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  • Launching new research programmes in mathematics

    2013-06-18 News: The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation has decided in collaboration with the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to support Swedish research in mathematics. As part of this initiative, three research programmes will be launched: one post-doc programme for young researchers going abroad, one post-doc programme for recruiting young foreign researchers to Sweden, and one visiting scholar programme for foreign researchers.
  • Swedish top-tier research in need of reinforcement

    2013-06-10 Press release: Sweden has a long tradition of being a high-ranking knowledge nation, harbouring several internationally prominent research and knowledge environments. But something has changed. During the last twenty years, the development of research with high international impact has been weaker in Sweden than in countries such as Denmark, the Netherlands and Switzerland. This is a warning sign of utmost importance, and it is high time to implement decisive measures to turn this development around if Sweden is to remain a research nation of the highest rank.
  • Three new members elected to the Academy

    2013-05-28 News: At the General Meeting on 15 May Olof Ramström, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Mikael Akke, Lund University and sir John Meurig Thomas, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, were elected members of the Academy.
  • Maria Strømme elected to the Academy's Class for Engineering sciences

    2013-03-28 News: At the General Meeting on 13 Mars Maria Strømme, Professor of Nanotechnology at Uppsala University, was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
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Science in society

Unexpected benefits
The Academy is alarmed by the decline of recent years in conditions for open-ended research, and strongly supports initiatives to improve its funding. In the publication Unexpected benefits, the Academy aim to highlight a few examples of how basic research, without being driven by ideas about applications, has nonetheless yielded myriad everyday benefits.

Science in society

Events

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  • The Academy secretariat closed for vacations

    2013-07-08  Closed at the secretariat: The Academy secretariat is closed as from 8 July and reopens at 12 August.
  • Ordinarie sammankomst

    2013-09-11  General Meeting: Sammanträde för Kungl. Vetenskapsakademiens ledamöter. Notera att den ordinarie sammankomsten endast är öppen för akademiledamöter.
  • Ordinarie sammankomst

    2013-10-09  General Meeting: Sammanträde för Kungl. Vetenskapsakademiens ledamöter. Notera att den ordinarie sammankomsten endast är öppen för akademiledamöter.
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Crafoord Prize Lectures & Prize Symposium in Polyarthritis 2013


Genes, environment and immunity in the development of rheumatoid arthritis. Crafoord Laureate 2013 Lars Klareskog, Karolinska Institutet.

Watch the entire symposium at KVATV.se

Education

The Academy has long considered it important to foster the teaching of science and mathematics in Swedish schools. Since the beginning of the 1980s, the Academy has initiated and become involved in many activities seeking to improve school teaching and attract people to learn natural science.

Education

Grants/Funding

Grants/Funding

Prizes

Crafoord Days 2013

Welcome to Crafoord Days in May! The Prize award ceremony will be held at the Academy on Thursday 2 May and Prize Lectures and Prize symposia in Polyarthritis will be held on Friday 3 May, Nobel Forum, Karolinska Institutet.

Crafoord Prize
The Nobel Prizes and the Prize in Economic Sciences

The Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry and the Prize in Economic Sciences 2012 are about particle control in the quantum world, receptors on our cells that can sense their environment, and matching different agents as well as possible.

Nobel Prizes

Members

At the General Meeting on 15 May Mikael Akke, Lund University, Olof Ramström, KTH Royal Institute of Technology and sir John Meurig Thomas, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, were elected members of the Academy.

Members
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