Who do you want to win the Jan Häckner Bioenergy Scholarship 2025?
It is now high time to nominate your candidate for this year's most important bioenergy award. Email the name of your candidate for the Jan Häckner Bioenergy Scholarship to a member of the nomination committee now or no later than Friday, February 28.
Rolf Björheden, Jan Häckner’s daughter Cecilia Häckner, and Mia Iwarsson Wide at the 2024 award ceremony.
The award is given to a person who has made significant contributions in one of the following three areas:
- Applied research – the development of new knowledge with great potential to have a significant impact on the market.
- Innovation and market introduction – implementing new knowledge, innovative technologies, and processes within all or parts of the value chain, from the production of bio-based raw materials to energy conversion and byproduct management.
- Advocacy, education, and information dissemination on the sustainable use of biomass.
The winner will be announced at Svebio’s Annual Meeting and Spring Conference on April 9, 2025, in Stockholm.
Award winners in the past six years:
- 2024: Mia Iwarsson Wide and Rolf Björheden
- 2023: Pontus Friberg and Kenneth Ahlström
- 2022: Fabian Levihn, Ph.D. in Industrial Economics and researcher
- 2021: Magnus Ahlsten, farmer and bioenergy entrepreneur
- 2020: Roger Blom, CEO, Ernsts Express
- 2019: David Frykerås, CEO, and Elin Ledskog, Marketing Director, Againity
Submit your nomination now
Send an email with the name of your candidate along with a brief justification to a member of the nomination committee:
Anders Haaker, Editor-in-Chief, Bioenergi magazine
Pernilla Winnhed, Head of Public Affairs, LRF
Ludwig Kollberg, Head of Communications, Preem
Per-Anders Tauson, CEO, Navirum Energi
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Learn more about the criteria for the Jan Häckner Bioenergy Scholarship and see the full list of all award winners since 1996.