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IVA’s 100 List: current research with potential to create value

IVA's annual 100 List highlights current research with the potential to create value through commercialization, business and method development or societal impact. Find carefully selected research projects from Sweden's higher education institutions, where all participants are interested in increased contacts with the business community.

Research & Innovation
Published: 28 June 2023Last Updated: 28 June 2023

Schools for Our Times

Schools for Our Times (Skola i tiden) is a long-term project 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.

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

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.

Published: 27 June 2023Last Updated: 27 June 2023

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.

Published: 27 June 2023Last Updated: 27 June 2023
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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.

Articles
Published: 20 May 2024Last Updated: 24 May 2024

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.

Articles
Published: 28 March 2024Last Updated: 02 April 2024

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.

Published: 08 December 2023Last Updated: 08 December 2023

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.

Published: 08 December 2023Last Updated: 08 December 2023

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.

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

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.

Published: 01 October 2024Last Updated: 01 October 2024
Close Up Medal of Merit Honorary Member

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.

Energy & Resources
Spotlight articles
Published: 09 May 2023Last Updated: 28 June 2023

"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.

Research & Innovation
Articles
Published: 22 February 2021Last Updated: 29 June 2023

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.

Energy & Resources
Spotlight articles
Published: 24 November 2022Last Updated: 28 June 2023

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.

Digitalisation
Entrepreneurship
Research & Innovation
Articles
Published: 16 February 2024Last Updated: 16 February 2024

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.

Building & Construction
Reports
Published: 21 November 2022Last Updated: 02 June 2023

The Academy’s Divisions

IVA’s approximately 1,000 Swedish Fellows are divided into 12 Divisions. The Divisions monitor and work on current issues in their specific fields, not least by organising seminars and other activities.

Published: 12 June 2023Last Updated: 12 June 2023

Cybersäkerhet för ökad konkurrenskraft

Konkreta åtgärder för att stärka Sveriges cybersäkerhet.

Digitalisation
Events
Published: 14 September 2022Last Updated: 16 May 2023

Teknikens roll på COP 28 i Dubai

Just nu pågår FN:s klimatmöte COP28 i Dubai. Under två veckor samlas forskare, ledare, lobbyister och organisationer från hela världen för att diskutera lösningar för att bromsa de pågående klimatförändringarna. Vilken betydelse kommer satsningar på innovation och ny teknik att spela under mötet? Tre IVA-ledamöter med lång erfarenhet av klimatarbete ger sin bild.

Energy & Resources
Research & Innovation
Spotlight articles
Published: 05 December 2023Last Updated: 05 December 2023

Matematikraset i PISA-undersökningen

I början av december presenterades den internationella kunskapsmätningen PISA 2022. Undersökningen visar att elever i Sverige har försämrat sina resultat i matematik och är tillbaka på bottennivån för tio år sedan. En oroande utveckling som kräver åtgärder. Det säger IVA-ledamoten Sandra Di Rocco, professor i matematik och skolchef för Skolan för teknikvetenskap vid KTH.

Skills Supply
Spotlight articles
Published: 18 December 2023Last Updated: 18 December 2023

IVAs inspel inför EUs kommande ramprogram för forskning och innovation

Synpunkter från Kungl. Ingenjörsvetenskapsakademien (IVA) för regeringens positionspapper inför FP10. IVA stöder i stort utkastet till positionspapper som förmedlades inför hearingen 25 april 2024.

Research & Innovation
Referral responses
Published: 26 April 2024Last Updated: 06 May 2024
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