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Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation is the largest private financier of research in Sweden and also one of Europe’s largest. The Foundation’s aim is to benefit Sweden by supporting Swedish basic research and education, mainly in medicine, technology, and the natural sciences.

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Wallenberg Foundations grants 2022 – SEK 2.6 billion

8 March 2023

Funding allocated to research by the Wallenberg Foundations in 2020 totaled almost SEK 2.6 billion. Most of the funding by the Foundations is awarded by Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation...

New Swedish quantum computer to be made available to industry

23 January 2023 | Press release from Chalmers University of Technology

A Swedish quantum computer is to become more widely available. A copy of the quantum computer at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden will be built using additional funding from...

New Swedish research station for research on sustainable materials from the forest launched

1 November 2022 | Press release from MAX IV

ForMAX, a new, unique research station for studies of sustainable materials from the forest using synchrotron X-ray light, is now opening for next-generation research experiments at MAX IV. There is...

23 research projects receive SEK 700 million in grants

14 October 2022

Human impact on wild animals, why women suffer more often from autoimmune diseases, the importance of forests and vegetation for the climate and new technology for storing and processing digital...

180 million SEK for research on cyber security

19 May 2022

Cyber security is currently a high priority topic in the public debate. WASP is now investing SEK 180 million to strengthen Swedish research in this area. The initiative is made...

The Wallenberg Foundations support 32 Ukrainian researchers at Swedish universities

13 May 2022

Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation and Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Foundation have awarded grants that make it possible to employ 32 Ukrainian researchers for one...

New Nobel Center takes the next step

4 May 2022 | Press release from the Nobel Foundation

On Wednesday, 4 May, the Nobel Foundation announced that SEK 1.2 billion (more than USD 120 million) has been donated by Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and the Erling-Persson Foundation...

Continued strengthening of Swedish mathematics research

23 March 2022

Fifteen mathematicians will share funding worth SEK 27 million from Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation’s program for mathematics. Their contributions include knowledge about social networks such as Facebook, more effective...

Support to Ukrainian researchers

18 March 2022

Due to the difficult situation in Ukraine Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation and Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Foundation have decided to announce support for the...

Top-class young mathematics researchers recruited to Sweden

7 February 2022

Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation has allocated SEK 50 million for recruitment of four pre-eminent mathematics researchers to three Swedish universities. “In the prevailing global situation and thanks to the...