In October, this year’s Nobel Prize laureates will be announced. To mark the occasion, the Nobel Prize Museum is collaborating with universities and cultural institutions across Stockholm. Highlights include a crash course in this year’s Nobel Prizes in the natural sciences featuring Annika Lantz, and a panel discussion on the Nobel Peace Prize with Margot Wallström.
Nobel Calling Stockholm is eight days filled with activities across the city in connection with the announcements of the Nobel Prizes. This year, the public is invited to enjoy a wide range of activities, from talks and guided tours to music performances and rare opportunities to visit world-famous laboratories. The event runs from 5 to 12 October.
One of the programme’s recurring highlights is a crash course on this year’s Nobel Prizes in the natural sciences. In this year’s edition, Nobel Committee members and experts Ulf Danielsson, Heiner Linke and Anna Wedell will explain the newly awarded Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine, Physics and Chemistry. The programme will be followed by a Nobel quiz hosted by comedian Annika Lantz.
“As an average person, it is naturally an honour to host a quiz about the very brightest minds. I can promise music! Audio clips! Multiple-choice questions! Dare I say it will be a quiz that has everything, except a Nobel Prize,” says Lantz about what the audience can expect from the evening.
Among the week’s activities is also a conversation featuring researchers from the Stockholm School of Economics, Karolinska Institutet, KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm University, exploring how AI is affecting human abilities and skills, and what consequences this may have for individuals and society. Is AI making us less capable, or more creative and efficient?
On Friday, former Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs Margot Wallström and Isak Svensson, Professor of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University, will meet at the Nobel Prize Museum to discuss the Nobel Peace Prize of 2026, which will have been announced earlier that day.
In total, 28 programmes and activities will be presented throughout the week by universities and cultural institutions across the city. Nobel Calling Stockholm is organised in collaboration with the Stockholm School of Economics, Karolinska Institutet, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, the Swedish Red Cross University, the City of Stockholm, Stockholm City Archives, Stockholm University, Sveriges Riksbank and the Swedish Research Council.
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