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Mistras Annual Review 2008

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2009-11-18

"Excellent - and partly outstanding"


Mistra's Board of Directors has decided to provide continued funding for four more years to the research program Entwined. The assessment of the program receives very high ratings in terms of both...

2009-11-09

Top Evaluation Grades Provides E4 Mistra with New Millions


Assessment of the research program E4 Mistra, which is focused on energy efficient after-treatment systems for vehicles, gives top marks to the program—in terms of both scientific level and utility. As...

2009-10-22

Björn Dahlbäck Becomes New Head of the Polar Research Secretariat


The program manager of Mistra’s Marine Paint Program Manager Björn Dahlbäck was today appointed by the government as the new head of the Polar Research Secretariat.

2009-10-12

Elinor Ostrom of the Stockholm Resilience Center Receives the Nobel Prize


American Professor Elinor Ostrom, board member of the Mistra funded Stockholm Resilience Center, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in economics. She shares the prize with Professor Oliver Williamson...

2009-10-08

Stockholm Invests With an Emphasis on Business Development


The Stockholm consortium´s proposal for Urban Futures did not receive money from Mistra. However, that did not prevent Stockholm´s strong team from realizing their ideas on sustainable urban...

2009-09-15

A new assessment method produced a winning proposal


Urban Futures is not only a new research division within Mistra, the project also includes a completely new approach. A process of pre-studies and specialized coaching helped the winning research...

2009-09-07

Exciting Start for Future Urban Development


Chalmers and Gothenburg University have taken the first step towards a new research center for sustainable urban development.

2009-05-05

Download or order Mistra’s 2008 annual report!


Do the unexpected! Human beings have been ill-prepared for sudden changes in economic and ecological processes. It is important to plan for the unknown.  This presupposes not only an alert...

2009-04-22

Mapping Data before Moving a City


Before moving Malmfälten (the Ore Fields), a major mining district in Sweden, Mistra is commissioning a survey to find out what the world knows about transplanting an Arctic society.

2009-04-02

New EU rules makes it lighter on micro organisms


The European Parliament has approved new rules for plant protection product (ppp).  Within the Mistra program MASE (Microbial Activity for a Sound Environment), program manager Christopher...

2009-03-06

Toward a poison-free environment


More research and faster knowledge transfer is needed to achieve the goal of a poison-free environment. Dialogue and cooperation between researchers and public agencies is also needed. These are some...

2008-12-19

New center for urban development at UN conference


Mistra presented its new investment in sustainable urban development research at the UN conference World Urban Forum. The conference assembled over 20,000 participants from a large number of countries...

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