Annual Report 2005 Riksbankens Jubileumsfond 05 riksbankens jubileumsfond annual report 2005 Riksbankens Jubileumsfond Annual Report 2005 6 managing director’s comments 11 activities in support of research 12 Procedure 13 Follow-up and evaluation Project follow-up 13 17 Grants for research projects and infra- structural support 18 Grants for the initiaton of research Nobel Symposiums 21 Scholarships 21 Artistic research 23 Initiatives on the home front concerning culture and the provision of knowledge 27 28 Graduate Schools Graduate School for Modern Languages 28 Graduate School for Mathematics and Teaching Methods 29 The Swedish School of Advanced Asia-Pacific Studies – SSAAPS 30 The Nordic Museum Graduate School for Museum Officials 32 33 Postdoctoral support Pro Futura II 33 European Foreign and Security Studies 34 Postdoctoral Programme for the Archives, Library and Museum (ABM) sector 36 38 Jubilee activities 2 December 2004 38 The Next Step? 38 Supplement in Svenska Dagbladet and Dagens Nyheter 39 The XL Project: The position of the humanities and the social sciences 39 40 Sector committees The Sector Committee for Research on Knowledge and Society 40 Sector Committee for Research on Culture, Security and Sustainable Social Development 43 Sector Committee for Research on Civil Society 45 The Sector Committee for Research on Public Economy, Management and Leadership 48 A new sector committee for research on pre- modernity 51 52 Co-operation with the Swedish Parliament 100 Projects The Parliaments of the Dissolution of the 120 Infrastructural Projects Union between Sweden and Norway 52 Publication of Secret Records 52 131 ylva hasselberg: The Creative Man Foundation 53 on efficiency and on ineffi- 54 International commitments cient professional judgement The Formation of a Greater Scandinavia 137 statistical information on after 1800 54 research grants Special grants concerning 1809–2009 55 Project 1905 – Centenary Celebrations 2005 58 139 The Bank of Sweden Donation Swedish in Finland – Finnish in Sweden 62 146 The Humanities and Social Sciences European Collaboration 62 Donation Collaboration with Institutes of Advanced 147 Infrastructure Support Studies 63 Collaboration with Bologna University 64 149 annual report Collaboration with Johns Hopkins The aims and statutes of the foundation 149 University 64 The year’s activities 150 Euroscience Open Forum 2006 65 The Jubilee Year 152 Tällberg Forum 65 Financial result and position 152 International Collaboration in Cultural Financial result 155 Research 65 157 Figure 1–4: Financial operations Collaboration with the Robert Bosch – ten-year summary Foundation 66 158 Table 1: Financial result 159 Income statement 69 sverker sörlin: do we need research-based 160 Balance sheet research financing? 162 Cash flow statement 70 Research support – a history of creativity 163 Accounting and valuation principles 71 A new financing paradigm 166 Notes 72 The legitimacy gap 181 Auditor’s report for Riksbankens 74 The need for more empiricism in the debate Jubileumsfond 182 Auditor’s report 77 louise vinge: life in selma lagerlof’s world 184 donations at market value 85 emma stenström: 187 Publications by the foundation forty years of applications for 190 Board of Trustees research grants 190 Advisory Committee 86 Typical of its time 190 Finance Committee 89 From objectivity to change 190 Auditors 90 How many times was the wheel invented? 190 Preparatory Committees 2005–2006 192 Sector Committees 92 high-level proficiency 193 Graduate schools in second language use 194 Secretariat 195 RJ 97 new research projects in 2005 196 Picture Captions Managing Director’s Comments ccording to the Swedish Academy’s dictionary a jubilee is a cele- bration to mark the 50th or 100th anniversary of an event, with the further note that in recent years 10th and 25th anniversaries of memorable events are also celebrated. According to Mosaic ALeviticus 25 law ( ) jubilees should be celebrated every 50th year. All slaves would then be freed and all loans would be written off. In the Middle Ages special opportunities to free oneself of one’s sins were given every twenty- fifth year in Christian Europe. In modern history 50th anniversaries of the creation of nations, the reigns of kings and queens and various other stable anniversaries have been celebrated. To jubilate has also acquired the mean- ing of expressing joy, quite simply of celebrating: in dulci jubilo. Riksdagens Jubileumsfond has celebrated anniversaries during the past year that both mark stability and express joy. Riksdagens Jubileumsfond was established 40 years ago to celebrate the tercentenary of the Bank of Sweden. Since the foundation’s 40th anniversary coincided with the 10th anniversary of the Humanities and Social Sciences Donation, we took the opportunity to express double joy at being able to celebrate these, for us, important events. During the year that has passed the foundation has therefore really justified its name. The celebration of our 40th anniversary began on 2 December 2004 with a retrospective conference held in the Riksdagen, the place where the foun- dation was born. The celebrations ended with a forward-looking seminar – The Next Step – which was held on 7 October 2005, 40 years to the day after the first research grants were approved. On this occasion the funds were awarded to seven young researchers with a doctor’s degree who were guaranteed four years’ support, with a possible three-year extension and consequent employment at one of our universities. These posts were linked to the distinguished chairmen whom the foundation had had the privilege of having ever since its establishment. In this way we live up to the founda- tion’s tradition of combining historical awareness with being firmly rooted in the present and the future. During the past year the research project on the foundations that were created when the wage-earners investmentfund were released ten years ago has presented its report. Under the editorship of Professor Sverker Sörlin, the book I den absoluta frontlinjen (In the Absolute Front Line) describes what the foundation has achieved with the funds that the government trans- ferred as a donation to the foundation’s capital base in the form of a special humanities and social sciences foundation. This Humanities and Social Sciences Donation was praised by the examiners for “helping to improve the foundation’s profile in the research system and for linking up in a natu- ral way with the foundation’s statutes, which state that the foundation’s funds shall especially be used to support major, long-term projects’”. Apart from these more narcissistic celebrations, Riksdagens Jubileumsfond has also awarded grants to and played an active part in other anniversary activities. The largest ones are, of course, the grants to celebrate the cen- tenary of the dissolution of the union between Sweden and Norway. The foundation contributed to the celebration of the centenary of Dag Hammarskjöld’s birth with the publication of Kaj Falkman’s book Att föra världens talan (To Speak for the World) in both Swedish and English. Other anniversaries that have been supported during the year are the preparations for the Linnaeus celebrations in 2007 and in 2009 to celebrate the separa- tion of Finland from Sweden and the new constitution. 7 8 Riksbankens Jubileumsfond Finally, the foundation has awarded a large initial grant for the publi- cation of the collected works of Selma Lagerlöf. This year, in 2006, it was 100 years ago since Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige (The Wonderful Adventures of Nils) was published, now translated into 60 languages. In two years, in 2008, it will be 150 years since Selma Lagerlöf was born and the following year, in 2009, it will be 100 years since she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Judging by the applications and other contacts we have received, the foundation will also be involved in the coming years in yet more anniversary awards. So there will be many opportunities to express pride and joy, to jubilate! Even though we cannot free any slaves or write off any debts, we were able to look over our activities and our allocation principles before our anniversary, so that we could start a new round, free from sin. As reported in last year’s annual report, from 2005 the foundation has decided to allo- cate funds to major research programmes (6–8 years) on one occasion and with the requirement that the universities and the like involved are joint financiers. Our resources allowed that only one such programme could be approved among the year’s applications. After a very careful prepara- tory process and after negotiations with the management of Stockholm University, the Board decided unanimously that this year’s programme should be awarded to a research team consisting of linguists and language experts under the leadership of Professor Kenneth Hyltenstam. Fortunately, the positive development of the foundation’s capital last year has continued at an increasing pace, which means that last year’s results are the third best in the history of the foundation. During the past year the finance department and the finance committee have worked intensively to achieve a stable yield over the long term, which will also ensure a continu- ing good distribution to first-class research work. This means that by 2006 another two major programmes can receive support, and more young researchers will also be able to develop their own projects in collaboration with national or international colleagues. In order to contribute to greater stability in the future, Riksdagens Jubileumsfond has actively helped to reinforce over the long term the role of the humanities and the social sciences and their importance to society. As well as creating large research environments, there is a need for increased internationalisation and collaboration with the professional fields that are relevant to these sectors. Together with the Royal Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, the foundation has started to collaborate with museums and cultural institutions of a national character in order to attain better and more permanent cooperation between research and practice.