Wide-ranging research to benefit society
Every year, Mistra invests a sum of around SEK 200 million in various research initiatives to build bridges among academic disciplines, as well as between research, on the one hand, and companies, public agencies and other stakeholders on the other. Mistra is an active research funder that monitors its own contributions to ensure that they are conferring benefits on society in the form of a good living environment, and that various users are developing new products, services and working methods to meet the environmental challenges facing us.
The purposes of Mistra´s investments are to:
- Create strong, world-class research environments. For research to result in benefits, consistently high quality is a crucial requirement.
- Solve key environmental problems. Many environmental challenges are complex, and new solutions call for research of strategic importance combining varied knowledge and approaches from a range of different areas.
- Strengthen Swedish competitiveness. Companies, public stakeholders and other users should develop new products, services and working methods that contribute to employment, and the initiatives are also intended to make Sweden a good place to live in, in a broad sense.
- Be valuable to users. The results should contribute to efforts to bring about sustainable development. Users and other key people involved in ensuring that research is put to practical use therefore participate in the research.