European Researchers’ Night in Sweden – ForskarFredag
As part of the EU project European Researchers' Night, Public & Science Sweden organizes European Researchers’ Night, called ForskarFredag, in collaboration with local organizers across Sweden once a year.
European Researchers’ Night was organised for the first time in 2005 around Europe and in a number of locations in Sweden.
In 2006, it was organised for the first time under the name ForskarFredag (ResearcherFriday) and was coordinated by Public & Science Sweden. Since then, Researchers’ Night has been arranged annually and coordinated by Public & Science Sweden in partnership with the Swedish Research Council.
Researchers are ordinary people with unusually exciting jobs!
Activities
European Researchers’ Night in Sweden is organised at different universities, science centres, museums, archives, research centres, municipalities, science parks and regional development councils across whole of Sweden.
As part of European Researchers’ Night, Public & Science Sweden organises the Researchers’ Grand Prix and runs mass experiments with schools across Sweden.
Another part of ForskarFredag is the concept ‘borrow a researcher’. Researchers visit schools, non-profit associations or workplaces, to talk about their work as a researcher and the wider societal context of their research – either in person or online. An online booking platform facilitates researchers’ booking. Read more about Borrow a Researcher.
For more information about European Researchers’ Night in Sweden, visit the ForskarFredag/European Researchers’ Night website.
Public & Science Sweden’s role in the project
Researchers’ Night in Sweden (ForskarFredag) is coordinated by Public & Science Sweden, in partnership with the Swedish Research Council.
Created: 01 June 2026
Last edited: 02 June 2026
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Funding
Researchers’ Night is an EU-funded project. In Sweden, it has been coordinated by Public & Science Sweden in partnership with the the Swedish Research Council since 2006. The project is supported by organizations and companies across the country.
