar | The School of Culture and Education, Södertörn University | SEK 2,852,000 |
See summaries of the approved postdoctoral projects.
‘Grand projects’ are those undertaken by a group comprising at least four researchers, with a joint, coherent research task. Grand projects aim to engage in collaboration across subject and institutional boundaries and national borders, and to enable researchers to form a research group that is active in the long term. Within the framework of grand projects funding may be applied for postdoctoral researchers and doctoral students. The project period is four or five years and the amount of grant is a maximum of SEK 5 million a year. The Foundation has approved one grand project application in this year’s application round.
| Title | Project manager | Department | Amount granted |
| Experimenting with Traditions: The Life and Afterlife of 20th Century Jewish Intellectual Culture in the Baltic Sea Region | Ulrika Björk | The School of Culture and Education, Södertörn University | SEK 23,606,000 |
See the summary of the approved grand project.
The assessments have been carried out by special assessment panels based on the applications and on external experts’ assessments and for grand projects also on interviews with research groups. The Board of the Foundation has followed the recommendations of the assessment panels.
The research projects will start from January 2024.
Notifications of the Foundation’s decisions are sent to the applicants by e-mail.
Granted research projects and research networks are presented in the Foundation’s project database. When the projects and networks have completed their activities, final reports are also posted in the project database. For each project, the publications that the project has resulted in are listed. Most of publications funded by the Foundation are published open access.
On June 7 and September 8, 2023, the Foundation granted SEK 230,000 to three applications for conference grants and SEK 7,000 to an application for publication grant. The funds may be used during one year from the date of the decision.
Conference grants aim to promote internationalisation and knowledge exchange among Swedish and foreign researchers and to help disseminate research on the Baltic Sea Region and Eastern Europe.
Publication grants enable researchers who have had a previous research project funded by the Foundation to publish research results after the end of the project. The form of support can also be applied for in connection with a conference grant.
| Title | Projekt manager | Department | Form of support | Amount granted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Secure Horizons: Ukraine’s Peace and Infosecurity Confluence | Nicholas Aylott | The School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University | Conference grant | SEK 94,000 |
| NordAnd16 – Nordic Languages as a Second Language | Zoe Nikolaidou | The School of Culture and Education, Södertörn University | Conference grant | SEK 44,000 |
| Key challenges to sustainability on small islands in the Baltic and Eastern European context | Paulina Rytkönen | The School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University | Conference grant | SEK 92,000 |
| From a ’Black City’ to a Paradisical Garden: Villa Petrolea and the Metamorphoses of the Oil-Fevered Baku | Irina Seits | The School of Culture and Education, Södertörn University | Publication grant | SEK 7,000 |
Östersjöstiftelsen, The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies, funds research, doctoral studies and scientific infrastructure, and also activities that develop these areas at Södertörn University. The Foundation’s financial support must be related to the Baltic Sea Region and Eastern Europe and may cover all disciplines. The Foundation supports research projects by individual researchers and research groups after application in annual calls. It also supports activities at Södertörn University after an annual application from the university.
2024 the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies will announce calls for the following forms of support:
Calls for grand projects are announced every two years. The call is suspended in 2024 and the next call will be announced in 2025.
The calls for projects, postdoctoral projects and research networks open on Monday 8 January 2024 at 9 am and the last application date is Wednesday 31 January 2024 at 3 pm.
Conference and publication grants can be applied for continuously between 8 January and 29 November 2024. Decisions are made four times a year: in March, June, September and December.
New instructions for applications in 2024 will be posted on the Foundation’s website in October.
An information meeting prior to calls for applications 2024 will be held digitally on 27 November 2023 at 9 am. The meeting will be held in English. More information will be posted on the website well in advance of the meeting.
Peter Hedström has been appointed as Chair of the Board of the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies from 7 July 2023. He is currently Professor of Analytical Sociology at Linköping University and Senior Research Fellow at Nuffield College in Oxford.
Peter Hedström received his PhD in sociology from Harvard and has previously, for instance, been a professor at Stockholm University and the University of Oxford. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities and has previously been a member of the Board at the Swedish Research Council and STINT. He was the founder of the Institute for Analytical Sociology at Linköping University and has been CEO of the Institute for Futures Studies.
“I feel very honored by the assignment” says Peter Hedström. “It is a great responsibility and an exciting challenge to ensure that the extensive funds that the Foundation disposes of are used as wisely as possible. Personally, I hope that the Foundation will primarily focus on strengthening free, researcher-initiated research related to the Baltic Sea Region and Eastern Europe to by that means stimulate research with as much international influence as possible,” he underlines.
The Board of the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies has on April 18, 2023, made the decision on which research networks that will receive funding in this year’s call. The Foundation has granted SEK 443,000 to three research networks. Funding of the networks covers one year and has a start date on 1 September 2023.
On March 21, 2023, the Foundation granted SEK 818,014 to three applications for conference grants. The funds may be used during one year from the date of the decision.
| Project title | Project manager | Grant administrator | Amount granted |
|---|---|---|---|
| UniSus: The role of universities in sustainable development. Collaboration, academic freedom and cross-sectoral contributions | Peter Dobers | Södertörn University, School of Social Sciences | SEK 143,000 |
| Mapping key challenges to sustainability on islands in the Baltic Sea and Eastern Europe | Paulina Rytkönen | Södertörn University, School of Social Sciences | SEK 150,000 |
| HSUD-DRNI: Practices of Decolonisation and the Rise of New Imperialisms in the Uses of Heritage and Sustainable Urban Development | Irina Seits | Södertörn University, School of Culture and Education | SEK 150,000 |
Research networks support either creating new networks of researchers or maintaining already established ones. The networks must themselves initiate research and serve the purpose of contributing to future research through academic meetings and contacts where researchers can define, delimit and formulate research ideas that may eventually culminate in applications for research funds. The financial scope is maximum SEK 150,000 per network.
| Project title | Project manager | Grant administrator | Amount granted |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Political Representation and Participation of Migrants and Ethnic Minorities: Eastern Europe in a Broader Context | Joakim Ekman | Södertörn University, School of Social Sciences | SEK 213,030 |
| Decolonisation of Memory in the former Soviet spaces | Yuliya Yurchuk | Södertörn University, The School of Historical and Contemporary Studies | SEK 277,141 |
| How to Be Prepared? Governance for Societal Resilience in the Baltic Sea Region and Eastern Europe | Oleksandra Keudel | Södertörn University, School of Social Sciences | SEK 327,843 |
Conference grants aim to promote internationalisation and knowledge exchange among Swedish and foreign researchers and to help disseminate research on the Baltic Sea Region and Eastern Europe.
The Swedish Research Council has taken an initiative to investigate what researchers think about open access publishing. The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies and Riksbankens Jubileumsfond participate in the study. The survey is divided into two parts: one about open access to publications and one about open access to research data.
For the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies it is interesting to gain knowledge about how researchers with funding from the Foundation perceive issues related to open access. The survey is not checking whether researchers are complying with the terms and conditions set by the research funding bodies. The survey answers will only be reported in aggregated form.
The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies extends the deadline for submission of applications until Friday, 3 February 2023 at 3:00 pm. The extension applies to calls for applications within the forms of support:
The reason for extending the application deadline was a temporary problem with the Foundation’s application system on 23-24 January 2023.
Apply for funding via the Foundation’s application system Apply. See more information under For researchers.
| Calls for applications | Last application date | Notification | Last application date in stage 2 | Decision |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Two- and three year projects | Stage 1: 1 February 2023 at 3:00 pm | Stage 1: March 2023 | Stage 2: 26 April 2023 at 3:00 pm | 11 October 2023 |
| Postdoctoral projects | Stage 1: 1 February 2023 at 3:00 pm | Stage 1: March 2023 | Stage 2: 26 April 2023 at 3:00 pm | 11 October 2023 |
| Grand projects | 1 February 2023 at 3:00 pm | 18 April 2023 | – | 11 October 2023 |
| Research networks | 1 February 2023 at 3:00 pm | – | – | 18 April 2023 |
| Conference grants | 30 November 2023 at 3:00 pm | – | – | first week in March, June, September and December 2023 |
| Publication grants | 30 November 2023 at 3:00 pm | – | – | first week in March, June, September and December 2023 |
The Foundation for the Baltic and East European Studies has during 2022 granted almost SEK 254 million to research, doctoral studies and scientific infrastructure related to the Baltic Sea Region and Eastern Europe.
SEK 100 million has been granted to new research projects with start year 2023.
The Foundation has also granted almost SEK 130 million to next year’s activities at Södertörn University, after the Vice-Chancellor’s application for funding. The Baltic and East European Graduate School, BEEGS, has been granted almost SEK 52 million. Other grants were SEK 30 million to the Baltic and East European programme for professors and associate senior lecturers, and SEK 21 million to Centre for Baltic and East European Studies, CBEES. Additionally, funding has been granted, among other things, to laboratories, the university’s library, journal Baltic Worlds, publication funding and to special communication initiatives to make the Baltic Sea Region and Eastern European research at Södertörn University visible.
The Foundation’s support programme for researchers at risk has during the year been expanded to receive Ukrainian researchers at Södertörn University. The Foundation has, by now, granted almost SEK 24 million to the programme.
| Funding for activities at Södertörn University | SEK 129,161,000 |
| New research projects | SEK 100,363,000 |
| Research networks | SEK 324,000 |
| Support programme for researchers at risk | SEK 23,960,000 |
| Total | SEK 253,808,000 |
Last updated: 07/12/2022
On Wednesday, 30 November 2022 at 9:00 am until 11:00 am at the latest the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies organises an information meeting before calls for project applications in 2023. The meeting takes place on Teams and is held in English. The Foundation’s secretariat and members of the Foundation’s research committee and assessment panels will participate.
Register your participation not later than 25 November 2022 to ulrika.mansson@ostersjostiftelsen.se.
Programme
On the Foundation’s website, you can find all information concerning the upcoming application round. Available here are instructions, an overview of the forms of support, information about which forms of support you are eligible to apply for, questions and answers, and a description of research relevance to the Baltic Sea Region and Eastern Europe.
Warm welcome!
The instructions apply to the same four forms of support that were announced in 2022 (two- and three-year projects, postdoctoral projects, grand projects and research networks) as well as two new forms of support: grants for arranging conferences and publication grants.
The instructions are separate for each form of support. The instructions, an overview of the forms of support, questions and answers, as well as a table explaining who can apply for which grant are available in both Swedish and English. See For researchers.
Funding may be applied for arranging conferences that are clearly relevant to the Baltic Sea Region and Eastern Europe. The purpose is to promote internationalisation and knowledge exchange among Swedish and foreign researchers and to help disseminate research on the Baltic Sea Region and Eastern Europe.
The call is open to researchers in and outside Sweden. Södertörn University must be a grant administrator for an approved conference grant.
Researchers who have had a research project funded by the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies can, within three years after the final report is submitted on a two- or three-year project, postdoctoral project or grand project, apply for grants to publish research results from the project.
A Swedish higher education institution must be a grant administrator for an approved publication grant.
Note that the calls for grand projects, after application round 2023, will be temporarily suspended in 2024. The grand project calls will be thereafter announced every second year.
Postdoctoral projects may even be applied for by doctoral students who have not obtained their doctoral degree by the last application deadline. However, the doctoral student must have a doctoral degree before the start of the grant period (no later than 2023-12-31). If the project is granted and the project manager does not have a doctoral degree before the start of the grant period, the grant cannot be used.
All the calls open on Monday 9 January 2023 at 9:00 am.
The last application date for two- and three-year projects and postdoctoral projects in stage 1 as well as grand projects and research networks is Wednesday, 1 February 2023 at 3:00 pm.
Applications for conference and publication grants may be submitted on ongoing basis until 30 November 2023 at 3:00 pm.
An information meeting about the 2023 application round will be held on Wednesday, 30 November 2022 at 9:00 am, until 11:00 am at the latest. The meeting will be held in English on Zoom. More information will be published on the website.
The Board of the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies has today made the decisions on which research projects that will receive funding in this year’s calls.
–The Foundation has received many applications for research projects of high quality, says the Foundation’s Research Director Britta Lövgren. 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 100 million to 17 research 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 four postdoctoral project applications in this year’s application round.
| Project manager | Title | Department | Amount granted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Camilla Larsson | Serious and with Poetic Powers: Polish Art Exhibited in Sweden from the Cold War Period up until Today | Södertörn University, School of Culture and Education | SEK 2,220,000 |
| Anna-Karin Selberg | Industry of lies: How lies are transformed into reality in a Russian “troll-farm” | Södertörn University, School of Culture and Education | SEK 2,685,000 |
| Ralph Tafon | Climate justice? Democracy, equity, capability, and power in Just Transition practice. | Södertörn University, School of Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies | SEK 3,100,000 |
| Fredrik Valdeson | Language contact and language change in the Baltic Sea Region: The use of ditransitive verbs and the prepositions till and åt in Sweden Swedish and Finland Swedish | Södertörn University, School of Culture and Education | SEK 2,657,000 |
See summaries of the approved postdoctoral 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 manager | Title | Department | Amount granted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alireza Behtoui | School Dropout and the Post-Dropout Trajectories of Young People in Sweden and Finland: A Longitudinal, Multi-Method Comparative Study | Södertörn University, School of Social Sciences | SEK 5,874,000 |
| Caroline Hasselgren | A matter of transition? Working life trajectories and retirement behavior in post-socialist contexts across Central and Eastern Europe | Södertörn University, School of Social Sciences | SEK 5,979,000 |
| Ekaterina Kalinina | Sustainable Urban Development: Agency, Networks and Communication in uncertain times | Södertörn University, School of Culture and Education | SEK 5,968,000 |
| Tora Lane | Writing and Thinking at the Margins: A Philosophical Strategy to Resist Totalitarianism in Post-War Eastern Europe | Södertörn University, School of Culture and Education | SEK 5,810,000 |
| Lars Lundgren | A Sea of Data: Mediated temporalities of the Baltic Sea | Södertörn University, School of Culture and Education | SEK 5,917,000 |
| Daniel Lövgren | Organizing REKO: The Viability of a Local Food System in Finland, Sweden & Latvia | Södertörn University, School of Social Sciences | SEK 5,651,000 |
| Katarina Mattsson | Cruising the Baltic Sea: Nation, Gender and Sexuality in pleasure-based ferry traffic between Finland, Åland and Sweden | Södertörn University, School of Culture and Education | SEK 5,990,000 |
| Linn Sandberg | Imagining Queer Aging Futures: a study of LGBTQ aging in Estonia, Poland and Sweden | Södertörn University, School of Culture and Education | SEK 5,986,000 |
| Thomas Sedelius | Semi-Presidential Shifts in the Shadow of Russia: Executive Power and Party Behavior in Armenia, Georgia, and Ukraine | Södertörn University, School of Social Sciences | SEK 5,641,000 |
| Liudmila Voronova | The future of visual journalism in Finland, Russia, and Sweden. Working with photographs as visual truths | Södertörn University, School of Social Sciences | SEK 5,772,000 |
| Yuliya Yurchuk | From Sweden with love: circulation and interpretation of Ellen Key’s ideas about sexuality, love, motherhood, and education in the late Russian Empire and the early Soviet Union (1890-1930) | Södertörn University, School of Historical and Contemporary Studies | SEK 4,025,000 |
| Francesco Zavatti | Strategies for Survival of Displaced Fascists: The Romanian Legionaries in the Western Hemisphere, 1945-1965 | Södertörn University, School of Historical and Contemporary Studies | SEK 2,632,000 |
See summaries of the approved two- and three-year projects.
‘Grand projects’ are those undertaken by a group comprising at least four researchers, with a joint, coherent research task. Grand projects aim to engage in collaboration across subject and institutional boundaries and national borders, and to enable researchers to form a research group that is active in the long term. Within the framework of grand projects funding may be applied for postdoctoral researchers and doctoral students. The project period is four or five years and the amount of grant is a maximum of SEK 5 million a year. The Foundation has approved one grand project application in this year’s application round.
| Project manager | Title | Department | Amount granted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dominika V. Polanska | Sustaining Civil Society in the Context of Multiple Crises: Hubs of Engagement in Central and Eastern Europe and Sweden | Södertörn University, School of Social Sciences | SEK 24,456,000 |
See the summary of the approved grand project.
The assessments have been carried out by special assessment panels based on the applications and on external experts’ assessments and for grand projects also on interviews with research groups. The Board of the Foundation has followed the recommendations of the assessment panels.
The research projects will start from January 2023.
Notifications of the Foundation’s decisions are sent to the applicants by e-mail.
Granted research projects and research networks are presented in the Foundation’s project database. When the projects and networks have completed their activities, final reports are also posted in the project database. For each project, the publications that the project has resulted in are listed. Most of publications funded by the Foundation are published open access.
Östersjöstiftelsen, The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies, funds research, doctoral studies and scientific infrastructure, and also activities that develop these areas at Södertörn University. The Foundation’s financial support must be related to the Baltic Sea Region and Eastern Europe and may cover all disciplines. The Foundation supports research projects by individual researchers and research groups after application in annual calls. It also supports activities at Södertörn University after an annual application from the university.
Next year, the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies will announce calls for the same four forms of support as in 2022: two- and three-year projects, postdoctoral projects, grand projects and research networks.
A change within the call for postdoctoral projects is that even doctoral students who have not obtained their doctoral degree by the last application deadline may apply. However, the doctoral student must have a doctoral degree before the start of the grant period (no later than 2023-12-31). If the project is granted and the project manager does not have a doctoral degree before the start of the grant period, the grant cannot be used.
In the new instructions, information on ethical review is described in more detail. Each application must, according to the revised instructions, contain a description and justification of the ethical considerations.
Instructions for the application system are included in the instructions for the respective form of support.
The calls for applications open on Monday 9 January 2023 at 9 am and the last application date is Wednesday 1 February 2023 at 3 pm.
New instructions for applications in 2023 will be posted on the Foundation’s website in October.
An information meeting prior to calls for applications 2023 will be held digitally on Wednesday, 30 November 2022 at 9 am. The meeting will be held in English. More information will be posted on the website.
The Board of the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies has today made the decision on which research networks that will receive funding in this year’s call. The Foundation has granted SEK 324,000 to four research networks.
A specially appointed assessment panel carried out assessment of the applications and has made a recommendation for decision to the Foundation’s Board. The Board has followed the panel’s recommendation. Funding of the networks covers one year and has a start date on 1 September 2022.
Notification of the Foundation’s decision is sent to the applicants by e-mail.
Approved research networks, 2022-04-20
| Project manager | Project title | Grant administrator | Amount granted |
| Robert Lecusay | Transforming Early Childhood Education and Care in the Baltic and Eastern European Region: Revitalizing pedagogical perspectives from Serbian, Finnish and Swedish Scholarship and Practice in the Field. | Södertörn University, Teacher Education | SEK 78,000 |
| Björn Hassler | Mapping key challenges to sustainability transitions in agriculture and food production in Armenia and beyond | Södertörn University, The School of Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies | SEK 106,000 |
| Ulrika Björk | Experimenting with tradition – early 20th century East-European Jewish and German dialogues as a source of philosophical modernity | Södertörn University, The School of Culture and Education | SEK 82,000 |
| Ann Werner | Contemporary post-Soviet popular music: Politics and aesthetics | Södertörn University, The School of Culture and Education | SEK 58,000 |
Research networks support either creating new networks of researchers or maintaining ones that are already established. The purpose of these networks must be to contribute to forthcoming research through scientific meetings and contacts where researchers can define, demarcate and formulate research ideas that may eventually lead to applications for research funds. The financial scope is maximum SEK 150,000 per network for maximum of one year. Read more here.
During the autumn of 2021 the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies made a decision to establish a support programme at Södertörn University for researchers at risk.
As a consequence of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022 and the subsequent acts of war the Foundation has decided to temporarily expand the programme, as soon as possible, to include six positions.
The programme is funded by the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies and scholars are offered an employment at the Södertörn University. The aim is for the scholars to be able to continue working as researchers and teachers within their academic fields.
At the same time, the Foundation and the University are jointly looking into possibilities to expand the programme to also include doctoral students.
The Foundation and the University are also looking into other possibilities to support researchers from Ukraine.
The Government encourages Swedish higher education institutions and research funders to make sure that contacts and collaborations with state institutions in Russia and Belarus stop immediately and to not initiate any new contacts. The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies has no institutional collaborations in either Russia or Belarus nor will fund research collaborations with links to the governments of Russia and Belarus.
The Foundation and Södertörn University collaborate to manage the activities that are affected by the abovementioned guidelines and to investigate opportunities for support for researchers from Ukraine.
The following applies for:
Ongoing research projects
Funds from the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies must not be transferred to governmental institutions in Russia or Belarus.
If an ongoing project cannot be carried out according to plan due to the current circumstances, the project manager is recommended to contact the Foundation and send an application for change in the project, including an updated project plan, to the Foundation.
New research projects
The grant administrator is responsible to assess whether new collaborations are in line with the Government’s positions. Prior to any funding of new research projects that involve Russian or Belarusian researchers, the Foundation will make an assessment of each individual case, in accordance with the Government’s guidelines. Funds from the Foundation must not be transferred to governmental institutions in Russia or Belarus.
Assessment of applications
The Foundation will not engage researchers who are employed at Russian and Belarusian governmental institutions as external experts for this year’s calls.
The mission of the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies is to support research, doctoral studies and scientific infrastructure related to the Baltic Sea Region and Eastern Europe. Accordingly, researchers from this area, including Ukraine and Russia, but also from many other countries in the region, are supported by the Foundation. The Foundation also provides funding for research relating to Ukraine. Examples of research projects funded may be found in the Foundation’s project database, but are also listed below.
The Foundation shares Södertörn University’s profound concern about the current situation of universities and researchers in Ukraine and Eastern Europe due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The Foundation intends to find ways of supporting continued free research, researcher exchange and independent development of universities in Ukraine and Eastern Europe.
Russia must immediately desist from all acts of war that are now tormenting the Ukrainian people. This aggression against an independent nation contravenes both international law and the fundamental moral principles of human coexistence.
Research projects about Ukraine
The Board of the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies has today made the decision on which research networks that will receive funding in this year’s call. The Foundation has granted SEK 367,000 to three research networks.
A specially appointed assessment panel carried out assessment of the applications and has made a recommendation for decision to the Foundation’s Board. The Board has followed the panel’s recommendation. Funding of the networks covers one year and has a start date on 1 June 2021.
Notification of the Foundation’s decision is sent to the applicants by e-mail.
Approved research networks, 2021-04-14
| Registration number | Project manager | Project title | Department | Amount granted |
| 21-RN-0001 | Yulia Gradskova | Researching gender and sexuality in Eastern European history and post-socialist present: Does race matter? | School of Historical and Contemporary Studies, Södertörn University | SEK 133,000 |
| 21-RN-0002 | Andrej Kotljarchuk | History and Memory of the Holocaust and Romani genocide in a Comparative International Perspective | School of Historical and Contemporary Studies, Södertörn University | SEK 150,000 |
| 21-RN-0003 | Anushree Sanyal | PHYTOREV: A coordinated effort to understand genomic changes in revived diatom and phytoplankton populations from Baltic Sea sediments in light of environmental change | School of Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies, Södertörn University | SEK 84,000 |
Research networks support either creating new networks of researchers or maintaining ones that are already established. The purpose of these networks must be to contribute to forthcoming research through scientific meetings and contacts where researchers can define, demarcate and formulate research ideas that may eventually lead to applications for research funds. The financial scope is maximum SEK 150,000 per network for maximum of one year. Read more here.