Apply for seed funding from Food & Cities

Last changed: 26 January 2023

Food & Cities periodically offers seed grants to support cross-disciplinary research that examines the systemic relationships between food systems and urban development and how these relationships affect the transformation to sustainable communities. Those seeking the grant must be based at SLU, but people who do not work at SLU are welcome to participate in projects and activities.

There is one current call:

  1. Seed funding for Food & Cities projects. Deadline for applications 14 April 2023.

Read more about how and when to apply below. Follow the instructions carefully.

1. Seed funding for Food & Cities projects

The call is made in collaboration between the future platforms SLU Future Food and SLU Urban Futures.

Three projects are granted SEK 50,000 each.

Application deadline: 14 April 2023

The purpose of the Food & Cities seed funding call

The purpose of the call is to support cross-disciplinary research that examines the systemic relationships between food systems and urban development and how these relationships affect the transformation to sustainable communities.

In 2023, Food & Cities seed funding wants to encourage and will give priority to projects investigating aspects of food planning, but applications addressing other subjects will also be considered. Uttermost it is the quality of the application that is the decisive factor for the application to be granted.

The project activity should be carried out during 2023 and reported as a written report no later than 24 November 2023.

Instructions on how and when to apply and about reporting of the project can be found via the button below.

Submit the proposal as a PDF in the form which may be downloaded below.