The Foundation supports 14 research projects about the Baltic Sea Region and Eastern Europe
2021-10-06
The Board of the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies has today made the decision on which research projects that will receive funding in this year’s calls for research projects.
–We are pleased to announce that the Foundation has decided to grant a total of SEK 70,7 million to 14 research projects focused on the Baltic Sea Region and Eastern Europe, says the Foundation’s Research Director Britta Lövgren. One of the research projects that has been granted, with almost SEK 25 million, is within the support form “grand projects”, a new form of support.
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 three postdoctoral project applications in this year’s application round.
| Project manager | Title | Department | Amount granted |
| Aleksandra Gajowy | Constructing the Polish Imaginary: Race and Ethnicity in Polish Visual Culture from Romanticism to the Present | Södertörn University, School of Culture and Education | SEK 1,473,000 |
| Martin Dahl | Unravelling the relative influence of climate and land-use change on nitrogen retention in Baltic Sea coastal sediments over the last 300 years | Södertörn University, School of Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies | SEK 2,836,000 |
| Ekaterina Tarasova | Just energy transitions for whom? Exploring the concept of recognition-based justice in the case of the coal phase-out in Poland | Södertörn University, School of Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies | SEK 2,121,000 |
See summaries of the approved postdoctoral projects here.
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 ten project applications in this year’s application round.
| Project manager | Title | Department | Amount granted |
| Sylwia Szymańska-Smolkin | Jewish Couriers: The Forgotten Heroes of the Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust. | Södertörn University, School of Historical and Contemporary Studies | SEK 2,594,000 |
| Julia Malitska | To Eat or Not to Eat? Human Health, Scientific Knowledge, and the Biopolitics of Meat in Eastern Europe, 1860s–1939 | Södertörn University, School of Historical and Contemporary Studies | SEK 2,530,000 |
| Yulia Gradskova | Maternity in time of “traditional values” and femonationalism | Södertörn University, School of Culture and Education | SEK 6,000,000 |
| Katarina Wadstein MacLeod | Illustrating Neutral Nature: Scientific Depictions of the Arctic from Moscow, Stockholm, and Paris | Södertörn University, School of Culture and Education | SEK 2,789,000 |
| Susan Lindholm | An entangled history of the Kulturnation. The German schools in Stockholm and Helsinki 1933-1995. | Södertörn University, School of Historical and Contemporary Studies | SEK 2,359,000 |
| Lisa Källström | Pippi Beyond the Border: Pippi Longstocking in the German Democratic Republic | Södertörn University, School of Culture and Education | SEK 3,251,000 |
| Cecilia Sjöholm | Distrusting Monuments. Art and The War In Former Yugoslavia. | Södertörn University, School of Culture and Education | SEK 5,628,000 |
| Oleksandr Polianichev | Tropics of Tsardom: Plants and Empire in the South Caucasus, 1800s–1917 | Södertörn University, School of Historical and Contemporary Studies | SEK 2,231,000 |
| Michael Forsman | Anticipating and mediating future classrooms. Ed-tech imaginaries of learning, communication and citizens making in Estonia and Sweden | Södertörn University, School of Culture and Education | SEK 5,919,000 |
| Olena Podolian | Authoritarian Policy Transfer in Post-Soviet States. | Södertörn University, School of Social Sciences | SEK 5,990,000 |
See summaries of the approved two-and three-year projects here.
Grand 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.
–It has been an honourable and rewarding assignment to lead the panel that has assessed the applications in the first call for grand projects organised by the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies, says Helena Sandberg, Professor of media and communication studies at Lund University and Halmstad University. She adds that a form of support of this kind puts great demands on the applications as excellence is required in all parts of the application and also in its entirety. –We will with great interest follow the approved grand project as well as the development of this form of support, says Helena Sandberg.
| Project manager | Title | Department | Amount granted |
| Martin Gullström | Climate change mitigation capacity of the Baltic coastal seascape: identification of hotspot environments for coastal blue carbon sequestration and guidance for sustainable management of the Baltic coastal landscapes under global change (CLIM-SCAPE) | Södertörn University, School of Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies | SEK 24,997,000 |
See the summary of the approved grand project here.
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 2022.
Notification of the Foundation’s decisions is sent to the applicants by e-mail.
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.
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