Schools for Our Times

IVA project (2019-2024) aimed at promoting the development of Swedish schools so that they meet the long-term knowledge needs of students and society, and consolidate Sweden’s position as a knowledge nation.

Distinctions

IVA believes in and works to promote humanity’s capacity to contribute positively to society through the engineering and economic sciences. By means of distinctions, awards, prizes and grants, we recognise and reward individual achievements that are of far-reaching significance.

Reports

IVA believes in humanity’s capacity to contribute positively to society through the engineering and economic sciences. Our contribution includes producing reports, knowledge bases and policy proposals within the relevant areas. All our reports are reviewed by experts.

IVA spotlight on: Swedish technology paves the way for offshore wind power

Offshore wind power on a large scale has long been identified as one of the solutions for achieving the green transition. Swedish technology now makes it possible to build vast networks of offshore wind farms that can deliver electricity to multiple countries simultaneously. This is explained by IVA Fellow Mikael Dahlgren, Senior Principal Lead Engineer at Hitachi Energy, who has been involved in developing the solutions that make this possible.

How to apply for a scholarship from the Hans Werthén Foundation

Each scholarship is for a year of scientific work at the postdoc or doctoral candidate level, or for MBA or LL.M studies in an advanced international setting.

Report: Increased need for metals and minerals – strategies, conflicts of objectives and interests

Sweden needs a new mineral strategy to manage the increased extraction of metals and minerals that the transition to a fossil-free and sustainable society entails. The strategy needs to take the increased demands as a starting point and manage the conflicts of objectives and interests that these entail. Not least, communities with mining operations need to be better compensated than they currently are. This is concluded in this report, which is the third of four from IVA's project Roadmap for Metals and Minerals.

Hans Werthén Foundation — disbursement and reporting

The Hans Werthén Foundation places great importance on receiving a general description of the most important experience gained from periods abroad funded by the scholarship — both in scientific/ scholarly terms and socially. The reports are used by the committee in its work, but also as information for future scholarship holders.

IVA's Gold Medal 2024: Bo Normark

Bo Normark is the civil engineer who has made electrification his trademark. For over 50 years, he has worked to develop the technical and political solutions required to build the sustainable energy systems of the future.

Honorary Fellows

The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) can appoint someone who has, through their work or in other ways, significantly promoted the academy’s objectives as an honorary fellow. The appointment is proposed by IVA's Presidium.

The pursuit of green steel

Sweden wants to be the first in the world to produce fossil-free steel on a large scale, revolutionising the iron and steel industry, which today accounts for 7 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. But how well is Sweden placed against the global competition? We asked Anders Werme, Associate Professor of Production Technology with a focus on the mining and steel industry.

"Research2Business is concrete evidence of IVA’s relevance"

Research utilisation and collaboration are part of Luleå University of Technology’s DNA. That’s why IVA’s Research2Business project fits the university’s Vice-Chancellor, Birgitta Bergvall-Kåreborn, like a glove.

Royal Technology Mission to the Netherlands

Last week, the 2024 Royal Technology Mission (RTM) to the Netherlands was carried out. The delegation, led by HM The King and IVA's Chair Marcus Wallenberg, consisted of leading representatives from academia, business and the public sector in Sweden. The focus of the trip was AI, quantum technology and cybersecurity.

Conditions for new nuclear power

The government wants to invest heavily in new nuclear power in order to achieve the climate goals and transition to a fossil-free society. But what are the conditions for building new reactors in Sweden in the near future? What is technically possible and what will it take to convince people to invest? More facts and less opinion are needed here to make wise decisions, says Fellow of IVA and former CEO of Vattenfall Lars G Josefsson.

Astronaut Marcus Wandt, one of this year's Thulin medallists

The Aviation and Aerospace Engineering Association (FTF) and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) have awarded this year's Thulin Gold Medal to Swedish astronaut Marcus Wandt. Engineers Daniel Eckerström and Roy Kihlén are awarded silver medals for their efforts in the development of fiber optic temperature measurement systems, which have contributed to increasing safety in civil aviation.

AI in focus when IVA delegation visits Silicon Valley

A delegation from the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) visits Silicon Valley on February 19–22. Parts of the visit take place in the presence of DD.KK.HH. The Crown Princess and Prince Daniel. The goal is to increase cooperation opportunities between Silicon Valley and Sweden and, by extension, strengthen Sweden's position in digitization and AI.

Report: Circular flows to meet increased demand for metals and minerals

Waste is used too little as a resource to contribute to sustainable and secure access to critical metals and minerals. This is one of the conclusions of a new report that emphasizes the importance of developing circular systems, as the major societal challenges cannot be solved solely by increased use of primary resources from mining.

Opportunities with Sweden’s EU presidency in 2023

10 recommendations to the Swedish Government. IVA will endeavour to ensure that Sweden’s presidency promotes a forward-looking and engaging debate about how Sweden can position itself earlier and more prominently in EU contexts. We see significant opportunities for Sweden to play a more central role as an initiative-taker within the EU.

IVA's Annual Meeting Festivities

Frukostseminarium: Entreprenörskap nyckelfaktor i försvarsinnovation

Välkommen till ett frukostseminarium med fokus på säkerhet, försvar och entreprenörskap arrangerat av IVA i samarbete med Entreprenörskapsforum.

Säker och hållbar utveckling av avancerade material och kemikalier

Industrin får allt bättre verktyg för säker och hållbar utveckling, men rekommendationerna är samtidigt komplicerade och i många fall svåra att implementera, speciellt för mindre företag. Välkommen till ett seminarium där vi presenterar aktuell forskning om hur regelverk både kan hämma och driva innovation, och vilka möjligheter internationella samarbeten kan öppna för.