Tillsammans med italienska Compagnia di San Paolo och tyska VolkswagenStiftung har RJ beslutat att vidareutveckla sitt forskningssamarbete.

RJ har i en första omgång avsatt 20 mkr till det nya internationella forskningsprogrammet Europe and Global Challenges. Programmet har ambitionen att stimulera europeiska forskare att i större utsträckning än hittills samarbeta med kolleger i andra delar av världen i forskning om vår tids stora utmaningar.

Utlysningen 2011

Under 2011 har ytterligare medel avsatts gemensamt från de tre stiftelserna. Under sommaren 2011 har det varit möjligt att lämna in ansökningar. Läs hela utlysningen här. Sista ansökningsdag: 15 september 2011.

Den första utlysningen 2010:

Tanken med forskningsprogrammet Europe and Global Challenges är att i kontrast till satsningen på europeisk försvars- och säkerhetspolitik, som hade fokus på Europa och EU, vidga perspektivet till den globala nivån. Europe and Global Challenges riktar sig till såväl yngre som mera seniora forskare och innebär att europeiska forskare stimuleras att samarbeta med kolleger i andra delar av världen kring vår tids stora utmaningar. Förhoppningen är att denna satsning kommer att få betydelse för internationaliseringen av svensk och europeisk samhällsvetenskaplig och humanistisk forskning.

Europe and Global Challenges utlystes först som ett planeringsanslag. De tre stiftelserna mottog inte mindre 138 ansökningar om planeringsanslag, långt fler än vi kunde ana. Av dessa beviljades 9 ett planeringsanslag och en handfull grupper uppmuntrades särskilt att inkomma med fullständiga ansökningar om programmedel.
I slutet av april 2010 inkom slutligen 79 ansökningar om forskningsmedel inom ramen för programmet. Av dessa kortlistades 15 för hearingar. Den expertpanel som sammansatts, med svensk representation i form av Rutger Lindahl och Thommy Svensson, enades om att prioritera sex programförslag. Av dessa finansierar RJ två stycken, varav ett är placerat vid Lunds universitet.

De sex beviljade projekten i 2010 års utlysning: 
 

Cristina Chaminade, Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the Learning Economy (CIRCLE), Lunds universitet
RJ beviljar motsvarande 940 000 euro
The challenge of globalization: Technology driven foreign direct investment (TFDI) and its implications for the negotiation of International (bi- and multilateral) Investment Agreements
In the past, the discussion on international investment regimes has always begun with an institutional and organizational template — that of the GATT — and adjusting it to the needs of investment. Furthermore, it has considered almost exclusively traditional forms of foreign direct investments (FDI) linked to the exploitation of advantages rather than on its acquisition. The later is the main driver of tech-based FDI (TFDI). This approach has systematically led to a failure of negotiations. A preferable approach is to first identify the key characteristics of TFDI as well as those institutional aspects that require concerted international action before placing them within an organizational framework. This is the approach chosen in this project. The project involves partners from Europe and Asia with an extensive network in Latin America (Brazil) and Africa (South Africa) to analyze the determinants of TFDI in order to inform policy makers negotiating international investment agreements.

Dirk Messner, German Development Institute, Bonn
RJ beviljar motsvarande 925 000 euro
Technological trajectories for climate change mitigation in China, Europe and India
The global challenge which this project concentrates on, is the need to mitigate climate change through technological innovation. Europe is in a strong position to advance the relevant technologies. However, Europe’s ability to make a difference to climate change depends on involving China and India in the search for an application of technical solutions. This is difficult because the economic conditions and political pressures in India and China are very different from those in Europe. This project examines a) how and why the emerging technological trajectories in Europe, China and India differ, b) how there trajectories affect complementarity and competition between Europe, china and India, and c) the implications for co-operation between Europe and China and India at the governmental and enterprise levels. This will be done by drawing and integrating different disciplines and by concentrating the empirical analysis on two sectors: wind energy and electro mobility.

Claudia M. Buch, Institute for Applied Economic Research, Tübingen
VWS beviljar anslag
Europe’s Global Linkages and the Impact of the Financial Crisis: Policies for Sustainable Trade, Capital Flows, and Migration
Successful integration into global markets is widely viewed as a precondition for sustainable economic growth in Europe. The financial crisis since 2007 has damaged Europe’s global linkages in the form of international trade, direct investment, capital flows, and labor migration. The threat of a lasting setback presents the policy community at the national, European, and global level with the challenge of creating favorable conditions for a return to growth-enhancing global economic integration, beyond the financial sector reforms currently discussed. To inform such policies, our proposed research addresses three closely related questions: (i) How are international trade and direct investment affected by financial integration and potentially tighter restrictions on bank lending due to the financial crisis? (ii) How are international banking operations emerging from the crisis? (iii) How is international labor migration related to international trade and investment, and how will tighter immigration policies since the crisis affect trade and investment?

Michèle Knodt, Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Darmstadt
VWS beviljar anslag
Challenges of European External Energy Governance with Emerging Powers: Meeting Tiger, Dragon, Lion and Jaguar
The project focuses on two major global challenges that the EU is currently facing: First, the establishment of a multipolar world order with emerging powers as prospective cooperation partners; and second, the strategic and ecological shortcomings of the EU’s External Energy Policy. Research will be carried out in three steps: 1) Identifying differences in the normative orientation, governance and bargaining strategies of the EU’s energy policy towards China, India, Brazil and South Africa. 2) Explaining these differences with reference to the EU/member states and private actor’s interests, different Directorate General responsibilities, emerging powers policy styles and exit-options of the emerging powers through regional/multilateral embeddedness. 3) Offering recommendations for a future “Good External Energy Governance”. Here, we will outline concrete policy options for “decarbonization strategies” in an increasingly multipolar world. Therefore, our project strongly emphasizes close connections between academia and policy consultancy and involves experts of European and overseas think tanks.

Ferruccio Pastore, Forum Internazionale ed Europeo di Ricerche sull’Immigrazione, Turin
CSP beviljar anslag
Which labour migration governance for a more dynamic and inclusive Europe
The global economic crisis interrupted a period of strong expansion of labour migration flows to (and within) the European Union. However, regardless of how slow the recovery may be, the structural needs for foreign labour in Europe will regain volume and urgency. How can European countries actively manage legal immigration flows once again in the post-economic crisis context? This is a vital question for the future competitiveness and cohesion of European societies. Member states are yet to be persuaded of the advantage of pooling powers at EU level. Yet, simply reviving the heterogeneous spectrum of national approaches, which have shown their limits in efficiency and sustainability, may not be the answer. A fundamental rethinking of labour migration governance thus emerges as one of the key challenges for Europe’s future. Through a combination of comparative policy analysis and quantitative research, this project aims at exploring innovative approaches in this field.

Harald Müller, Peace Research Institute, Frankfurt
CSP beviljar anslag
The Post-Transatlantic Age: A Twenty-First Century Concert of Powers?
The three year project inquires overlapping and contrasting interests among the major powers: the US, China, the EU, Russia, and India. It then analyses the historical example of successful security governance of great powers, the “Concert of Europe” that kept peace for forty years in the early nineteenth century. The rich treasure of historical studies cert will be revisited to extract the factors that enabled the Concert to function. Next, it explores the current applicability of the Concert model. The commonalities and differences between then and now will be analysed. An adapted concert design for a multilateral security governance structure among the great powers will be developed. Finally, it defines a strategy for the EU for promoting this new type of multilateralism. The study group consists of eight senior scholars and eight postdoctoral scholars, eight from Europe and two from each the US, Russia, China, and India.
 

Den första utlysningen finns att läsa här.

Uppdaterad 2011-09-14