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

Upcoming symposia:
"Mind the Gap - Bridging Secondary and Higher Education"
Wenner-Gren Center - Stockholm
May 15-18, 2019
Organizers: Academia Europaea;
Erik De Corte, Svend Erik Larsen, Jan-Eric Gustafsson, Mikael Oliveberg and Peter Scott.

"Amyloid diseases: from biochemistry to clinical applications"
Wenner-Gren Center - Stockholm
August 14-17, 2019
Organizing committee: Astrid Gräslund, Agneta Nordberg, Per Roos, Pernilla Wittung Stafshede and Sebastian Wärmländer.

"Mechanistic Homogeneous Catalysis -
A meeting between theory and experiment"
Wenner-Gren Center - Stockholm
September 4-7, 2019
Organizing committee: Fahmi Himo and Kálmán J Szabó.

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: