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.
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
