The new program Collections and research is a development of the two financiers' previous collaborations within the postdoctoral program for the ABM sector (Archives-Libraries-Museums).

The Collections and research programme focuses on collaborations between memorial institutions and research at universities and colleges. The intention is to support various types of efforts aimed at making the contents of the collections known, accessible and useful for research. Applicants are given full freedom to independently decide the focus and design of their projects. It is possible to get funding for different types of studies: material-oriented, empirical research, work focused on methodological and theoretical questions, research oriented towards the memory institutions' meta-questions and/or questions close to everyday life. Pure research projects are referred to other forms of support.

The financiers plan to make two announcements within this joint venture, in February 2015 and in 2016.

Applications are made via Royal Vitterhetsakademien's website.

The call for proposals 2015:

Those who received funds in this first round are:

Everyday pictures and stories. A project around cultural transformations in the Nordic Museum's collections
Project leader: Jonas Engman, Nordic Museum

How is the artist evoked from the archives? The example of Arosenius
Project leader: Mats Malm, University of Gothenburg

TTT: Text on time! Medieval texts in context - then and now
Project leader: Jonas Nordin, King. the library

Digital Models. The collections of technology history, digital humanities & stories of industrialism
Project leader: Sofia Seifarth, Technical Museum

The TORA project. Construction and coordination of historical databases
Project leader: Clas Tollin, National Archives