About
MSCA Sweden is a platform designed to support researchers in building credible impact, realistic exploitation pathways, and career positioning within European research and innovation frameworks.
MSCA Sweden is hosted by ICM Research Institute that is the research and education division of Alminica AB, Sweden, providing non-academic placements, competence and capacity building (using courses, training and workshops), and individual career development by individual programmes.
The activities are based on Dr. Mikael Syväjärvi who has more than 20 years of experience from international technology transfer, start-up creation and research-to-business activities. This experience forms the basis for his SME, Alminica AB, which contributes to European research projects with transfer of knowledge for impact and exploitation from research and innovation towards business and sustainability. Recent examples include the EU FET Open project SiComb (2020–2024) and the EIC Pathfinder project rePowerSiC (2024–2028). He is accepted as a mentor in the two European Innovation Council (EIC) 2026 programmes EIC Tech to Market and EIC Women Leadership. These activities support researchers and innovators in areas such as value proposition development, early-stage commercial thinking, leadership development, and strategic reflection on future opportunities arising from research and innovation.
Alminica AB focuses on transfer of knowledge from research and innovation, to create impact and exploitation from research and innovation towards business and sustainability, especially by values and assets using shared data and digitalization (green and digital transition, tokenization). Our insights in data-driven value creation and online platform for building communities arise from our contributions to Innovation Radar, a European Commission initiative that identifies high-potential innovations and innovators within EU-funded research and innovation projects:
At the next level, with a focus on network building and long-term career development, is MSCA Europe – a European research community and network facilitating cross-disciplinary knowledge exchange and leadership capacity building across European research domains.
Where MSCA Sweden focuses on the individual researcher and near-term career development, MSCA Europe shifts perspective to the ecosystem level, supporting long-term positioning within the broader European research and innovation landscape.
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Dr Mikael Syväjärvi has been researcher in academia 1995-2021, entrepreneurial since 2005, and active with Alminica AB since 2016. He has experience from EU projects in FP5, FP6, Horizon 2020, Horizon Europe, including doctoral networks. The transfer of knowledge expertize has been further developed by his activity i EU FET Open project SiComb and EIC Pathfinder project rePowerSiC. He was active 2013-2018 with smart specialisation strategy (S3) by European Commission that is focussed on regional economic growth by the entrepreneurial discovery process. Alminica was procured by Region of Östergötland for supporting the S3 development in the focus area ”Advanced Materials”. The activity of the working group led to the creation of the cluster ”Innovative Materials Arena”. He is one of the pioneers in Sweden in graphene, and was in the board of Swedish National Innovation Programme for graphene 2014-2018 representing research and start-up area. He is co-founder of GraphenSiC AB (2011) that is Europe’s first company that has full business on epitaxial graphene on silicon carbide. He has busíness experience from co-founder in several start-ups and international technology transfer. He is active with value creation from shared data and digitalization to build digital assets and sustainability assets (read more here) with own pilot experiences in the special purpose vehicle GlobalSiC. He has an investment activity ”Jovaya Investment” that supports and invests in early stage start-ups from advanced materials research for emerging technologies. In 2021 he founded a private research institute ”ICM Research Institute” that is the research division of Alminica that also has hosting of researchers by visits or internships (including online mode).
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