A few highlights. The Torsten Söderberg Foundation is donating 12 million kronor to a new professorship at Uppsala University. The university already has several professorships focused on Christianity and one in Islamic theology and philosophy. However, there is currently no professorship focused on Jewish studies at Uppsala University or anywhere else in Sweden. Ensuring that all three Abrahamic religions are represented by a professorship is something Uppsala University has long advocated for. The new professorship focusing on Jewish studies is dedicated to the field of Jewish thought. Within this research area, Jewish texts and their interpretations are studied in relation to the history of ideas. The new professorship is named the Torsten Söderberg Professorship in Jewish Thought. Read more about the professorship here.

This year's biggest investment in medicine, SEK 10 million, will enable another Torsten Söderberg Academy Professorship in Medicine at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Vetenskapsakademien. The purpose of the Foundation's academic professorships is to promote internationally leading research in the field of medicine at Swedish universities by enabling the appointed professors to devote themselves full-time to their research. The Foundation funds five parallel Torsten Söderberg Academy Professorships in Medicine.

To draw attention to the often missing chapter on the importance of trade in the story of the emergence, history and future of modern Sweden, the Foundation is allocating SEK 2.5 million to the Museum of Technology and the upcoming new basic exhibition Technology Futures - the Birth of Modern Sweden.

A list of the Foundation's 2024 grants is available via the link below. For shorter summaries of the grants, see research initiatives and grants.

All applicants will be notified of the decision in writing to the address given in the application. Reasons for decisions are not provided. Researchers who have been awarded a grant should wait for this letter for more detailed information and read the grant conditions carefully as the Foundation may, for example, have awarded parts of the application.

Decision 2024.