MariFish Partner 5: Sweden - FORMAS

The Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning

MariFish Contact Person

Prof Hans-Örjan Nohrstedt

Dr Katarina Vrede

www.formas.se

The Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning, Formas (www.formas.se), is a governmental research-funding agency under the Ministry of Sustainable Development; it is also related to other ministries, especially the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Industry, Employment and Communications, and the Ministry of Education and Science.

Formas encourages and supports scientifically significant research related to sustainable development. In particular, this means supporting the environmental and agricultural sciences of forestry, horticulture, veterinary medicine, and food, fish and reindeer husbandry, as well as spatial planning that includes building sciences and community systems. Funded projects cover a wide range of approaches from basic research to more applied efforts. Formas encourages projects that promote cross- and interdisciplinary research within its areas of programme responsibility. Formas provides mechanisms for communicating research results and stimulates public debate on issues of concern that emerge from or are related to research for sustainable development.

Formas is partly responsible for Swedish involvement with the 5th and 6th Framework Programmes of the EU. It represents Sweden in several IEA programmes and annexes, and promotes Nordic research cooperation within its areas of programme responsibility. Formas is also the Swedish member of the International Institute for Applied System Analysis (IIASA).

Role:

Co-leader of Work Package 3