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

Opening hours for the Reception of the Guest Researchers' Apartments (Sveavägen 164):
The Reception is open "normal weekdays":
Monday-Friday 08-12, noon.

Thursday, June 19: closing at 12, noon
Friday, June 20: closed
SUMMER HOLIDAY
Monday, June 30 - Friday, July 25: closed
Fault reports will only be received by phone: 08-736 98 00 (weekdays during office hours).

Upcoming symposia / event:
"Phage-bacteriainteractions: the molecular battle for control of the central dogma"
"Hasselbacken" - Stockholm
August 20-23, 2025

"Hemvändardagen 2025"
September 18, 2025

"Wenner-Gren Fellow-träffen"
September 19, 2025

"Urbanisation as a political technology"
Stockholm
June 10-13, 2026

For more information please contact:
Maria Helgöstam
[email protected]

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: