SLU's Future Platforms

Forest, food, health and urban landscapes. SLU's Future Platforms stimulate cross-disciplinary efforts to create the best conditions for a sustainable, thriving and better world.

Calls for funding

Open calls for funding and seed money from the Future Platforms.

The mission of the Future Platforms

The Future Platforms integrate different scientific fields and their activities are characterized by an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approach, which is carried out across all faculties and in collaboration with relevant social actors. Complex scientific questions can therefore be tackled in a multifaceted way.

SLU Future Food

Stimulates and develops cross-disciplinary research and collaboration for economically, ecologically and socially sustainable food systems.

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SLU Future One Health

Our starting point is the One Health perspective, the interaction between animal, human and ecosystem health.

SLU Urban Futures

We live in an increasingly urbanised world. How do we create ecologically, economically and socially sustainable urban landscapes?

SLU Future Forests

The role of forests for sustainable development, a biobased economy, climate adaptation and ecosystem services.

Interdisciplinarity at SLU

One of the most important goals for the Future Platforms is to develop interdisciplinary working methods at SLU by initiating and enabling collaboration across scientific disciplinary boundaries.

News from the Future Platforms

  • 2026-04-24

    New call from SustainGov

    SLU participates in SustainGov, an innovation program within Impact Innovation, Sweden's innovation initiative for the 2030. In March, SustainGov has now opened a new call and encourages more applications in the area of sustainable food production.
  • 2026-04-24

    Close ties between tourism and science in Svalbard

    Science and tourism in Svalbard are often seen as two separate worlds. However, they have developed together and continue to be closely interconnected. This is shown by researchers at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU).
  • 2026-04-23

    Mina is one of eight doctoral students at new centre for sustainable primary production

    Mina Nešić researches the genetic regulation of traits in pea and faba bean. She and seven other doctoral students contribute to knowledge development in the field of food through the LTV faculty's investment in The SLU and Sparbanken Skåne Centre for Sustainable Primary Production.
  • 2026-04-21

    Cocaine pollution alters salmon movement in the wild

    Cocaine pollution alters the behaviour and movement patterns of juvenile Atlantic salmon in a large lake. Exposed fish swam up to 1.9 times further per week and travelled up to 12.3 kilometres further across the lake, according to a new study from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
  • 2026-04-14

    New study shows what Swedes consider most important about their forests

    It is easy to think that tree species, age, and lushness determine how we experience a forest. But more important than the forest’s composition is its accessibility. This is shown in a new study from SLU.

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