Wallenberg Academy Fellows

The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation has decided to set up a unique career programme for young researchers. Wallenberg Academy Fellows, as it will be called, represents assured long-term resources for the country’s most promising young scientists. The programme will be the Foundation’s largest initiative ever. The plan is to provide funding of SEK 1.2 billion, over five years, for a total of 125 young researchers.

The purpose of the new career programme and long-term funding is to give the most promising young researchers a work situation that enables them to focus on their projects and address difficult, long-term research questions.

The Swedish universities are to nominate researchers, five of the Swedish royal academies will evaluate the nominees, the Foundation will make the final selection, and the universities will assume long-term responsibility for the selected researchers' work.

As part of the initiative the foundation will, in cooperation with the five academies, create a mentor programme to provide support for the researchers' scientific development and for innovation.

The first Wallenberg Academy Fellows will be announced in autumn 2012.

More information about Wallenberg Academy Fellows and the nomination procedure can be found at www.wallenbergacademyfellows.org.