NordForsk received a total of 84 eligible proposals by the deadline in May 2024, many of very high quality. The seven funded projects will have a duration of 3 to 4 years and will address themes such as integration processes and patterns, social cohesion and inequalities, and politics and governance of migration and integration.
The projects include partners from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Estonia, and Lithuania, with project coordinators from Norway, Sweden, and Estonia.
The gender balance among the seven project leaders is 40/60, with three male project leaders and four female project leaders.
NordForsk advisor Bethina Strandberg-Jensen is responsible for the Nordic-Baltic Migration and Integration initiative at NordForsk. She says it has been exciting and a pleasure to work with this initiative from the very beginning.
“We are very pleased with the high number of proposals, in addition to the high scientific quality of the proposals. The competition was tough. With these seven funded projects there is a good variation of research topics and disciplines among the projects, as well as diversity among the research institutions and Nordic and Baltic countries involved in the research consortiums. It is a well-balanced portfolio”, she says and adds:
“All seven projects address highly relevant and timely research topics within the migration and integration research field, with potential for significant Nordic-Baltic societal impact.”
Funded projects
- LINC: Linguistic Integration of Refugee Children and their Families
Project leader: Olga Urek, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Partners: Norway, Estonia, Lithuania, Sweden - Practicing Hope: Challenging myths and changing narratives of youth in super-diverse urban communities
Project leader: Aina Landsverk Hagen, Oslo Metropolitan University
Funded partners: Norway, Sweden, Denmark - Effects of Integration Policies on Long Run Outcomes in 3 Nordic Countries
Project leader: Andreas Kotsadam, The Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research
Partners: Norway, Sweden, Denmark - Who Takes Care of the Elderly When We Leave? Negotiating Care in Transnational Families in the Nordic-Baltic Region and Beyond
Project leader: Maarja Saar, Mid Sweden University
Partners: Sweden, Lithuania, Iceland - The Tensions of Street-level Social Work for Migrant Inclusion - Discretion, Differentiation and Deportability
Project leader: Marcus Herz, University of Gothenburg
Partners: Sweden, Norway, Finland - Political Inclusion in an Era of Radicalization
Project leader: Mari-Liis Jakobson, Tallinn University
Partners: Estonia, Norway, Denmark - PATHS- Promoting Access to Health Services through Participatory Approach: E-Health Intervention to Promote Good Health Seeking
Project leader: Vikram Singh Parmar, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Partners: Norway, Estonia, Sweden
