Stockholm University is one of the world’s top 100 higher education institutes, with over 70 000 students, 1,800 doctoral students and 5,000 employees, it is the region's centre for higher education and research and it is the home to the country’s most substantial research within science, humanities and social sciences, as well as for a number of internationally prominent research environments. Several world-leading researchers work here (5 Nobel Prizes over the years). Stockholm University has a long experience of working with European programs. In FP7 the university has participated in more than 150 projects of which 42 within social sciences.
Stockholm Centre for Commercial Law (SCCL)
As to the Stockholm Centre for Commercial Law, SCCL, whose foremost task is the promotion of research and research education in commercial law, it forms part of the Faculty of Law and comes under the supervision of the Law Faculty Board. At present the SCCL has about 30 researchers concentrating mainly on commercial law, which makes it the leading commercial law research centre in the Nordic Region. SCCL, through its activities, creates bridges both between different legal disciplines and between law research and legal practice, the overall aim being to promote an interchange of knowledge between practitioners and academics. This takes place partly by means of a great number of seminars (around 170 per year) arranged under the SCCL’s auspices and aimed at creating a common platform for promoting free discussion space. Much of the SCCL’s activity proceeds through conferences where scholarly papers are presented and discussed in order to be published at a later date.
As to the relevance for the project, SCCL is one of the leading centers in Scandinavia for corporate and business law. In this respect, SCCL has been in charge, only for the years 2012-2104 for 6 major international conferences in corporate law (both in Stockholm and Oxford). However, differently from the traditional Swedish approach on corporate issues, SCCL has profiled itself for a strong academic and critical approach to the effects corporate regulations have on the surrounding environments, i.e. on its “externalities”. This opening in the research perspective has also made possible by the fact that among the researchers of the centre, prominent profiles in both corporate law and legal theory can be counted in.
The Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC)
The Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC) at Stockholm University is a joint initiative with the Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics at The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The centre is funded by Sweden’s Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research, Mistra. Its aim is to advance transdisciplinary research for the sustainable governance and management of socialecological systems. Founded in 2007, it has become renowned for its strengths in co-developing and applying its research within practice and policy. SRC has multiple connections to research, policy and strategic developments linking Earth system science with social-ecological system resilience, and is rapidly extending its dialogues with the private sector. SRC has spearheaded the Planetary Boundary initiative, advancing the scientific basis of this global sustainability framework and developing resources to support those applying it. The Centre hosts the Planetary Boundary Research Network. Other SRC research activities relevant for SMART are the Global Dynamics and Landscapes research themes, which seek to characterise linked social and environmental dynamics across scales, and the Stewardship theme which analyses the social, institutional, economic and ecological foundations of multilevel governance that are successful in building social-ecological resilience. SRC also brings considerable convening power and expertise across the science-policysociety interface, both in-house (e.g., www.dialogueseminars.net) and through its partner Albaeco. Its Stockholm location facilitates ongoing conversation with the new Future Earth Secretariat for strategic sustainability research (Sweden is one of five global hubs).
