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Network grants

Published 2009-09-09

In August 2009 STINT has granted funding to three networking applications to encourage Swedish researchers in the humanities and social sciences to develop their international contacts.

Lennart Bogg, School of Sustainable Development of Society and Technology, Mälardalen University, has been granted SEK 100 000 for collaboration with Zhejiang University, China within ”Global sustainable innovation and entrepreneurship research”.

Lena Larsson Lovén, Department of Historical Studies, University of Gothenburg, has been granted SEK 100 000 for collaboration with University of Birmingham, United Kingdom and others within ”The Family in Antiquity: Identifying Continuity and Change”.

Julia Peralta, School of Health and Medical Sciences, Örebro Unversity, has been granted SEK 100 000 for collaboration with Centro de Historia de la Medicina, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. The Department of Technology and Social Change, Linköping University will also participate in the collaboration.

The Bell Tower and Beyond

Dr Birgitte Malm, Associate Professor at Malmö University spent the Fall term 2009 at Furman University, USA on the STINT Excellence in Teaching Programme. STINT has since some years established co-operation with American higher education institutions, dedicated to Liberal Education.

Frizzled signalling

Gunnar Schulte at Karolinska Institutet was awarded an Institutional Grant for Younger Researchers in 2008 for the international collaboration project "Frizzled signalling - protein-protein interactions and intracellular scaffolding as a means of signal transduction".

Online games - the rise of creative industries in Asia

With a travel grant from the STINT funded SSAAPS project Patrik Ström and Mirko Ernkvist studied online games in South East Asia. The service industry has become the most important part of GDP in all of the world’s most advanced economies.

A triggered lightning

In the beginning of 2001 a lightning research group at Uppsala started a research program on NOx production from lightning flashes. During one of the international conference gatherings Professor Vernon Cooray had a discussion with Professor Vlad Rakov from University of Florida on the possibility of a joint cooperation. These discussions led to a submission of an application to STINT for funding for an international collaboration between Uppsala University and University of Florida. The application was granted and the collaboration was initiated in 2005.