In Focus

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.

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.

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.

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".

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.

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.

Professor Marie Söderberg at the European Institute of Japanese Studies, Stockholm School of Economics and Stockholm University received a travel grant of 50 000 SEK from the Swedish School of Advanced Asia Pacific Studies (SSAAPS) to seek an answer to this question.  

At the end of 2005, an Institutional Grant was yielded to the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies of Stockholm University, together with its partner department of Language Sciences at the Catholic University of Chile, for the implementation of an exchange programme: "Verbal Interaction Studies in Santiago and Stockholm" (VISSAS). The first two years of the programme are now being completed and a following two-year period of funding started off in July.  Total funding allocated is 2.4 million SEK.               

Since the beginning of 2006 STINT supports an institutional collaboration between the Department of Physics, Uppsala University, and the Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, and the Charles University, Prague. The total sum allocated for a four-year period is 2.4 million SEK.

Professor Ulla Holst, Department of Mathematical Statistics, Lund University, is leading a STINT Institutional Grant for long-term cooperation with Professor Peter Guttorp, University of Washington, Seattle, and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, NCAR, in Boulder, Colorado since the beginning of 2006. The theme is spatio-temporal stochastic models and their use in climatology, meteorology, ocean engineering and safety. The total sum allocated for a four-year period is 2 million SEK.   

As the first Institutional Grant, out of more than a dozen within the programme for collaboration with China, Professor Shiwu Gao, at the Physics Department of the University of Gothenburg (GU), received a grant in spring 2006 to start a long-term collaboration within Physics with Prof. Enge Wang and his colleagues at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). The total sum allocated for a four-year period is 2.8 million SEK.                                                   

In April 2006 Professor Birgitta Bergman, Department of Botany, Stockholm University received a STINT Institutional Grant for long-term cooperation with Luisa Falcon, Department of Molecular Ecology and Evolution, UNAM in Mexico and other partners, for research on marine cyanobacteria: small cells and big questions.                                                   

In April 2007, Associate Professor Birgit Schlyter, Department of South and Central Asian Studies at Stockholm University received a STINT Institutional Grant for long-term cooperation with Associate Professor Timur Dadabaev of the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba in Japan. The intention is to promote graduate programmes and the training of future scholars in the young and still developing discipline of Central Asian Studies.                                                   

In 2004, Dr Cintia Bertacchi Uvo, Department of Water Resources Engineering, Lund University, received a STINT Institutional Grant for long-term collaboration with Prof. Robin T. Clarke at the Institute for Hydraulics Research from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The project has received SEK 600 000 for a four-year period.

 

n 2004 Dr Kjell Eriksson, Department of Astronomyand Space Physics, Uppsala University, received a STINT Institutional Grant for long-term cooperation with Dr Alexander Brown, Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy, University of Colorado at Boulder in USA. They intend to develop the experience of young researchers in astronomy.                                                   

In 2004 Rajeev Ahuja, Department of Physics,  Uppsala University started a STINT Institutional Grant supported project, cooperating with Department of Physics at Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea. The project has received an annual funding of SEK 600 000.                                                    

Patrik Ström is an economist with a special interest in Japan, and he has taken his PhD-degree in economic geography at the Göteborg School of Economics, partly financed as a SSAAPS doctoral student. Today he is a Pro Futura scholarship holder.                                                   

In 2004, Associate Professor Sergei Silvestrov, Lund University received a STINT Institutional Grant for development of cooperation, with groups at the Departments of Mathematics in Oslo University, Norway, University of Iowa, USA, Keio University, Japan and Copenhagen University, Denmark, in the area of operator non-commutative analysis of dynamics, fractals and wavelets.                                                   

Ms Elin Bjarnegård, PhD student at Uppsala University, has received travel grants through the Swedish School of Advanced Asia Pacific Studies, SSAAPS, financed by  STINT, for two study periods in Thailand, in 2005 and in 2006.

The research project concerns the role of political parties in a new democratic setting.

In 2004 Professor Birgitta Höijer, Department of Humanities, Örebro University started a STINT Institutional Grant supported project, cooperating with Department of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths University of London and Film and Media Studies at Copenhagen University.                                                    

In the spring of 2005, Daniel Wetterstrand, a PhD student at the Department of Medical Chemistry and Cell Biology, Göteborg University, spent a period at Chiba Cancer Center Research Institute, in Chiba, Japan on a Thunberg scholarship.                                                   

Nowadays the field of Production Engineering is not only about production, but also about management of information about production.

In 2005 Astrid von Euler-Chelpin, Department of Production Engineering, KTH, spent four months at the Department of Precision Machinery, University of Tokyo on a STINT Thunberg scholarship.                                                   

Johan Lundström, in 2004 a PhD-student at the Department of Psychology, Uppsala university, then spent the fall term at Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Canada, with support from the STINT Foundation. He is presently a postdoc at McGill University.                                                   

In 2004 Dr Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist, Department of Astronomy and Space Physics, Uppsala University obtained STINT support on the Project Based Personnel Exchange Programme, PPP, for two years for cooperation with the Institute of Planetary Research, DLR in Berlin (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt). In late 2005 he was granted continued support for a third year.

In 2003 Professor Deliang Chen, Regional Climate Group at the Department of Earth Sciences, Göteborg University  obtained  STINT support for a project entitled “Weather regimes in a changing climate: how does it affect soil erosion in Loess Plateau of China?

Professor Kurt Sandkuhl, Jönköping University College received a STINT Institutional Grant in 2003 for cooperation with two groups,

one at the St Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Science in St Petersburg and one at Universidad Complutense in Spain. The project has received an annual funding of SEK 200 000.                                                   

In 2003 Dr Sergei Vorobyov, Uppsala University received a STINT Institutional Grant for cooperation with Rutgers University, USA. The annual grant of SEK 300 000 is intended for cooperation in Game Theory.

In 2003 Dr Volodymyr Mazorchuk, Uppsala University received a STINT Institutional Grant for cooperation with Kyiv Taras Shevchenko University in Ukraine. The annual grant of SEK 150 000 is intended for cooperation in ‘Various faces of representation theory’

In 2003 Professor Peter Dahlgren, Lund University, started a STINT Institutional Grant supported project, cooperating with l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes de Sciences Sociales, EHESS in Paris, France. The project will link up Media Studies and Social Anthropology and has received an annual funding of SEK 150 000.                                                   

In 2003 Professor Alicja Wolk, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Division of Nutritional Epidemiology, Karolinska Institutet, received a STINT Institutional Grant for cooperation with Harvard School of Public Health i USA within ’Nutritional Epidemiology’. The annual grant of 600 000 SEK also includes cooperation with the National Institute of Public Health in Finland and Wageningen University in the Netherlands.                                                   

Professor Eleanor Campbell, at the Department of Experimental Physics, Chalmers/Göteborg University and Professor Yung Woo Park, Seoul National University, Korea started their STINT supported collaboration in 2003 on the topic of transport studies involving carbon nanotubes. The project has received an annual funding of SEK 600 000.                                                   

In 2003 Professor Mike Thorndyke, Director & Chair of Experimental Marine Biology at Kristineberg Marine Research Station received a STINT Institutional Grant for cooperation with Dr Euan Brown, Stazione Zoologica in Naples, Italy. The annual grant of SEK 450 000 is intended for cooperation within Marine Model Organisms & Functional Genomics; Development, Regeneration and Cell Signalling                                                   

In April 2001 Professor Tuula Teeri, researcher at the Royal Institute of Technology, KTH in Stockholm has received an Institutional Grant for cooperation with Dr David Cullen, University of Wisconsin. The annual grant of SEK 250 000 is intended for cooperation within ’Functional genomics of wood fibre modification’.

 

The Department of Signals Sensors and System (Professor Bo Wahlberg) and Centre for Autonomous Systems at Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, KTH, in Stockholm have a STINT sponsored project with the Robotics, Perception and Real Time Group (Juan Tardόs) at the University of Zaragoza, Spain since 2003 with an annual grant of SEK 350 000.   

In 2003 Professor Per Stenström, Department of Computer Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology started a STINT supported cooperation with Professor Michel Dubois, Electrical Engineering Systems, University of Southern California, USA within ‘Computer Architecture’.                                                   

"Design and characterization of non-linear optical properties of organometallic systems

through theoretical  calculations"  which is a joint collaboration project between Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, and Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil is led by Professor Hans Ågren on the Swedish side and by Amary Cesar Fereirra on the Brasilian side. The collaboration focuses on modeling of new molecules and materials with special optical properties and started in 2001.                                                   

                                                   

 

In April 2003 Dr Anna Kidiyarova-Shevchenko, Assistant Professor at the Chalmers University of Technology, was granted an annual funding of SEK 375 000 for cooperation with Professor Mikhail Kupriyanov of Moscow State University within "Gigahertz digital electronics".                                                   

Professor Vincent Moulton, Uppsala University and Professor David Penny, Massey University and Dr Michael Steel, University of Canterbury started their STINT supported collaboration in the year 2000 within "Stories that DNA can tell". The project has received an annual funding of SEK 500 000.                                                   

In 2002 Professor Peter Witzgall was granted an Institutional Grant for   ”Integration of biological control methods for sustainable insect management in potato”.  128 000 kronor for the first two years are intended to cover the exchange of individuals of participating institutions.                                                   

From 2001 Professor Bill Hansson, Department of Crop Science at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. receives an annual funding of SEK 500 000 from the Institutional Grant Programme for cooperation with Professor Nicholas J Strausfeld at Arizona Research Laboratories, Division of Neurobiology, USA on the insect olfactory system.