The Foundation supports 18 research projects
2026-10-01
The Board of the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies decided at its meeting on 30 September 2026 which applications will receive funding in this year’s calls for research project grants.
In total, the Foundation is awarding SEK 78 million to 18 research projects.
Two- and Three-Year Projects
Project grants may be applied for by individual researchers or small groups of researchers. The Foundation approved 13 project applications in this year’s funding round. The success rate in this year’s call was 16 per cent.
| Dnr | Projekttitel | Projektledare | Beviljat totalbelopp |
| 26-PR2-0001 | Ukrainian war childhoods: A decade of Russia-Ukraine war in children’s narratives 2014–2025 | Yelyzaveta Hrechaniuk | 2 880 000 kr |
| 26-PR2-0002 | National defense education on the curriculum: Militarisation of society and democratisation of the military in Estonia, Finland, and Sweden 1927–2027 | Janne Holmén | 1 877 000 kr |
| 26-PR2-0003 | Epilepsy and the Making of Cold War Medical Knowledge | Johanna Ringarp | 4 846 000 kr |
| 26-PR2-0006 | Decolonizing History of Soviet Deportations to Kazakhstan and Gendering “Punished Nations” | Yulia Gradskova | 4 764 000 kr |
| 26-PR2-0007 | Shaping Police Interaction: Body-Worn Cameras and the Post-Communist Surveillance Legacy in the Baltic Sea Region | Alexandra Bogren | 5 839 000 kr |
| 26-PR2-0009 | War, Policing, and Institutional Transformation: Democratic Governance and Professional Resilience in Ukraine | Susanna Bellander | 5 975 000 kr |
| 26-PR2-0010 | Languages as instruments of military security and defence in the Baltic Sea area | HEDDA SÖDERLUNDH | 4 382 000 kr |
| 26-PR2-0014 | Race and Racism in Russia revisited | Nikolay Zakharov | 3 802 000 kr |
| 26-PR2-0015 | Claiming Cities for the Regime in Southeastern Europe: From Medieval Narratives to Modern Nations | Milan Vukašinović | 6 000 000 kr |
| 26-PR2-0016 | Democratic resilience through civic inclusion of minority ethnic youth in Nordic-Baltic vocational education and training (DRIVET ) | Linda Ekström | 5 946 000 kr |
| 26-PR2-0026 | How Gatekeeper Elites Mediate Russian Autocracy Promotion: Exploring the Cases of Armenia, Georgia, and Moldova | Per Ekman | 5 994 000 kr |
| 26-PR2-0027 | Sentiments of Europe: History Education and European Identity in Germany, Poland, and Sweden | Johannes Heuman | 5 675 000 kr |
| 26-PR2-0029 | The Past, Present, and Future of the Communist Idea in Eastern Europe: The Case of the Ljubljana School of Psychoanalysis | Alexander Stagnell | 5 707 000 kr |
Postdoctoral Research Grant
A postdoctoral research grant is project funding awarded to an individual researcher who has recently obtained a doctoral degree (PhD). The Foundation awarded 5 postdoctoral research grants in this year’s application round. The success rate for postdoctoral research grants in this year’s call was 12 percent.
| Dnr | Projekttitel | Projektledare | Beviljat totalbelopp |
| 26-PD2-0002 | Forest Securitization and Preparedness in the Baltic Sea Region under Geopolitical Crisis (FORSEC) | Alessandra Giolo | 2 778 000 kr |
| 26-PD2-0005 | Queer self-identity formations in Estonia from 1980 to 2010 | Rebeka Põldsam | 2 845 000 kr |
| 26-PD2-0003 | Democracy at war: Transformation of civic culture during martial law in Ukraine | Kateryna Boyko | 2 653 000 kr |
| 26-PD2-0007 | Clinker Boat Traditions around the Åland Sea Intangible Heritage, Knowledge Transmission, and Contemporary Craft Practice in Sweden and Finland | Fredrik Leijonhufvud | 2 940 000 kr |
| 26-PD2-0009 | Cultivating Domestic Consumption: Housing Fairs as Market-Making Devices Across the Baltic Sea 1970-2000 | Liza Jakobsson | 3 144 000 kr |
The research projects will commence in January 2027. All projects will be carried out at Södertörn University, which will serve as the grant administrator.
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