Swedish research programmes
Swedish research on energy is being conducted at several institutes.
In Sweden, Formas, the Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning, is a governmental research-funding agency related to the Ministry of Sustainable Development. Please, find furhter information on Formas' areas of research at www.formas.se.
The Swedish Research Council distributed some SEK 3 billion in research support in 2007 and is the largest
state funder of basic research at Swedish higher education institutions and research institutes. Visit the Research Council at their website www.vr.se
Four Swedish organisations, The Swedish Energy Agency, the Swedish
Environmental Protection Agency, the Foundation for Strategic
Environmental Research (Mistra) and the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological
Institute, together fund climate policy research programmes of around 5
million Euro annually.
Mistra - The foundation for strategic environmental research - is one of many research organisations in Sweden. Among Mistra's programmes are:
- Black Liquor Gasification
- CLIPORE - Mistras climate policy research program
- Energy efficient reduction of exhausts from vehicles
- ENTWINED - Environment and Trade
- Fuel cells in a sustainable society
- Future Forests - Sustainable Strategies under Uncertainty and Risk
- Greenchem - Speciality Chemicals from Renewable Resources
- Heureka - Environmental decision support models for forest land
- MASE - Microbial Activity for a Sound Environment
- Mistra-SWECIA - Climate, Impacts and Adaptation
- PERSEA - Plasma-enhanced reaction systems for environment applications
- ProEnviro
- Stockholm Resilience Centre
- Sustainable Investment
- Towards a Closed Steel Eco Cycle
- TransportMistra
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