Research initiatives

The Department of Cross-cultural and Regional Studies (ToRS) wishes to enable more flexibility and more new and temporary, research initiatives and to encourage more interdisciplinary research.  The opportunity for innovation, creativity and interdisciplinary initiatives is a prerequisite for being at the forefront of international research and thus seeking external resources and attracting and keeping scientific talent.

That is the reason we utilize initiatives for strategic research areas. An initiative is a research group that focuses on a specific subject that spans several research areas,  e.g. the Arctic, Islam, materiality studies and literature.