On 16 June 2020, STINT has decided to invest SEK 1 million in the following 7 projects within the programme Initiation Grants:
| Main PI | Main Collaborating Partner | ||
| Name | Swedish HEI | Department | Partner HEI |
| Margareta Krabbe | Uppsala University | Biology Education Centre | Yunnan University, China |
| Mexhid Ferati | Linnaeus University | Dept of Informatics | Rochester Institute of Technology – Kosovo, Kosovo |
| Pete Williams | Karolinska Institutet | Dept of Clinical Neuroscience | University of Melbourne, Australia |
| Yuri Schwartz | Umeå University | Dept of Molecular Biology | Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology (Russian Academy of Sciences), Russia |
| Anna Forné | Stockholm University | Dept of Romance Studies and Classics | Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay |
| Manisha Phadatare | Mid Sweden University | Department of Natural Sciences | Indian Institute of Technology – Mandi, India |
| Gaurav Goyal | Chalmers | Chemical Biology | Tel Aviv University, Israel |
More information about the Initiation Grants programme.