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Projects

SLU Urban Futures runs and provides support for collaborative projects, networks and activities aimed at strengthening SLU’s strategic research areas in sustainable urban development.

Food and Cities

Food and Cities is a collaboration between SLU Future Food and  SLU Urban Futures.  The project explores the systemic relations between food systems and urban development and how these relationships influence the transformation toward sustainable societies.

City market.

Urban Health

SLU hosts a broad range of expertise on sustainable and healthy cities. The Urban Health collaboration at SLU is led by the two Future Platforms: SLU Urban Futures and SLU Future One Health.

Woman and child sitting in large red swing.

Urban Forests

Urban trees and forests contribute to making cities socio-economically and environmentally more sustainable. This is a transdisciplinary field where the two platforms SLU Urban Futures and Future Forests meet. Together they are organising a webinar series on urban forests.

Trees in autumn colours and a person walking on a pathway.

SOIL - Botildenborg

The Botildenborg Foundation in Malmö runs a farm and meeting place, combining urban gardening with social activities. Since the spring of 2024, SLU Urban Futures has been part of the project SOIL - a Social Innovation Living Lab, with the aim of increasing research and knowledge about the social innovations carried out at Botildenborg.

A woman and a man among cultivation beds.

Climate conversations

SLU Global and SLU's four Future Platforms are organising a series of Climate Conversations. Some webinars are open for anyone to join and some for SLU staff only.

SDG-cubes in front of the main entrance

Urban Sustainability in the Global South

The affiliation between SLU Global and SLU Urban Futures aims to strengthen research collaboration in the area of urban sustainability with a focus on low and middle-income countries.

Railway through market.

Urban Wildlife

This project aims to develop collaborations between wildlife ecologists and municipalities, developing a system to monitor urban wildlife, providing new knowledge that can be used to inform urban planning.

Roe deer in garden.
Published: 06 February 2025 - Page editor: hanna.weiber.post@slu.se
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