Welcome to explore Engineers Without Borders Sweden’s "Meet Our Partners" section, where we highlight our esteemed partners, starting with our partners Sandvik and Vattenfall. In this interview series, our partners share insights into why they support EWB-SWE, the value of our mutual collaboration, and describe some of the inspiring and meaningful projects we undertake together. Discover the valuable connections that drive our mission to engineer a better world.
Meet our main partner Sandvik
Caroline Edelstam, Secretary General of Engineers Without Borders Sweden, meets with Mats Lundberg, Head of Sustainability at Sandvik for a dialogue about our partnership and the benefits for employees to engage in sustainability work, and more. The interviews were recorded att Sandvik’s office in Stockholm in November 2023.
Engineering for a Sustainable Future: Sandvik's Perspective
Sandvik's Collaboration with EWB-SWE: A Sustainable Partnership
In the first part of the interview we explore how Sandvik's collaboration with EWB-SWE aligns with their mission and values, emphasizing SDGs. Sandvik talks about actively sharing knowledge, offering mentorship programs, and encouraging employees to volunteer with EWB-SWE.
We delve into the shortage of engineers as we are facing climate transition, and highlight the value of corporate-non-profit partnerships. We talk about the benefits of engagement for engineering students, professionals, and corporations in tackling global challenges, and how corporate involvement in NGOs, is important.
Meet Taline Forsberg, Vice President, Digital Projects and Services, Sandvik Coromant
Here Taline Forsberg talks about why she became an engineer, the possibilities in combining different fields, and why she loves her job. Her advice to women and girls going into engineering is: "Believe in yourself – You can do it! Engineering is not just one single lane ... and I do believe that we make the best engineers".
Meet Taline Forsberg, Vice President, Digital Projects and Services, Sandvik Coromant
Meet Anne Sankari, BLM Automation, Sandvik Mining and Rock Solution, Central Africa
Here Anne Sankari talks about why she became an engineer, and why she strongly recommends other women to go into the engineering field. She says: "For me the best thing in engineering is definitely the problem solving aspect of it ... solving problems is the part I really like. Making the world a little bit better".
Meet Anne Sankari, BLM Automation, Sandvik Mining and Rock Solution, Central Africa
Meet our gold partner Vattenfall
Why engage as a volunteer?
Next interview is with Noelia Canelas, a Chemical Engineer at Vattenfall in Gothenburg. Noelia is just starting to work as a volunteer for EWB-SWE. Here she talks about why she thinks volunteer work is important, and how other interested colleagues can join.
What makes up a good collaborative relationship?
In this first interview session we met with two senior representatives from Vattenfall. We had the pleasure to talk to Sven Jönsson, Senior Project Manager at Vattenfall and Contact Person for EWB-SWE at Vattenfall, and Annica Ramsköld, Vice President of Corporate Sustainability at Vattenfall.
EWB-SWE was represented by Carin Balfe Arbman, Head of Communications. The sessions were filmed at Vattenfall's headoffice in Solna in October 2023. For more information about Vattenfall please go to http://www.vattenfall.com. The mapping activity mentioned in this session is the Missing Maps Mapathon. Thank you Vattenfall for your support!
