Project grants 2020
In 2020, the Foundation has awarded grants of SEK 195 million, of which SEK 135 million for project grants and three Clinical Fellows. In addition, 10 projects totaling SEK 60 million have been granted within the WASP - HS program.
Research Institute of Industrial Economics, IFN, grant of SEK 25 million for the project “Firm Competitiveness, Human Capital, and the Fourth Industrial Revolution”.
The competitiveness of firms, the development of skills and the fourth industrial revolution
Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum, grant of SEK 12 million for the project “New Technologies, Transition Problems and Structural Change - Realising the economic potential of technology in the wake of digitalisation within a medium-term future”.
The impact of digitalization on the labor market, business sector and prosperity
Lund University, grant of SEK 7.5 million for the project “The Future of Human Rights: The Raoul Wallenberg Visiting Chair in Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in Continuity and Change”.
The Raoul Wallenberg Visiting Chair
Uppsala University, grant of SEK 7 million for the project “Children’s Intuitive Theory of AI - an active training study”.
Giving preschoolers an intuitive theory of AI
Karolinska Institutet, grant of SEK 7 million for the project “Using AI for Understanding Early Math Learning”.
Using artificial intelligence for understanding how children learn mathematics
Karolinska Institutet, grant of SEK 6 million for the project “Quantifying prior beliefs for affective decision making and their relation to symptoms of depression”.
Decision-making by depressed and non-depressed persons
The Institute for Media Studies, grant of SEK 5 million for the project “Quality of Media in change”.
How does the media fulfill its democratic function?
Centrum för rättvisa, 2 miljoner kronor for “Centrum för rättvisa’s Law Student Conference and Student Program”.
Grants within the WASP-HS program
Professor Jonas Tallberg, Stockholm University
Project: “The Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence”.
Grant: SEK 6 000 000 over three years
Read more: "The Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence”
Professor Barry Brown, Stockholm University
Project: “AI in motion: Studying the social world of autonomous vehicles”
Grant: SEK 6 000 000 over five years
Read more: “AI in motion: Studying the social world of autonomous vehicles”
Professor Per Andersson, Stockholm School of Economics
Project: “A study of AI as a new strategic imperative; challenging existing strategies, business models and organizational processes”
Grant: SEK 6 000 000 over three years
Read more: “A study of AI as a new strategic imperative; challenging existing strategies, business models and organizational processes”
Professor Mats Engwall, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Project: “Artificial intelligence and industrial transformation: Who will survive the technology shift in Sweden?”
Grant: SEK 6 000 000 over five years
Read more: “Artificial intelligence and industrial transformation: Who will survive the technology shift in Sweden?”
Associate Professor Ana Nordberg, Lund University
Project: “AI and Automated systems and the Right to Health - Revisiting law accounting for the exploitation of users preferences and values”
Grant: SEK 6 000 000 over five years
Read more: “AI and Automated systems and the Right to Health - Revisiting law accounting for the exploitation of users preferences and values”
Associate Professor Johanna Björklund, Umeå University
Project: “AI-Driven Contextual Communication: Implications for Citizens and Society”
Grant: SEK 6 000 000 over three years
Read more: “AI-Driven Contextual Communication: Implications for Citizens and Society”
Professor Simon Lindgren, Umeå University
Project: “Cyborg Politics: A study of artificial agents in online democratic deliberation”
Grant: SEK 6 000 000 over five years
Read more: “Cyborg Politics: A study of artificial agents in online democratic deliberation”
Dr André Holzapfel, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Project: “AI and the Artistic Imaginary: Socio-cultural consequences and challenges of creative-AI technology”
Grant: SEK 6 000 000 over four years
Read more: “AI and the Artistic Imaginary: Socio-cultural consequences and challenges of creative-AI technology”
Associate Professor Magnus Strand, Uppsala University
Project: “AI and the Financial Markets: Accountability and Risk Management with Legal Tools”.
Grant: SEK 6 000 000 over three years
Read more: “AI and the Financial Markets: Accountability and Risk Management with Legal Tools”.
Associate Professor Teresa Cerratto Pargman, Stockholm University
Project: “Ethical and Legal Challenges in Relationship to AI-driven Practices in Higher Education”
Grant: SEK 6 000 000 over four years
Read more: Ethical and Legal Challenges in Relationship to AI-driven Practices in Higher Education”
