The cement industry, a vital component of global construction, represents 8 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, far more than the aviation industry. Decarbonizing the global cement sector is a challenge that requires international collaboration and knowledge exchange.

In December 2023, Sweden and India launched a partnership to address emissions-intensive industry challenges and to align their industrial development with the Paris Agreement. The partnership, focusing on the steel and cement sectors and implemented through the Leadership Group for Industrial Transition (LeadIT), aims to promote technology transfer and co-development, and to strengthen institutional capacity for innovation. 

In this side event we will gather perspectives from Sweden, India and the global community in a discussion about how innovation and international collaboration can fast-track the transition to net zero in the hard to abate cement industry.

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The Swedish Energy Agency is the national agency dealing with use and supply of energy and the implementation of an environmentally sustainable and secure energy system.

The authority promotes research, development, demonstration, innovation, business development and commercialization, market introduction of new energy technologies and new services.

David Jonason serves as a policy specialist at the OECD, concentrating on innovation and mission-oriented policy. Based in Paris, he is a part of the OECD Mission Action Lab and the Observatory of Public Sector Innovation. Prior to joining the OECD, David acted as the lead for the data and analytics team of Vinnova, the Swedish Innovation Agency. He has an academic background in economics, political economy, and technology policy from Stanford University, Uppsala University, and the Stockholm School of Economics. David’s work is driven by a quest to secure society’s ability to make proactive investments towards a sustainable and habitable future.

The audience will be given insights about various battery innovation ecosystems in Sweden and their focus areas. This seminar is for anyone interested to better understand how to navigate and collaborate with actors in the Swedish battery value chain.

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The Swedish Energy Agency is the national agency dealing with use and supply of energy and the implementation of an environmentally sustainable and secure energy system. The authority promotes research, development, demonstration, innovation, business development and commercialization, market introduction of new energy technologies and new services.

Business Sweden is jointly owned by the Swedish state and the Swedish business sector with a mandate and a mission to help international companies gain access to the Swedish market and help domestic ones utilise it as a platform for expansion in Sweden and through our 44 offices across Europe, Americas, Middle East & Africa, and Asia Pacific.

Hear from the innovators!

Looking for funding for your R&D? This can be a challenging task for SMEs, large companies, universities, and research organisations. That’s why Eureka has different programmes tailored to you, the innovator, wherever you may work.

During this event, we’ll be giving you an overview of what Eureka offers, focussing on two programmes, Eurostars and Clusters, highlighting their key benefits.

Eurostars is one of Europe’s largest international funding programmes for innovative SMEs wishing to collaborate internationally on R&D to create innovative products, processes or services to bring to the market.

Clusters are big industry-led international communities focused on strategic technology areas. They involve companies of all sizes, universities and research organisations, and offer regular funding opportunities.

You’ll hear from two of our successful project participants who will speak about their experiences and the results they obtained with Eureka support.

The funding opportunities presented in this event are for SMEs, large companies, universities and research organisation from more than 45 countries.

Join us to explore opportunities that can fuel your innovative endeavours!

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Please note that you must register in advance via this link: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/00996823-0a03-4eec-b814-b6c64bc59eaa@5d4bff7f-7391-46c0-9275-bdc4dece3442

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Eureka is the world’s largest public network supporting international cooperation in innovation and research, present in over 45 countries, in Europe and beyond.

Ignite Sweden facilitates a process to engage the public sector with startups, driving innovation and discovering solutions to meet their needs and challenges. Listen to the City of Uppsala, one of Sweden’s largest municipalities, as they share insights on creating scalable approaches to foster innovation and collaboration.

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Ignite Sweden is a national non-profit program that aims at catalyzing commercial partnerships between startups, large companies and the public sector. Since 2017, Ignite has tailored more than 6700‬‬‬‬‬ matchmaking meetings between 1500+ startups and 310+ corporates and 44 public organizations, resulting in over 610 commercial collaborations. Ignite Sweden is led by SISP – Swedish Incubators & Science Parks and was established and developed by leading incubators and science parks in Sweden. The program is co-funded by Vinnova and Energimyndigheten. Visit the website: https://ignitesweden.org/

Dr Mikael Prytz head research area Networks at Ericsson Research. The unit’s focus is 5G evolution and 6G covering radio network architectures and protocols, packet core, fronthaul, programmable networks, and network automation. Mikael has previously worked with fixed network design, multi-radio network architecture, standardization, and radio spectrum regulation across Ericsson’s research, technical sales support, and services units as well as in international research programs and exchanges. He holds a PhD in optimization and systems theory and two MS in operations research and engineering physics respectively.

Mrs Gustafsson grew up professionally in Handelsbanken’s Asset Management after finishing her M.Sc. of Business at Uppsala University. In 2012 she began concentrating fully on ESG analysis, launching and operationalizing updated sustainability investment strategies as well as engagement programs, leading to up to a role as Head of Responsible investments at Handelsbanken’s mutual fund company in 2016. In 2019, Mrs Gustafsson took on the role as Head of Responsible Investments at AMF, one of Sweden’s leading Pension Companies, with EUR 70 billion AUM. As of June 2023, she is Head of the Council on Ethics of the National Swedish Pension Funds.

Are you ready to learn the truth about the state of our planet?

Climate change is real and human activities are the main cause. The concentration of greenhouse gases in the earth’s atmosphere is directly linked to the average global temperature on Earth. The concentration has been rising steadily, and mean global temperatures along with it, since the time of the Industrial Revolution. Global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels hit record high in 2023. Not surprisingly, 2023 is the hottest year on record, with global temperatures close to the 1.5°C limit.

Global warming limits to 1.5°C are significant because they would help reduce the risks of devastating consequences, such as extreme weather events, rising sea levels, and biodiversity loss. To prevent warming beyond 1.5°C, we need to reduce emissions by 8% every year from this year to 2030. Why are we not moving faster? Why are we not listening to the dire warnings by top climate researchers?

In this session we will meet one of them. Being a brilliant and inspiring storyteller Professor Benjamin Horton will tell us the truth we need to hear. It is not pretty but it is important. And it will affect life as we know it.

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Professor Horton actively contributed to the COP26 conference: he led the COP26 report on managing disaster risks from natural hazards in ASEAN. He was also appointed Mentor for the Commonwealth Futures Climate Research Cohort to guide a group of researchers working towards solutions for climate-vulnerable communities in the lead-up to COP26. He is a Review Editor for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 6th Assessment Report and was an author of the 5th Assessment Report. Professor Horton’s research was cited by President Obama in his 2015 State of the Union Address at the United States Capitol on January 20th 2015.

Professor Horton’s research concerns sea-level change, with the aim of understanding and integrating the external and internal mechanisms that have determined sea-level changes in the past, and which will shape such changes in the future. His research impacts upon important ecological, ethical, social, economic and political problems specifically facing coastal regions.

Roger Göthberg is the CEO of Nilsson Energy, a Hydrogen system solution integrator based in Sweden. Roger has previously been working as Managing Director for MAN Energy Solutions in Sweden and as Business Development manager for LNG and LBG at the company Skangas, today known as Gasum. He has also a background from marine lubricants and fuel sales at Texaco and Chevron.