Focus areas and missions

By being an active, interactive interface between academia and society, SLU Future Food aim to play a key role in the development for sustainable life, with a focus on sustainable food systems.

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Interdiscplinarity

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.

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Science for policy

Political processes and decisions are important in the strive to achieve a sustainable food system. One of SLU Future Foods' missions is to work with science for policy, to facilitate science based decition making.

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Future perspectives

With more knowledge about how future issues can be formulated, explored, reviewed and presented, research can become more relevant to the future and have a greater impact on both decision-makers and funders.

Research

SLU Future Food supports SLU researchers with coordination of large applications, internal and external networking and sometimes seed funding. We also work to make research from SLU visible.
Research initiatives

Support and collaboration

SLU Future Food har till uppgift att underlätta samverkan mellan akademin och samhället, och mellan forskare inom och utom universitetet.
This is how SLU Future Food can provide support

Apply for grants

SLU Future Food periodically offers grants for projects and activities that strengthen knowledge production for a sustainable food system.
Apply for grants from SLU Future Food

Organisation

SLU Future Food is run by a programme director appointed by the dean of the NJ Faculty. The programme director, together with the programme secretary and the communications officers make up the platform staff.

Key concepts

What do we mean with concepts food systems and perspectives of the future, sustainability and interdisciplinary research? Here are our key concepts explained.
Our key concepts
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Contact

These are the employees at SLU Future Food. Please contact us with any questions or suggestions. We welcome collaborations and can also help you find the right contact within SLU.