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The Knowledge Awards
The Knowledge Awards are conferred annually to candidates who, innovatively, joyfully and successfully, manage to bring knowledge to others. The Knowledge Awards are intended to make creative disseminators of knowledge into Swedish heroes of knowledge. The winners should be good role models, venturing to think in new ways and thus contribute to advancing the level of knowledge in Sweden.
Everybody can nominate and be nominated!
The prize is awarded by the Swedish National Encyclopedia with partners. There are six award categories, amounting to 1.5 million Swedish kronor in total.
The six categories are:
- education
- trade and industry
- the public sector
- organizations
- other activities, such as unique personal achievements
- international honorary prize
The Knowledge Awards were set up in 2002 by the Swedish National Encyclopedia. The awards can be conferred to an individual, a group of people or an organization.
All Swedish nationals can nominate and be nominated, irrespective of education, age, or ethnicity. Nominations are prepared by a committee before the jury finally decides who will be the six winners, each of whom to be awarded 250,000 Swedish kronor.
If necessary, the committee will contact the nominator and also the nominees to obtain additional information. Three selected nominees in the first five categories will be submitted to the jury.
The awards, each worth 250,000 Swedish kronor, together with a glass sculpture designed by Bertil Vallien, are presented at a gala banquet in Stockholm Town Hall.
The commitment to the Knowledge Awards and the promotion of a higher level of knowledge in Sweden are shared by the Swedish National Encyclopedia and a number of associated partners who also want to take an active responsibility for the advancement of knowledge in all sectors of society.
A basic idea behind the Knowledge Awards is to involve, as far as possible, also far-sighted companies and organizations.
With a broad commitment to the idea, the Awards can be a unifying force for the advancement of knowledge in Sweden.
As a result of wide publicity, the open nomination process and the inspiration as role models offered by the nominees, the prize has become recognized as a broadly based knowledge award — a knowledge forum that promotes, among many people, greater awareness, further stimulation and new ideas. The prize enhances an awareness of the need for knowledge to be maintained and developed, so as not to depreciate. Thus, the prize contributes to raising the level of knowledge in Sweden.
The sixth category was added in 2007. To honour particularly prominent efforts in spreading knowledge on the international scene, the jury also appoints an International Honorary Knowledge Award winner. In this category, too, the prize amounts to 250,000 Swedish kronor, the total amount being 1.5 million kronor.
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