Wallenberg Academy Fellows is the largest private initiative to support young researchers in Sweden. It is a new career programme aimed at promising researchers in all disciplines. The programme provides long-term funding and enables the best researchers to focus on their research and it contributes to the internationalization of the Swedish research environment.
The programme has been founded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation in close collaboration with five royal academies and sixteen Swedish universities. The universities nominate researchers; the academies evaluate the candidates and present a shortlist of the most promising researchers to the foundation, which then makes the final selection. The universities assume long-term responsibility for the selected researchers’ work.
The Wallenberg Academy Fellows are awarded a five-year grant amounting to between SEK 5 million and 7.5 million per researcher. After this first term, fellows can apply for an additional five years of funding.