Uppsala Programme for Holocaust and Genocide Studies

The Uppsala Programme for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (Swedish: programmet för studier kring Förintelsen och folk murder) is part of a Swedish information campaign with a focus on: the Holocaust and genocide. Housed in the Centre for Multiethnic Studies of the Faculty of Philosophy and History, University of Uppsala, the program was launched in 1998. The program is financed by the Swedish Government. The Uppsala Programme for Holocaust and Genocide Studies has three main tasks: research and publication; documentation; teacher education and training. The results of studies and research to be published by well-known journalists and publicists or printed in, for example, the following publications: Studia Multiethnica Upsaliensia, Uppsala Multiethnic Papers, Current Issues and Acta Sueco - Polonica.

The program is in cooperation with many Swedish universities, as well as with leading international institutions in Australia, Germany, France, Canada, Israel, Poland, the United Kingdom and the United States.

The Uppsala Programme for Holocaust and Genocide Studies is also a place of installation of the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service.