We help you use the ISO standards that describe the circular economy (published in May 2024). The standards clarify concepts, provide guidance from a business strategic perspective and define how to measure and evaluate circular performance.

We are aimed at you who want to market circular solutions and follow international agreements. The international standards offer a good understanding of what the circular economy is, and thus provide a good basis for working with the EU regulations around the circular economy, product passports, CSRD and the taxonomy. The ISO standards, on the other hand, have a different detailed structure, which can make it difficult to interpret how they fit together. We guide and provide in-depth information.

We provide guidance on how to best understand the standards and how they relate to each other, from the perspective of your company's current needs. If you have a concrete case, such as a circular business model, a product or value network, we can show how the standards form a strategic basis for further development, communication and regulatory compliance.

We deliver according to your wishes, which is typically a report that you continue to benefit from in your business.

According to discussion with customer

ISO 59004:2024 Circular economy — Vocabulary, principles and guidance for implementation

ISO 59010:2024 Circular economy — Guidance on the transition of business models and value networks

ISO 59020:2024 Circular economy — Measuring and assessing circularity performance

You can now provide your company and customers with a competitive edge in a simple and cost-effective manner while contributing to sustainable transport. This method leverages established material and process data to report the climate impact of both current and future production articles.

The purpose of the climate data sheet is to strengthen the competitiveness of environmentally conscious subcontractors and their customers by reporting the climate impact of an existing or future item that one intends to offer. The customer can thus make a conscious choice to increase the durability of their product. The reporting of the article's climate impact provides increased customer value, which benefits the suppliers who can attach a Climate Data Sheet to their articles.

The method is based on the company's climate impact from a simplified life cycle perspective (cradle to gate). Initial training and support is required for the development of the company and component specific calculation model.

The climate data sheet cannot be equated with a complete LCA or EPD, but the work that forms the basis of the report provides a very good insight and knowledge about the climate impact of the company and the articles from cradle to gate (from the origin of the raw material to delivery at the company's gate).

Process for producing climate data sheets:

1. Workshop 1 Method introduction

The company gains basic knowledge about sustainability in general, and climate calculations specifically, in parallel with competence-developing exercises. A review takes place of the method and included tools and basis for producing climate data sheets.

2. Workshop 2 Calculating climate impact

This workshop provides detailed and comprehensive knowledge about the methods for calculating environmental impact. It covers how to obtain data, the importance of identifying and using accurate data, and the steps involved in calculating your climate footprint. Following the workshop, the company will undertake its own efforts to identify and collect the necessary data for the climate data sheet.

3. Company visit

This step is advantageously combined with Workshop 2. During this phase, RISE expert visits the supplier to examine processes and material flows, gaining a deeper understanding of the business. The visit primarily focuses on the company’s efforts to identify and collect data necessary for completing the inventory template, while also exploring opportunities to improve internal process flows. Following the visit, RISE expert collaborates with the company to finalise a model used in climate data calculations. As a result, the company will have a customised tool and model to calculate and report the climate impact of various products in the form of a climate data sheet.

The climate data sheet reports the climate impact in CO2eq (carbon dioxide equivalents). The calculations are based on energy, material, logistics and production data from the previous year. The calculation method can thus be used both for articles that are in production and for future articles where the product's material and manufacturing process are known. The method of producing a Climate Data Sheet follows a standardised process. After training and initial support, your staff can produce a Climate Data Sheet for any of your companys' articles.

If desired, a third-party validation of the method can be performed, which further increases the customer value of the Climate Data Sheet.

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a key component in the future of society and business. Through the AI Partnership, both the public sector and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) gain the opportunity to explore and apply AI in a safe, ethical, and sustainable way.

The partnership provides access to the latest research, hands-on training, and a secure test environment where organizations can experiment and develop AI solutions without being tied to specific technologies or vendors. Together, we create innovation and competitiveness for a better future.

For the Public Sector – AI as a Tool for Societal Development

Sweden’s welfare system faces major challenges, where AI can play a crucial role in streamlining and improving public services. Through our tailored AI Partnership for the public sector, you can explore the potential of AI in areas such as safety, ethics, bias, and inclusion. The partnership supports the early stages of the AI journey, enables knowledge exchange with other actors, and provides access to our GDPR-compliant test environment, RISE GPT.

Through training, seminars, and research projects, the public sector gains a secure platform to understand, test, and implement AI solutions that strengthen welfare and contribute to a more inclusive future.

For SMEs – AI as a Driver of Growth

AI offers tremendous opportunities for SMEs to increase productivity and competitiveness. With the right application, AI can lead to significant cost savings and new business opportunities. The AI Partnership is tailored to your company’s needs, giving access to AI expertise, a secure test environment, and networks where you can exchange experiences and insights with other businesses.

Through training, seminars, and research projects, SMEs receive the tools needed to develop innovative and sustainable AI solutions. The partnership allows companies to explore AI freely, without being locked into a specific technology or platform, enabling a flexible and future-proof development strategy.

As Sweden’s research institute, RISE offers independent support throughout your AI journey, allowing your organization to explore and experiment without being tied to a particular technology, platform, or vendor.

The partnership is tailored to your organization’s needs and gives access to:

• As Sweden’s research institute, RISE offers independent support throughout your AI journey, allowing your organization to explore and experiment without being tied to a particular technology, platform, or vendor.
• The partnership is tailored to your organization’s needs and gives access to:
• Transformation Support – advisory, sparring, and peer exchange to help you advance your AI journey.
• Training – access to both fundamental and more in-depth AI education, and over time also to courses developed within RISE projects.
• Access to Our Secure Lab Environment – RISE GPT – a lab environment with servers located in Sweden/EU, where your employees can practice using generative AI through test accounts, without data being stored, shared, or used to train language models.
• Case-Based Seminars – facilitator-led sessions where you exchange experiences with other organizations undergoing similar AI journeys.
• Networking – matching and connecting with organizations that have implemented AI solutions, providing relevant insights and practical examples.
• Newsletter – quarterly updates on the latest AI research and insights from RISE.
• Research Projects – opportunities to participate in AI-related research when relevant calls arise.

By collaborating with us, you gain not only technical knowledge but also a partner who understands your operations and is passionate about driving innovation forward. Contact us today to take the next step in your organization’s AI journey!

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Micromerits offer great potential for organisations to work strategically with learning and skills provision.

RISE brings together and supports organisations in exploring the practical use of micro-credentials with the aim of strengthening organisations' skills development and learning. The overall goal is to work with participating organisations to highlight and practically apply the potential of micro-credentials for society, organisations and individuals.

- Guidance and development support: We offer targeted support to develop the organisation's work with micro-credentials, skills provision and learning. Depending on the organisation's current situation, this may involve, for example, help in developing micro-credentials based on the organisation's needs or help in setting up a process for managing micro-credentials in the long term.

- Dialogue on research opportunities: Participate in discussions on current calls for proposals and research collaborations in skills development.

- Access to the Beta platform My Micro-credentials: Your organisation will have access to our system for creating, issuing and managing micro-credentials.

- Newsletters and insights: Get the latest insights and research news in skills development, including micro-credentials and other relevant perspectives from RISE.

This service is designed for organisations that are driven in their work with skills development, skills conversion and learning, and that want to act on the opportunities opened up by the European recommendation on micro-credentials.

RISE offers the service Social symbios för industriell omställning, which is aimed at municipalities, regions, industrial players, real estate companies, etc. The service is based on the ongoing green industrial transition, which has major effects on local welfare with an increased need for investments in community services.

The climate goals cannot be realized by focusing on processes where only environmental issues are at the center. Instead, the climate goals should be seen to a greater extent as effects, which are achieved through an increased focus on welfare challenges and societal goals. Sustainable transition requires both a deep and broad understanding of society's central welfare and societal challenges such as social stability, community services, housing provision, mobility, competence provision, technology development, etc. which will need to be managed in an integrated manner with climate work. A cross-border gathering of forces is required to meet the challenges with the goal of achieving a sustainable society.

The municipal challenges and needs for small and medium-sized municipalities can be listed in the following points:

• Lack of personnel, organizational and strategic capacity
• Small resources to coordinate an organization at inter-municipal and regional level
• The needs are complex – no single actor has control over the whole
• Demand for collaborative and exploratory services
• Need for innovation capacity and leadership for readjustment
• Need for cooperation with financial actors who trade with social investment funds for investments in transition solutions for increased social sustainability
• Create capacity to supply working life with expertise in connection with large industrial establishments

Social symbiosis is based on the capacity of municipalities and regions to be strong partners with the business world by developing the ability to initiate and run innovative governance and collaboration processes linked to the development and management of the built environment. This presupposes the capacity to specify new ways of driving social development and the ability to finance various welfare solutions.

Social symbios handlar även om att stärka civilsamhällets aktiva medverkan i samhällsutvecklingen genom att initiera och driva samverkansprocesser Social symbiosis is also about strengthening civil society's active participation in the development of society by initiating and running collaborative processes that bring together a diversity of citizens and actors. The role of business is also important here – in terms of Utility society2.0 – and to develop this role in new forms of mutual cooperation.

RISE can contribute with the following support:

• Build networks with competences that respond to the needs of municipalities, with the support of relationship-building collaborative forms and action-oriented efforts.
• Strengthen innovation and development capacity as well as learning within and between municipalities, regions and industry.
• Create value chains based on bringing actors together to achieve more efficient resource utilization, which contributes to social benefit and socio-economic gains with bearing on the following areas: new industrialization, housing supply, commercial and public services, mobility and accessibility, skills supply and social and cultural infrastructure.

Innovations Partner Agreement

RISE offers the opportunity to create a common platform by signing innovation partner agreements that promote innovation-driven solutions. The innovation partner agreement is aimed at municipalities, regions and industry with a focus on societal and environmental benefit and as an effect socio-economic gains.

The innovation partnership is based on long-term cooperation. The aim is to jointly create an organizational culture that is based on interaction, as opposed to a purely customer mission. A fundamental goal is that an organization – with the support of various forms of learning processes – should strengthen the capacity to lead innovation, change and adjustment processes on its own over time.