University of Zurich
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For the research focus ‘Challenges and Innovations of Democracy’ the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) “Democracy” at the University of Zurich, headed by Prof. Dr. Hanspeter Kriesi and which constitutes a long-term program of excellence funded by the Swiss Nationalfond for the study of nation-state democracies challenged by processes of globalization and mediatization. |
University of Gothenburg
For the research focus ‘Challenges and Innovations of Democracy’ the Multidisciplinary Opinion & Democracy Research Group (MOD) at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden with Prof. Dr. Henrik Oscarsson as a member of the Steering Committee. As multidisciplinary and international center, the MOD occupies a leading position in areas which reflect its research focuses: ‘off-election’ democracy, crisis democracy, and shifting political public spheres and behavior.
University of Linköping
For the research focus ‘Transformations of the Gender Order’ the PhD program for Gender Studies at the University of Linköping, Sweden, whose director, Prof. Dr. Nina Lykke, is also the director of the Centre of Gender Excellence (GEXcel) and the Nordic and Swedish Research School in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies.
University of York
| For the research focus ‘Transformations of the Gender Order’ the PhD program of the Women’s Studies Centre at the University of York, directed by Prof. Dr. Stevi Jackson, whose academic renown is also accounted for by its international and transdisciplinary orientation. |
Emory University
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For the research focus ‘Transformations of the Gender Order’ the PhD program of the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, one of the oldest interdisciplinary PhD training programs in the United States in the area of Gender Studies, with its cooperation partners Prof. Dr. Pamela Scully and Prof. Dr. Carla Freeman. |
Brunel University
For the research focus ‘Biosciences and Society’ the Centre for Biomedicine & Society (CBAS) at Brunel University in London, one of the most innovative and renowned institutes worldwide that conducts social science research on the political, social, and cultural aspects of the biosciences and biomedicine.
University of Copenhagen
| For the research focus ‘Biosciences and Society’ the Institute of Public Health in the Department of Health Services Research at the University of Copenhagen, whose cooperation partners Prof. Dr. Lene Koch and Prof. Dr. Klaus Hoyer gear their research both toward the advanced theoretical development of the concept of biopolicy as well as toward empirical studies on the conditions and consequences of practices in the field of gene technology. |
