On 22 October 2019, STINT decided to invest in the following 9 projects within the programme Initiation Grants:
| Applicant | Main partner | ||
| Name | Institution | University | University |
| Sebastian Bader | Electronics Design | Mid Sweden University | Xi’an Jiaotong University, China |
| Ismail Butun | Computer Science & Engineering | Chalmers University of Technology | University of Delaware, USA |
| Ocean Cheung | Engineering Sciences | Uppsala University | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
| Per-Olof Hansson | Management & Engineering | Linköping University | University of Nairobi, Kenya |
| Eva Maaninen Olsson | Business Society & Engineering | Mälardalen University | Texas State University, USA |
| Evgeny Osipov | Computer Science, Electrical & Space Engineering | Luleå University of Technology | Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia |
| Anders Palmquist | Clinical Sciences | University of Gothenburg | Technion – Israel Institutet of Technology, Israel |
| Simone Schwank | Clinical Science, Intervention & Technology | Karolinska Institutet | Fudan University, China |
| Christian Zdanowicz | Earth Sciences | Uppsala University | Université de Sherbooke, Canada |
Find out more about the programme Initiation Grants