The ‘Active Citizen’ game, which features Nobel Peace laureates like the Dalai Lama and Malala Yousafzai, will be available in 29 languages for all Minecraft: Education Edition players.  Oslo, 1 March 2022: In Minecraft, one of the world’s most popular games, players can build anything they want — including their vision for world peace. Today, the…

During the Nobel Day, 10 December 2021, the official Nobel Prize websites were subjected to a cyberattack that has now been reported to the police by the Nobel Foundation and the Norwegian Nobel Institute. The attack was averted and did not affect website users’ experience or the dissemination of content.  A so-called distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)…

When the Nobel Peace Prize laureates Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov were in Oslo, they were documented as holograms, securing their legacy for generations to come.  When the two Nobel Peace Prize laureates arrived in Oslo for the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, they were also asked to be captured in 3D for the Metaverse. Ressa…

The 2021 Nobel Prize award ceremony will be a specially designed event at the Stockholm City Hall. Anne Sofie von Otter and Kiralina Salandy will sing, Bengan Janson will play accordion and Karin Hammar will play trombone. The master of ceremonies will be actress Lena Olin. This year’s Nobel Prize award ceremony in Stockholm will…

Hannah Reyes Morales and Nanna Heitmann are this year’s Nobel Peace Prize photographers. They have been on assignment for the Nobel Peace Center in Manila and Moscow. On 11. December, the day after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, the Peace Prize laureates, Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov, come to the Nobel Peace Center…

On 24 November, the Nobel Prize Museum will be visited by the heads of the Spanish and Swedish royal families. They have been invited for a guided tour of a special exhibition that will display the drawings of Nobel Prize laureate Santiago Ramón y Cajal. Also on display will be works by contemporary visual artists…

What will urban life be like in the future, and how would we like to see it evolve? This year’s Nobel Week Dialogue will bring together science and society for an in-depth look at “The City of the Future “. On 9 December four laureates will join architects, writers, young leaders and experts to discuss…

Capgemini joins the select group of Nobel International Partners. The partnership is for at least three years and aims to share knowledge, inspire people to contribute to a better world and shed light on our time’s greatest challenges.   “Capgemini and Nobel Prize Outreach share the same vision of innovation as the foundation of a more…

The arrangements have now been completed for how this year’s medals and diplomas will be presented to the Nobel Prize laureates. There will be ceremonial presentations in Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States and Italy during the period 6–8 December. The 2021 Nobel Peace Prize laureates have been invited to Oslo on 10 December. Also…

Twenty-five years ago, received the Nobel Prize in Literature. On Thursday, the Nobel Prize Museum will receive three artefacts that provide a picture of the poet’s work process and how she dealt with the attention that the Nobel Prize brought.  A pair of glasses, a pen and a thank you card will now be added…

In mid-November five Nobel Prize laureates will be joined by 80 students from around 20 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, exploring how science and scientists can most effectively make a positive impact on society. The digital conversations will be woven into a programme streamed for a global audience on 16 November. The event…

For the second straight year, the artistic light installations of Nobel Week Lights Stockholm − running from 4 to 12 December – will be part of the Nobel Week festivities. Today organisers are revealing what locations will be illuminated during the December darkness. One of this year’s innovations is that Västerbron – a long double-arched…

During the autumn of 2021, Nobel Prize Outreach will be releasing a new season of the acclaimed podcast ‘Nobel Prize Conversations’. This season features six Nobel Prize laureates – one laureate from each prize category. The episodes will give in depth-perspectives from each laureate including their past, their work and how our common future can…

The Nobel Peace Prize medal is shown in all its glory in the Medal Chamber at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo. The medal on display is the one awarded to the first Norwegian peace prize laureate, Christian Lous Lange, in 1921. The Peace Prize Medal was designed by Gustav Vigeland in 1901, and is…

It is now clear that the soloist at this year’s Nobel Prize concert, acclaimed Argentina-born cellist Sol Gabetta, will share the stage with American conductor Ryan Bancroft. Tickets to the 8 December concert in Stockholm are being on 20 October. Sol Gabetta performs regularly with world-leading orchestras and conductors and has received several awards. Her…

During the period 4 – 11 October, this year’s Nobel Prize laureates will be announced. The Nobel Prize Museum is highlighting this through its Nobel Calling Stockholm programme – a week filled with activities at the museum as well as at theatres, higher education institutions and libraries. There will also be an open stage at…

Anita Krishnamurthi, former Head of Education and Learning at the Wellcome Trust, is joining the board of Nobel Prize Outreach. She has a long career advocating for equitable access to education and engagement with science on a global level. “Anita Krishnamurthi will bring new perspectives and valuable knowledge to our work of reaching out to…

Between 4 and 11 October the prize awarding institutions will announce this year’s Nobel Prize laureates. All their press conferences will be shown on the official Nobel Prize digital channels. It is now also clear that this year’s Nobel festivities in December − when the laureates are honoured in Stockholm and Oslo − will be…

The Nobel Prize Museum on Stortorget, the main square in Stockholm’s Old Town (Gamla stan), is reopening to visitors on 21 August. They can view the first major exhibition about the Nobel Prize banquet – focusing on the food, the clothing, the decorations and the laureates’ speeches. This new exhibition takes you behind the scenes. …

In December 2020 the acclaimed Nobel Week Lights festival took place in Stockholm. Sixteen light installations – many of them directly inspired by earlier Nobel Prizes – illuminated locations and buildings around the Swedish capital. It has now been decided that the festival will return this year.  On Wednesday, June 23, the City of Stockholm…