The Royal Academies are independent organizations, founded on

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command, that act to promote the

arts The arts are a very wide range of human practices of creative expression, storytelling and cultural participation. They encompass multiple diverse and plural modes of thinking, doing and being, in an extremely broad range of media. Both ...

culture Culture () is an umbrella term which encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups ...

, and

science Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence ...

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic countries, Nordic c ...

. The

Swedish Academy The Swedish Academy ( sv, Svenska Akademien), founded in 1786 by King Gustav III, is one of the Royal Academies of Sweden. Its 18 members, who are elected for life, comprise the highest Swedish language authority. Outside Scandinavia, it is bes ...

and Academy of Sciences are also responsible for the selection of

Nobel Prize The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...

laureates in

Literature Literature is any collection of Writing, written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially prose fiction, drama, and poetry. In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to ...

Physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which ...

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, and the Prize in Economic Sciences. Also included in the Royal Academies are scientific societies that were granted

Royal Charter A royal charter is a formal grant issued by a monarch under royal prerogative as letters patent. Historically, they have been used to promulgate public laws, the most famous example being the English Magna Carta (great charter) of 1215, b ...

Arts and culture

(''Svenska Akademien''), 1786 * Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts (''Kungl. Akademien för de Fria konsterna''), 1773 * Royal Swedish Academy of Music (''Kungl. Musikaliska Akademien''), 1771 *

Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities also called simply the Royal Academy of Letters or Vitterhetsakademin abbreviated KVHAA ( sv, Kungl. Vitterhetsakademien Historie och Antikvitets Akademien or or ) is the Swedish roy ...

(''Kungl. Vitterhets-, Historie- och Antikvitetsakademien''), 1753

Sciences

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences ( sv, Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien) is one of the royal academies of Sweden. Founded on 2 June 1739, it is an independent, non-governmental scientific organization that takes special responsibility for prom ...

(''Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien''), 1739 *

Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences or ''Kungliga Ingenjörsvetenskapsakademien'' (IVA), founded on 24 October 1919 by King Gustaf V, is one of the royal academies in Sweden. The academy is an independent organisation, which prom ...

(''Kungl. Ingenjörsvetenskapsakademien''), 1919 * Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry (''Kungl. Skogs- och Lantbruksakademien''), 1813

Military

* Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences (''Kungl. Krigsvetenskapsakademien''), 1796 *

Royal Swedish Society of Naval Sciences The Royal Swedish Society of Naval Sciences ( sv, Kungliga Örlogsmannasällskapet, KÖMS), founded in 1771 by King Gustav III, is one of the Royal Academies in Sweden. The Society is an independent organization and a forum for navy and defence i ...

(''Kungl. Örlogsmannasällskapet''), 1771

Societies with a royal charter

* Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala (''Kungl. Vetenskapssocieteten i Uppsala''), 1710 * Royal Physiographic Society in Lund (''Kungl. Fysiografiska Sällskapet i Lund''), 1772 * Royal Society of Sciences and Letters in Gothenburg (''Kungl. Vetenskaps- och Vitterhetssamhället i Göteborg''), 1759 * Royal Society of the Humanities at Uppsala (''Kungl. Humanistiska Vetenskaps-Samfundet i Uppsala''), 1889 * Royal Society of the Humanities in Lund (''Kungl. Humanistiska Vetenskapssamfundet i Lund''), 1918 * Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy in

Uppsala Uppsala (, or all ending in , ; archaically spelled ''Upsala'') is the county seat of Uppsala County and the fourth-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. It had 177,074 inhabitants in 2019. Located north of the ca ...

(''Kungl. Gustav Adolfs Akademien''), 1932 * Royal Society of Arts and Sciences of Uppsala (''Kungl. Vetenskapssamhället i Uppsala''), 1954 * Royal Skyttean Society in

Umeå Umeå ( , , , locally ; South Westrobothnian: ;). fi, Uumaja; sju, Ubmeje; sma, Upmeje; se, Ubmi) is a city in northeast Sweden. It is the seat of Umeå Municipality and the capital of Västerbotten County. Situated on the Ume River, Um ...

(''Kungl. Skytteanska Samfundet''), 1956

References

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