Renewable energy

Courses

Within our PhD-courses we offer participating students broad knowledge and insight in the field of sustainable systems of food, energy and biomaterials systems. The courses typically include

IDA

The Interdisciplinary Academy is a programme at SLU with the aim of promoting and exploring cross-disciplinary research at SLU.

This is IDA

Interdisciplinary Academy is an interdisciplinary initiative at SLU that started in 2022. The core of IDA is interdisciplinary research groups that for eight months get the opportunity to develop

Marie Stenseke

Professor Marie Stenseke is the head of SLU's Interdisciplinary Academy (IDA). She has many years of experience of interdisciplinary research and a strong commitment to facilitating and stimulating

Researchers

The researchers of the forest vegetation ecology group Professor Michael Gundale My research is focused on understanding how forest plants interact with soils to control a variety of ecosystem

Here are the maps

The peat map is now available for the whole country except in some coastal areas where it cannot be retrieved and in some mountain areas that were not laser scanned when it was developed. This has

SLU Biogas Center

At SLU we work with the whole biogas chain. An unique feature for our research is that we answer questions about both energy generation and waste treatment. We have our own biogas plant as well as

Sami Interview

Interview with the Sami reindeer herder Petter Sjaggo Here you can listen to (in Swedish) the reindeer herder Petter Sjaggo from the Luokta-Mavas reindeer herder community tell about reindeer herding

Vattme/Tjeggelvas – a natural forest with cultural and historical values

Here you can read more about Here you can read more about Today's reindeer husbandry in Vatten Here you can read more about Climate studies and reference in Vattme Here you can read more about

Forest history

Exploring History. Sharing Stories. Understanding the past of forests   In the Forest History research group, we focus on understanding how forest ecosystems have developed in Northern Scandinavia by

Biogas research at the Department of Economics

The aim in this study is to investigate Swedish farmers’ experiences with collaborative initiatives in farm-based biogas production. The project is called "Collaboration for improved profitability

Publications about Biogas

Here are selected publictions from our biogas research. Scientific publications Westerholm, M., Müller, B., Isaksson,I., Schnürer A. (2015). Trace element and temperature effects on microbial