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26-493: The Foundations award grants to excellent researchers and research projects whose purpose is for the benefit of Sweden. Over the past ten years the Foundations have awarded funding of just over SEK 17 billion. Total funding since the Foundations were established is approaching SEK 33 billion. The three largest foundations awarded SEK 2.2 billion in 2018. The emphasis of funding is on medicine, technology and natural sciences, but

52-418: A green, social and decentralised liberalism". The party advocates lower taxes, greatly reduced employer contributions, a freer market and an increased RUT-deduction  [ sv ] . The party is a major supporter of the interests of small businesses , farmers and entrepreneurs. It also favours investments in infrastructure and transportation, to allow employees to work in bigger cities but still live in

78-540: A mutually agreeable framework. The Centre Party has produced two prime ministers of Sweden , who served a total of three terms; Thorbjörn Fälldin was the last Centre Party prime minister, and held the post for a total of five years, from 1976 to 1978 and then again from 1979 to 1982. It is a member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe , the Liberal International and Renew Europe . It

104-543: A total of 1.815 billion Swedish kronor . Traditionally, most of the party's voters come from rural areas and include farmers and agricultural producers. Since the takeover of Maud Olofsson in recent years, the party has been attracting liberal voters from urban areas in central Sweden. It is believed that voters from the Liberals have been moving to the Centre Party due to changes in both parties. The Leader of

130-653: Is a liberal political party in Sweden , founded in 1913. The party focuses on the national economy , the environment , political decentralisation and social integration . It is represented in all of the Riksdag 's parliamentary committees, currently holding 24 seats. From 2019 to 2021, it provided confidence and supply to the Löfven II cabinet . Traditionally part of the Nordic agrarian family of political parties,

156-676: Is itself the second-largest backer of basic scientific research in Europe, distributing $ 2.7 billion (SEK 24 billion) in its first 100 years of existence as of 2017. The Wallenberg Foundations funded the Human Protein Atlas in 2003 at a cost of SEK 900 million which had, as of 2013, mapped 15,000 proteins largely through the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation . The project involves hundreds of scientists including from Karolinska Institute , Stockholm University , Uppsala University and

182-586: Is to own and manage its direct holdings, and function as an active owner with a long-term commitment. The three foundations also have substantial holdings in the listed company Investor AB which holds positions in international companies, most of them with Swedish roots. The Wallenberg Foundations collectively hold 50% of shares in Investor AB and 100% of shares in FAM AB . They also controlled 7.5% of Swedish national carrier SAS , however, their involvement in

208-835: The Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union and keep the krona as its currency. The party is a member of the ALDE Party and its affiliated European Parliament group Renew Europe . In the European Committee of the Regions , the Centre Party sits with the Renew Europe CoR group with one full and one alternate member for the 2020-2025 mandate. The Centre Party owned a media consortium called Centertidningar AB. It included newspapers that

234-691: The Swedish Royal Institute of Technology forming the Science for Life Laboratory ( SciLifeLab ). The foundations provide SEK 120 million annually to support the SciLifeLab. In 2009, the foundations began the Wallenberg Scholars program to fund Sweden's leading senior researchers with 5-year grants that can be used for research without restrictions. The program was started because "researchers need long-term funding without

260-503: The centre to centre-right of the political spectrum . The party has also described as social liberal , economically liberal , and "ecological-liberal". It describes itself as a green-liberal and libertarian party, while it has been traditionally associated with agrarianism and the Nordic agrarian party family. The party has been described as one of Sweden's most market liberal parties in liberal, socialist and conservative media. It describes itself as "a party with

286-528: The flag carrier ended as part of the airline's restructuring after COVID-19 . Active engagement in these companies forms the bulk of the Wallenberg family's activities with most assets held through foundations tightly controlled by the family who invest the assets in family-run operating companies. The family's assets generate approximately $ 160 billion in annual revenue. Dividends from the holdings are used to fund research and education grants in line with

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312-494: The political right as a small-business -friendly party, advocating market liberal policies and viewing the Social Democrats as its main opponent. In 2005, the Centre Party the newspaper group it owned, Centertidningar AB , for 1.8 billion SEK , which made it the richest political party in the world at the time. In 2022, Annie Lööf resigned her position as Leader of the Centre Party. The Centre Party sits on

338-426: The Centre Party and Prime Minister of Sweden from 1976 until 1982, except for a short interregnum between 1978 and 1979 led by Liberal People's Party leader Ola Ullsten . The Centre Party joined another centre-right government following the 1991 general election , led by Moderate Party leader Carl Bildt . During the leaderships of Maud Olofsson and Annie Lööf in the 2000s, the party positioned itself clearly on

364-492: The Centre Party has increasingly switched focus towards economic liberalism , environmental protection , equality of the sexes and decentralisation of governmental authority. The party describes itself as liberal feminist , campaigning for policies which enhance gender equality on an individualist basis. Its environmental policies stress the importance of consent and voluntary action, including working with foresters and private landowners to promote biodiversity within

390-713: The Foundation its position as one of the largest private research foundations in Europe. Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation is the largest of the 16 foundations formed on the basis of donations from members of the Wallenberg family, or created with funds raised in honor of Wallenberg family members. The foundations are referred to collectively as the Wallenberg Foundations, and award grants totaling approximately SEK 2.2 billion each year. Centre Party (Sweden) The Centre Party ( Swedish : Centerpartiet [ˈsɛ̂nːtɛrpaˌʈiːɛt] , C )

416-404: The Foundations also support social sciences, the humanities and archaeology. Sixteen individual foundations form the basis for what is collectively called the Wallenberg Foundations. The three largest Foundations – Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation , Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation , and Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Foundation jointly own FAM AB , an unlisted company whose purpose

442-532: The KAW. Then politicians from the Centre Party were also assigned to the board, including Christina Rogestam, Anders Dahlgren , and Thorbjörn Fälldin . Since its establishment it has approved funding of just over SEK 27.2 billion to Swedish research and education. Almost SEK 14.5 billion of this was awarded between 2008 and 2018. The funding allocated annually in recent years of almost SEK 2 billion has given

468-424: The Wallenberg's stated goal of working for the benefit of Sweden or " landsgagneliga" . The foundations combined award funding of just over SEK 2.2 billion each year for Swedish research and education. The foundations are Sweden's largest private funder of research and also holds the title at a number of universities including Uppsala University and Karolinska Institutet . The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation

494-527: The closest ally of the centre-left Swedish Social Democratic Party (SAP) for twenty-five years, and one of the SAP's coalition partners between 1936 and 1945 as well as between 1951 and 1957. However, it later revised this strategy in order to establish a closer long-term alliance between the centre-right borgerlig ("bourgeois" or "nonsocialist") parties that achieved power between 1976 and 1982 and between 1991 and 1994. Thorbjörn Fälldin served as Leader of

520-447: The distraction of pressure to secure external grants in order to carry out world-class research" according to the foundations. There were 118 Wallenberg Scholars as of 2024. Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation ( KAW ) ( Swedish : Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse ) is a Swedish public and private foundation formed in 1917 by Knut Agathon Wallenberg and his wife Alice Wallenberg. It

546-410: The party had either started on their own or brought from competitors. It included Hallands Nyheter , Södermanlands Nyheter , Länstidningen i Södertälje , Nynäshamns Posten , Norrtelje Tidning , Lidingö Tidning , Ljusdalsposten , Östersunds-Posten , Hälsingekuriren and Hudiksvalls Tidning . The consortium was split in 2005 and sold to Mittmedia , Stampen Group and VLT for

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572-484: The party proposed to replace the existing establishment grants with establishment loans, similar to the Swedish student loans . The balance of the state responsibility of accepting refugees with their responsibility for integration into Swedish society is at the core of the party policy. In January 2016, the party for example proposed to give all immigrants compulsory civic education in both rights and expectations from

598-586: The rural areas and vice versa. On economic policy, it views the Social Democrats and the Sweden Democrats as its opponents, though it supported a government led by the Social Democrats till 2022. The party is liberal on immigration, seeking to combine a generous immigration policy with an initially more restrictive contribution policy to the immigrants. After the European migrant crisis ,

624-498: The society. The party is a decentralist pro-European party that considers the European Union important for the preservation of peace, freedom and trade in Europe. The party also advocates a smaller but sharper European Union focused on promoting democracy, peace, free movement, free trade, vigorous action against climate change and collaboration against organized crime, while also believing that Sweden should stay outside

650-413: Was created to support research in the natural sciences, technology and medicine by awarding long-term grants to basic research of the highest international class. From its start in 1917 to 1971 the board members of the Foundation were mostly from the Wallenberg family. In 1971 a Council of Principals was established which changed the membership pattern, and the academics began to serve as board members of

676-573: Was originally named the Farmers' League (Swedish: Bondeförbundet [ˈbʊ̂nːdɛfœrˌbɵndɛt] ; B ). The party was founded in 1913 as the Farmers' League ( Swedish : Bondeförbundet , B). In 1922, it merged with the National Farmers' Union  [ sv ] (Swedish: Jordbrukarnas Riksförbund [ˈjûːɖˌbrʉːkaɳas ˈrɪ̂ksfœrˌbɵnd] , JR), and adopted its current name in 1957. At that time, it had been

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