2009

Press release 04 June 2009 Ministry of Education and Research Government awards photographer Lennart Nilsson title of professor Today the Government has decided to award the photographer Lennart Nilsson the honorary title of professor. Minister for Higher Education and Research Lars Leijonborg informed Lennart Nilsson of the decision at a meeting at Karolinska Institutet on Thursday afternoon.

The professorship is an honorary title that can be awarded in recognition of services outside the academic world that are of great importance for popular education or some other purpose of community benefit.

Lennart Nilsson is being given the award: "because he has shown us the invisible and documented the interior of the human body with scientific precision."

- I can hardly think of anyone else who better meets the criteria for being awarded the title of professor than Lennart Nilsson. Without having any formal academic training, he has communicated scientific insights to millions of people all over the world. Long before medical visualisation technology became a research field, Lennart Nilsson was doing pioneering work in the area. With his sense of curiosity still intact. Over the years Lennart Nilsson has received quite a number of honours, but by awarding him the honorary title of professor the Government wishes to express our admiration and gratitude for a unique and still ongoing lifework in the service of knowledge, says Minister for Higher Education and Research Lars Leijonborg.

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Press release 14 May 2009 Prime Minister's Office Ministers' engagements weeks 21-22 2009

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For further information contact the Minister's press secretary. Related Press contacts Calendar for Prime Minister Prime Minister's Office Calendar for Minister for Foreign Affairs Calendar for Minister for Trade Ewa Björling Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt 18 May Travel in

20 May Party leader debate ahead of European Parliament election,

25 May Travel in Sweden

Ministry for Foreign Affairs

Minister for Foreign Affairs Carl Bildt 18 May Participation in GAERC, Brussels Visit to Göteborg, Sweden

21 May Visit to Warsaw Visegrad Meeting

24-26 May ASEM, Hanoi

27-28 May Visit to Phnom Penh

Minister for Trade Ewa Björling 18 May Visit to Göteborg, Sweden

19 May Visit to Almi Företagspartner (Almi Business Partner)

19 May Dialogue meeting on the export ban on Swedish snuff in the EU internal market

20 May Advisory Committee on EU Affairs, Riksdag Meeting with World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick at World Bank meeting, Helsinki

25 May Speech at Africa Day Seminar on Strategic Partnerships for African Development, 27 May Main speaker and award presenter at SwedenBIO's Annual General Meeting

27 May Informal meeting with African ambassadors based in Stockholm on EPA negotiations

28 May Competitiveness Council, Brussels

29 May Visit to Tranås, Sweden

Press release 03 April 2009 Ministry of Education and Research Agreement reached: Denmark prepared to pay 12.5 per cent of European Spallation Source in Lund

Sweden has offered to host the European Spallation Source (ESS) research facility. Several other European countries are also interested in building the facility, which will cost around SEK 13 billion. Related Sweden has offered to pay 30 per cent of the cost of the facility, while one of its competitors, Spain, has Press release: The Swedish offered to cover 50 per cent. Endeavours are therefore under way to form a Nordic-Baltic consortium to Government proposes support match the Spanish bid. for locating the ESS in Sweden

Sweden's Minister for Higher Education and Research Lars Leijonborg and Denmark's Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation Helge Sander today signed an agreement under which Denmark will co-host the project.

The agreement establishes that Denmark will cover 12.5 per cent of the costs of the ESS. The agreement also means that ESS data centres will be situated in Copenhagen.

"I am delighted that Sweden and Denmark together can offer the rest of Europe an absolutely world-class research environment," says Mr Leijonborg.

The decision on which country is to build the ESS is planned for May. As the current holders of the Presidency of the EU, the Czech Republic has undertaken management of the decision-making process, which will culminate in a meeting in Prague on the evening of 4 May.

"The campaign is very intense at the moment. I myself am darting around Europe convincing my colleagues that Lund is the best place for this important research facility. Now that the agreement with Denmark is complete I have even more good arguments to back my cause," says Mr Leijonborg.

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Press release 13 March 2009 Ministry of Education and Research Higher education institutions to have power to award doctoral degrees in strong profile areas - no new universities being consid

The Government today presented the bill Doctoral studies with profiling and quality (Forskarutbildning med profilering och kvalitet) to the Riksdag. Related The bill contains proposals on how universities and higher education institutions are to conduct doctoral Read more about Doctoral studies in the future. studies with specialisation and quality The proposals in brief: In the future, higher education institutions may be given degree-awarding powers in limited profile areas. The possibility of the Swedish National Agency for Higher Education to revoke the entitlement to award degrees for doctoral studies is to apply to universities as well. Degrees in fine, applied and performing arts will be introduced as a separate degree category at doctoral level. The term 'disciplinary domain' will be phased out, since it is so broad that effective quality control cannot be maintained over all sub-domains - those higher education institutions that currently have 'disciplinary domains' may apply for entitlement to award degrees in their strong, more limited profile areas. The Government states that at present, no new universities are being considered.

"Knowledge policy is more important than ever. This bill is an important part of our reform to increase the quality of education and research. I believe that profile areas and further quality assessments will enable higher education institutions and universities to focus their strength on meeting the challenges of tomorrow," says Minister for Higher Education and Research Lars Leijonborg.

"Sweden has fourteen universities and a population of nine million. If the term 'university' is to be meaningful, it must represent higher education institutions and universities that we can provide with a resource base of such strength that they can develop excellent research environments that cover a relatively broad field. Now that we are introducing opportunities for higher education institutions to award doctoral degrees and increase their research appropriation by delivering high quality, their reasons for applying for university status are, to a great extent, no longer relevant. It is therefore just as well to state that more universities are not being considered," says Mr Leijonborg.

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Press release 11 November 2008 Ministry of Education and Research Lars Leijonborg visiting the USA

Minister for Higher Education and Research Lars Leijonborg will be visiting the USA from 10 to 18 November. The trip will begin with a study visit and meetings in Boston and Washington. From 16 to 18 November he will participate in a research conference between the EU and various American actors held in Atlanta. Lars Leijonborg is the keynote speaker at an event to be held on the Monday evening.

"The USA is a major research nation. One look at the list of Nobel Laureates is enough to see how much weight American research carries in the international scientific community. I will have an opportunity to meet several key actors in a system that is obviously extremely successful in many respects," says Mr Leijonborg.

Here are some of the highlights of the programme:

Tuesday 11 November Meetings at the Kennedy School of Government and the Whitehead Institute in Boston.

Wednesday 12 November Visit to Harvard and MIT in Boston.

Thursday 13 November Meetings, including the US Department of Energy. Dinner with figures including newly-elected President Barack Obama's scientific advisers.

Friday 14 November Meeting with, among others, the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), which advises the White House on research issues, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Science Foundation (NSF).

Sunday 16 November Visit to the Society for Neuroscience conference.

Monday 17 and Tuesday 18 November Participation in the conference Internationalization of Research and Graduate Studies and its Implications in the Transatlantic Context in Atlanta.

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Press release 23 October 2008 Ministry of Education and Research SEK 5 billion to boost research and innovation Today the Government's Research and Innovation Bill will be presented. It covers the period 2009-2012 and in terms of additional resources, includes the largest allocation ever. With its SEK 5 billion, it is more than twice as large as its predecessor, and larger than the total sum allocated in the three most recent bills.

"In our age, knowledge is in the process of becoming the most important competitive factor. Countries lagging behind in terms of knowledge and innovation risk running into enormous difficulties. This is one reason why we are making the biggest investment ever in Swedish research. The other reason is that we want to contribute Related to solutions to the enormous problems facing mankind, such as the climate issue and how serious diseases could be cured or alleviated," says Minister for Higher Education and Research Lars Leijonborg. Press release: Largest ever investment in research Press release: Major "But more funds are is not sufficient. There are also a number of systems issues that have hampered Swedish investment in Swedish research. By consistently maintaining high standards and using competition as a method, we are providing research Swedish researchers with the potential of being best of all," says Lars Leijonborg.

Some of the important items in the Bill are: Download Appendix 1: Allocation per seat of learning (pdf 45 kB) Universities and higher education institutions to be allocated increased resources Appendix 2: Strategic The largest portion of central government research funds will go to academic institutions. Out of existing investments (pdf 32 kB) funds, some SEK 11 billion of the approximately SEK 17 billion will be allocated to research via the Ministry of Education and Research. SEK 1.55 billion of the future appropriations will be allocated to universities and higher education institutions over the period 2009-2012. This will be distributed in accordance with a new system in which quality will determine how much each university or higher education institution will receive. Quality will be measured by means of two criteria - publications/references to publications and external research funds. A table in appendix 1 shows how funds will be distributed among universities and higher education institutions.

Strategic investments Since World War II, Swedish central government-supported basic research has in principle been funded in two ways: through direct appropriations to universities (faculty funds) and through appropriations via the research councils (council appropriations). An important element of the reform of the appropriations system proposed in the Bill is that a third, major type of funding will be introduced: strategic investments. SEK 1.8 billion of the SEK 5 billion will be allocated in the Research Bill to what is planned to be a permanent, annual increase in appropriations to research in a number of strategically important areas. The entire list of strategic areas is given in appendix 2.

Increased appropriations to the councils The four research funding institutions, the Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research, the Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning, the Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems and the Swedish Research Council will be allocated SEK 675 million. The appropriation to the Swedish Energy Agency will increase by SEK 110 million and to the Swedish National Space Board by SEK 20 million from 2009, as part of the initiative for strategic research areas.

Innovation Central government investments in research need to be made use of more extensively in the community and the business sector. In the Research and Innovation Bill, the Government presents an initiative to increase the commercialisation of research results. A total of SEK 150 million has been allocated for this purpose. Innovation offices will be set up at a number of higher education institutions. The industrial research institutes will be allocated additional funds of SEK 200 million.

1 per cent goal already achieved by 2009 According to a decision of the EU Council of Ministers, a member country's allocations to R&D should amount to 3 per cent of GDP, 2 per cent of which from the business sector and 1 per cent from public sources - what is known as the Lisbon goal. The SEK 5 billion investment now being made means that the 1 per cent goal will already be achieved by 2009.

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Press release 22 September 2008 Ministry of Education and Research Largest ever investment in research

The Government's 2009 Budget Bill, which is being presented today, includes the largest investment in research ever to be made in Sweden. Related "It is important for Sweden to be able to compete in the era of globalisation. Knowledge is increasingly From the Budget Bill for 2009: becoming our most important competitive factor. But it is also important to invest in research so as to solve, if Budget Statement and possible, the great challenges facing humanity. We must find countermeasures against the greenhouse effect summary and we must try to find cures or more effective relief for the most common diseases. This is why I am so pleased that the Government has managed to seriously break a trend and give a boost to Swedish research," says Minister for Higher Education and Research, Lars Leijonborg.

Special initatives in the area of higher education and research contained in this year's Budget Bill are:

Research The Government will propose investments in research and innovation which will entail gradual increases in central government support during the period 2009-2012, to reach a permanent increase of SEK 5 billion in 2012. Since the largest extra allocation of funds will be made in the first year, total additional funds for the four-year period will amount to almost SEK 15 billion. In terms of absolute amounts, the largest increases will benefit research into medicine, technology and the climate. The bulk of the boost in resources will take the form of direct appropriations to universities and other higher education institutions, but the research councils and the Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems will also benefit from significant increases in appropriations.

More doctors and dentists The Government is expanding both medical and dentistry training programmes. Medical training programmes will offer 110 new trainee places - after full expansion this will mean 605 more students than there are today. Since 2006, medical training programmes have been expanded by almost 25 per cent.

Dentistry training programmes are being expanded to offer 40 new trainee places, which after full expansion will mean 200 more students than there are today. Since 2006 dentistry training programmes have been expanded by almost 20 per cent.

Subsequent education for people with foreign qualifications Immigrants who have higher education qualifications from another country and advanced professional experience are a great asset to Swedish society. It is important that these people quickly enter the labour market. The Government is therefore continuing the initiative it has already begun for supplementary education for people with foreign qualifications. In 2009 the Government will invest SEK 94.2 million, primarily in supplementary higher education programmes for people with health and medical care qualifications from third countries and for teachers with foreign qualifications.

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Press release 09 September 2008 Ministry of Education and Research Lars Leijonborg Increased support to research on carbon dioxide storage

Today, Minister for Higher Education and Research Lars Leijonborg gave a speech at the opening of Vattenfall's pilot plant for carbon capture at Schwarze Pumpe, outside Berlin.

The plant tests CO2-capture using new technology. Capture is required to enable the carbon dioxide to be stored in the Earth's crust. In his speech, Lars Leijonborg emphasised the importance of progress in this area.

"The threat of climate change is so serious that a range of methods for dealing with it must be used. Unfortunately the use of fossil fuels does not seem to be declining sufficiently rapidly to enable us to stop the warming of the atmosphere. Countries such as China and India are planning for an increase in their use of coal. This is why increasing numbers of people welcome the possibility of being able to capture and store carbon dioxide," says Mr Leijonborg.

The Swedish Government has expressed support for further development of this technology in a number of international contexts.

"The Research Bill to be presented next month will allocate increased resources both to the Swedish Research Council and the Swedish Energy Agency, which will enable greater support to research in this area. The Government has also stated that we are willing, at the Nordic level, to support research and development of this technology together with our neighbouring countries," says Mr Leijonborg.

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Press release 29 August 2008 Ministry of Education and Research Major investment in Swedish research

In connection with this autumn's Budget Bill, the Government will present a new proposal for meeting the challenges facing Sweden. This will entail strengthening employment policy, enhancing Sweden's future growth potential and improving welfare. Download Complete text with diagrams Today, the party leaders in the Alliance for Sweden will present the main features of their upcoming research and table (pdf 110 kB) initiative.

Research is an indispensable part of human culture. The growth of knowledge and the search for explanations have a value in themselves. The resources available for research also have a major impact on Sweden's future potential. Good conditions for research open the way for innovations, contribute to growth and deepen our knowledge of the world around us. This emphasises the importance of initiatives that focus on high-quality research that is innovative and internationally competitive.

The Government's policy is oriented toward the future. The research initiative is part of a larger vision, which, in the long term, will strengthen Sweden as a successful industrial and service nation, but also as a welfare society.

The Government is to propose investments in research and innovation which will entail successive increases in central government support during the period 2009-2012, to reach a permanent increase of SEK 5 billion in 2012. Since the largest reinforcement will be allocated during the first year, total additional funds for the four- year period will amount to almost SEK 15 billion.

Work on the research and innovation bill is being led by Minister for Higher Education and Research Lars Leijonborg, who is available to answer further questions.

Investment for the future This is the largest, single extra investment ever to have been made in Swedish research. It is based on two central insights: In the era of globalisation, Swedish competitiveness must build on the high knowledge content of our export products, which is why research, development and innovation are key components of growth policy. Without new knowledge, the greatest challenges to mankind - such as the greenhouse gas effect, the energy crisis, water shortages, widespread poverty in parts of the world, the impact of current demographic changes, prolonged international conflicts and the risks of pandemics - cannot be dealt with successfully.

The largest additional investment ever to have been made in Swedish research Strengthening resources allocated to research is one of the largest reforms to be undertaken by the Government during its term of office. The extra funds for 2009 alone exceed all the additional resources provided for in the latest Social Democrat research bill. An idea of the size of the current investment can also be gained from the fact that it is larger than the sum of all funds allocated in all the research bills in the period 1994-2006.

To enable a comparison with previous terms of office, a diagram showing permanent increases in the resources allocated by research bills and their accompanying budget bills is shown below.

Diagram in the attached file: Level of permanent increases in the last four research bills (the last year of each period).

If, instead, a comparison is made of total resources allocated to Swedish research in each research policy bill and its accompanying budget bill, the picture becomes even clearer. One reason for this is that the Alliance Government's initiative means that resources will be considerably and permanently strengthened even during the first year of the period.

Diagram in the attached file: Total additional resources in research bills and accompanying budget bills, per period. Medicine, technology and climate are priority areas In terms of actual amounts, the largest increases will benefit research into medicine, technology and the climate.

The largest increase in resources will take the form of direct appropriations to universities and higher education institutions, but the Swedish Research Councils and the Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems will also benefit from significant increases in appropriations.

Table in the attached file: Permanent reinforcements in SEK million per year and area

The Government has used three guiding criteria in prioritising the strategic areas: Research that can help to find solutions to important global problems and challenges, such as work to combat climate change, the fight against serious diseases and other health problems, and the adaptation of energy systems. It is obvious, for example, that the fight against the greenhouse gas effect is aided by technological breakthroughs. Areas in which Sweden is already conducting world-class research. In all of the priority areas there are researchers and research groups of world class. Areas where companies in Sweden are already conducting their own research and development, and where state investments strengthen the development and competitiveness of the business sector and of Sweden as a country.

Examples of research projects that are to receive more support in this regard are the fight against major diseases that affect large sections of the population, such as Alzheimer's and cancer; new communications solutions in the intersection between mobile broadband and IT; and new energy solutions for reduced carbon dioxide emissions, greater energy efficiency and renewable energy sources.

Research in humanities and social sciences will also receive higher appropriations.

One explicit aim of the investments proposed in the bill is to create and strengthen research environments in Sweden that are of absolute world class.

Innovation is an important theme Innovation is an important theme in the upcoming bill. This is manifested partly in the design of a number of new structures and instruments for the Swedish research system, and partly in the fact that a number of specific innovation issues are dealt with that are of importance to the development of the business sector and society.

Further details of investments will be provided later, both in connection with the Budget Bill in September and when the research and innovation bill is presented in October.

More basic research stimulates R&D investments in the business sector Total R&D investment in Sweden - including the money spent by the business sector for this purpose - has, at about four per cent of GDP, long been extremely high by international standards.

Before the election, the Alliance pointed to the link between major research investments by companies such as Ericsson, AstraZeneca, Volvo, etc. and state investments. Companies' R&D is hugely dependant on well- financed basic research under state management. It is unrealistic to believe that these and other companies would continue to invest large amounts of money into research in Sweden if similar investments were not made in high-quality academic research.

With the proposal that has now been approved for Swedish research, Sweden's ability to compete for research investments will improve significantly. Add to this the Government's efforts to have the large research facility, ESS (European Spallation Source), located in Lund.

International comparison The programme presented here is also considerable by international standards. One would have to go as far as Asia - to China and Singapore, for example - to find greater approved increases in terms of percentages.

Despite the fact that many EU countries have expressed the ambition to reach the one-per-cent goal in accordance with the Lisbon strategy, few countries have actually made binding budget decisions to that effect.

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Press release 22 April 2008 Ministry for Foreign Affairs Secretary-General of the OECD visiting Sweden Secretary-General of the OECD, Angel Gurría, is visiting Sweden on 22-23 April at the invitation of Minister for Trade Ewa Björling.

Time and place External links Press conference with Secretary-General Angel Gurría and Minister for Trade Ewa Björling Delegation of Sweden to the Time: Wednesday 23 April, at 11.00 OECD in Paris Place: Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Gustav Adolfs Torg 1 Read more about Angel Gurría at OECD's website Dr Björling and Mr Gurría will hold talks about the role of the OECD in the international economic system and trade policy issues of the future, as well as trade and climate change.

During his visit to Stockholm, Mr Gurría will also meet Minister for Enterprise and Energy , Minister for Finance , Minister for Foreign Affairs Carl Bildt, Minister for International Development Cooperation , Minister for Employment , Minister for Higher Education and Research Lars Leijonborg, Minister for the Environment , Minister for Migration and Asylum Policy Tobias Billström and Minister for Local Government and Financial Markets .

On Tuesday Mr Gurría is giving a speech at the Stockholm School of Economics.

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The OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) has 30 member states. Its headquarters are in Paris.

Press release 10 January 2008 Ministry of Education and Research Lars Leijonborg visiting Japan Sweden's Minister for Higher Education and Research Lars Leijonborg will be travelling in Japan from 10-18 January.

The trip will begin with Mr Leijonborg taking part in an informal ministerial meeting arranged by the OECD. The ministers will discuss evaluation of higher education. Related "Evaluation of higher education is a very topical and exciting subject. The Government firmly believes in Globalisation Council freedom for higher education institutions, but this means that universities and colleges must be prepared to be inspected and evaluated. Ranking of higher education institutions is here to stay, and now it is important to find the best and most equitable system. For me, ranking is primarily a service to students who will invest time and money in their education," says Mr Leijonborg.

The latter portion of the visit to Japan will take place under the auspices of the Globalisation Council and focus on research and environmental technology.

The following are selected highlights of the programme:

Friday 11 January-Saturday 12 January Informal ministerial meeting. Private meeting with Japan's Minister of Education, Science and Technology Kisaburo Tokai.

Monday 14 January Visit to Toyota factory in Nagoya for study visit on hybrid cars and other matters.

Tuesday 15 January Meeting with Japanese research actors.

Wednesday 16 January Visit to the University of Tokyo.

Thursday 17 January Meeting with Japan's Minister of the Environment Ichiro Kamoshita.

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Press release 03 October 2007 Ministry for Foreign Affairs Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communications Ministry of Education and Research Ministry of Employment Fifth Binational Commission Sweden - South Africa On Wednesday 3 October 2007, the fifth Binational Commission(BNC) will begin in Stockholm under the leadership of Deputy Prime Minister Maud Olofsson. The South African delegation will be led by Deputy President Ms Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka.

Subjects to be discussed during the talks include peace and security in Africa, environment and climate issues, reforms and efficiency enhancement in the UN, HIV/AIDS, the crisis in Zimbabwe, the situation in Burma and other current African and international issues. Download Joint Declaration on the 5th Discussions will be held in three main areas: political, economic and pro-development issues. Various session of the Binational proposals for cooperation in third countries, joint projects and seminars will be discussed with a view to Commission between South further strengthening bilateral relations and promoting trade exchange between Sweden and South Africa. Africa and Sweden, 3 -4 The Deputy President will also be accompanied by a trade delegation. October 2007 (pdf 113 kB)

Programme The BNC meeting starts at Rosenbad on 3 October, at 11.30. In the afternoon, the Deputy President will meet Minister for Higher Education and Research Lars Leijonborg and Minister for Employment Sven Otto Littorin. In the evening, the Deputy Prime Minister will host a dinner at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

Thursday 4 October will start with a breakfast meeting at 08.00 at the Swedish Trade Council, followed by a seminar on investments. The fifth BNC meeting will conclude at Rosenbad at 16.30 on Thursday.

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The close political relations between Sweden and South Africa have resulted in the establishment of the Binational Commission. The Commission was set up at the initiative of the then Prime Minister Göran Persson and President Thabo Mbeki in connection with the major Sweden-South Africa event in 1999. The BNC is a framework involving policy instruments for broadening and deepening relations and provides a platform for regular dialogue and for identifying and implementing joint projects and programmes.

The first BNC meeting was held in Stockholm in October 2000, when Deputy President Mbeki led the South African delegation. The last time the BNC met was in Pretoria in November 2005, when Deputy Prime Minister Bosse Ringholm and Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka led their delegations.

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