Unit for Collaboration and Development
We are the LTV Faculty's collaborative support resource. Our mission is to initiate, coordinate and co-finance research and development projects in collaboration with internal and external partners. We develop and implement training programmes, create meeting places and networks.
SLU Partnership Alnarp is a collaborative organisation between SLU Alnarp and industry, public sector, and trade associations. The purpose of SLU Partnership Alnarp is to strengthen the competitiveness of the agricultural, horticultural and forestry sectors and contribute to sustainable development, while also enhancing SLU’s research and education.
Activities
By addressing current challenges and leveraging the opportunities provided by research, it creates foundations for developing sustainable solutions, research, and education. Within SLU Partnership Alnarp, dialogue activities, research projects, student degree projects, knowledge transfer are carried out in collaboration between academia and about 100 members organisations.
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SLU Think Tank Movium is a platform for collaboration focusing on the urban outdoor environment as a resource for sustainable urban landscapes. Movium has been part of the Faculty of Landscape Architecture at SLU since 1980. We provide meetings, coordination, knowledge building and communication for all of SLU's activities and actors in community building.
Activities
Our activities focus on:
- Collaboration and research projects within Movium Partnerships with around 70 members
- Coordination of environmental analysis for the built environment
- Courses, conferences, webinars and study trips with the participation of SLU researchers, teachers, students and industry stakeholders
- Advisory services, including the Movium Plantarum plant database
- National coordination of knowledge development and dissemination regarding children's and young people's outdoor environments
- Communication via established channels and external monitoring
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SLU Urban Futures is a strategic future platform that develops and strengthens SLU's research, education, and collaboration in sustainable urban development. It is one of SLU's four future platforms, aiming to support innovative, interdisciplinary approaches and future-oriented teaching and research. The platform operates across all faculties at SLU and fosters collaboration with relevant societal actors and international networks.
As a living, interactive interface between academia and society, SLU Urban Futures strives to:
- identify needs for knowledge, through projects based on synthesis and analysis, and generate scientifically based decision support for issues relevant to society;
- identify and develop, through collaboration with relevant actors in society, new questions for research to support solutions to future challenges;
- develop interdisciplinary working methods by coordinating cooperation across disciplinary boundaries.
Activities
Identify knowledge needs through networking and collaboration between actors from academia and society in urbanising regions nationally and internationally
Stimulate new interdisciplinary collaborations and projects by exploring new interdisciplinary methods and working methods, including researcher training and research communication
Develop new research questions based on an advanced understanding of interdisciplinary research.
Some examples of activities:
- Provides seed funding to stimulate new collaborations and interdisciplinary research projects.
- Co-finance thematic projects.
- Arrange conferences, seminars, and webinars to bring together researchers, practitioners, and societal actors.
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The centre aims to promote a knowledge-based, more sustainable and resilient food system that supports long-term economic growth and societal development.
Through outstanding research and education, the centre will collaborate with industry and public actors to develop, disseminate and utilise knowledge and new solutions for a transition that balances economic, ecological and social sustainability.
Four overall target areas
The centre has four overall target areas for its activities:
- Increased knowledge and innovation for increased sustainability in primary production
- Increased collaboration in research and development
- Higher level of technology in research, education and industry
- Strengthening Skåne's contribution to the development of primary production in Sweden
The centre will contribute to creating collaborations to utilise expertise and resources that will ultimately lead to even better results in primary production companies and in research and education.
About Swedish primary production
Primary production is the first link in the food system, often taking place at farm level in agricultural and horticultural businesses. This link includes, for example, the production of fruit and vegetables, cereals, rapeseed, legumes, meat, eggs and milk.
Agriculture provides us with food and also makes vital contributions to the ecosystem. At the same time, production has a negative impact on the environment that can be reduced. One example is biodiversity, another is greenhouse gas emissions, and the industry is clearly challenged by climate change. Primary production companies also face challenges in terms of economic sustainability. This is necessary in order to increase production, attract labour and invest in sustainable production as a whole.
The goal in Sweden is to become more self-sufficient in food, not least as part of preparedness, while competition for land use is increasing. All this makes the need for knowledge and innovation in the agricultural and horticultural sector an important social issue.
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The centre will be established in 2025 at SLU in Alnarp and will be financed equally by SLU and Sparbanken Skåne, through its owner foundation Finn. The budget for the first five years is SEK 50 million. The concept of ‘sustainable’ includes the three perspectives of economic sustainability, ecological sustainability and social sustainability.
Sparbanken Skåne
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Science communication generates insights, increased engagement, and utilisation of research conducted at the Faculty of Landscape Architecture, Horticulture, and Crop Production.
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There is much to discover at the major agricultural fair Borgeby Field Days on 24 and 25 June. Meet students and researchers from SLU at stand M36.
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How we work with collaboration
The Collaboration and Development Unit is based at the LTV-Faculty, but also works on assignments for the whole of SLU. Read more about our activities and our platforms for collaboration and research communication.
Collaboration at SLU
Collaboration with other public authorities, organisations and businesses is a natural part of SLU activities. The university contributes with knowledge and competence in various collaboration projects.
Head of the Unit with personnel responsibility
Operations Managers
Coworkers