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International Affairs

IVA is a national academy with a global outlook. The Academy’s international activities are focused on a global outlook and developing influential international relations.

Published: 12 June 2023Last Updated: 12 June 2023

Meeting the Rising Global Competition in Sweden: OECD's Science, Technology, and Innovation Outlook

How is global competition evolving, and what measures can Sweden adopt to address challenges in order to enhance competitiveness and growth? The seminar will feature a presentation of OECD's Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) Outlook 2023, showcasing a significantly heightened global emphasis on strengthening countries' research and innovation systems. The seminar will feature discussions with Minister of Education Mats Persson, Minister of Energy and Enterprise Ebba Busch (to be confirmed), OECD's Director for STI Jerry Sheehan, Professor Sara Mazur from KAW, as well as Sweden's appointed representatives from various countries' Innovation and Research Councils.

Research & Innovation
Events
Published: 14 August 2023Last Updated: 14 August 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

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

Selection criteria for IVA’s 100 List

IVA’s 100 List promotes researchers who wish to make greater contact with the business community and social actors. The selection is therefore not based on the scientific excellence of the research, but primarily on its potential for commercial development, innovation and social benefit. However, high scientific quality is a prerequisite for publication on the 100 List.

Published: 28 June 2023Last Updated: 28 June 2023

IVA's Smart Industry

Through IVA’s Smart industry project the Academy wants to stimulate digital transformation in small and medium-sized enterprises by, for example, highlighting and sharing good examples. The project originates from Smart industry – a new industrialisation strategy for Sweden (Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communications 2015) and mainly operates through the Smart Industry competition.

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

Reference Groups Roadmap for Metals and Minerals

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.

Published: 06 September 2023Last Updated: 06 September 2023

IVA's President: some thoughts on international perspectives

In the mid-1940s, Edy Velander, IVA’s legendary President, initiated global monitoring of technical  developments. Velander appointed a “liaison officer” in New York tasked with spotting trends and reporting back on technological progress and innovation. The world’s first “technology attaché” had been introduced. 

Words from the President
Published: 17 June 2025Last Updated: 19 June 2025

Embedl awarded for groundbreaking AI technology

Embedl wins IVA's Smart Industry 2024 Business Competition. The company develops innovative software tools and technologies that optimize machine learning models, with a focus on making AI models more efficient and energy-efficient.

Digitalisation
Articles
Published: 09 October 2024Last Updated: 21 January 2025
Three on stage

Report: Challenges for meeting increased demand for metals and minerals

Observations about conditions and challenges, as well as measures required to ensure access to metals and minerals to cope with the transition to a fossil-free society. One conclusion is that the demand for metals and minerals will increase sharply, and that Sweden and the Swedish mining cluster play an important role in meeting the needs.

Energy & Resources
Reports
Published: 12 February 2024Last Updated: 05 July 2024

Third Swede in space important door opener

IVA member Anna Rathsman is present when Marcus Wandt takes off from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on Wednesday to become Sweden's third astronaut in space. In her role as Director General of the Swedish National Space Agency, Anna Rathsman has been the spider in the web to make everything work. The mission could be a door opener for tomorrow's engineers and space researchers.

Research & Innovation
Spotlight articles
Published: 16 January 2024Last Updated: 27 November 2024
Anna Rathsman on the left satellite in space on the right

IVA gets a boost with 40 new Fellows – here is the list

A further 40 prominent researchers and experts from the business and public sector were today elected as new Fellows of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA). They all possess leading expertise in the fields of technology, economics and business.

Articles
Published: 07 December 2023Last Updated: 07 December 2023

IVA’s Gold Medal 2022: Peter Löthberg – the online rebel who connected the world

Peter Löthberg is a technology entrepreneur who, back in the mid 1980s, set out on a mission ‘to network the planet’. As an unstoppable force, he played a key role in the early emergence of the internet for many years, not least in the process of making Sweden one of the first countries in the world to become widely connected.

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

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

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.

Energy & Resources
Reports
Published: 24 March 2020Last Updated: 16 August 2023

Digitalisering för ökad konkurrenskraft

Sveriges konkurrenskraft ökar om vi kan ta tillvara digitaliseringen möjligheter. Förutsättningarna är goda. Men Sverige måste hantera digitaliseringen utmaningar. Syftet med projektet Digitalisering för ökad konkurrenskraft var att öka kunskapen och medvetenheten om dessa. Projektet har arbetat inom tre områden: infrastruktur, kompetensförsörjning och integritet.

Digitalisation
Projects & programmes
Published: 01 March 2017Last Updated: 30 March 2023

Nätverket STEM för unga

Nätverket STEM för unga utgör en strategisk mötesplats där aktörer som bedriver fritidsverksamhet inom STEM samarbetar för att främja ungas intresse och engagemang för naturvetenskap och teknik.

Skills Supply
Published: 27 June 2024Last Updated: 27 June 2024

Krisledning och ledarskap i kris

Hur kan vi förbereda oss för att möta och leda i kriser? I en tid där kriser och katastrofer blir alltmer frekventa, är det avgörande att förstå hur vi kan förbereda oss, leda och hantera dessa situationer på ett effektivt och hållbart sätt. Vad kan vi lära av erfarenheter från tidigare kriser och katastrofer?

Events
Published: 11 December 2024Last Updated: 11 December 2024

Hur kan kraftvärme bidra till framtidens elsystem?

Hur kan kraftvärmen i Sverige användas för att balansera den varierande elproduktionen från sol och vind? I Sverige har vi cirka 4500 MW installerad eleffekt i våra kraftvärmeanläggningar, men endast en liten del utnyttjas för detta ändamål.

Energy & Resources
Events
Published: 31 March 2025Last Updated: 31 March 2025
stickkontakter

Precisionshälsa - kan vi må bättre på digital väg?

Den snabba tekniska utvecklingen har stor påverkan på både vår livsstil och vår hälsa. Det talas mycket om negativa effekter men vilka är möjligheterna? Hur kan digitala verktyg och plattformar användas för att hjälpa oss att må bättre, både som individer och samhälle?

Digitalisation
Events
Published: 16 December 2024Last Updated: 16 December 2024