Innovation Summer Mining and Minerals 2025

Purpose and goal

The project´s aim is to bring innovations within the metal and mineral value chain that have potential to contribute to a more sustainable extraction and production closer to the market. Objective 1. Four students divided into two teams carry out two innovation cases in 2025 2. The innovation case has either been brought closer to the market or they have been able to be dismissed 3. The program and the innovation case have been exposed to actors in the industry and in the innovation system

Expected effects and result

• Thematically relevant business ideas undergo validation for better market-fit alt. fail-fast • The ideas are prepared for other efforts downstream in the innovation system, such as Swedish Mining Innovations idea competition (or other instruments) or EIT RawMaterials Accelerator • Student entrepreneurship develops • Alternatives to traditional careers in the industry are showcased • Collaboration between academia and business is made available

Planned approach and implementation

The program will: • Hire 4 student consultants from Swedish universities from programmes with technical or business relevance to the theme • Assemble interdisciplinary teams of student consultants who are matched with innovation cases • Run in parallel with other thematic summer programs in an accelerator-like environment The work through the program is process-led by advisers from LTU Business, where the student consultants will work using the Innovation Due Diligence method for nine weeks.