Uppsala Student of the Year
The Uppsala Student of the Year award was founded by the Anders Wall Foundation and was awarded for the first time in the year 2000.
The scholarship is awarded to a student who has:
- distinguished themselves through their good, creative efforts at Uppsala University
- taken part in student union and/or student nation activities
- or has made special efforts in support of other students
- alternatively has developed entrepreneurship in connection with the University’s activities.
The nominee shall have good study results and shall have completed a significant portion of their studies, but not have finished their undergraduate course or programme.
Everyone with a connection to the University, both organisations and individuals, may nominate candidates for the scholarship. For instance individual students and teachers, alumni, student nations, faculty boards, departments and other organisations and associations. The scholarship is 125 000 kr.
The nomination period for Uppsala Student of the Year 2023 is open until 16 April.
Nominate Uppsala Student of the Year 2023
If you have any questions please contact nominera@uadm.uu.se.
Interviews with recipients of the Uppsala Student of the Year award

Benjamin Verbeek is Uppsala Student of the Year 2022
13 January 2023. He describes himself as someone nerdily interested in physics and driven by the idea of spreading kn ...
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Muataz Lafta is Uppsala Student of the Year 2021
22 December 2021. Lafta, the latest Uppsala Student of the Year, is in his ninth semester of the Medicine Programme. H ...
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Mamduh Halawa, Uppsala Student of the Year 2020
28 December 2020. A sense of meaning: that is what the Uppsala Student of the Year 2020 hopes to help as many people a ...
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The Wallumni network
The Anders Wall Foundation annually awards scholarships to young talents in the fields of scientific research, entrepreneurship, rural development, international studies and classical music.
The financial element of the scholarship is of course important to the recipient, but the unique aspect of this scholarship – and what makes it so dynamic – is that the recipient becomes part of the prestigious Wallumni network. Members meet regularly for exclusive activities and study trips and support each other in many different respects
Recipients of the Uppsala Student of the Year award
- 2022: Benjamin Verbeek
- 2021: Muataz Lafta
- 2020: Mamduh Halawa
- 2019: Carl Johan Casten Carlberg
- 2018: Emma Tysk
- 2017: Fredrik Pettersson
- 2016: Ali Mohammadi
- 2015: Erik Englund
- 2014: Vanja Eriksson
- 2013: Kajsa Asplund
- 2012: Johan Gärdebo
- 2011: Johan Bengtsson
- 2010: Hoa Ly
- 2009: Rebecca Andersson
- 2008: Niklas Elofsson
- 2007: Johan Lundin
- 2006: Martin Svensson
- 2005: Pär Höglund
- 2004: Lisa Davidsson
- 2003: Mina Anger
- 2002: Mikael Åberg
- 2001: Lovisa Malmberg
- 2000: Sandra Friberg