NEWS 2010-06-30

Notable Difference in the Yield of Foundations

The Swedish National Audit Office, Riksrevisionen, has studied the assets of eight foundations over a period fraught with volatile changes in value in the financial and capital...

NEWS 2010-06-17

Lars-Erik Liljelund – Mistra’s new CEO

At an extra meeting today, June 17th 2010, Mistra’s Board of Directors elected to appoint Lars-Erik Liljelund as Mistra’s new CEO. Liljelund comes most recently from the position of...

RESEARCH RESULT 2010-06-16

Board members of Swedish companies with criminal convictions are common

Almost 90 percent of companies listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange have at least one board member who has been convicted of a crime. Companies with several board members who have...

RESEARCH RESULT 2010-06-11

U.S. Navy to Attack the Barnacle

The small Gothenburg company I-Tech received a visit from U.S. Naval Officials in search of alternatives to copper-based antifouling paint. The American sailors were...

RESEARCH RESULT 2010-06-07

ProEnviro results: Green Heat is pure magic

There is magic being practiced in Eslöv. Behind the doors of neighbors HJ Mek and Magnetic Components, cool technological development is in the works as both companies add a...

NEWS 2010-05-25

Download or order Mistra’s 2009 annual report!

The annual report is full of interesting articles. 2009 was an intense year and Mistra could report about important news every month. They are all collected in the report.

RESEARCH RESULT 2010-05-20

Mistra Project Manager Praised by the King

On May 12, Hanna Härelind Ingelsten, project manager of the Mistra program E4, received a scholarship of 75 000 SEK from the King himself.  She was one of 19 fellows who...

FUNDINGS 2010-05-12

Experts Praise Mistra Arctic Futures

Mistra has decided to invest in social science research centered on the Arctic. The decision is well-substantiated thanks to an international planning team’s work developing the...

FUNDINGS 2010-05-10

Mistra Arctic Futures to Build Networks of Researchers with International Connections

Mistra announces a new program with an emphasis on social science. The vision is that using scientific knowledge, policy makers and those living in the Nordic countries will...

RESEARCH RESULT 2010-04-29

High Hopes in the UK for MASE’s Beneficial Bacteria

The research program MASE has developed a bacterium that repels one of golf courses’ worst enemies: snow mold.  With promising results achieved in Sweden there are now...

FUNDINGS 2010-04-23

Arctic Futures in a Global Context

During the ongoing Polar Week 2010, Mistra and the Polar Research Secretariat jointly presented the research program Arctic Futures Research. This gives Swedish researcher the...

NEWS 2010-03-19

Change of CEO at Mistra

Mistra's CEO Ola Engelmark today informed Mistra's Board of Directors that he wishes to resign from his post. Until a new CEO is chosen, Mistra's board has appointed Clas-Uno...