SSAAPS
SSAAPS was established as an effort to strengthen Swedish research and doctoral training with a focus on contemporary cultural, economic, political and social issues in Pacific Asia. Countries that are included here are China, Japan, the Republic of Korea, and the ASEAN countries.
In 2001 STINT and Riksbankens Jubileumsfond decided on a five-year (2001-2006) joint initiative concerning Swedish research on Asia Pacific – SSAAPS, the Swedish School of Advanced Asia Pacific Studies. During this period SSAAPS has financed post-doc positions, PhD-positions, workshops, publishing grants, visiting fellow grants and travel grants, amongst other things.
After an initial phase STINT decided to continue SSAAPS for three more years, 2007-2009. SSAAPS should strive to broaden its engagements and create links also to industry, media and culture and to other public authorities.
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.