About the Foundation

In 1960, donors Torsten and Wanja Söderberg decided to set aside part of their fortune to establish the Torsten Söderberg Foundation. They wanted the foundation to “promote scientific research and scientific teaching or study activities of national benefit, with priority given to the fields of economics, medicine, and law.”

About the Foundation

Since then, the Torsten Söderberg Foundation has been supporting research initiatives and individual projects in medicine, economics, law, and other fields (often with links to the humanities). These initiatives are frequently interdisciplinary. The Foundation’s donations and research grants are detailed annually in its annual reports.

For example, the Foundation has initiated professorships at Karolinska Institutet, Lund University, Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm University, University of Gothenburg and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Vetenskapsakademien. A basic idea of the Foundation's professorships is to free up time and enable a prominent professor to focus on his or her research.

The Torsten Söderberg Foundation awards the Söderberg Prize in medicine, economics, and law in collaboration with the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Swedish Medical Association. The purpose of the prizes is to highlight outstanding achievements and to encourage further research and development in these fields. The Foundation has also established prizes in design and crafts, business research and practice, and journalism.

The Governing Board has appointed permanent scientific advisors in the Foundation's main fields.

The Foundation's office is located at Strandvägen 11 in Stockholm. The Foundation has its legal seat in Gothenburg.