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What is RISE Research Institutes of Sweden up to?

3 strategic moves read from public sources, up to 17 Oct 2026.

Building battery‑cell leadership Preparing to become EU Drinking Water assessment provider Expanding microbial strain development

Building battery‑cell leadership

RISE appears to be expanding its battery‑cell and energy‑storage capabilities through a series of hires and project coordination roles. The organization is adding group‑manager and engineering positions focused on battery‑cell development and testing, as well as coordinating a short‑term national battery‑innovation project.

Public signals include vacancy announcements for leadership and engineering roles in Stockholm and Nykvarn, and the coordination of the PowerUP project listed by Vinnova. These items collectively appear to indicate a continued investment in battery‑cell research, testing infrastructure, and scale‑up activities.

  1. Vinnova lists RISE as coordinator of the ongoing PowerUP project to scale Sweden’s battery innovation capabilities, running from October 2026 to January 2027.

    vinnova.se

  2. RISE's Battery Cell group‑manager vacancy describes the battery‑cell activity as being in a growth phase and links the leadership role to developing projects, partnerships, laboratory environments and research infrastructure.

    vakanser.se

  3. RISE is leading thermal‑runaway and fire‑safety work in the 36‑month Horizon Europe ACCELERATE project, which develops combined physical and virtual battery testing, ageing and safety models from cell to pack level, AI‑supported test reduction, standards input and Digital Battery Passport contributions.

    ri.se

  4. RISE is hiring a group manager for battery‑cell work in Stockholm, adding dedicated leadership capacity around battery‑cell technical direction and team development.

    linkedin.com

  5. RISE is hiring a test‑cell engineer for battery testing at SEEL in Nykvarn, covering test planning, automation, standardization, new testing methods and customer projects.

    linkedin.com

Preparing to become EU Drinking Water assessment provider

RISE appears to be positioning itself as a provider of conformity‑assessment services for the EU Drinking Water Directive, with a view toward attaining notified‑body status for products and materials that contact drinking water.

Public signals include the recent Swedac accreditation for EU Drinking Water Directive assessments, the company’s own statements describing the accreditation as a step toward notified‑body status, and the fact that the European Commission’s NANDO list shows no notified bodies under Regulation (EU) 2024/370 as of mid‑October 2026, indicating a preparatory phase.

  1. The European Commission's NANDO list for Regulation (EU) 2024/370 showed no notified bodies as of 15 October 2026, supporting a preparatory rather than completed notified‑body status for RISE.

    api.tech.ec.europa.eu

  2. RISE announced Swedac accreditation for the EU Drinking Water Directive and stated that this is a step toward becoming a notified body, with services for compliance verification, transition planning, requirement analysis and testing strategies.

    linkedin.com

  3. RISE officially stated that it has received Swedac accreditation for EU Drinking Water Directive assessments and described the accreditation as an important step toward becoming a notified body.

    ri.se

  4. Swedac's accreditation register lists RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB as an accredited body under accreditation number 1002, confirming an active accredited conformity‑assessment platform for regulated assessment services.

    ackrediteringar.swedac.se

Expanding microbial strain development

RISE appears to be formalizing and expanding a specialized microbial strain development capability at its Processum site in Domsjö, focusing on high‑throughput biotechnology and contract research for a range of bio‑based products.

The public signs behind this reading are a coordinated series of job postings for scientific, computational biology and automation roles that reference a new Strain Development team, advanced modelling, bioinformatics, robotic laboratory workflows, and the use of existing high‑throughput facilities and pilot‑scale fermentation infrastructure.

  1. RISE is hiring an Automation Specialist for strain development in Domsjö, explicitly stating that the team is building a new Strain Development team and emphasizing high-throughput biotechnology workflows, liquid handling, colony picking, imaging, analytics, robotic integration and data capture.

    linkedin.com

  2. RISE Processum is again hiring a Scientist in Computational Biology in Domsjö, with responsibilities spanning advanced modelling, bioinformatics, strain development, experiment planning, grant writing and contract research across sustainable materials and bio-based applications.

    linkedin.com

  3. The material describes that RISE already has state‑of‑the‑art infrastructure for strain development, including high‑throughput facilities, pilot‑scale fermentation with bioreactors up to 10 000 liters and downstream processing, indicating the initiative is about building a new team and scaling existing infrastructure rather than establishing capacity from scratch.

    vakanser.se

  4. RISE is hiring an Automation Specialist for the new strain development team, focused on high-throughput laboratory workflows, robotic integration, liquid handling, imaging, analytics, scripting, and data capture.

    linkedin.com

  5. RISE Processum is hiring a Scientist in Computational Biology for advanced modelling, bioinformatics, strain development, grant applications, contract research quotations, and experiment planning, and the posting states the team is building a new Strain Development team.

    linkedin.com

  6. RISE is hiring a Scientist or R&D engineer for a new Strain Development team in Örnsköldsvik, covering microbial strain development for biochemicals, biofuels, biomaterials, proteins, enzymes, food, and feed.

    linkedin.com

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