Två utvärderingspaneler med internationella experter har utvärderat de inkomna skissansökningarna i utlysningens första steg. Panelerna rekommenderar att 23 av förslagen inom tema minskad resursförbrukning och accelererad cirkulär ekonomi och 10 av förslagen inom tema diplomati för hållbarhet ges möjlighet att lämna in en fullständig ansökan. De bedömer att dessa projektförslag bäst möter utlysningens kriterier.

Mistras styrelse har följt expertpanelernas rekommendationer och beslutat att erbjuda förslagen nedan att lämna in fullständiga ansökningar enligt steg två av utlysningen Mistra Utmana. De övriga projektförslagen avslås.

Minskad resursförbrukning och accelererad cirkulär ekonomi:

• Modular circular biocomposites
• Dematerialization through digitalization? – Understanding and improving the resource-implications of digital lifestyles
• Consumption-based resource budgeting – Tools for socioecological Planning
• AI Built Designer Enzymes for the Next Generation of Cellulose Modification
• The cultural power of economic elites in reducing society’s resource consumption
• An autonomous laboratory for sustainable Li-ion battery recycling
• Aluminium circularity by tolerant materials design and rethinking of material flow by IT-based system approach (ALCIRCUT)
• Finding Peat Alternatives for Agriculture in Sweden’s most Abundant Industrial Waste Streams
• Exnovation for sufficiency – exploring pathways to an exnovation mindset and sufficiency futures
• Accelerated development of lignin-based rubber by robotized screening and AI-reinforced decision-making
• Unlocking Sustainable Resource Potential: The Role of Agricultural Biorefineries
• The potential of white water consumption to reduce the planetary boundary overshoot
• Solution-oriented data to de- and rematerialize the Swedish urban built environment
• Back to the Future: Towards a More Circular and Smarter Steel Management Through Fewer Steel Alloys
• Forest-based materials: How to transform the bioeconomy to beat the planetary crisis
• Prototyping Visions for Sufficiency Lifestyles: The 10X Project
• Unequal Exchange and Circular Economy: Uncovering Barriers to Reduced Resource Consumption
• Tackling Circularity Heads-on: A Dual Approach To Breaking The Linear Production and Consumption Paradigm
• Breaking the consumption cycle: On the political feasibility of sufficiency policies
• Decoupling in a business practice via business model-LCA and market shaping
• From value chains to value loops: Leveraging digitalization to increase and integrate social and environmental sustainability in the textile industry
• PhotoLig-zero -PFAS: Lignin-derived circular materials for complete PFAS photodegradation in water
• INCENTIVIZE: Transferable quotas, fees or taxes for a less toxic circular economy

Diplomati för hållbarhet

• AI-enhanced climate diplomacy: conditions for transparency and trust
• AI-generated environmental policies for sustainability
• Shaping Tomorrow: Industrial Policy and the Sustainability Imperative
• Transformational Adaptation – Prospects for a New Avenue in International Climate Diplomacy
• Reshaping of ecocide in international law: transformative change from the Russia-Ukraine war to New International Green Order
• Nuclear Diplomacy? Strengthening Civil Society Involvement with Final Repositories for Nuclear Waste
• The Anthropocene navigator: identifying robust strategies for advancing global sustainability in the face of the polycrisis
• How We Did It: Learning from Prior Cases of Global Environmental Governance Success
• SUSTEX – Sustainable circular solutions for textile industry and plastics pollution
• Improving accountability, traceability and sustainability in timber supply chains