Grants

The Foundation primarily grants funding for projects related to the humanities.

Grants 2024

In 2024 Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Foundation awarded grants of SEK 176 million to different programs and projects.

About ten projects within the humanities have been granted funding along with support for various forms of education and children activities. Additionally, continued funding has been granted to the WASP-HS program and the Anthropocene Lab.

Total amount over SEK 2.2 billion

Since the establishment of the Foundation over SEK 2.2 billion has been granted in the form of project grants and scholarships, of which about SEK 715 million over the past five years.

Strategic and long-term programs

Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program – Humanities and Society (WASP-HS) Promote new interdisciplinary research in the humanities and social sciences on the subject of artificial intelligence and autonomous systems and their impact on human and social development.

Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Foundation and Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation jointly invest in the program, totaling SEK 720 million over ten years.
WASP–HS: research into AI, technology, humanity and society

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences “The Anthropocene Laboratory”. The laboratory aims to gather researchers from various scientific disciplines with an understanding of the human role in the biosphere. The initiative seeks to shape the research forefront on the biosphere, the sum of all ecosystems, and develop science for sustainable development, as well as foster a new generation of young researchers.

The project is funded jointly with the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation, with a total of SEK 60 million over a five-year period.
The Anthropocene Laboratory: tasked with finding new pathways toward a sustainable future

The Nobel Foundation, a grant of a total of SEK 25 million over five years for the 'Nobel Prize Laureate Network'

WISDOME, the program TellUs, the speaking planet. A collaborative project between Linköping University, the Technical Museum Foundation, Malmö Art Museum, Umeå University/Curiosum, Norrköping Visualization, and Universeum. Total of SEK 60 million over five years

Project Grants 2024

Stockholm School of Economics, funding of SEK 9 million for Economic History at SSE.

The Swedish Academy, funding of SEK 8 million for the project “Literacy for better school results, integration and democracy”.
Reading skills for better school results, integration and democracy

The Institute for Futures Studies, funding of SEK 5 million for the project “Cogito Machina: Investigating the Emergence of Artificial General Intelligence”.

Karolinska Institutet, funding of SEK 5 million for the project “Advancing Personalized Assessment in Neurodevelopmental Conditions: Maximizing Individualization in Autism and ADHD using WHO’s ICF System”.
More individualized understanding, assessment and support for people with autism and ADHD

Karolinska Institutet, funding of SEK 5 million for the project “Developing an artificial sensory modality for tactile perception others attention with potential clinical benefit in autism”.
Improved social cognition in autism

Stockholm University, funding of SEK 5 million for the project “Chronic stress and second language acquisition in immigrant children and their parents”.
How does chronic stress relate to language learning and language ability?

Stockholm University, funding of SEK 4.5 million for the project “Borders of Sápmi: Surveying Sámi history in southern and central Scandinavia during the medieval through to the modern period”.
What tangible and intangible traces have the Sámi left in southern and central Sweden?

Uppsala University, funding of SEK 4.5 million for the project “Synthetic Pasts: The generative historicity of artificial intelligence”.
Study of historical material in generative artificial intelligence

Umeå University, funding of SEK 4.4 million for the project “Constructions in mathematics”.
Constructions in mathematics text – a crucial foundation in mathematics education

University of Gotehnburg, funding of SEK 4 million for the project “Teaching mathematics from the concrete to the abstract”.
Teaching mathematics from the concrete to the abstract

Uppsala University, funding of SEK 4 million for the project "The Reception of Vanessa Springora’s Consent”.
Changing attitudes toward sexual consent across generations

KTH, funding of SEK 3.9 million for the project “Learning Interactions with Hallucinating Robots”.
AI in Education – Can robots be trusted?

Stockholm University, funding of SEK 3.6 million for the project “A genetic snapshot of a medieval battle and society on Gotland”.
Archaeogenetics shedding light on medieval society on Gotland

Uppsala University, funding of SEK 3.6 million for the project “Promoting Children's Early Language Development in Socioeconomic Disadvantaged Areas”.
Inequalities in language development – A vital public health issue

Other grants

The Wallenberg Prizes in physics, chemistry and mathematics, funding of SEK 15 million.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, funding of SEK 8 million for Nobel in Africa, symposia in literature and peace 2025-2033.

Sigtunaskolan Humanistiska Läroverket, funding of SEK 5 million for Pedagogical development program.

The Foundation for Economic History Research within Banking and Enterprise, funding of SEK 1 753 000 for the operation and maintenance of the archive.

Earlier years

The Wallenberg Foundations

In 2024, the Wallenberg Foundations granted a total of over SEK 2.9 billion in grants.

The Wallenberg Foundations is the collective name for the 16 non-profit foundations funded by, or in honor of individual members of the Wallenberg family.