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Stiftelsen Riksbankens Jubileumsfond Årsberättelse 2002 the Bank Of The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation The Bank ofStiftelsen Sweden RikTercentenarysbankens Jubileumsfond Foundation AnnualÅrsberättelse Report 20020024 · Annual Report 200 4 Stiftelsen Riksbankens Jubileumsfond 1965 1965 2oo5 The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation 2oo5 1965 2oo5 04 Postal address: Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, Box 5675, SE-114 86 Stockholm, Sweden Visits: Tyrgatan 4. Telephone: +46 (0)8-50 62 64 00. Fax: +46 (0)8-50 62 64 31 E-mail: [email protected]. Web site: www.rj.se. Postal Giro: 67 24 03-3. Org.nr. 802012-1276 the bank of sweden tercentenary foundation annual report 2004 Stiftelsen Riksbankens Jubileumsfond The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation Annual Report 2004 7 managing director’s comments 11 activities in support of research 12 Procedure 13 Follow-up and evaluation Project follow-up 13 17 Evaluation of the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation 19 Grants for research projects and infrastructu- ral support 20 Grants to initiate research Nobel Symposiums 22 Scholarships 22 25 Art research 26 Graduate Schools Graduate School in Modern Languages 26 Graduate School in Mathematics with an emphasis on teaching methods 27 The Swedish School of Advanced Asia-Pacific Studies – SSAAPS 28 Graduate School for Museum Officials 30 31 Sector committees The Sector Committee for Research on Knowledge and Society 31 Sector Committee for Research on Culture, Security and Sustainable Social Development 34 Sector Committee for Research on Civil Society 37 The Sector Committee for Research on the Public Economy, Steering and Leadership 39 40 Co-operation with the Riksdag The role of parliament in the constitution 40 Publication of secret documents from 1905 40 41 Art, Cultural Policies, Research 43 The Foundation Creative Man 44 International commitments 123 statistical information on European Foundation Centre 44 research grants A European Research Council 2007 45 125 The Bank of Sweden Donation In memory of Anna Lindh 45 131 The Humanities and Social Sciences Research on the Nordic Region 46 Donation Project 2005 48 133 Infrastructure Support Swedish in Finland – Finnish in Sweden 50 Collaboration with institutes of advanced 135 annual report studies 50 The aims of the Foundation 135 Collaboration with Johns Hopkins University 52 The year’s activities 136 Euroscience Open Forum 2004 53 Evaluation 137 Cultural-political research 54 Result and financial position 138 Financial result 140 57 sverker gustavsson: a thought- 141 Figure 1–4: Financial operations provoking evaluation report – ten-year summary on university policies 142 Table 1: Financial result 58 Silence 143 Income statement 60 Statutes 144 Balance sheet 63 Grant policy 146 Cash flow statement 65 Summary 147 Accounting and valuation principles 152 Notes 69 anders mellbourn: 169 Auditor’s report for the Bank of Sweden great in both large and small Tercentenary Foundation – the foundation evaluated 170 Audit opinion 71 Steering 72 Grant allocation, subjects and departments 172 donations at market value 75 Special grants 76 A strong Foundation for whom? 175 Publications by the Foundation 178 Board of Trustees 81 new research projects in 2004 178 Advisory Committee 84 The Bank of Sweden Donation 178 Finance Committee 178 Auditors 109 francis sejersted: norwegian versus swedish 178 Preparatory Committees 2004–2005 identity 180 Sector Committees 181 Graduate schools 115 bo stråth: union and democracy 182 Secretariat – viewpoints on the united 183 XL kingdoms of sweden and 184 Picture Captions norway, 1814–1905 When water rules: An organizational study of the implementation of 87 water districts in Sweden Managing Director’s Comments he Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation was created by a Riksdag decision on 2 December 1964. Its 40th anniversary was celebrated by a conference held at the Riksdag, where T the Foundation was born. On the basis of an extensive eva- luation report, this conference discussed the Foundation’s research-support activities, principally over the past 15 years. The front cover of the evaluation report Hinc Robur et Securitas. The dealings of a research foundation. The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation, 1989–2003 shows a blue sky with only a few wisps of cloud, perhaps sym- bolising the idea that the Foundation operated in an extremely favourable research climate during these years. This may to some extent be true, at least with regard to the development of the Foundation’s own capital, which has consistently improved ever since 1988, when the Foundation became independent of the Bank of Sweden as a “Foundation proper” with its own tied-up capital. As my predecessor, Nils-Eric Svensson, wrote in his comments in that year’s annual report: “In a financial sense the year 1988 may be said to be as significant for Swedish learning as the year 1965” – the year when the Foundation began its research-support activities. Before that decision was made, there were certainly many dark clouds on the horizon. Only about SEK 100 million of the capital was intact. Without this radical change and an additional contribution of SEK 1.5 billion it would probably not have been possible to celebrate the Foundation’s 40th anniversary. As the evaluation report points out, the Foundation’s capital developed very strongly during the 1990s, not least thanks to the contribution of SEK 1.5 billion that the Humanities and Social Sciences Donation entailed. 7 8 The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation Fortunately, this positive capital development has continued in the past financial year. The year 2004 resulted in a considerable increase in resour- ces, which means that, after a few lean years, we can once again show a satisfactory result. The Board of the Foundation decided during the year to make a few changes in the structure of the research-support activities. One important change is that funds are set aside for a whole project when an application is granted. Another important feature when deciding on major research pro- jects (6–8 years) is that collateral financing will be required of the univer- sities, which, in combination with all the other government requirements, will in turn exert even more pressure on the universities and university colleges to rationalise their research administration. During the past year the Foundation’s sector committees have carried out very important work with an international perspective and a visionary out- look. For several years changes in the knowledge sector have been studied and analysed within the framework of a sector committee for Research on Knowledge and Society. The internationalisation of education and research puts great pressure for change on national systems. The role of the universities in a mass-education society is changing markedly. The sector committee for Research on Culture, Security and Sustainable Social Development has focused on global studies and studies of the global environment. How, in our peripheral part of the world, will we be affected by the growing gap between increasingly poor but religious cultures and increasingly rich but secularised societies? How will we be able to manage and tole- rate the influential cultural value patterns that have come close to us as a result of increased migration? In our Research on Civil Society sector committee we are trying to find new ways to develop the civil society in our Scandinavian welfare states. Globalisation places new demands and challenges on our civil socie- ties that cannot be managed solely within and with the help of the tools and frameworks of our nation states. Not least the disaster that took place in South-East Asia on 26 December, striking against people from more than 40 countries, has given us clear proof of what individuals, voluntary orga- nisations, companies and foundations can achieve through commitment and generosity. As early as 2000 European foundations took the initiative in the Council of Foundations, through the European Foundation Center (EFC), together with its American counterparts, to work out common practical recom- mendations for foundations and companies in the event of major global disasters. At the same time a permanent committee was formed for disaster aid (Disaster Grant-Making). This committee had its first meeting at the EFC annual meeting on 20–23 May in Stockholm. The Foundation played Managing Director’s Comments 9 an active part in arranging this session, at which Peter Örn from the Red Cross and many others participated. The Committee for Disaster Response Initiative, at a conference in Kingston, Jamaica on 17–19 June 2004, then developed the principles for “Good Practice” and the practical recommen- dations for preparedness and action in the event of major disasters which have proved to be of very great use for the organisation of civil society in connection with the earthquake and tsunami in South-East Asia. The sector committee for Research on the Public Economy, Steering and Leadership set up in 2004 also deals with questions concerning the effects of globalisation on nation states. How must our welfare systems be adapted to be sustainable in the long term? How should responsibility and authority be designed and allocated at different territorial levels? There is a great need for long-term research that can contribute new knowledge that is free and accessible to everyone and which makes it possible – through debate and political decisions – to find the right balance between the state’s responsi- bility and the responsibility of citizens and various parts of civil society. A Foundation that has its basis in the main organ of democracy, the Riksdag, finds it natural that it should continue to promote the development of knowledge for the benefit of both the individual and society in general – unrestricted by national frontiers. dan brändström Women and men in the Swedish model: Elite and 106 biography in post-war Sweden Activities in support of research he Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation supports advan- ced scientific research in the form of project grants to indivi- dual researchers or research groups that apply for grants.
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