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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.

Research & Innovation
Articles
Published: 16 May 2024Last Updated: 16 May 2024

IVA's President: some thoughts on China

While Europe is fully preoccupied with President Trump’s various initiatives, a very deliberate movement is under way in another corner of the world—namely, China’s scientific and technological advancement.

Words from the President
Published: 22 April 2025Last Updated: 25 June 2025
Chinese flag

IVA's Great Gold Medal 2024: Anne L'Huillier

Swedish-French Anne L'Huillier is the physicist and Nobel Prize winner who, against all odds, has succeeded in revolutionizing the possibilities of seeing into the world of atoms and molecules.

Articles
Published: 10 September 2024Last Updated: 11 September 2024

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!

Research & Innovation
Articles
Publications
Published: 26 January 2023Last Updated: 02 June 2023

"United, swift and wise" IVA's President comments on the EU Commission's roadmap

Today, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, presented the five-year plan for the EU's future competitiveness. "It is absolutely crucial for the future of our continent that the European Commission vigorously addresses competitiveness issues," says Sylvia Schwaag Serger, President of IVA.

Articles
Published: 29 January 2025Last Updated: 30 January 2025
Sylvia Schwaag Serger in white shirt

IVA's 105th Annual Meeting

Many thanks to all fellows and friends of IVA who contributed to the festivities during this year's evening in honour of the art of engineering sciences!

Articles
Published: 29 October 2024Last Updated: 30 October 2024
All guests during the banquet in the Blue Hall

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

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

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.

Energy & Resources
Reports
Published: 12 January 2020Last Updated: 17 August 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.

Energy & Resources
Reports
Published: 29 July 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).

Energy & Resources
Reports
Published: 07 February 2020Last Updated: 16 August 2023

IVA's 106th Annual Meeting Festivities

Many thanks to all fellows and friends of IVA who contributed to the festivities during this year's Annual Meeting - an evening to celebrate the art of engineering sciences!

Articles
Published: 29 October 2025Last Updated: 30 October 2025
IVA logo projected on wall in City Hall

Funding providers

IVA is launching the project “Swedish Futures” to develop an overarching vision for Sweden as a world-leading country of technology and innovation by 2035, with a focus on competitiveness, sustainability, and security. The project is made possible thanks to the financial support of a large number of actors.

Swedish Futures
Published: 15 September 2025Last Updated: 15 September 2025
blurry subway car

Cybersäkerhet ur ett franskt perspektiv

Intervju med Eric Lambert, partner och Head of Government Affairs på Victanis Advisory Services i Paris, om cyberhot och cybersäkerhet ur ett franskt perspektiv.

Digitalisation
Articles
Published: 30 August 2022Last Updated: 28 November 2022

Återvunnen bomull hållbar råvara i nya kläder

Snabbväxande Renewcell, ett av forskningsprojekten på IVAs 100-lista 2020, förser klädindustrin med hållbar råvara tillverkad av utsliten bomull. Tekniken är patenterad och bolaget nyligen noterat på börsen.

Research & Innovation
Entrepreneurship
Articles
Published: 16 December 2020Last Updated: 13 March 2023
Porträtt Tahani Kaldéus

Åke Spross tilldelas IVAs pris för vetenskaplighet inom journalistiken

IVAs pris för vetenskaplighet inom journalistiken – Hans Bergström-priset delas ut för femte gången. Pristagare för 2019 är Åke Spross, medicin- och vetenskapsreporter på Upsala Nya Tidning. I sin motivering lyfter juryn fram att han med perspektiv från en lokaltidning lyckats bevaka en hel värld av vetenskap och forskning.

Articles
Published: 04 April 2019Last Updated: 16 March 2023

Rapport: Stadsplaneringspraktikan

Varför tar det så lång tid att bygga nytt i bostadsbristens Sverige? I den nya Stadsplaneringspraktikan (förmodligen den första av sitt slag) tittar IVAs projekt Framtidens goda stad närmare på förutsättningarna för att bygga fler bostäder och utveckla attraktiva stadsmiljöer.

Building & Construction
Reports
Published: 22 March 2017Last Updated: 31 March 2023

Rapport: Sveriges framtida elproduktion

IVAs projekt Vägval el publicerar här sin andra delrapport som handlar om Sveriges framtida elproduktion. Rapporten visar på stor potential för flera fossilfria alternativ.

Energy & Resources
Reports
Published: 27 January 2016Last Updated: 06 April 2023

Rapport: Planera för framtidens goda stad

IVA har under två år tittat på samhällsbyggandets betydelse för att möta framtidens utmaningar inom projektet Framtidens goda stad. Sverige behöver en Samhällsbyggnadsminister. Det är en av rekommendationerna för att främja och förbättra den svenska samhällsplaneringen som redovisas i projektets slutrapport.

Building & Construction
Reports
Published: 08 March 2018Last Updated: 31 March 2023

Rapport: Framtidens el – så påverkas klimat och miljö

IVAs projekt Vägval el publicerar här sin fjärde delrapport som handlar om hur Sveriges framtida elförsörjning påverkar klimat och miljö.

Energy & Resources
Reports
Published: 18 April 2016Last Updated: 06 April 2023