Welcome to the
Wenner-Gren Foundations

The Wenner-Gren Foundations (The Wenner-Gren Center Foundation for Scientific Research, The Axel Wenner-Gren Foundation for International Exchange of Scientists and The Foundation Wenner-Grenska Samfundet) support international scientific exchange.The administration of the Foundations and some of the other activities are located in the Wenner-Gren Center (see above).

Current information

Opening hours for the Reception of the Guest Researchers' Apartments (Sveavägen 164):
The Reception is open "normal weekdays":
Monday-Friday 08-12, noon.
Monday, September 22: closed
(You can still reach the Reception by phone).

Upcoming symposia / event:
"Hemvändardagen 2025"
September 18, 2025

"Wenner-Gren Fellow-träffen"
September 19, 2025

"Urbanisation as a political technology"
Stockholm
June 10-13, 2026

For more information please contact:
Maria Helgöstam
maria.helgostam@swgc.org

Stipends & grants

The Foundations award fellowships to Swedish researchers, who want to go abroad, and to guest scientists, who want to visit Sweden.

Symposia

The Foundations organize international symposia, usually taking place in the Wenner-Gren Center in Stockholm.

Guest appartments

The Foundations supply guest scientists with apartments in the Wenner-Gren Center in Stockholm.

The Foundations also support Swedish scientists by: