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The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation Annual Report 2002 The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation Annual Report 2002 02 the bank of sweden tercentenary foundation annual report 2002 Stiftelsen Riksbankens Jubileumsfond The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation Annual Report 2002 7 managing director’s comments 53 anders piltz: saint birgitta reflected in the mirrors of posterity 11 activities in support of research new research projects in 2002 12 Procedure 61 13 Follow-up and evaluation 66 The Bank of Sweden Donation Project follow-up 13 92 The Humanities and Social Sciences 16 Evaluation of the Bank of Sweden Donation Tercentenary Foundation 102 Infrastructure 17 Grants for research projects and infrastructure 115 statistical information on support research grants Supplementary charges on overhead costs 19 21 Grants for initiating research, conferences 117 Bank of Sweden Donation and the like 122 The Humanities and Social Sciences Nobel Symposiums 24 Donation Scholarships 24 125 Infrastructure Support Pro Futura 26 127 financial administration 27 Graduate schools 129 Financial activities – five-year summary The Graduate School for Mathematics and Teaching Methods 27 131 annual report The Graduate School for Modern The aims of the Foundation 131 Languages 28 The year’s activities 132 The Swedish School of Advanced Asia Pacific Result and financial position 134 Studies – SSAAPS 29 Financial result 135 The Nordic Museum Graduate School for Museum Officials 30 Income statement 137 32 Sector committees Balance sheet 138 The sector committee for research on knowledge 140 Accounting and valuation principles and society 32 142 Notes The sector committee for research on culture – 155 Audit Report security – sustainable social development 34 donations at market value New sector committee for research on the civil 156 society 37 38 Co-operation with the Riksdag 159 Publications by the Foundation 80th anniversary of the right to vote 38 161 Board of Trustees The Foundation Creative Man 38 161 Advisory Committee Political leadership and great leaders 39 161 Finance Committee 40 International commitments 161 Auditors The European Foundation Centre 40 161 Preparatory Committees 2002–2003 CNERP – the Swedish Committee for a New 164 Sector Committees European Research Policy 40 164 Graduate Schools The Millennium Development Goals 44 165 Secretariat Collegium Budapest 45 167 Picture captions Co-operation with Germany 45 Swedish in Finland – Finnish in Sweden 46 Project 2005 47 Cultural-political research 48 Albertus Pictor – 95 A Painter of His Times Managing Director’s Comments ow should Swedish spearhead research best be supported? Together with the Swedish Research Council, the Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research and the Swedish H Agency for Innovation Systems, The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foun-dation has devoted much thought to this question dur- ing the past year. It will, of course, figure in the agenda in the next few years as well. A fundamental problem for many university subjects, and not only for the so-called small subjects, is that they do not have enough highly- qualified teachers and researchers. This means that research runs the risk of stagnating in many fields. Basic institutional support to the majority of the best researchers decreased significantly in the 1990s; equally, the infrastruc- ture of research has been weakened. All this in turn contributes to the fact that far too few talented young people turn to research as a career. Thus we need to find new channels that will ensure that gifted scholars are given opportunities to develop into prominent researchers who match up to international competition. The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation has therefore in part cho- sen new ways to support research work. We have contributed to the for- mation of national research schools and to post-doctorate development by making special grants, including one through “Pro Futura” at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, SCASSS, in Uppsala. This support is aimed at the best young researchers in Sweden. They are selected in a national competition to which all the Swedish universities are invited to submit the names of their very best post-doctoral researchers within the whole of the social science and liberal arts field. This programme has now been in operation for three years with great success and could well 7 8 The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation be extended further. Our Foundation has also opened up the possibility for professors to apply for salary grants for their own research since the basic grants for individual research have decreased dramatically during the past 10–15 years. The question of strengthening support for the infrastructure and for the environment has also been a topic for discussion in recent years. The ques- tion now is whether the time has not come for a more radical reorganisa- tion of research support. A further reason for discussing a new direction for research support is the newly-reached two-year agreement concerning cost contributions for externally financed research projects at universities and university colleges. The definition of the term “full cost cover” is not sufficiently unambigu- ous to make it possible to define clear distinctions between direct and in- direct costs for research and between costs for research and for education. There are also other principles that can be applied for managing indirect costs for EU projects. The harmonisation of these two systems should therefore be considered. As proposed in the preliminary report that has led to the temporary moratorium caused by the above-mentioned agreement, the government authorities should help to bring about a more comprehensive and long- term reform of the way in which research is financed. This reform should also include the question of the universities’ co-financing of the indirect costs of external research activities. A natural time for the government to announce such proposals would be in connection with the parliamentary research bill of 2004. If these questions are not satisfactorily answered in the next research bill, there is an even stronger reason for the financiers of research to reorganise research support. In all probability project finance will be reduced in favour of major pro- gramme grants within the liberal arts and social sciences as well. A transi- tion to programme support, in 6–10 years’ time, would facilitate the long- term development of knowledge and competence and help the universities and university colleges to clarify their profiles. It would also probably help to increase the mobility of researchers and improve co-operation across subject, faculty and university boundaries, which would lead to a rise in quality. The transition from project to programme and environmental sup- port would increase the possibilities of reaching special agreements with the individual seats of learning, which would imply a different division of costs than that applied under the present agreement. It would also be possible to consider giving large grants to spearhead research by establishing an institutional model corresponding to that in Germany (the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft). This would mean radically depart- ing from the system up to now, which has been that research should be car- ried out by universities. Of course, certain intermediate forms could also be developed, so that research was not entirely separated from basic university education. But institutional research will probably grow gradually in extent. Managing Director’s Comments 9 It is my hope that, in a situation where the total socio-economic scope for research does not seem to be expandable, there will be new forms for establishing a reasonable division of work between the state, foundations and industry regarding the mustering and concentration of strength for high-quality research of international class in Sweden. Finally, I have all cause in this context to give my warm thanks to all the members of the Foundation’s Board and drafting committees who are now retiring. In particular I would like to thank Professor Stig Strömholm, the greatly valued Chairman of the Board. As a token of the Foundation's appreciation the Deputy Chairman Sonia Karlsson presented as a gift at the Board dinner a conference on the theme of “The Research University – a parathensis in the history of learning?”. As I pointed out in last year’s com- ments, the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation has gained an increas- ingly prominent position in European research co-operation, which has in the highest possible degree been achieved by the projects that Stig Strömholm has so deeply committed himself to. My warmest thanks! I am convinced that our new Chairman, Professor Eva Österberg, who has many successful Foundation projects behind her, will continue along this new path of change. We bid you heartily welcome! After ten years as Managing Director of the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation it has been and still is a privilege to have the opportunity to take part in the development of academic research in Sweden and the surrounding world. dan brändström Cure the Vasa93 Activities in support of research he Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation provides support for advanced research in the form of project grants to individual researchers or research groups that apply for funds. The T Foundation is actively engaged in broad fields of scientific research, which is reflected in the range of expertise among the researchers on the Board of Trustees and in the preparatory committees. In addition, the Board includes persons with specialist financial and political knowledge. This composition means that the Board represents an unusually broad spec- trum of experience, thereby giving it a unique position as an all-round liai- son body between various fields of research as well as between research and other central interests in society. Ever since the inception of the Foundation a certain preference has been shown for research in the social sciences and the humanities, including such fields as law and theology.
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