The report below is part of a series of reports on how AI can contribute to increased gender equality. It summarizes the lessons and insights gained from previously implemented efforts.
Industry, academia and civil society are now working together to investigate obstacles and show good examples and efficient methods for donating surplus food. This is a contribution to reaching the goal of halving food waste by 2030. The project is to result in a handbook to facilitate food donation for all the stakeholders in the value chain.
Our annual look at the tech and trends that could shape the year ahead!
Report from Nesta – Future Signals – what we’re watching for in 2024
Switch to Sweden is all about learning, connecting, and finding the perfect international talent for tech companies in Sweden. We are here to let the talent matches begin!
The challenge
By 2024, we will need more than 70.000 awesome talents to work in tech industries. Yes, we know it seems hard to achieve. But we also know we count with some of the most innovative and inspiring companies around the world to attract new talents.
How can we help solve this?
Here we introduce our innovative-driven solution.
The talent matchmaking tool.
Based on skills and motivation factors we match companies and international academic talents who are already in Sweden. Yes, we find you a perfect match! So get ready to give your big first impression in a short meet and greet.
At last year’s edition of Sweden Innovation Days, we arranged the side events below, which you can take part of.
That was the focus of the conference “Deep Tech Entrepreneurship for an Innovative, Resilient, and Competitive Internal Market”, which was put together by the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the EU on 1 and 2 June 2023.
Among the challenges, the need for a more interconnected ecosystem, a growing difference in the companies’ R&D investments compared to the US, and the difficulty of translating academic strength into commercial success.
Furthermore, Europe’s capital market is not adapted to the capital eligibility requirements that deep tech ventures need, and intellectual assets are not fully recognised as business assets.
A fresh report from Vinnova, the Swedish Innovation Agency, captures and contextualises the trends, opportunities, commitments and challenges we face in pursuing the promises of deep tech in Europe.
You can find the full report here.
Welcome to a webinar on January 16th (09.30-11.00 CET) with networking opportunities within the food tech call on alternative proteins for R&D and innovation projects between Sweden, Israel, Switzerland and Singapore.
Do you have an idea for a collaboration between actors in Sweden, Israel, Switzerland or Singapore that can contribute to a sustainable and competitive food sector? Now we finance company-driven project in foodtech with a focus on alternative proteins.
Programme
- Short presentations of the four national funding bodies (NFB) Vinnova, Israel Innovation Authority, Innosuisse and Enterprise Singapore.
- How to apply in the SmartSimple platform, Hilde Haeleydt, Programme Management Officer at Eureka
- An overview of R&D&I needs within the scope of this call by Good Food Institute Europe (GFI Europe).
- Breakout rooms
Each participant will be sent to the digital breakout room they selected when registering for the webinar.
- Plant-based
- Fermentation-derived
- Cultivated meat/seafood
- Hybrid products and enabling technologies.
In the breakout room, each organisation will get one minute to present themselves and their challenge, what they can contribute with and what they are looking for in a collaboration. No PPT.
Please note that the meeting is held in English.
Registration
Regristration for webinar and networking: Food tech call on alternative proteins for R&D and innovation projects between Sweden, Israel, Switzerland and Singapore
Government agencies have an important role to play in enabling innovation that makes a difference. Despite differing mandates, three agencies have joined forces to address this issue.
During Sweden Innovation Days, the three Director Generals of Vinnova – Sweden’s Innovation Agency, Swedish Energy Agency and Formas – A Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development sat down to discuss their role as enablers, their joint Impact Innovation project and the need to break down innovation silos in order to solve the collective challenges of today.
The Impact Innovation Initiative is Sweden’s innovation investment for the 2030s. A strategic and long-term gathering of forces that aims to collectively solve global societal challenges and increase the pace of the transition to a sustainable society.
According to Johan Kuylenstierna, Director General of Formas, it is important for a variety of actors to take on the enabler role and collaborate together.
“Enablers are also important in industry and academia for example. It’s not just the role of government agencies, but we are playing an important role because we can have a mandate to connect different actors. Our role is not just about money, but also about driving changes in the entire system that can complement all the different actions and all different investments that we see in the private sector.”
Darja Isaksson, Director General of Vinnova, agrees adding that “This is not the first transformation of society. It’s just the most existential one and it needs to happen in a very short time. So, all the different parts of society, government agencies, industry, start ups, scale ups, and academia, need to think of themselves as active enablers of this transformation, because that’s essentially what it takes.”
For the Swedish Energy Agency’s Director General Robert Andrén it is about finding smart ways forward.
“What we are doing and trying to do is a leader, a guide when it comes to finding smart ways forward, finding capital, networks, and new partnerships. We are also active throughout the whole innovation chain, from basic research to scale, to commercialisation and marketing, ways of getting innovations out there and also export promotion to find new markets. So the global effect of a green innovation is multiplied in many ways.”
All three directors agree that their different yet overlapping mandates are a strong foundation for the multifaceted challenges of today. For example you can’t talk about food production without also considering energy and environmental factors.
Together they also have a unique position as government agencies to look at how regulations can hamper innovation and find ways to speed up and reward frontrunners within innovation.
Watch their full conversation below and find out more about the Impact Innovation Initiative here: https://impactinnovation.se/
Sweden Innovation Days is over for 2023 and there are some fantastic statistics that highlight the success of the event!
Firstly over 4000 people from 94 different countries registered to join the three day event this year.
They were inspired by more than 350 expert speakers who joined 99 sessions both on the Mainstage and in Side Events across all three days of the event.
Sweden Innovation Days 2023 would not have been possible without our seven key organisers, 43 conference partners and 15 matchmaking partners who created sessions, nominated startups and provided expert knowledge.
On top of the conference we also hosted a huge matchmaking that connected startups and scaleups with corporates from the 10 participating countries!
There were 357 Matchmaking meetings between 220+ Startups & scaleups and 58 Swedish & international corporates. Keep an eye out to see more about this fantastic matchmaking soon.
Sweden Innovation Days 2023 might be over but you can still watch it On Demand on the event platform until April 11.
The three day event saw many insights and inspiration projects with a strong focus on collaboration throughout the entire event.
It is now possible to relive all three days of the Mainstage program in the On Demand area in the event platform.
Each day explored a core focus with Day 1 focusing on Paving the way for innovation, Day 2 on Enabling innovation – The Swedish way and Day 3 on Creating real impact!
Additionally many of the Side Events that explored four key thematic areas including Enablers, Future societies, Planetary resources and the Energy transition are also still available to watch in the Side Events area.
