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SOCIAL COMMITMENT: RESEARCH AND EDUCATION
IVA – KEY PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN ACADEMIA, RESEARCH,
BUSINESS AND POLITICS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) was With the aim of promoting Sweden’s competitiveness and
founded in 1919. More than 100 years later, IVA remains an sustainable development, IVA currently runs almost 15 different
independent academy focused on expanding the exchange programs and projects. These include IVA’s Entrepreneurship Academy,
between research, business and politics to ensure positive community to strengthen entrepreneurship in Sweden; IVA’s Smart Industry, which
development. With its approximately 1,300 elected Swedish and aims to promote digital development in small and medium-sized
international members, IVA represents a diversity of expertise, enterprises; and Sustainable Water Supply, which focuses on issues
including economists, researchers, engineers and leaders from the related to the lack of clean water.
business community and the public sector.
By promoting cooperation and partnerships between different
Mellby Gård is one of 250 member companies in IVA’s Business sectors, IVA acts as a catalyst for transferring knowledge and
Executives Council and has provided valuable experience, commitment technological advances to businesses and society as a whole.
and financial support since 1988. The Business Executives Council
ensures that the Academy is rooted in the business community and is a
key requirement for solving societal challenges together.
Teach for Sweden
TEACH FOR SWEDEN – FOR CHILDREN’S RIGHT TO THEIR OWN FUTURE
Schools should be safe and equal for everyone, regardless of society.
their initial circumstances. However, the statistics show that Today, Teach of Sweden works with around 30 municipalities and
the reality is a different matter. This is why Ida Karlberg Gidlund
and Mattias Svensson established the Teach for Sweden Foundation there is great interest in the training. After more than ten years of
in 2013. Competent and qualified teachers are essential for student operations, 400 teachers have been trained and have taught more
performance, but for several years the number of qualified teachers than 40,000 pupils all over Sweden. With the help of partners in
has been declining, which is reflected in lower grades. One in seven the Swedish business community, the Foundation can continue to
ninth graders left school in 2023 without being qualified for upper work to help children achieve their full potential, regardless of their
secondary school, increasing the risk of lifelong exclusion. Regardless background. It is also one of the many ways to ensure the skills supply
of where you come from or the educational background of your parents, that business needs in the future.
school should be the platform for every child to become their best self.
“We’re delighted with our long partnership with Mellby Gård that
Teach for Sweden helps skilled graduates take steps to become involves working together for an equal school,” says Ida Karlberg
highly sought-after, qualified teachers through a two-year leadership Gidlund, Head of Operations at Teach for Sweden. “We’re now looking
program in collaboration with Luleå University of Technology. By forward to the coming years when we’ll continue to
integrating both theory and practice in the leadership program, Teach strengthen the system and give all children the
for Sweden offers a more effective solution to a major problem – the opportunity to choose their own future.”
lack of competent teachers and classroom role models who can
inspire and motivate students. The Foundation endeavours to recruit Ida Karlberg Gidlund,
people from different backgrounds and with a variety of professional Head of Operations
experiences to create a teaching force that reflects the diversity in
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