Projects in system innovation

Gällivare Narratives explores how mining communities can become more attractive, inclusive, and sustainable through design research, system innovation, and local collaboration. With people's stories at the center, we develop concrete tools for building the communities of the future.

At a time when more people than ever live in cities, stress and mental health issues are also on the rise. The project explores how urban design affects the brain – and how neuroarchitecture can help create environments that support our mental well-being.

Resilience in maritime supply chains is vital for Sweden's supply preparedness. The REDO project maps the needs of critical actors and identifies constellations that can strengthen national readiness, supporting key challenges faced by businesses and authorities in an increasingly uncertain world.

The pre-study LÖST, funded by Lighthouse, analyses Sweden’s maritime total defence exercise during Donsö Shipping Meet 2025. By studying exercises at sea and in simulators, RISE strengthens maritime preparedness, collaboration and decision-making capacity in total defence.

The project aims to strengthen mental health with a holistic, system-changing approach, by bringing together public actors together with business, civil society and academia to gain a broad understanding of the problem and find root causes of the ill health of the elderly.

The parallel transformation of industry and ports poses challenges for energy supply, charging infrastructure, and transport integration. Oxelösund, with SSAB’s shift to fossil-free production, its port, and energy system, offers an ideal testbed for system-level solutions. This is a feasibility st…

Sweden's electric car fleet, largely owned by single-family households, has potential to contribute to stabilising the electricity grid through frequency regulation. This project explores driving forces and conditions for single-family households to participate in frequency regulation through V2G a…

How are the activities of Swedish ports affected by external factors such as total defense, NATO and climate change? What are the synergies and contradictions between the development towards the sustainable port and the new investments that need to be made in a changing world?

Offshore wind power offers great potential for renewable electricity generation in Sweden. However, port capacity to meet the needs of the offshore wind power industry is far from sufficient. The project will help Swedish ports to evaluate their business potential for the wind power industry, throu…

To increase awareness of risks that climate change poses to our building stock we suggest a standardized assessment of climate risks in real estate called the Climate Resilience Declaration (CRC). In this project we lay the foundation for screening tool as a first step towards full implementation o…

The FINEST platform is based on the Formas-funded FINEST Centre (2020-2024). The sub-projects that were part of the creation of the centre will continue in 2025 and end at the end of May 2026.

The objective of HyTruck is to support public authorities in steering the development of a transnational network of green hydrogen refuelling stations (HRS) suited for large trucks. This shall help to overcome the “chicken & egg problem” that SMEs and infrastructure providers are facing.

HEATWISE liquid cooling solutions aiming improving data centre efficiency with waste heat utilisation. HEATWISE aims to optimise the waste heat valorisation, maximise energy efficiency, and generate additional value by efficiently integrating IT infrastructure into thermal grids in tertiary buildi…

Energy efficiency is almost always the fastest and cheapest way to produce more energy, yet we make significantly less energy efficient than we could have done – even though it is often profitable. In this project, it will be tested whether reverse auctions can be a way to accelerate development.

Households need to be able to cope with disruptions in energy supply or price of energy, regardless of whether crises, climate change or the energy transition causes the disruption. In this project, we use design methods to investigate how different actors can support households in developing overa…

Scenarios are analyzed for how the Swedish road freight transport sector can contribute to achieving Swedish climate goals, as well as how the resilience of the transport system develops for these scenarios. A dynamic energy system model is used in the analysis together with input from workshops an…

MATISSE is a KDT EU project to develop a model-based framework for automating the creation of digital twins for the simulation, monitoring and testing of complex industrial systems. The project consists of partners from Sweden, France, Austria, Italy, Portugal, Finland, and Turkiye.

Fisheries can provide nutritious food but is strongly dependent on fossil fuels. For the necessary climate transition, it is essential to reduce energy demand and switch to the use of alternative fuels. However, there are many challenges.

This project investigates, from a broader system perspective, the socio-economic consequences of the various choices that can be made regarding the production and distribution of hydrogen and the related infrastructure. The project aims to answer this question by focusing on two value chains: elect…

A data-driven study of the economic subsidies transforming the energy sector.

The cement industry in Sweden is facing a significant climate transition. A central aspect of this transition is carbon capture and storage (CCS), which is ambitiously set to be implemented in Sweden by 2030. In order to realize CCS, a reliable, cost effective, and environmentally sustainable CO2-l…

Can a battery storage system, intended for the system service market, be used to power parts of critical infrastructure in an island operation mode? How can renewable electricity production extend resilience? This project will analyze stationary battery storage as a potential emergency preparedness…

Energy crisis, climate crisis, economic crisis means that households and social planners have to make more conscious sustainable choices.

The project will develop, test and evaluate a digital ridesharing service for business trips

Through the policy lab, Swedish players can increase their knowledge of how existing regulations support and hinder the market introduction of new technology and services within Drive Sweden's areas of ​​interest. Together, we raise specific issues and solutions to existing challenges.

In Sweden, the first fuel cell electric heavy duty trucks are soon to be launched and the refueling infrastructure for hydrogen is being expanded. Is it therefore, in practice, profitable for haulage companies to offer transports fueled by hydrogen?

The RISE knowledge platform Center for category based measurements is a long-term investment where RISE builds and strengthens competence in measurements of experiences, feelings, behaviors, and abilities.

Reinterpreting Sector Responsibility in Nordic Crisis Management after COVID-19

Responsibility for Climate Adaptation across Political Levels, Sectors and Public-Private Boundaries.

MARS studies the modelling and analysis of risks in complex, interconnected systems. Case studies are made in the areas of forest fires, autonomous vehicles, and pandemics.

Research on how the policies and regulations of public actors (national, regional and municipal) affect the future mobility systems of systems.

RISE coordinated the work packages: Access and Control & Logistics and Systemeffects within the national R&D program for High Capacity Land Transport.

Many city- and town centers of today fight for their’ survival. Thus, it is important that decision makers have continuous access to high quality data as a way of making knowledge-driven decisions. In this project RISE and the organization Swedish City Centers explore the possibility of creating a …

The project is a feasibility study on how cities can plan, and build, to meet future needs regarding deliveries to homes and businesses. This includes issues regarding the creation of a nice urban environment, while securing people's needs for deliveries and waste management.

Tomorrow's mobility and transport system will require increased collaboration between independent actors. MAUS will develop patterns and principles for how to design such systems of systems(SoS) to increase transport efficiency and minimize unwanted side effects.

Tomorrow's fossil free goods transport system must be resilient -- that is, tolerant to surprises. The REFOG pre-study start the work of identifying problems, challenges and opportunities associated to the transition to a fossil free transport system.

The MODELflyg project (Infrastructure modelling for large-scale introduction of electric aircraft and air traffic control) was a research project funded by the Swedish Transport Administration. Participating parties were RISE, the Swedish Civil Aviation Administration, Swedavia, Örnsköldsvik Airpor…

Urban planning and construction have great potential to contribute to sustainable development, but also to prevent it. New ways to measure and value investments, which provide a more comprehensive picture of the values that are created, are needed to lead the way to sustainable development.

Many urban development projects struggle with the problem of "social issues" getting "lost" and forgotten over time. Furthermore, different actors use varying language in order to understand what social sustainability in relation to urban development is. The tool PRISMA has been developed in order …

There is a lack of knowledge on what social sustainability means in Swedish spatial planning. This knowledge overview gathered a large number of Swedish public sector organisations on municipal, regional and national level in order to develop knowledge and practical examples on the subject.