RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB
RISE Research Institutes of Sweden is an independent, state-owned, non-profit research institute and innovation partner. In international collaboration with industry, academia and the public sector, we ensure the competitiveness of the business community and contribute to a sustainable society. Our about 3,000 employees support and promote all manner of innovative processes, driving advanced research in a broad spectrum of areas.
We are organised into 5 Divisions: Bioeconomy & Health, Built Environment, Digital Systems, Materials & Production, and Safety & Transport. We have a long history of acknowledged high-quality research in all of these areas, offering unique expertise and about 100 testbeds and demonstration facilities, instruments in future-proofing technologies, products and services. We are active both nationally and in the international arena.
About the partnership
RISE is the leader of WP9 and task 2.5. In WP9 we will lead the replication of the Athen hub to Sweden and Norway. In Sweden the hub will be replicated in the city of Malmö. Here RISE will establish a resource hub in close collaboration with the municipality, industry and other relevant stakeholders in the city. RISE will also apply a System dynamics model to illustrate corelations in the material flow value chain. In Task 2.5 we will characterize value chains and define KPI:s. We also support tasks around district heating, water-energy-material-waste nexus, training and upskilling as well as provide knowledge and develop symbiosis readiness level.
Meet the Team
Erika Lönntoft
Project Manager
Erika Lönntoft, has been a Project Manager at RISE since 2017. She has experience in managing both national and international projects within the field of sustainable development, mainly within the field of industrial and urban symbiosis, bioprocesses for energy and material production, energy communities and water treatment.
Per Sommarin
Project Manager
Per Sommarin, Per Sommarin, has more than 22 year of experience from the powerplant industry. As Distribution Manager Per has a lot of experience from the district heating area such as engineering, planning, maintenance, purchase and operation. Per possesses many years of expertise in the areas of process and energy optimization in manufacturing. He has, through its network of contacts within the Swedish manufacturing and recycling industry and is also involved in developing and establishing resource hubs in Sweden.
Rickard Fornell
PhD – Senior Reseacher
Rickard Fornell, has worked as a process engineer, environmental engineer and researcher for the past 20+ years within fields such as process development, cross-sectoral process integration and collaboration, and system innovation. His focus is on collaborative system innovation connecting the forefront of science to practical applications for sustainable development.
Elias Andersson
PhD – Researcher
Elias Andersson research interests are industrial energy efficiency and energy management, with a specific focus on how to carry out reliable energy benchmarking and implement relevant energy key performance indicators. An important enabler for this is a harmonized taxonomy of energy end-use processes where he has been involved with mapping the national energy end-use of the largest Swedish industry sectors. He has also experience with resource efficiency and resource mapping.
Marcus Vendt
Senior Researcher
Marcus has worked with energy efficiency in industry since 2003 in Sweden and Norway. Current projects are focused on energy management in industry and how the industry can support the power grid by using flexible production processes (demand-response), smart charging of electric vehicles and battery energy storage systems.
Oskar Räftegård
Senior Researcher
Oskar has a wide knowledge within the field of energy, including energy efficiency, energy conservaton and renewable energy supply for the remaining energy demand.
He has experience of working with buildings/cities as well as industry and industrial processes, with a systemic, holistic, smart, sustainable, circular and/or symbiosis approach. His areas of expertise includes waste heat, heat pumps, district heating and many industrial processes.
Funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Actions programme under grant agreement No 101095303, under topic HORIZON-CL4-2024-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-38 – Hubs for circularity for industrialised urban peripheral areas (Processes4Planet partnership) (IA).
