Project Grants 2024
In 2024 Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Foundation awarded grants of SEK 176 million to different programs and projects.
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 “Ensnaring the hunter in his own trap": 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 Childrens 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.
