When December comes, we all need a little light in the darkness – and this year perhaps more than ever before. To bring some more light and hope to our lives, about fifteen places around Stockholm will be lit up for Nobel Week Lights Stockholm on 5-13 December as part of the 2020 Nobel Week.…

Registration opens this week for the annual Nobel Week Dialogue event, to be held online on 9 December. Our long-established education systems have been turned upside down by the Covid-19 pandemic, making this a crucial time to discuss education in our new world. Nobel Laureates and other experts will address the challenges to learning posed…

On 17 November Nobel Laureate Stefan Hell will take part in a digital Q&A on the topic of being a scientist. The session is organised to inspire students and young researchers to devote their career to science. The conversation is arranged by Nobel Prize Outreach and Korean Academy of Science and Technology, KAST.  In 2014…

In the coming days, this year’s Nobel Laureates will be announced for their achievements in science, literature, peace and economics. The Nobel Prize Museum is celebrating the announcements with the programme Nobel Calling Stockholm and an outdoor cinema that has just opened on Sergels torg in downtown Stockholm. The cinema will be showing five short…

The Nobel Foundation’s Board of Directors has decided that the 2020 Nobel Prize will amount to 10 million SEK per prize category. That means an increase of 1 million SEK per prize category compared to prior years. The work done in recent years to strengthen the Nobel Foundation’s financial standing has made it possible to…

The first week of October is coming closer, when this year’s Nobel Prizes, and the achievements that have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind, will be announced. On 5-12 October, the prize awarding institutions will make their announcements and the press conferences can be followed via the Nobel Prize’s official digital channels. The ongoing global…

As a build-up to this year’s Nobel Prizes – which will be announced 5-12 October – new episodes of the podcast series Nobel Prize Conversations are being launched. In these episodes, the listener will meet two Economic Sciences laureates: Daniel Kahneman and Esther Duflo. In the podcast series ‘Nobel Prize Conversations’, the listener gets the…

The global pandemic and the COVID-19 situation are having a very broad impact on society. Events that bring together many participants are being postponed or reconfigured. This situation will also affect the 2020 Nobel Week, which will adopt new formats to celebrate and pay tribute to this year’s Laureates. Each December all the Laureates, their…

On 2 July, the Nobel Prize Museum on Stortorget, the main square in Stockholm’s Old Town, will reopen under controlled conditions. New to the museum is a mini-exhibition about viruses, pandemics and the Nobel Prize. Visitors who cannot travel to the museum during the summer can also view the exhibition digitally. Throughout history, humans have…

Vidar Helgesen – Norway’s former State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Minister of European Affairs and Minister of Climate and the Environment – will become the new Executive Director of the Nobel Foundation at the beginning of 2021. He will thus assume the task of strengthening the long-term finances and position of the…

What will our children’s and our grandchildren’s planet look like? What can we do today to prevent the worst catastrophes? And is there a light at the end of this tunnel where a sustainable and prosperous world can be found? These are the questions Johan Rockström, Professor of Earth System Science, will address when the…

The Nobel Prize, National Geographic Documentary Films and Academy Award-winning filmmaker Orlando von Einsiedel have collaborated on a 5-part short documentary series, celebrating the ongoing impact and influence of Nobel Peace Prize laureates around the world. On 20 May, the 5 films will be launched simultaneously on the National Geographic channel and on YouTube. The…

The market value of the Nobel Foundation’s capital was SEK 4,902 m at the end of 2019. The total market value of investment capital (total invested capital excluding directly owned properties) amounted to SEK 4,618 m. During 2019, return on this investment capital was +16.6 per cent. The economic crisis of recent months connected to…

On Earth Day, 22 April 2020, Greta Thunberg and Johan Rockström will meet for a digital conversation about courage, solidarity and opportunities in times of crisis streamed from the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm. The call will be broadcast live for a global audience. This year marks 50 years since Earth Day was first organised…

The world-renowned pianist Igor Levit will be performing at this year’s Nobel Prize Concert on 8 December. At his side, he will have conductor Stéphane Denève leading the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Igor Levit is one of the most important pianists of his generation. He regularly performs at large concert halls across the world. Born…

Just in time for Nobel Week in December 2020, Nobel Prize Museum is opening a new exhibition about the Nobel Banquet and the important role that shared meals play in bringing people together and fostering conversation. Nobel Day is celebrated by people everywhere these days, from preschools to elderly care facilities, and of course in…

This year’s Nobel Prize announcements will take place from 5-12 October. All the announcements will be broadcast live on the official website of the Nobel Prize, www.nobelprize.org. The prize-awarding institutions have decided to announce their 2020 prize decisions as follows: PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE – Monday, 5 October, 11:30 CEST at the earliest The Nobel Assembly…

Stadsgårdskajen next to Slussen is the site where the Nobel Center will be located, the City of Stockholm and the Nobel Foundation announced at a joint press conference today. With its broad public activities, the Nobel Center will be an important piece of the puzzle in developing Slussen into a lively meeting place. “The Nobel…

This week Nobel Prize Conversations launches – a new biweekly podcast series where the listener gets the chance to know some of the individuals who have been awarded the Prize in Economic Sciences a little better. The conversations focus on motivation, creativity and choices in life – large and small. The first episode features behavioural…

The first-ever Nobel Prize Summit, Our Planet, Our Future, will bring together several Nobel Laureates and other world-renowned experts and leaders to advance new insights into global sustainable development and explore actions that need to be taken to ensure humanity’s future on a prosperous, stable, and resilient planet.  The three-day summit will be held at…