The purpose of this initiative is to give outstanding early-career researchers the opportunity to organise a scientific conference featuring internationally recognised speakers. In this way, we aim to promote research collaboration and the exchange of experience between internationally recognised researchers and researchers in Sweden, with a particular focus on those who are relatively early in their careers.

In autumn 2023, researchers who had previously received funding from the foundation were invited to submit proposals for conference programmes. The proposals were reviewed by members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, after which the foundation’s board decided to fund three of them. The researchers who will each have the opportunity to organise a conference at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm are:

• Alexander Pietras (Lund University),
• Heather Fors (University of Gothenburg),
• Julian Nowag (Lund University).

 

The conferences will take place in 2025–2026 and cover topics ranging from tumour biology and behavioural economics to competition law and family entrepreneurship. More information about the individual conferences will be published on our website and by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in due course.

Says Anna Wetterbom, CEO for The Ragnar Söderberg Foundation.