| Short Name: | RISE |
| Country: | Sweden |
| Website: | ri.se |
Research Institutes of Sweden
RISE is the Swedish Research Institute and innovation partner. In international collaboration with industry, academia and the public sector, we ensure the competitiveness of the business community and contribute to a sustainable society.
Our more than 2,800 employees support and promote all manner of innovative processes. RISE is an independent, state-owned research institute that offers unique expertise and about 100 testbeds and demonstration facilities, instrumental in future-proofing technologies, products and services.
In 2016, the former institutes of Innventia, SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden and Swedish ICT merged to form RISE.
During 2018, RISE expanded to include the former institutes Swerea IVF, Swerea SICOMP, Swerea SWECAST and part of Swerea KIMAB.The merged RISE drives advanced research in a broad spectrum of areas that are divided into six divisions.
We have a long history of acknowledged high-quality research and conducting assignments in each of these divisions. RISE is a non-profit organisation. The headquarters of RISE are located in Gothenburg, but we have employees all over Sweden.
Partner’s role in the project
As Leader of WP4 Cooperation, connectivity, immersiveness, social assessment and planning, RISE is responsible for synthesizing knowledge across the entirety of the project through the development of an innovation framework based in systems thinking and practice. Through WP4 RISE is engaged in:
- supporting the design and development of extended reality applications;
- integration and evaluation of XR within the evaluation framework;
- development of agent-based models for validation and testing of emergent system behaviours in selected RUCLs, and;
- establishing a joint vision for the rural/urban synergies with the help of immersive tools and the innovation framework.