Health and Living Conditions
The purpose of the Vårdal Foundation is to improve human health and living conditions. In order to achieve that purpose, the Foundation supports innovative research and strategic collaborations in those issue areas.
The Foundation is an independent financier of research, with a special focus on the challenges of ageing and health issues of children and adolescents. The Vårdal Foundation is one of the major players in Sweden for interdisciplinary research in the field of health and social care.
By collaborating with other financiers, the Foundation is able to achieve a greater impact of the financing effort, compared to what financiers can achieve on an individual basis.
Innovative Research and Collaborations
Supporting innovative research and initiating collaboration, the Foundation has launched several successful research programs, for instance Swedish Brain Power, a program that addresses cerebral disease and that has attracted much international attention.
Another example is the VINNVÅRD Research Program, which aims to generate knowledge and to speed up the process of putting knowledge into practice.
A Parliamentary Initiative
The Vårdal Foundation was established in 1994 upon a resolution by the Swedish Parliament. Since its inception, about SEK 850 million has been allocated in various kinds of research grants. The budgeted amount for financing research in 2010 amounts to SEK 60 million. Currently, the Foundation is supporting seven major research programs, each running over a period of four to eight years, and in one case even longer.
Management, Board of Trustees and Contact Details
Managing Director of the Vårdal Foundation: Thorbjörn Larsson.
The Board of Trustees is appointed by the Swedish Government.
Its current term of mandate ends 31 June 2010.
Board members
Cecilia Schelin Seidegård, (Chairman) PhD and Governor Gotland, Sweden
Bengt Arnetz, Professor, Wayne State University, USA and Uppsala University, Sweden
Susanna Baconcini, Business Development and Entrepreneurship, Labworks
Lena Borell, Professor and Chair of Occupational Therapy, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Tomas Gustafsson, International coordinator, European CBRNE center, Umeå universitet
Göran Lingman, Associate professor and Chairman of Dept Obst Gyn, Skåne University Hospital, Sweden
Magnus Wickman, Professor, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet and Sachs’ Children’s Hospital, Södersjukhuset, Sweden
Contact details
Vårdalstiftelsen
Address: P.O. Box 3210, 103 63 Stockholm, Sweden
Visiting address: Holländargatan 13, 3rd floor, Stockholm
Telephone: +46 8 54513550
Fax: +46 8 54513560
E-mail: info@vardal.se
Direct e-mail to staff at the secretariat: firstname.lastname@vardal.se
