The Foundations grant funding to excellent researchers and research projects beneficial to Sweden.
The funding totaled over SEK 2.9 billion in 2024
Application dates for all Foundations
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Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation
Project Grants: Call in Youth Psychology/Psychiatry and research of relevance to forest management and conservation
Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Foundation
Project Grants: Call in Youth Psychology/Psychiatry and research of relevance to forest management and conservation
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Long-term establishment of national expertise in key strategic areas
Read about the Foundation’s strategic programs in life sciences, mathematics, data, materials science, AI, quantum technology and future use and management of Swedish forests.
Dung beetles’ navigational skills offer potential for robots of the future
How does a dung beetle find its way home? Even though it is walking backwards in the dark and rolling a large ball of dung, it moves in a perfectly straight line. The answer could help develop better robotics and other technology.
Wallenberg Scholar Marie Dacke, professor of sensory biology at Lund University, studies what happens inside the dung beetle's brain and nervous system as it navigates under different conditions and times.
