IVA’s Gold Medal 2023: Anders Blom

Engineer Anders Blom has been decisive for Sweden's ability to maintain its position as one of the world's most prominent aviation nations, through more than 40 years of work in Swedish aviation. Not least by his contribution to building the strategic innovation program that has given Sweden a place at the table when it comes to international cooperation in the aviation industry.

IVA’s Gold Medal 2023: Anna Wedell

Medic and research leader Anna Wedell has created completely new conditions for discovering and treating thousands of rare diseases. By developing new tools for mapping individual patients' genes and establishing unique collaborations between research and healthcare, she has made ground-breaking breakthroughs in individually tailored so-called precision medicine.

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.

IVA’s Great Gold Medal 2023: Håkan Samuelsson

In ten years civil engineer Håkan Samuelsson managed to reverse the negative trend for the Swedish national treasure Volvo. Under Samuelsson's unifying leadership, reputation and international competitiveness were regained, cultural challenges linked to Chinese ownership were bridged, and production could be kept in Sweden. In addition, Volvo took a prominent position in the most important transition for the automotive industry in 100 years – the transition to electric.

Anne L'Huillier, Gerteric Lindquist, Bo Normark and Xiaodong Zou are awarded IVA's Gold Medals 2024

The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) awards this year's gold medals to Anne L'Huillier, Gerteric Lindquist, Bo Normark and Xiaodong Zou. They receive the award for their outstanding contributions to technology, economics, business and society. IVA's Gold Medal has been awarded since 1921.

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.

She is set to transform the world’s oldest academy of engineering sciences

Today, Newspaper Dagens Industri publishes an interview with IVA's incoming CEO, Sylvia Schwaag Serger. Here you can read an excerpt from the interview about driving forces, choices and visions.

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.

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.

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.

IVA Business Executives Council| Summer Session 2026

IVA Konferenscenter

IVA Konferenscenter ägs och drivs av Kungl. Ingenjörsvetenskapsakademien (IVA), som har arrangerat möten på Grev Turegatan i Stockholm sedan akademin grundades 1919.

Utifrån ett nordligt perspektiv: Svenska framtider

‘Capitalism, sustainability and democracy: future-proofing the European model’ book launch

This event marks the launch of ‘Capitalism, sustainability and democracy: future-proofing the European model, a new book published by the Joint Research Centre (JRC), with Sylvia Schwaag Serger.

Hur ska Sverige agera när EU:s forsknings-, innovations- och industripolitiska system reformeras?

Framtidens ingenjörsutbildning

Norrbotten – platsen där framtiden formas

Seminarium: Regleringars betydelse i en osäker omvärld

Hur påverkar regleringar demokratiskt styrda samhällen i en tid av osäkerhet? Välkommen till ett seminarium där vi diskuterar grunderna i den svenska förvaltningsmodellen och blickar ut mot omvärlden för att stärka svenska intressen – inte minst inom EU.

Seminarium: Ny kärnkraft i Sverige - möjligheter, utmaningar och vägval

Riksdagen har beslutat om åtgärder för att bana väg för ny kärnkraft, och statliga Vattenfall har nyligen deklarerat att de avser att gå vidare med planerna att bygga småskaliga modulära reaktorer (SMR). Hur ser teknikläget för SMR:er ut, och hur kan en satsning på ny kärnkraft komma att påverka elsystemet?

Seminarium: Chalmers ekosystem för excellens och nyttiggörande

På Chalmers finns ett unikt ekosystem som förenar forskning, entreprenörskap och innovation i världsklass. Genom Chalmersstiftelsen, Chalmers Next Labs och Chalmers Ventures har man skapat en självförsörjande modell där kunskap, kapital och entreprenörskap driver varandra framåt.