Paideia is a non-confessional institution of excellence, innovation, know-how and literacy that produces individual leaders and a collective movement of activism. The matrix at Paideia merges academic life with professional and community work, and Jewish culture with the wider European society. Paideia is also the central hub for nurturing social innovation in Jewish Europe and has fostered more new initiatives than any other institution. Paideia was created in 2000 through grants from the Swedish government and the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation as an academic and applied institute of excellence, with the mandate of working for the rebuilding of Jewish life and culture in Europe, and educating for active minority citizenship. During its relatively short period of existence, Paideia has developed into a premier European learning center for Jewish studies and has been able to produce a strong group of leaders for a new paradigm of European Jewish community, culture, and knowledge. Paideia has since its inception been instrumental in putting Stockholm and Sweden on the map as a hub in European academic Jewish life.