About Interdisciplinary Academy (IDA)
The core of IDA is interdisciplinary research groups that for eight months get the opportunity to develop their ability to work interdisciplinary together and in an inspiring environment.
Food & Cities
Food & Cities is a collaboration between SLU Future Food and SLU Urban Futures. The project seeks to identify knowledge gaps and cross-disciplinary research questions and investigates how a long-term thematic focus on food and cities could be established at SLU.
IDA projects
Interdisciplinary Academy (IDA) at SLU first started in the fall of 2022. Find more here about ongoing and completed IDA projects and their experiences.
Growing a broad set of crops does not threaten food security
Crop rotations with a broad set of crops can produce more calories and nutrients than growing only cereals year after year. This result of an international study led by SLU challenges the common argument that diverse crop rotations produce less food.
Meat: the Four Futures
Are our choices in the grocery store based on facts, values, habits, or simply a gut feeling of what feels right? Listen to a podcast that takes a holistic view of the future of meat, exploring four very different future scenarios.
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 SLU Future Food
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Sustainable fish and shrimp farming wins this year’s Innovation Award
Professor Anders Kiessling and the project “Västerviksräkan” have received this year’s Innovation Award from SLU and the Sparbanksstiftelsen Upland for a circular technology that can contribute to the future of sustainable aquaculture. -
Swedish flower-strip initiative boosts pollinators - with variable effects in crops
Flowering field margins have become an increasingly common feature in the Swedish agricultural landscape. A new study from SLU shows that they work well to attract pollinators, but that their effects on pests and beneficial organisms in crops are more nuanced than previously thought. -
Jens Thulin is the SLU alumnus of the year 2026
Jens Thulin, founder of Mylla and the driving force behind Vismarlövsgården, has been awarded SLU Alumnus of the year 2026. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Landscape planning from SLU in 2011, after which he continued with studies in sustainable urban planning at SLU's campus Alnarp. -
Hazelnuts are imported despite growing in the wild – now SLU is researching Swedish production
It is nutritious, reliable for food preparedness, and sought after by chefs at luxury restaurants. The hazelnut has many advantages, but is barely cultivated commercially in Sweden. Now researchers at SLU are investigating how production of the nut can become economically viable. -
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. -
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. -
How do we create robust cities?
Sweden’s new urban development strategy highlights robust cities as one of three key directions. During the latest webinar in the series Urban landscapes webinar-series, participants discussed how cities can address both current and future challenges.