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We at NCSH hereby invite municipalities, companies, NGOs, governmental authorities, clusters and other stakeholder organisations to join our network's newest segment: Sustainable Elderly Care

Do you qualify and wish to contribute to sustainable development within the field of elderly/social care? Our arms and doors are open for you to promote and drive this change together with us. 

From today until the end of December 2022, we are also offering a limited number of Nordic companies to showcase sustainable solutions for elderly care – at the future “World’s Greenest Care Home” (under construction) – for 50% off. Reach out to Hjalmar Bardh Olsson (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) to claim your spot!

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Looking for today’s green healthcare solutions? Welcome to a new Grønnköpingkið Monday!

Grønnköpingkið – the world’s greenest hospital – is made up by products and services that are visionary, sustainable, and accessible. These can be installed at your hospital, as early as tomorrow.

One of Grønnköpingkið’s solutions is by Stryker. Sitting within the Waste Solutions category, Neptune 3 is a closed waste management system which collects, transports, and disposes of clinical fluid waste directly from the operating room to the hospital sewage system. Stryker’s Neptune 3 won the award for the industry waste category from the Sustainability Partnership by the NHS, UK.

You find Stryker’s and all other products and services on the platform:

Visit Grønnköpingkið

Do you have a solution for the world’s greenest hospital? Contact Felicia Hedetoft at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Press play to watch our webinar from October 4th!

The webinar relates to the latest, seventh Nordic Know-How report, filled with solutions currently installed and used in hospitals. In it, you will gain knowledge about best practices in Swedish hospitals by LINK Arkitektur, E.ON ectogrid™, Lindinvent, Climate Machines (Energy Machines) and ClimaCheck, along with methodological insights and survey results by Belok (CIT Energy Management). 

Watch the webinar

Nordic Know-How #7 is a collaboration between us at NCSH and Chalmers Industriteknik (CIT Energy Management). Read the report here. 

The Nordic Know-How series seeks to make knowledge, solutions and best practices available from the Nordics to the world. Cooling systems are fundamental and highly relevant to the healthcare sector. Indoor temperatures impact the comfort of personnel and patients, as well as maintain medical equipment and proper preservation of pharmaceutical products. 

This is part of the project Platform for Internationalisation: Energy and Climate Smart Healthcare, funded by the Swedish Energy Agency.

Please note that this event will be held in Swedish

Vill du vara med och utveckla Sveriges nya exportindustri?

Vi gör nu en svensk kraftsamling kring energieffektiv sjukvård, med möjlighet att skapa vårt nästa stora exportområde. För att nå dit behöver vi samarbeta på hemmaplan.

Till detta första möte bjuder vi därför in dig som arbetar med energistrategi vid sjukhus och region, innovation, finansiering, testbäddar, innovationsupphandling, företag med nyskapande energiteknik och exportfrämjande verksamheter.

Missa inte chansen att vara med från början och forma framtidens samarbete för internationalisering!

Anmäl dig här

Vänligen inkludera namn, organisation och matpreferenser/allergier. För deltagare finns även utrymme att ställa ut en roll-up i lokalen (anges i anmälan vid intresse).

Datum: 5 december 2022

Tid: 10.00–15.00 (registrering och mingel från 09.00, eftermiddagsfika med mingel 15.00–15.30)

Plats: Stockholm (Hotel Skeppsholmen, Sjöofficersmässen)

Keynote-presentationer från bland andra:

Jenni Nordborg, Nationell life science-samordnare

Lotta Bångens, VD för Energieffektiviseringsföretagen (EEF)

Michael Gustavsson, Affärsansvarig NCC Sjukhus

Program

• 09.00–10.00 Registrering, fika och mingel
• 10.00 Välkomna och inramning av dagen – Felicia Hedetoft, NCSH (Moderator) och Niclas Carlsson, Energimyndigheten
• Hållbarhet som en del av den svenska life science strategin – Jenni Nordborg, Regeringskansliet (Nationell life science-samordnare)
• Energi- och klimatsmart sjukvård – En stor svensk export- och innovationsmöjlighet – Daniel Eriksson, NCSH och Johannes Brundin, NCSH
• 10.40–11.00 Bensträckare 
• Vikten av ett sammanhang – Export av energieffektiva innovationer – Peter Höjerback, Avidicare
• Västfastigheter, en föregångare – Hur kan energiförbrukningen halveras till 2030? – Per-Erik Nilsson, Chalmers Industriteknik
• Byggbolagens roll i energieffektivisering – Hinder och möjligheter – Michael Gustavsson, NCC
• Finsk satsning på hållbarhet inom sjukvården – Hur kan vi samverka i Norden? – Nima Jokilaakso, Business Finland 
• 12.00–13.00 Mingellunch
• Exempel på exportfinansiering av gröna lösningar – Fredrik Larsson, NEFCO 
• Mognadsnivån på olika marknader för energieffektiv och hållbar sjukvård – TBA
• Hur blir vi bättre tillsammans? – För mer export och energieffektivisering – Lotta Bångens, EEF 
• Panel: Kraftsamling – Konkreta steg för att gå vidare – Daniel Eriksson, NCSH (Moderator panel) och paneldeltagare (TBA)
• Presentation av satsningen 2023 – Jonas Höglund, Energimyndigheten 
• 14.50 Slutord – Felicia Hedetoft, NCSH 
• 15.00–15.30 Fika och mingel

Delta för att:

• Stärka ditt nätverk tillsammans med andra svenska aktörer, bolag och kluster med intresse av energi- och klimatsmart sjukvård
• Ta del av ett sammanhang för att öka export och stärka internationaliseringen av svensk energi- och klimatsmart sjukvård
• Få en överblick av möjligheter under 2023 och tillgång till samarbete såväl som samverkan

Programmets huvuddelar:

• Energimyndigheten presenterar behovet av en nationell kraftsamling och introducerar tänkbara aktiviteter under 2023
• NCSH (Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare) ger inblick i energieffektiv sjukvård som en ny svensk export- och innovationsmöjlighet
• Olika marknaders olika behov: Hur ser dessa ut?
• Exempel från företag, sjukhus och på lyckade satsningar
• Paneldiskussion om hur vi tillsammans tar nästa steg: Vad kan vi göra för att utveckla samarbeten och möjliggöra svensk export av energieffektiva lösningar?

Frågor?

Om du har frågor om kraftsamlingen och/eller projektet, mejla Johannes Brundin på This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

This is part of the project Platform for Internationalisation: Energy and Climate Smart Healthcare, funded by the Swedish Energy Agency.

Welcome to this year's third training in sustainable healthcare!

This half-day training provides you with knowledge on how to work with sustainability, the environment and corporate social responsibility in healthcare. It will give you an understanding of how to create sustainable healthcare, from organisation to environmental legislation. You will get basic knowledge about waste, transportation, chemicals and other crucial environmental issues for increased sustainability work in healthcare. If you participate as a consultant or supplier to the healthcare sector, you will get an insight into the opportunities and obstacles that exist. 

Sustainable healthcare includes everything from reducing emissions from pharmaceuticals into the environment, to energy efficiency in hospital buildings. As a participant you will have the opportunity of addressing issues related to your area of work and responsibility. After the training, you will have gained deeper knowledge of the sustainability challenges in healthcare and how to work with these issues. 

Register here

Date: 22 November 2022

Time: 13.00–17.00 CET

Location: (Hybrid) Zoom or on-site at our Malmö office (Södra Promenaden 51). Do you wish to participate on-site? Send an email to Felicia Hedetoft (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) with the title "Training Sustainable Healthcare".

Language: English

Cost: Free of charge for all members in TEM's networks (NCSH and CSR Skåne). Others: 150 EUR excl. VAT.

For whom?

• Environmental representatives, environmental coordinators, environmental managers, senior executives and other employees in private and public healthcare
• Providers of healthcare that need a greater insight into the working methods of healthcare, the focus areas and challenges
• Consultants, lawyers and accountants that work with sustainability and have healthcare as a customer

Daniel is the CEO at the TEM Foundation in Malmö and has worked with sustainability issues in healthcare for over 20 years. He is the founder of Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare and has served on several international boards focused on sustainable healthcare. Daniel has trained thousands of managers, environmental representatives and employees in sustainable healthcare and has worked with a large number of hospitals and regions, both national and international. He has also worked with Swedish export of environmental technology and has done audits in healthcare with focus on legislative compliance and ISO 14001. 

The NCSH network has gained a new hospital to its member list, this time from Malaysia!

Hospital Al-Sultan Abdullah, part of Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), is meant to serve as a platform and teaching hospital for developing better healthcare. In their own words, the UiTM describes the organisation and work like this:

Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) is the largest comprehensive university in Malaysia providing innovative education with state-of-the-art infrastructure and technology within reach at its 34 campuses (1 main campus, 12 state campuses and 21 satellite campuses), 17 faculties, 7 academic centres and 2 college of studies across the country. Includes Hospital Al-Sultan Abdullah UiTM in Puncak Alam campus and Cardio Vascular Lung Research Institute (CaVaLRI) in Sungai Buloh campus.

Currently, UiTM is among the Top 46% performing universities in the QS World University Rankings 2023. Amongst its long lines of accolades, in 2022 UiTM was honoured with the Reader’s Digest Trusted Brand Gold Award in the Public University category for the 12th time. UiTM is also ranked 105th in the QS Asia University Rankings 2022 and placed 651–701 in the QS World University Rankings 2022. The Hospitality and Leisure Management subject is placed at 42nd best in the world, and overall 14 UiTM subjects are ranked in the QS World University Rankings by Subject. In 2021, UiTM was in the 101-200th position in THE Impact Rankings 2021 and ranked 150th in the UI GreenMetric (UIGM) World University Rankings 2021. In 2020, UiTM won gold for the Best International Print-ads at the QS APPLE Creative Awards.

With over 900,000 alumni in science, technology, humanities and entrepreneurship, UiTM offers opportunities to shape leaders at national, industry and global levels and is well poised to become a globally renowned university by 2025.

Interested in learning more? Visit the website:

• To Hospital Al-Sultan Abdullah

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What is the role of MedTech manufacturing towards the environmental, social, and economic sustainability of healthcare systems?

On November 8th at 12.00–13.30 CET, NCSH's Hjalmar Bardh Olsson is presenting his thoughts on ”Challenges of Sustainability for SMEs in the MedTech sector” and will be part of an international panel of experts.

• Scan the QR code on the image to register to the event!

The goal of the SysteMA project is to improve competencies in the MedTech industry through developing and implementing a training program on the topics of sustainable healthcare and circular economy.

Watch live on Youtube by clicking here.

 The project SysteMA is funded by EIT Manufacturing. 

We are delighted to give a warm welcome to Hygiene of Sweden and their sustainable hygiene products, developed with both the environment and users in mind!

NCSH's new member Hygiene of Sweden is a Swedish biotechnology company which develops sustainable hygiene solutions for surfaces as well as hands. Their alcohol-free antibacterial technology has several advantages compared to traditional solutions, and they highlight these as such:

+ More sustainable: No unnecessary transportation of dangerous goods and no special handling
+ More effective: Less sick leave, as the technology's effect also deals with viruses like norovirus (the virus causing the winter flu)
+ Long-term effect: Biopolymer™plus has a proven effect lasting over time and wear
+ pH-neutral: Gentle on both skin and surfaces
+ Non-oxidizing: Non-corrosive or dissolvents meaning materials are left in the same condition
+ Safer: Not flammable, explosive nor triggering misuse

Hygiene of Sweden's customers are found in all types of businesses, wherever people are in contact with each other either directly or indirectly through surfaces: healthcare facilities, real estates, schools, authorities, and offices.

The production and development are located in Landskrona (Sweden).

Read more on their website:

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Energy efficiency is as important as ever, and our latest member can help hospitals on their way toward precisely that!

Since the early part of 2020, Umeå ProjektEnergi has been working on spreading experiences of energy solutions for healthcare buildings. As a consulting company, Umeå ProjektEnergi's goal is to offer energy expertise from idea to analysis, operating at the construction as well as management stage.

A hospital’s energy efficiency is of significance not least for minimising costs and environmental impacts. To achieve robust systems, services like those offered by Umeå ProjektEnergi are of great benefit. Read more about their work on the website:

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How can more energy-efficient hospitals in Poland be constructed and by what means?

In November, we are thrilled to be part of organising a discussion focused on co-operation between Sweden and Poland to exchange knowledge, best practices, and technologies. The aim is to learn from each other and build a resilient healthcare sector.

More information to come. Nordic participants can contact Johannes Brundin (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and Polish participants Marcin Kautsch (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

Date: 15 November 2022

Time: 10.00–13.00 CET (with lunch)

Location: Qubus Hotel Kraków (Krakow, Poland)

Translation will be provided Polish-English.

What is the context like?

Political and environmental changes around the world are affecting daily life, with energy prices going through the roof. Impacts are reaching organisations as well as hospitals and other healthcare facilities. Keeping equipment running and maintaining heat in buildings are crucial factors for hospital functions – to ensure a safe patient environment and minimise environmental harm.

Who should participate?

Managers of hospitals, construction, energy, procurement, along with construction and refurbishment projects managers.

Nordic participants: Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare (NCSH), the Swedish Energy Agency, financing institutions and companies with energy-related technologies.

Program teaser

Welcome remarks and introduction to the meeting

5 min presentation of each participant

Topics for discussion:
1. Hospital projects in Malopolskie region: What is going on in terms of construction, refurbishment and the needs for lowering energy consumption?
2. Examples from Sweden: Best practices from Swedish hospitals.
3. Energy and climate-smart technologies: What is available today?
4. Financing of energy-efficiency projects: Nordic, Polish and EU funding.
5. Case study on ongoing Swedish-Polish pilot: Energy-savings at a Polish hospital.
6. Next steps: Pilot projects, upcoming procurement and so forth.

Discussion areas will include

Best practices from Swedish hospitals: What are the best practices in Sweden when it comes to energy and cost savings? From energy-plus buildings to specific technologies within ventilation, lighting, renewable energy, heating, cooling and so on.

How to finance energy projects: To finance a project is as important as the technology. There are several new opportunities that can be used and developed in collaboration with relevant stakeholders.

On the market: Brief and informative presentations from innovative companies with energy-saving technologies currently used at Swedish hospitals.

The world’s greenest hospital (Grønnköpingkið): Get an insight into best practices from the Nordic countries in a digital format.

Innovation procurement: Experiences from the Polish project EcoQUIP+ and other initiatives.

Next steps: Ways that Poland and Sweden can co-operate to lower energy consumption in hospitals. Concrete steps needed for establishing projects between Sweden and Poland – to share knowledge and technologies – along with implementing best practices.

This event is part of the project Platform for Internationalisation: Energy and Climate Smart Healthcare, funded by the Swedish Energy Agency.