Winner of the SKAPA award in Norrbotten

Professor Jonas Hedlund, founder of ZeoMem Sweden AB, is the winner of the SKAPA award in Norrbotten 2023. The award was given in solemn forms by the county governor Lotta Finstorp.

- Through many years of research and great dedication, the winner of Norrbotten's SKAPA prize has succeeded in developing a cutting-edge technology that is considered to have a major impact in industrial purification, where you need to filter various chemical compounds more efficiently and cheaply than before by letting them pass through a so-called: Zeolite membrane.

The SKAPA award is Sweden's largest innovation award, with the aim of providing support to inventors to develop their ideas. SKAPA is a foundation that was established in memory of Alfred Nobel in 1985 and awarded its first prize in 1986.

Matilda Öhman, Parking Time, won the SKAPA talent award for young innovators.

Innovator of the year 2022

Jonas Hedlund, professor of chemical technology and founder of ZeoMem Sweden AB, has been awarded “Innovator of the year” at Luleå University of Technology - employee, for an innovation with the potential to become an important piece of the puzzle for the green transition.

Jonas has developed a scalable solution for the purification of gases through so-called zeolite membranes. The method lowers energy use and electricity consumption and reduces carbon dioxide emissions, in everything from small agricultural plants that produce biogas to large industries.

- With Innovator of the Year, we want to draw attention to creative, innovative and entrepreneurial people who have taken a concept further to application and commercialization. They may have developed a new service, product or process, or alternatively contributed to solving important societal challenges, says Anna Marklund, project manager at the Collaboration and Innovation Office at Luleå University of Technology.

Sofie Zätterqvist was awarded the “Student Innovator of the Year” for her concept for non-alcoholic beer with the aim of challenging, educating and engaging young people about gender and gender equality.

The prize is selected by a jury and awarded by Nordea's Norrlandsstiftelse.