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The Values of Forests – Opportunities and Challenges

How can forests be used to increase value creation and promote sustainable development? Taking a holistic perspective and a value chain focus, the role of forests is analysed in relation to climate, the economy, biodiversity, energy supply, and security of supply.

Energy & Resources
Swedish Futures
Projects & programmes
Published: 13 April 2026Last Updated: 13 April 2026
forest

Tekniksprånget

Tekniksprånget gives young people throughout Sweden the chance to try out the engineering profession through four months of paid work experience. The internship programme has been run by IVA since 2012, with the aim of inspiring more people to choose engineering at university level.

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

Roadmap for Metals and Minerals

The green transition means a sharp increase in demand for metals and minerals. Today, a few countries outside Europe control these resources. But Sweden and other countries in the EU have great potential to secure their supply, not least through rich ore deposits. The main question for IVA's project Roadmap for Metals and Minerals is how Sweden and Europe can sustainably secure the supply of metals and minerals.

Energy & Resources
Projects & programmes
Published: 01 June 2023Last Updated: 01 June 2023

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.

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

Projects and programmes

IVA believes in humanity’s capacity to contribute positively to society through the engineering and economic sciences. We run a number of projects and programmes, both short and long-term, with the ambition of promoting social development through knowledge and common sense.

Published: 27 June 2023Last Updated: 27 June 2023

R2B Summit 2023

The full-day event R2B Summit 2023 took place at 7A Posthuset in Stockholm on 4 October. The R2B Summit is a unique meeting place with opportunities for researchers and the business community to find each other and exchange experiences and perspectives, with a view to creating innovations and business opportunities together. The programme is aimed at those who hold a leading position or are responsible for innovation, research and development at a company or an organisation. And at researchers on IVA’s 100 List 2023.

Published: 29 June 2023Last Updated: 29 June 2023

Commercial R&D investment

The project publishes an annual R&D barometer that highlights how companies view the R&D investment climate in Sweden and makes the development of investments over time visible. IVA's R&D barometer aims to improve the understanding of this development and provide a basis for proposals that can help increase Sweden's attractiveness for R&D investments.

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

IVA’s Entrepreneurship Academy

IVA's Entrepreneurship Academy works with exchange of experiences, knowledge acquisition and policy development to promote and strengthen entrepreneurship and stimulate more entrepreneurs in Sweden. In practice the project aims to increase knowledge about entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial abilities and contribute to improving policy and regulations.

Entrepreneurship
Projects & programmes
Published: 29 June 2023Last Updated: 29 June 2023

Research2Business

Through targeted activities and initiatives for knowledge transfer, new successful research collaborations are promoted. Among other things, the project has produced IVA’s 100 List during 2019–2024 and hosted the R2B Summit meeting arena.

Research & Innovation
Projects & programmes
Published: 29 June 2023Last Updated: 29 June 2023

Open AI research the only way forward

Recently, the US non-profit Future of Life Institute called on all ‘AI labs’ around the world to take a six-month break in the development of advanced AI technology. How good an idea is it to pause the development of AI, and what should this break involve? We asked IVA Fellow Sara Mazur.

Research & Innovation
Digitalisation
Spotlight articles
Published: 11 April 2023Last Updated: 28 June 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.

Energy & Resources
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.

Articles
Published: 22 September 2022Last Updated: 28 June 2023

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.

Building & Construction
Spotlight articles
Published: 13 January 2023Last Updated: 28 June 2023

Anders Ynnerman and Jonas Unger recieve the Chester Carlson Research Award

Researchers Anders Ynnerman and Jonas Unger recieve the Chester Carlson Research Award of 50,000 Swedish Kronor each for their contributions to research in visualization and computer graphics. The prize has been awarded since 1985 to promote scientific research in the field of information science.

Research & Innovation
Articles
Published: 29 August 2023Last Updated: 29 August 2023

Insufficient EU support for Ukraine

One year on from Russia’s invasion, Ukraine is a country in need of huge support from the outside world, and not just in military form. It is already estimated that the costs of rebuilding the country will be many times higher than the value of the entire Ukrainian economy. And the help that the EU is currently providing is far from sufficient. So says Torbjörn Becker, Director of the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) at the Stockholm School of Economics, and Fellow of IVA.

Building & Construction
Spotlight articles
Published: 24 February 2023Last Updated: 28 June 2023

Entreprenörsresa till Göteborg

Den senaste Sverigeresan med IVAs Näringslivsråd och Prins Daniels Fellowship tog deltagarna på en inspirerande färd genom Göteborgs innovations- och entreprenörslandskap. Länets kreativa förmåga att samarbeta över gränser och den starka lokala sammanhållningen imponerade stort på delegationen.

Entrepreneurship
Articles
Published: 01 April 2025Last Updated: 15 August 2025
grupp människor

"Sverige måste mobilisera för framtidens teknik"

IVAs vd Sylvia Schwaag Serger intervjuas i tidningen Ny Teknik om teknikens roll i stora omställningar, hoten mot demokratin och varför Sverige behöver en gemensam teknikstrategi.

Swedish Futures
Articles
Published: 12 September 2025Last Updated: 12 September 2025
tidningsuppslag

IVAs vd - om att attrahera toppforskare

En konsekvens av Trump-regeringens agerande är att många toppforskare nu ser sina möjligheter inskränkas till följd av nedskärningar i forskningsfinansiering och begränsningar av den akademiska friheten och söker sig bort från USA.

Words from the President
Published: 08 April 2025Last Updated: 26 May 2025
studenter runt bord sett uppifrån

IVAs yttrande över betänkandet "AI-kommissionens Färdplan för Sverige"

Kungl. Ingenjörsvetenskapsakademien (IVA) delar den av AI-kommissionen föreslagna, linjen med kraftfulla, strategiska satsningar på forskning, innovation och kompetensutveckling, såväl på kort som medellång och lång sikt.

Digitalisation
Research & Innovation
Referral responses
Published: 04 June 2025Last Updated: 10 June 2025
kretskort med bokstäverna AI

IVAs yttrande avseende betänkande av läroplans­utredningen

IVA välkomnar att utredning om läroplaner har utförts, i syfte att skapa bättre förutsättningar för elevers lärande och kunskapsutveckling. IVA tar i detta remissyttrande inte ställning till helheten i betänkandet, men vill framföra synpunkter på en specifik frågeställning rörande skrivningar om entreprenörskap i undervisningen.

Entrepreneurship
Referral responses
Published: 12 June 2025Last Updated: 12 June 2025
bokstäver i olika färger