In collaboration with, among others, the Volkswagen Foundation and the Wellcome Trust, RJ funds research on global issues. The call aims to facilitate international research collaboration and generate new insights into issues of urgent global relevance.

The initiative has different themes for each call, but all are related to the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. Global Issues is built on collaboration between researchers in different parts of the world who typically do not collaborate. By financing international collaboration, the funders aim to unite different research perspectives and approaches, as well as support the development of a global perspective on the issues.

Global Issues - Integrating Different Perspectives on Heritage and Change

In 2021 Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo (Italy), Volkswagen Foundation (Germany) and Riksbankens Jubileumsfond made around 11 million euros available for eight projects. Riksbankens Jubileumsfond financed two of the projects:

Christiane Brosius, Universität Heidelberg, Germany
Heritage as Placemaking: The Politics of Solidarity and Erasure in South Asia
€ 1 497 200

Susanna van der Watt, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Decay without mourning: Future-thinking heritage practices
€ 1 437 200

Projects funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond in the 2019 call Global Issues - Integrating Different Perspectives on Social Inequality

Felicitas Macgilchrist, Georg-Eckert-Institut für internationale Schulbuchforschung Braunschweig, Germany
Reconfigurations of educational in/equality in a digital world (RED)
€ 1 478 400

Holger Görg, Institut für Weltwirtschaft an der Universität Kiel, Germany
Special Economic Zones: A force for good to reduce inequality?
€ 1 495 900