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
Engineers without Borders Sweden join forces with Sandvik employees to map the unmapped
We recently partnered with Sandvik employees and other volunteers to host a virtual Missing Maps Mapathon, contributing meaningfully to critical humanitarian initiatives. The event focused on mapping overlooked and remote areas to help ensure that emergency aid can reach the communities that need it most.
A total of 35 participants joined from across Sweden and internationally. Together, they mapped 3,150 buildings and made 3,282 edits on OpenStreetMap (OSM), a collaborative mapping platform. This particular Mapathon centred on the Sivasagar District in Assam, India—an area still grappling with the aftermath of last year's severe flooding. By mapping infrastructure such as roads and buildings, volunteers are strengthening the capacity of humanitarian organisations to respond to crises more effectively and support longer-term community resilience.
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
PODCASTS
We collaborate with the podcast “How to Solve the Problem”. Here are two interesting podcast, one from early September about sustainable water solutions in LATAM, featuring and interview with EWB-SWE Project Leaders and WASH expert Tommy Lindström. The other from November 2024, about the building and real estate crisis and the future of the construction sector with Warwick Kendrick, CEO of Aurora Construction Consultancy.
ABOUT THE POD
”How to solve the problem” is a podcast aimed at finding solutions to different problems in the world by discussing them with experts, organisations and those affected by the issue. The podcast is in both English and Swedish. Podden How To Solve The Problem is produced by Jonathan Cygnaeus from How To Solve The Problem.
Turning sewage into irrigation water and biodiesel in Chile | Tommy Lindström | Engineers Without Borders
What is grey water, how can wastewater fight forest fires and how are Engineers without Borders helping Chilean locals get a sewage management system
In today’s episode we meet Tommy Lindström who works at Engineers Without Borders. He will talk about the wastewater problems in Valparaiso in Chile, the effects unsafe sewage systems can have on health and his advice on how the UN can assist in helping communities around the world solve similar problems.
Welcome to How to Solve The Problem. Produced by: Jonathan Cygnaeus. Email: howtosolvetheproblempodcast@gmail.com Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/how-to-solve-the-problem-podcast/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/howtosolvetheproblem_podcast/ Intro music: RomanSenykMusic
Are we building homes for people that don’t exist, how is it affecting the economy and what will be the impact Europe’s real estate market?
In this episode we will talk with Warwick Kendricks who is CEO at Aurora Construction Consultancy and a chartered member of Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. He will talk about the real estate crisis no one is talking about, why we are building apartments that no one can afford and why the era of urbanization in Europe is over
Welcome to How To Solve The Problem. Produced by: Jonathan Cygnaeus. Email: howtosolvetheproblempodcast@gmail.com Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/how-to-solve-the-problem-podcast/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/howtosolvetheproblem_podcast/ Intro music: RomanSenykMusic
Earlier partnerships
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!
