Digging deep is a glimpse into some of the many things that the program has contributed to, helped create or enabled since the start in 2013. Our vision is a world-leading mining and mineral producing industry that contributes to a sustainable society. As one of Sweden’s strategic innovation programs our efforts have been towards innovation capacity, technology development, social acceptance and qualified personnel.
In the coming months, we will share examples, large and small, narrow and broad, where Swedish Mining Innovation and our partners have contributed the vision. Short and sweet, easy to understand, gathered under one of these three headings:
Future technology
Innovation drivers
Societal sustainability
INNOVATION DRIVERS
Global research shows that biodiversity loss is as big a threat to our planet as climate change. Meanwhile, metals and minerals are a critical part of many value chains, not least in the…
2024-05-07
INNOVATION DRIVERS
Metals and minerals are crucial for achieving the Agenda 2030 goals, and Sweden is pioneering the development of sustainability in the mining and metals sector. To secure our position – and show global…
2024-04-19
INNOVATION DRIVERS
Currently, there is a lack of accepted standards for rock reinforcement testing around the world, while at the same time also a large need for a system to enable fair and more realistic…
2024-03-11
INNOVATION DRIVERS
In January 2019, an organized network of PhD students is established, who conduct research in all disciplines along the entire mining value chain as part of Swedish Mining Innovation. The purpose is to…
2024-01-22
INNOVATION DRIVERS
“LTU Business Summer“ is a summer program carried out thorough LTU Business in collaboration with Swedish Mining Innovation where students help solve real-life cases on the theme: Mining Innovation. Since 2020 the summer program has included…
2024-01-18
INNOVATION DRIVERS
Swedish Mining Innovation has granted 500 000 EURO to international project applications. This has resulted in 26 000 000 EURO in granted European funding that has benefited the Swedish mining sector in one way or…
2023-10-06
INNOVATION DRIVERS
Bergslagen is a strong innovation area in the mining and mineral industry with strong active players including mining, mine services and equipment suppliers, plus academia and research. Therefore, the program started up a…
2023-10-06