Globalisation has brought huge changes to the world. Higher education and research are no exception and the area is now in a highly dynamic period. With the programme Strategic Grants for Internationalisation, STINT will contribute to the renewal and development of internationalisation strategies at university level.
Through the Programme for Excellence in Teaching STINT provides Swedish university teachers the opportunity to spend a semester teaching at a foreign university of high quality. STINT has partner universities in USA, Singapore and Hong Kong. New York University is the latest partner institution to join the programme.
Welcome to apply for funding within the new programme Joint Brazilian-Swedish Research Collaboration.
STINT announces funding for the Sweden-Korea Research Cooperation Programme
The presentations from the STINT forum Global trends and challenges in higher education and research are now available.
On 27 April the STINT board decided on this years grants within the Institutional Grants Programme. Twelve grants have been awarded at a total cost of 9.5 million SEK.
The programme information regarding formal conditions has been updated. If you are planning on submitting an application for September 10 - please read all information and instruction texts carefully.
The STINT board decided on April 27 to grant 16 scholarships for doctoral studies, including 4 grants for academic advisors. A total of 69 applications were received by the Foundation.
Deadline for applications to Sweden-Korea Research Cooperation Programme has been changed to July 4th.
The programme information has been updated. If you are planning on submitting an application for June 10 - please read all information and instruction texts carefully.
Call for applications - Sweden-Korea Research Cooperation Programme.
Dr. Hans Pohl has been appointed new Program Director of STINT, commencing March 1, 2011. Dr. Pohl will be in charge of STINT´s programs. He has a Ph.D. from Chalmers and was previously with Vinnova, the Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems.
STINT and the National Science Foundation, USA, (NSF) wish to strengthen research collaborations between Sweden and the United States. American researchers funded by NSF may apply for supplemental funding to collaborate with Swedish researchers funded by STINT.
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".
