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IVA’s Gold medallists 2023

The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) awards Håkan Samuelsson, Anders Blom, Annica Bresky and Anna Wedell with gold medals. They receive the award for their outstanding achievements in technology, economics, business and society. IVA's Gold Medal has been awarded since 1921.

Articles
Published: 26 September 2023Last Updated: 26 September 2023

IVA spotlight on: EU's goals for critical metals and minerals

Last week, the European Parliament and the European Council agreed to pass the Critical Raw Materials Act, the EU's plan to secure the future supply of critical raw materials. This includes rare metals that could be crucial for Sweden's and the EU's ability to keep up with the green and digital transition. Researcher and IVA member Magnus Ericsson is one of the initiators of IVA's ongoing project 'Roadmap for Metals and Minerals,' which aims to provide answers on how the goals in the EU's plan can be achieved.

Spotlight articles
Published: 20 November 2023Last Updated: 06 December 2024

Resource Effectiveness and the Circular Economy

The Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation should be given responsibility to establish a national strategy to make Sweden a world leader in resource effectiveness and circularity. This is one of the messages communicated in this final report from a project of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA).

Published: 31 March 2020Last Updated: 28 June 2023

Innovation the Swedish way

No other country has produced as many revolutionary innovations per capita as Sweden. In the book Innovation the Swedish way, produced at the initiative of IVA, authors Eva Krutmeijer and Henrik Berggren delve into the structures that created Sweden’s favourable innovation climate. Read four of the chapters here!

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Publications
Published: 26 January 2023Last Updated: 02 June 2023

Cybersecurity for increased competitiveness

The Cybersecurity for Competitiveness project aims to contribute to a broad and nuanced discussion on the importance of a solid and coordinated effort to strengthen Sweden's cyber security. The project started in 2021 and runs until June 2023. This report is part of this work.

Published: 18 October 2022Last Updated: 02 June 2023

Textile sustainability from a consumer perspective

This report has been produced as a separate appendix to the earlier report on resource-effective textiles produced within the framework of IVA’s Resource Effectiveness and the Circular Economy project. This report was written by Malin Viola Wennberg in her role as Communications Manager for the eight-year cross-disciplinary research programme called Mistra Future Fashion 2011–2019.

Published: 29 July 2020Last Updated: 16 August 2023

Challenges of extracting rare earth elements

Just after New Year, LKAB announced that it has made the largest rare earth discovery in Europe to date. The elements are vital for building batteries, wind turbines and other technology that can enable a rapid transition to a fossil-free society. However, extracting the in-demand elements comes with some major challenges that need to be resolved, according to Jenny Greberg, Vice President Technology at LKAB and a Fellow of IVA.

Spotlight articles
Published: 14 February 2023Last Updated: 18 August 2023

IVA’s Great Gold Medal 2022: Lars Samuelson – a Swedish nano pioneer

IVA’s Great Gold Medal is awarded to Lars Samuelson – the pioneer who has made a name for himself as one of the world’s leading researchers in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology.

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Published: 22 September 2022Last Updated: 28 June 2023

IVA’s Gold Medal 2022: Peter Carlsson – the visionary who dared to invest

Peter Carlsson is the visionary who dared to invest in something that most people thought was impossible. Despite years of warnings and setbacks, he has managed the feat of building a giga factory for the manufacture of green batteries in the forest outside Skellefteå.

Articles
Published: 22 September 2022Last Updated: 28 June 2023
HM The King presents Peter Carlsson with the Gold Medal

New launch site makes Sweden a major space nation

Europe’s first satellite launch site has now been inaugurated – and it is Swedish. Just in time for Sweden’s presidency of the EU, Friday 13 January saw the ribbon cutting ceremony for the new launch site at Spaceport Esrange outside Kiruna. As the first of its kind in Europe, this marks a major step towards making Sweden a more significant space nation globally, says Anna Rathsman, Director-General of the Swedish National Space Agency and Fellow of IVA.

Spotlight articles
Published: 13 January 2023Last Updated: 28 June 2023

Textiles – from waste to resource by 2030

The demand for fibres is expected to increase by 150 percent by 2050. This type of increase is not sustainable in the long term, as most of the fibres today are synthetic and come from fossil-based raw materials and water-intensive cotton. This IVA report focuses on the challenges in the textile sector – and on possible pathways forward.

Published: 12 January 2020Last Updated: 17 August 2023

A Resource-Effective Food Sector in Sweden

Global food production today accounts for a significant percentage of human impact on the environment, the climate and the planet’s natural resources. The Food subproject, which is part of IVA’s project Resource Effectiveness and the Circular Economy, therefore wants to help find ways to reduce the amount of food that is lost or goes to waste.

Published: 24 March 2020Last Updated: 16 August 2023

Resource effectiveness through shared space in Sweden

Sharing space and existing offices is necessary in a sustainable society. A sector report from the IVA project Resource Effectiveness and the Circular Economy (ReCE).

Published: 07 February 2020Last Updated: 16 August 2023

Attractive Living Environments and Flows – Eight themes in planning good cities of the future

The Attractive Living Environments and Flows subproject has a people-centric focus and has aimed to define important themes to find ways to face the challenges identified domestically and internationally in, for example, the UN’s Global Sustainability Goals.

Published: 27 September 2017Last Updated: 16 August 2023

Call for proposals for IVA's 100 list 2024

Research should benefit business and society. This is the background to IVA's 100 list, which highlights current and promising research projects. We are now looking for candidates for the 2024 100 list, the sixth in a row. The theme is innovation through interdisciplinarity.

Published: 16 May 2024Last Updated: 23 January 2026

Future Knowledge Society

Future Knowledge Society is a long-term project aimed at encouraging children and young people to enjoy learning, while at the same time strengthening young people’s ability to evaluate information and make science-based decisions.

Projects & programmes
Published: 27 June 2023Last Updated: 27 June 2023

Hans Werthén Foundation

Each year, the Hans Werthén Foundation awards a number of scholarships for one year of scientific work at the postdoctoral or doctoral level, MBA or LL.M. studies in a qualified international environment. Current application period: 8 January to 8 March 2026.

Published: 28 June 2023Last Updated: 28 June 2023

Tematiska fördjupningar

Inom visionsprojektet Svenska framtider arbetar IVA fram ett 20-tal fördjupande analyser av olika teman, så som energiförsörjning, entreprenörskap, infrastruktur, klimat, nya tekniker, statsfinanser, säkerhet och andra för Sverige viktiga frågeställningar.

Published: 19 January 2026Last Updated: 19 January 2026
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Statliga infrastrukturinvesteringar

Tematisk fördjupning inom ramen för visionsprojektet Svenska framtider, om modeller för statliga investeringar inom områden som fysisk och digital infrastruktur, samt totalförsvar.

Published: 19 January 2026Last Updated: 19 January 2026
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Framtidens industri

Tematisk fördjupning inom ramen för visionsprojektet Svenska framtider, om utmaningar och möjligheter för svensk tillverknings- och produktionsindustri.

Published: 19 January 2026Last Updated: 19 January 2026
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