The Royal Academies are independent organizations, founded on

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command, that act to promote the

arts The arts or creative arts are a vast range of human practices involving creativity, creative expression, storytelling, and cultural participation. The arts encompass diverse and plural modes of thought, deeds, and existence in an extensive ...

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, and

science Science is a systematic discipline that builds and organises knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the universe. Modern science is typically divided into twoor threemajor branches: the natural sciences, which stu ...

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. The Swedish Academy and Academy of Sciences are also responsible for the selection of

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laureates in

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Physics Physics is the scientific study of matter, its Elementary particle, 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 whi ...

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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, but ...

Arts and culture

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

Royal Swedish Academy of Music The Royal Swedish Academy of Music (), founded in 1771 by King Gustav III, is one of the Royal Academies in Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in ...

(''Kungl. Musikaliska Akademien''), 1771 * Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities (''Kungl. Vitterhets-, Historie- och Antikvitetsakademien''), 1753

Sciences

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

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

Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (, 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 promotes contact and exchange between business, ...

(''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 (''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 ( ; ; archaically spelled ''Upsala'') is the capital of Uppsala County and the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, fourth-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. It had 177,074 inhabitants in 2019. Loc ...

(''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 ; ; ; ; ) is a city in northeast Sweden. It is the seat of Umeå Municipality and the capital of Västerbotten County. Situated on the Ume River, Umeå is the largest Urban areas in Sweden, locality in Norrland and the t ...

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

References

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