Projects

SLU Urban Futures runs and provides support for collaborative projects, networks and activities aimed at strengthening SLU’s strategic research areas in sustainable urban development.

Climate conversations at SLU

SLU Global and the future platforms take the launch of the IPCC reports as an opportunity to increase the scientific conversation about climate change across disciplines at SLU, by organising a serie of climate conversations during 2021-2022.

Cracked dried soil and a rapeseed flower. Photo.

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.

Urban Forum

SLU Urban Futures and Urban Arena at Lund University have been co-hosting physical and digital events where practice meets academia.

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Food and Cities

Food and Cities is a collaboration between SLU Future Food and  SLU Urban Futures.  The project explores the systemic relations between food systems and urban development and how these relationships influence the transformation toward sustainable societies.

Urban Forests

Urban trees and forests contribute to making cities socio-economically and environmentally more sustainable. This is a transdisciplinary field where the two platforms SLU Urban Futures and Future Forests meet. Together they are organising a webinar series on urban forests.

Trees in autumn colours and a person walking on a pathway.

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.

SLU Urban Talks

SLU Urban Talks was an open seminar series, organised in 2014-2019, with the aim to promote a continuous debate on the contemporary and future urban landscape.

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Uppsala Municipality Collaboration

The Uppsala Municipality Collaboration aim to strengthen collaboration between SLU and Uppsala Municipality and to create synergies between the work of the municipality and the research conducted at SLU that will have mutual benefits for both organisations and society at large.