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Svenska Uppfinnareföreningen

Lidingö, Sweden

DisabilityTax-deductible donations
AssociationFounded 1886National reach
Profile last updated: April 9, 2026

About

Founded in 1886, Svenska Uppfinnareföreningen is a non-profit association based in Lidingö, Sweden working on disability.

Svenska Uppfinnareföreningen (SUF) is a Swedish non-profit association for inventors, innovators and small businesses. It operates on a voluntary, public-benefit and politically non-partisan basis. Its national office is in Stockholm, and local member associations across Sweden, from Malmö to Boden, support inventors with advice, coaching, mentoring and networking. SUF also runs grant and prize schemes, including the SKAPA innovation prizes and a grant competition for assistive devices, and provides template agreements and guidance for inventors. Founded in 1886 by Salomon August Andrée, it describes itself as the world's oldest inventors' association.

Location

Lidingö, Sweden

Founded

1886

Organisation type

Association

Focus areas

uppfinnareinnovationinnovationsklimatföreningstöd till uppfinnareSKAPAhjälpmedel

Languages

SVEN

Causes & programmes

Causes

Disability

Works for

People with disabilities

How they work

Grant-makingCapacity buildingAdvocacy & campaigningCommunity programmes

Programmes

SKAPA

Other · Sweden

Swedish innovation prizes, awarded by a foundation established in 1985 in memory of Alfred Nobel. The prizes honour people whose behind-the-scenes work was essential to a commercially successful project. Svenska Uppfinnareföreningen is one of the foundation's backers.

Bidragsstiftelsen inventor competition for assistive devices

Disability · Sweden

A competition run with Bidragsstiftelsen that awards development grants, totalling 150,000 SEK per year, for new everyday aids for people with mobility impairments.

Countries of operation

Sweden

Funding & support

Funded by

Membership fees

Ways to support

Membership

Trust

Tax-deductible donations

Credentials & affiliations

Industry memberships

International Federation of Inventors Associations

Partnerships

Almi, VINNOVA, PRV, Romanusfonden, Agne Johanssons minnesfond, Tekniska museet, Bidragsstiftelsen, idefendo

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