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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.

STINT visits President E. Gordon Gee

A delegation from STINT led by its Executive Director, Dr. Andreas Gothenberg, met President E. Gordon Gee of the Ohio State University on October 26. According to Time Magazine, Gordon Gee is one of the best College Presidents in the US.

Nordic Centre, Shanghai, China

The Nordic Centre at Fudan University in Shanghai was celebrating its 15th anniversary and inauguration of its new building on May 26th. The STINT board is supporting the centre with 10 000 Euro. Several of Sweden's major universities are members of the centre.

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".