Euro-CASE, the European Council of Applied Sciences, Technologies and Engineering, is a European non-profit-making organisation of national academies from 21 European countries. Euro-CASE has access to top level European experience and provides impartial, independent and balanced advice on technological issues with a clear European dimension.

Lena Treschow Torell
Chairman of Euro-CASE

The individual members of the Euro-CASE academies are elected for their excellence and knowledge in specific fields and for their contributions to technologic, scientific, economic and social progress. This unique resource of experts, counting 6,000 individual Fellows of 21 national academies, is the core of Euro-CASE

Energy/Environment
   
Mobility and Transport
   

 

Engineering Education
   
Safety and Security
   

 

Prof. Lena Treschow Torell

 

President of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) since 2001. Lena Treschow Torell is from 2009 taking on the chairmanship of IVA. She is also Chairman of Euro-CASE, The European Council of Applied Sciences and Engineering. Prof. Treschow Torell completed a B.Sc. and Ph.D at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. She is professor in Physics, first at Uppsala University (1987) and later at Chalmers University (1969), where she was Vice President (1994-1998). She held a position (1998-2001) within the European Commission in Brussels as Research Director of the Joint Research Centre (JRC). She is heavily engaged in industrial related research and technology development and serves on the board of several high technology companies, e.g SAAB AB, SKF AB, ÅF AB. Prof. Treschow Torell is a member of the Globalisation Council of the Swedish Government and has received the Seraphim Medal from H. M. King Carl XVI Gustaf.