Stiftelsen Riksbankens Jubileumsfond · Annual Report 2006 Stiftelsen Riksbankens Jubileumsfond Annual Report 2006 06 Postal adress: Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, Box 5675, SE-114 86 Stockholm, Sweden Visits: Kungsträdgårdsgatan 18. Telephone: +46 (0)8-50 62 64 00. Fax: +46 (0)8-50 62 64 31. www.rj.se. [email protected]. Postal giro: 67 24 03-3, Org.nr 802012-1276 riksbankens jubileumsfond annual report 2006 Riksbankens Jubileumsfond Annual Report 2006 6 the managing director´s 57 Sector Committees commentary The Sector Committee for Research on Culture, Security, and Sustainable 13 activities in support of research Development 57 14 Procedure Collaboration with the Ministry for Foreigen 15 Overhead Expensis Affairs 59 16 Follow-Up Work and Evaluations The Sector Committee for Research on Civil 19 Project Evaluation Society 60 22 Grants for Research Projects and The Sector Committee for Research on Infrastructural Support Public Economics, Management, and 23 Project Visit to the Silver Museum in Leadership 62 Arjeplog The Sector Committee for Research on 24 Grants for Reserarch Initiation Premodernity 67 The Science Fextival 26 69 Collaboration with the Riksdag Nobel Symposiums 27 The Seminar on Tage Erlander´s Diaries 69 Stipends 27 69 International Commitments Research in Art and the Performing Arts 30 The European Foundation Centre (EFC) 69 Cultural Policy Research 32 The EU Commission 72 Stiftelsen Skapande Människa (the Creative The European Cultural Foundation 72 Humanity Foundation) 34 LabforCulture 73 The 2007 Linnaeus Celebration 34 The World Cultures Series 74 Project 2010 35 Collaboration with Robert Bosch Stiftung 74 35 Graduate Schools The Nordic Spaces Programme 74 The Graduate School for Modern Investments for the 1809-2009 Anniversary 75 Languages 35 Collaboration with the University of The Graduate School in Mathematics Bologna 77 Education 36 Euroscience Open Forum 2006 77 The Swedish School of Advanced Collaboration with Institutes for Advanced Asia-Pacific Studies – SSAAPS 40 Research 77 The Nordic Museum Graduate School 42 Tällberg Forum 79 43 Post-Doctoral Initiatives Johns Hopkins University 80 Pro Futura III and IV 43 Visit to the University of Iceland 80 European Foreign and Security The First Bernhard Karlgren Symposium 82 Policy Studies 44 The Post-Doctoral Programme for the 85 anders mellbourn: ABM Sector 45 culture, security, and sustai- nable development: summary Learning and Memory in Children and from a sector committee Young People 49 85 The Point of Departure Post-Doctoral Stipends for Research in 87 Altered States Germany 55 89 The Main Direction and Activities of the Committe´s Work 91 Enviromental Support 93 Initiatives in Honour of Anna Lindh 94 Closing Reflections 96 Members of the Committees 99 jan-olov johansson: 177 annual report is dan there? 177 Annual Report 100 Childhood The Purpose and Statutes of the 102 The Road to Uppsala Foundation 177 104 The Perfect Job Summary of the Year´s Events 178 105 What Exactly Does a Managing Director Results and Investments Return 181 Do Anyway? Financial Position 184 106 Research Policy in Sweden and EU Financial Results 184 107 Projects 187 Figure 1–4: Financial opearations – ten-year summary 113 alf w johansson: 188 Table 1: Financial result the diaries of tage erlander: 189 Income statement some reflections 190 Balance sheet 113 Meetings with Erlander 192 Cash flow statement 113 Diaries as Sources 194 Accounting and valuation principles 114 The Arbitrariness of the Signifier “Diary” 198 Notes 114 Diaries in International History 214 Auditor´s report 115 Historical Methodology: Revised Drafts 215 Auditor´s report (internal auditor´s report) 116 Awareness of Bias 116 The Genuine, the Real, and the Authentic 216 donations at market value 117 Opinions of People 117 Diaries as a Means of Influencing History 219 Publications by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond 118 Erlander as a Cultural Consumer 223 Board of Directors 118 Erlander as Historical Personage 223 Executive Committee 119 The Uses of the Diaries 223 Finanance Committee 223 Auditing 123 new research programmes 2006 223 Review Panels 124 Knowledge Integration and Innovation in 225 Sector Committees the Globalising Economy 225 Graduate Schools 125 The Quality of Goverment (QoG) 227 Offices Institute at Göteborg University 230 Picture Captions 127 The City, the God and the Sea 232 RJ 131 new research projects 2006 132 Projects 154 Infrastructural Projects 2006 167 statistical information on research grants 172 The Humanities and Social Sciences Donation 175 Infrastructure Support The Managing Director’s Commentary he debate concerning the position and status of the humani- ties and social sciences, which was given additional impetus in 2005, in the wake of the latest proposed governmental bill Ton research policy, has continued with great intensity in 2006. Riksbankens Jubileumsfond has worked in close co-operation with the Royal Academy of Letters, History, and Antiquities, and the Swedish Research Council’s Humanities and Social Sciences Council during the course of 2006. This co-operation has, on a broad front, been geared towards helping to create a deeper understanding within society at large of the need for advanced academic study on issues which are of importance for the continued development of civilisation. In the Swedish Research Council’s journal Tvärsnitt (#1:06), I suggest- ed, among other things, that “we do not always know in advance when knowledge will be needed, or which particular type of knowledge will be needed. For this reason we need a knowledge bank: a reservoir to draw from in critical situations, but which can also contribute to the continuing development of both the material and spiritual quality of life. Our perspectives need to widen towards that which we might dare to call wisdom”. In the fields of the humanities and social sciences “research can provide an understanding of and possible solutions for pressing contemporary issues. Could the crisis in Iraq, for instance, have been better handled if cultural issues had been more integrated into the strategic analysis?” On Friday 22 December 2006, a jovial EU Commissioner for Science and Research, Janez Potocnik, announced proudly on his homepage that the EU’s 7th framework programme for research and development, 6 including a European Research Council, was now advertising the availability of research funds amounting to a total of 4 billion euros, divided into 42 specified topics and areas. This was also a happy day for all of us at RJ. For more than five years, we have actively worked to help create a groundswell of public opinion for the establishment of a European Research Council. Our joy was no less when we, at the same time, were informed that Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, in honour of its support for European research, had been awarded the European Academy’s ninth gold medal. We are delighted to receive this great honour, which will be presented on 9 September 2007, at the annual meeting in Toledo, Spain. It is my hope that the European Research Council will inspire and spur on the humanists and social scientists in Sweden to ever greater endeavours, and, whether alone, or together with their Nordic and wider European and global colleagues to increasingly, be able to compete for this important addition to available research funds. An interdisciplinary research orientation will also serve to help in qualatative development and the international connection to above all humanist research needs to be both strengthened and improved. Such a development would also bring to the fore both relevant quality criteria and a new publicising structure, which is better adapted for the humanities and social sciences. My view, however, is that the new framework programme and the member countries’ own national budgets will not, at least within the foreseeable future, be able to create the preconditions for Europe to be able to compete with other comparable knowledge economies, such as 7 Riksbankens Jubileumsfond that of the USA, and of the expanding regions in Asia. This requires the development of a different kind of “donation culture” within Europe. In accordance with this, Riksbankens Jubileumsfond has actively participated in an advisory group appointed by the EU Commission, concerning the role of foundations in the financing of Europe’s research and development. The group’s remit has been to identify and define which measures and steps should be taken nationally, and on the EU level, in order to, partly, promote the emergence of more private foundations, and also, to clear the way for additional donations to be made available to those pre-existing foundations which support research and development. The report, entitled “Giving More for Research in Europe” was presented, under the leadership of Com- missioner Potocnik, at a conference in Brussels on 27-2 March 2006. Even in Sweden new impulses are needed for the financing of research, and for research infrastructure, which is tending to become ever more costly. In this context, I would like to remind you that RJ’s tenets do allow for the possibility of additional donations to the foundation. During the past year, RJ’s interdisciplinary orientation has continued apace. The year was begun with a workshop in Rio de Janeiro on 9-10 January, in co-operation with Vice-Chancellor Candido Mendes, of the eponymous university, and came to a close with an international expert symposium, on 6-7 December, in Washington D.C. entitled “Worldviews, International Relations, and Globalisation”. This latter symposium was organised in co-operation with the Ministry for Foreign Affairs at the new ambassadorial building, the House of Sweden (page 59). At the height of summer there was an important initiative designed The Managing Director’s Commentary 9 to develop co-operation with China. In connection with the Swedish Ship Götheborg’s arrival in Canton (Guangdong), a symposium was arranged on 20-21 July 2006. This was a Bernard Karlgren Symposium which was arranged together with Göteborg University, and SCAS in Uppsala, and, on the Chinese side, the Chinese Academy of Social Science, the Guangdong Academy of Science, and the University of Guangdong.