Research Agencies
VINNOVA [external link]
The Swedish Research Council [external link]
Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research [external link]
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences [external link]
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Research Strategies and Priority Areas
Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research: Research Strategy 2012-2017 (See section 5.4 “information, communication and systems technology”) [external link]
Swedish ICT Annual Report 2012 [external link]
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Estimated Public Funding of ICT Research 2013
€400 – €500 million.
Best Estimate: €485 million
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Organisations
Sunet [external link]
Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing [external link]
Vinnova ICT programmes [external link]
Swedish ICT [external link]; incorporating:
- ACREO [external link]
- SICS [external link]
- Interactive Institute [external link]
- VIKTORIA [external link]
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Projects & Initiatives
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Big Data Analytics
The Big Data Analytics research project aims to craft a new national research agenda in conjunction with participants from industry, the research community, and the public sector in order to enhance and universalise the exploitation of new and expanding data streams.
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Broadband Testbed for Secure Access to Community Services
This project seeks to develop robust communication solutions which can guarantee secure access to public services.
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COPD
This project seeks to develop a telemedicine solution ease the suffering of Chronic Respiratory Insufficiency patients and improve the quality and cost-efficiency of their healthcare.
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EFRAIM
The EFRAIM project aims to identify and develop distributed network solutions for media distribution.
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Noisy Networks
This project aims to study theoretical aspects of networked digital communications. It will focus on information-theoretic considerations, to investigate both new fundamental theoretical results and also propose designs and guidelines inspired by these results.
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Printed Electronics Meets Mobile Devices
This project aims to expand on Smart device technology developed by Ericsson to create Smart tags which will contribute to the growth of the Internet of Things
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Sense Smart City
The aim of this project is to turn the small, northern municipality of Skellefteå into a Smart City – an urban space interconnected through sensor networks which manage the collection, measurement and communication of data and the allocation of resources.
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VISION
The goal of the VISION project is to advance the competitiveness of the EU economy and facilitate the convergence of ICT, media and telecommunications through developing a radically improved ICT infrastructure for reliable and effective delivery of data-intensive storage services
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