Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation

The Foundation

Dr. Tech. Marcus Wallenberg established Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation in connection with his wife’s 70th birthday in 1963.

The initial endowment amounted to SEK 22.7 million. The Foundation has distributed more than SEK 2.6 billion in grants since its establishment, mainly to Swedish universities and other academic institutions.

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The Wallenberg Foundations

The Wallenberg Foundations is the collective name for the non-profit public and private foundations established by individual members of the Wallenberg family or in honor of family members.

The three largest Foundations granted a total of SEK 2.2 billion in 2018.

The largest of the Wallenberg Foundations is the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, founded in 1917, which promotes excellent researchers and research projects beneficial to Sweden within the natural sciences, technology and medicine.

The other two large foundations are Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation (social sciences), and Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Foundation (scientific research mainly within the humanities and learning).

In addition, there are a number of other Wallenberg Foundations.

The Foundation supports research in Social Sciences

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The Foundation

Wallenberg Foundations Launch Initiative for Humanistic and Social Scientific Research in AI and Autonomous Systems, WASP-HS, 16 projects granted

The Wallenberg Foundations

Application deadlines

Grant policy

The Foundation

Wallenberg Foundations Launch Initiative for Humanistic and Social Scientific Research in AI and Autonomous Systems, WASP-HS, 16 projects granted

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The Wallenberg Foundations