On 16 December 2019, STINT has decided to invest in the following 13 projects within the programme Initiation Grants:
| Main PI | Main collaborating partner | ||
| Name | Institution | Swedish HEI | Partner HEI |
| Farid Akhtar | Materials Science | Luleå University of Technology | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA |
| Sofia Backåberg | Health and Caring Sciences | Linnaeus University | Calgary University, Canada |
| Monowar Bhuyan | Computer Science | Umeå University | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
| Joseph Carlson | Oncology & Pathology | Karolinska Institutet | Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil |
| Nils Droste | Political Science | Lund University | McGill University, Canada |
| Göran Gerdin | Sport Science | Linnaeus University | University of the Western Cape, South Africa |
| Markus Giese | Earth Sciences | University of Gothenburg | Tribhuvan University, Nepal |
| Gordana Manevska-Tasevska | Economics | Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences | Kasetsart University, Thailand |
| Thomas Pederson | Technology & Society | Malmö University | Rochester Institute of Technology, USA |
| Olena Sevastyanova | Fibre and Polymer Technology | KTH Royal Institute of Technology | Kyiv National University of Trade and Economics, Ukraine |
| Jia Wang | Physics | Umeå University | Lanzhou University, China |
| Siyang Wang | Applied Mathematics | Mälardalen University | University of Science and Technology of China, China |
| Chen-Wei Yang | Technology | Luleå University of Technology | Keio University, Japan |
Find out more about the programme Initiation Grants.