Sustainable Innovations from Stockholm University Receive Millions in Funding

Several companies, with the roots in research from Stockholm University have been granted funding to advance innovations with the potential to contribute to a more sustainable and competitive society.

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The grants aim to support further business development and are part of the national Impact Innovation programme. Sweden's new major initiative to drive sustainability and competitiveness, funded by Vinnova, the Swedish Energy Agency, and Formas.

Grants awarded to companies:

CelluCircle AB – Aji Mathew, Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry
Call: Impact Innovation: Increased resource efficiency and resilience, stage 1
Project: Resilient domestic industrial production through feedstock from chemically recycled textile waste
Grant: SEK 389 667
CarbGen AB – Biswanath Das, Department of Organic Chemistry
Call: Impact Innovation: Increased resource efficiency and resilience, stage 1
Project: Flue Gas to Methanol - Electrocatalytic Technology for Integrating CO2 into the Circular Economy
Grant: SEK 790 000

Grants awarded to researchers

Iain Pitcairn – Department of Geological Sciences
Call: Impact Innovation: Feasibility studies within Technological Action Areas in the program Metals & Minerals
Project: MINREE – "Magnetit som indikatormineral vid sällsynta jordartsmineraliseringar (REE)"
Grant: SEK 998 955

In Formas' innovation call Research-driven solutions for a sustainable transition, the company We Are Animal OOO has been granted funding for a project that develops tools based on research at Stockholm University. The grant is awarded both to the company and to researcher Linda Laikre, Department of Zoology. Innovative digital breeding tool for sustainable animal breeding and societal development. Grant: SEK 2 956458.

Do you have exciting ideas or research results which could be the basis for new
innovations? Contact Innovation Support at Stockholm University here.

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Last updated: November 26, 2024

Source: Office for Research, Engagement and Innovation Services (REIS)

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