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Network grants

Published 2010-02-09

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

Lena Fritzén, School of Education, Växjö University – Linnaeus University, has been granted 100 000 SEK for collaboration with University of Salzburg, Austria, University of Cyprus and University of Leipzig, Germany within “Integrative approaches within teacher education”

Monica Nyström, Department of Learning, Informatics Management and Ethics, Karolinska institutet has been granted 100 000 SEK for collaboration with Heidelberg University and Ohio State University, USA and Griffith University, Australia within “Organizational culture and quality improvement”

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".