During the period 2000-2006 STINT has granted a total of 502 short term stipends on its programme to provide opportunities for faculty at Swedish universities to spend a maximum of three months at a foreign academic institution, or to invite foreign faculty as visiting researchers or academic teachers at Swedish universities. The programme attracted just above 1000 applications during the period.
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.
The Institutional Grants programme is intended for long term cooperation. Deadline for applications for 2010 was on 15 December 2009. STINT will inform about the programme and future calls in August 2010.
Scholarships for Swedish doctoral candidates. Deadline for applications is Tuesday 15 December 2009.
STINT invites you to the conference ”Creating a knowledge platform on Central Asia, Turkey and the Caucasus” on Friday November 6, 2009
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.
The programme is now open for applications. Deadline is October 16 2009.
The Sweden-Korea Research Cooperation Programme was set up in 2008 by STINT and the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation, KOSEF, with the aim of promoting collaborative research projects. The objective of the programme is to encourage new patterns of cooperation.
In June 2009, the two organisations jointly decided to support the following researchers during a two-year period.
This year's announcement within the programme Institutional Grants for Younger Researchers will be in late August 2009. Deadline for applications will be Friday October 16th.
In April 2009, 19 doctoral candidates in the humanities and social sciences have been granted scholarships for an extended stay abroad.
Dr Andreas Göthenberg has been appointed new Executive Director of STINT as from 1 September, 2009.
On 23 April, the STINT board decided on this years grants within the Institutional Grants Programme. Eight grants have been awarded to a total cost of 7 million SEK.
On February 5th, the STINT board decided on this years grants within the program Institutional Grants for Younger Researchers. A total of twelve grants has been awarded to a total cost of SEK 12 600 000.
SSAAPS’s steering committee has decided, on February 12th, to award nine travel grants during 2009 to a total cost of 410 000 SEK.
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.
