2020

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Is the world’s biggest renewable hydrogen plant a white elephant?

Published December 23, 2020 by Michael Jacob in Tokyo

In Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture, not far from the destroyed nuclear power plant, lies the small town of Namie. The area was heavily affected by the earthquake, tsunami and radioactive fallout in 2011. It is now being rebuilt. Not many of the old...

General view of the Plenary Chamber during a plenary session in Brussels

President von der Leyen adressed the US BARDA in her State of the Union speech. So, what is the US BARDA?

Published December 21, 2020 by Henric Johnson in Washington

In the response to the coronavirus and protecting Europe's health in the future, the President called for 'lessons to be learned, saying Europe must build a stronger European health union, with a future-proof and properly funded EU4Health...

Keeping the distance to strengthen collaborations – finding new ways to work towards cocreating sustainable solutions amid a global COVID pandemic

Published December 21, 2020 by Lena Bruce in Stockholm

2020 has been an exceptional year for the Offices of Science and Innovation. To handle and to dampen the effects of the global pandemic, the Offices has found new ways to co-create. Going digital has often given us the possibility to include a...

Sweden-Korea Nobel Memorial Program 2020

Published December 17, 2020 by Anders Hektor in Seoul

2 710 people have been looking at the youTube presentations of the first Sweden-Korea Nobel Memorial Program that OSI-Seoul organised together with the embassy on 1 December. This is very encouraging and also not very surprising. South...

Last post of a very challenging year

Published December 16, 2020 by Jacob Paulsen in Brasília

This is the last blog post from our Brazilian office for the year - a good opportunity to look back and see what we have accomplished during these challenging times in the shadow of Covid-19. Since Covid-19 entered Brazil with high impact in the...

The Biden administration – what can we expect when it comes to research, development and innovation?

Published December 11, 2020 by Henric Johnson in Washington

January 20, 2020, the Biden-Harris administration will take over, and among many there is an anticipation that the role of science will be strengthened. “Listen to science” is one of the first bullets listed in the Biden-Harris Build Back...

The world needs more female Nobel Prize winners

Published December 11, 2020 by Fanny Von Heland in New Delhi

Every year the Sweden India Nobel Memorial Week celebrates the spirit of innovation and the great minds behind these scientific endeavors. This week, as we commemorated the prestigious Nobel Prize through a virtual Sweden India Nobel Memorial Week,...