Agenda council Metallic materials

The agenda council is an advisory group that assists the program board and program office in its work on the strategic innovation area of Metallic Materials. The agenda council has a special responsibility for ensuring that the program follows the overall strategy.

This means, among other things, identifying gaps in knowledge and new developments, so that the agenda "National action on metallic materials" can be kept up-to-date and that the efforts carried out follow the agenda's objectives and ambition. In order to carry out the first-mentioned task, the members of the agenda council are responsible for ensuring that the communication between the program and the networks that exist within the program works.

The members of the agenda council are elected so that the composition of the agenda council reflects the strategic innovation area as a whole and the networks that exist in the area. The council's composition is balanced with regard to industry, academia / institutes, research financiers and with regard to gender. The members are also elected in such a way that the overall competence covers all seven priority areas specified in the agenda and so that the program, through the members of the council, reaches the organizations and networks that are important for the innovation area.

The members of the agenda council are appointed by the program board on an annual basis.

The agenda council's tasks

The agenda council is advisory to the program board and thus to the program office and has two main tasks.

1. Ensure that the programme's efforts (calls for proposals, individual projects and possibly other initiatives) are in line with the strategic agenda.

2. Communicating information about and from the program to relevant networks, as well as from the networks to the program.

The Agenda Council makes recommendations to the program board before making a decision to make calls for proposals and to submit comments to Vinnova before making a decision on grants.

The agenda board decides whether proposals for individual projects are to be prepared, and if prepared proposals are to be passed on to the board for decisions on implementation.

The agenda has 21 members appointed by the board for one year at a time. Eight members will be active in the steel area, four each in casting and working, and three in aluminum. In addition, two members must have experience from public research funding.

At the appointment, the Board shall strive to achieve a balance between different competencies as well as between industry and academia / institutes, as well as gender and age.

Members

Peter Samuelsson, M3Advice, Ordförande