Operational strategy

Mistra’s operational strategy for 2017 – 2019 is divided into three parts – research, asset management and dissemination of ideas and knowledge.

Aims for 2017-2019:

To start at least six new research programmes or centres during the three-year period.
To establish new thematic areas with a diversified structure of initiatives.
To evaluate the Mistra Fellows Programme and initiate at least two new Fellowships a year (one of which must be in the reverse direction, i.e. a foreign researcher visiting one of our programmes).
To evaluate the Mistra Council for Evidence-Based Environmental Management (Mistra EviEM) ahead of Mistra’s phase-out of funding.
To evaluate the effects of the co-funding requirement.
To further raise efficiency in the management and administrative handling of Mistra’s research programmes etc.
To carry out recurrent evaluations of Mistra’s total impact and value to society.

Aims for 2017-2019:

To safeguard existing commitments but also make new research initiatives possible by achieving a good financial return.
To invest the assets in such a way as to foster a transition to a circular economy and sustainable development of society.
To be a model for other investors and actively support and influence the development of sustainable asset management.
To invest SEK 600 million in research.

Dissemination of ideas and knowledge

Aims for 2017-2019:

To assist in boosting the impact of research in society generally and Mistra-funded research in particular.
To step up the integration of our research funding, asset management and idea dissemination to achieve a greater impact for Mistra as a whole.
To strive to enable completed programmes to transition into independent community agents that deliver scientifically based facts.
To report more clearly on the effects of Mistra’s activities, both at area level (research funding, asset management and idea dissemination) and as a whole.

Adopted by the Board on 14 September 2016 and revised on 13 September 2017.