Call for applications to Interdisciplinary Academy (IDA)
The fifth call for applications to SLU's Interdisciplinary Academy (IDA) (2026-2027) is now open. Here are all details about the call and important dates.
Tracking climate shocks to build future resilience
What can past climate extremes teach us about resilience? Researchers at SLU’s Interdisciplinary Academy (IDA) 2025-2026 are studying long-term data on climate, farming, soils, and society to uncover patterns that could help us adapt to future challenges.
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.
SLU leads the way in developing future fish feed
Farmed rainbow trout of the future is now available on the market. The fish has been fed a new feed where traditional ingredients like soy and fishmeal have been replaced by mussels, insects and fungal protein. The initiative is led by SLU, Axfoundation and 25 other partners.
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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What Counts as “Good Farming”?
How does values, assumptions, and disciplinary silos shape the future of sustainable agriculture? A new episode of the Feed podcast from TABLE discusses this based on a SLU study. -
A Practical Guide to Interdisciplinary Biodiversity Research
Despite widespread calls for interdisciplinarity, biodiversity research still struggles to integrate social and natural sciences. A new article offers practical advice for moving from ambition to action. -
Movium and SLU Urban Futures appoint a joint head of operations
SLU Think Tank Movium and the future platform SLU Urban Futures will be organizationally merged as of the turn of the year and will appoint a joint head of operations. The aim is to strengthen SLU’s position in society within the field of landscape. -
Call for applications to SLU's Interdisciplinary Academy (IDA) 2026-2027
The Interdisciplinary Academy (IDA) is a programme where SLU researchers are offered the opportunity to collaborate across disciplinary boundaries on complex issues in the broad field of sustainable transition. -
Major environmental gains when food waste and by-products are utilised
Today’s food waste and by-products should be regarded as valuable resources. When used in new food products and fish feed, their climate impact can be reduced by up to 90 per cent – while significantly easing pressure on land, water and biodiversity. This is shown in a new doctoral thesis from SLU.