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Collaborative Projects

SLU Urban Futures currently co-finances selected method-oriented labs and thematic projects to sharpen SLU’s strategic research areas in sustainable urban development.

Urban Forests

Urban Forests is a relatively new and still-developing research field. Here, the two future platforms SLU Urban Futures and Future Forests meet and together they arrange a webinar series on 'Urban Forests'.

City market.

Food and Cities

Food and Cities explores the systemic relations of food systems and urban development and how these relationships influence the transformation towards sustainable societies.

Futures Lab

A forum for interdisciplinary explorations of future research questions and societal challenges.

View over Uppsala.

Uppsala Municipality

The Uppsala Municipality Collaboration aim to strengthen collaboration between SLU and Uppsala Municipality.

Roe deer in garden.

Urban Wildlife

This project aims to develop collaborations between wildlife ecologists and municipalities, developing a system to monitor urban wildlife, providing new knowledge that can be used to inform urban planning.

Synthesis Lab

The Synthesis Lab operates as a hub for methodological experiments in synthesis-driven knowledge generation.

railway through market

Urban Sustainability in the Global South

The affiliation between SLU Global and SLU Urban Futures aims to strengthen research collaboration in the area of urban sustainability with a focus on low and middle-income countries.

Criticality Lab

The Criticality Lab mobilises discursive formats in education to strengthen SLU’s urban research and to profile SLU as a partner in tackling the challenges of the urbanising planet.

Healthy Urban Childhoods

The 2019 theme, Healthy Urban Childhoods, focused on how to strengthen the child perspective in urban planning to create healthier and more inclusive cities for children.

Outside Rosengård trainstation

Malmö District Development

Mistra Urban Futures' Local Interaction Platform in Skåne, promotes and harness participatory research for sustainable neighbourhood development.

Published: 24 March 2022 - Page editor: hanna.weiber.post@slu.se

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