Victoria meets during the following weeks Wallenberg Academy Fellows. They are Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation's investment in young researchers.
Since the program started in 2012, 174 young researchers have become Wallenberg Academy Fellows.
The purpose of these investments is to boost Sweden as a research nation by retaining the greatest talents in the country and by recruiting young international researchers to Swedish universities. Via an integral mentor program, they also have an opportunity to strengthen their scientific leadership and better utilize their research results.
Wallenberg Academy Fellows provides the best young researchers with long-term resources so that they can concentrate on their research. The program, which focuses on researchers in the natural sciences, social sciences, engineering and technology, medicine and the humanities, also contributes to increased internationalization of the Swedish research environment.
They are 2017’s Wallenberg Academy Fellows _ Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
Victoria meets
6th March Wallenberg Academy Fellows Anita Öst, Maria Carlén and Sara Strandberg at the Wallenberg Foundations.
20th March Wallenberg Academy Fellows Jessica Körning Ljungberg, Anna Dreber Almenberg and Lisa Hultman at the Royal Palace.
21st March Wallenberg Academy Fellows Johanna Rosén, Kirsten Kralberg Knudsen and Camilla Svensson at Täcka Udden in Stockholm.
19th April Wallenberg Academy Fellows Sara Greenwood and Ilona Riipinen at the Stockholm University.
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The Wallenberg Foundations are in tight cooperation with the royal family.
Queen Silvia received "Queen Silvia's Foundation for Research and Training" as a gift from three Wallenberg foundations on her 50th birthday in 1993. The same foundations have then filled up with SEK 5 million each at Queen's 60th and 70th birthday.
When the King turned 50 in 1996, the Wallenberg family foundations set up the "King Carl XVI Gustaf's Foundation for Research and Training". Also here was filled with SEK 5 million at the 60th birthday and probably also on the king's 70th birthday.
At Crown Princess Victoria and Daniel Westling's banns of marriage in 2010, it was time for Victoria to have a foundation from the Wallenberg family. SEK 10 million became the starting capital of "Crown Princess Victoria's Foundation for Scientific Research and Training".
All three are managed by the Wallenbergs, and in its boards are representatives of the family together with their respective royals.
Foundation Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg's Memorial Fund is a founding partner of Generation Pep.
Already in 1972, when Gustaf VI Adolf turned 90, H.M. King's Wallenberg Fund was founded with money from Wallenberg family foundations.
