Mistra REES responds to an increasing global concern for the over-exploitation and coming shortage of natural resources. Global reports from the UN as well as the comprehensive EU initiative “A resource-efficient Europe” clearly mark the need for innovative solutions and strategies to solve environmental and resource-related problems. Mistra REES represents a major contribution of the European and global movement towards resource-efficient solutions.

Vision

The vision of Mistra REES is to advance the Swedish manufacturing industry’s transition towards a circular and sustainable economy. Once validated, methods developed in the Mistra REES programme will support Swedish manufacturing companies to develop and offer world-leading, new and innovative products and services based on circular economy thinking. For business partners, Mistra REES gives access to the most recent research results and a network of expertise for discussing, testing and developing the latest ideas and innovations.

Mistra REES is unique in bringing together competencies from three different research areas, “design of products and services”, “business models” and “policies”, with the ambition to understand how these three areas affect and interrelate with each other. The strong and dedicated collaboration between academia and participating companies enables a unique opportunity to co-create, evaluate and implement outcomes from the program that have clear added value for researchers as well as the participating business partners. Examples of outcomes are methods and tools for REES product and service design as well as business models for REES.