CAPITAL ASSETS NEWS 2008-08-20

Sustainable buildings

A new report summarises key findings of a workshop on environmental and social issues in real estate investments that took place on 12 June 2008.

FUNDINGS 2008-06-22

Two new programmes and three that continue

Use of the forest and homes of the future are in focus for the two new research programmes that Mistra’s Board of Directors has decided to finance. The Board also decided to continue financing three...

FUNDINGS 2008-06-22

Homes for Tomorrow

The Board passed a preliminary decision to grant a maximum of 45 million SEK for a first four-year phase of the programme Homes for Tomorrow at Chalmers University of Technology.

FUNDINGS 2008-06-22

Future Forests

The Mistra Board of Directors decided to grant a maximum of 60 million SEK for the first four-year phase of the research programme Future Forests — Sustainable Strategies under Uncertainty and Risk at...

FUNDINGS 2008-05-22

Change in key support

Six projects are to receive Mistra´s Idea Support Grants. All six contain innovative elements and a high degree of audacity and creativity when it comes to devising solutions with the potential for...

NEWS 2008-05-20

Mistra’s annual report 2007

Research results are the property of society, and must contribute to its development. Mistra therefore remains committed to investing in research programmes that will make a difference to society,...

NEWS 2008-05-05

Climate trends out of control

During a major international interdisciplinary conference in Stockholm on sustainable development, it emerged that climate change and its effects may become much more severe than the Intergovernmental...

NEWS 2008-04-22

Extensive vegetable experimentation

Larger harvests and smaller needs of commercial fertiliser and pesticides. These are the hopes of the MASE research programme, in its large-scale cultivation experiments.

NEWS 2008-04-08

Under the ship

Mistra´s research findings will soon be found on boat hulls.

NEWS 2008-04-02

Networks for researchers

For more than 30 years, the International Foundation for Science (IFS) has been supporting researchers in developing countries. Collaborating with Mistra gives the scientists access to an international...

NEWS 2008-03-20

Leading with ideas

‘Leadership is the crux of a Mistra programme. Research for sustainable development is based on sustained leadership.´

NEWS 2008-03-13

Keen interest in green chemistry in India

An international conference on biorefineries, bioenergy, biological wastewater treatment and other such subjects brought together a large number of researchers and business leaders in India recently.