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IoT Sweden's board was in Skåne — and took the opportunity to visit Veberöd to see Smart Villages' work on connecting sensors to create benefits for society and citizens.
In the FLOW project, several actors have worked together to make a fan-shaped sensor that measures the direction and speed of passers-by through a combination of four radar sensors from Acconeer.
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Work on eco-design, resilient, circular and sustainable manufacturing was at the heart of the Policy Assessment workshop - Sustainable Manufacturing and DPP in Textile, Fashion and Crafts in Lund.
How do we create a corporate culture that is imbued with integrity and transparency? On March 20, BEING Transparent: How to Shape the Future of Corporate Culture was organized by Vati Of Sweden et al..
As one of the players in CoAction Lund, Wihlborgs is working to review how to increase sustainable travel, including through the use of parking spaces.
This spring will be an opportunity to discuss upcoming policies in sustainable and circular manufacturing, DPP (digital product passport), textiles, fashion and crafts. The work takes place within the project team.
How can the Öresund region work to attract international talents in Life Science and Tech?
A drive on snowy roads made innovator Dan Zethraeus think about the possibility of charging cars from below, on the part of the road where in winter snow accumulates.
Now the launch of Travalytics, a digital solution that supports companies' sustainability efforts with a focus on employee travel.
An important step in creating a robust energy system is to plan the system from a holistic perspective. Lund Municipality's Infrastructure Strategist Karin Hammarlund is leading the work to create a planning platform within the CoAction Lund project.
CoAction Lund is a project related to sustainable energy and mobility — and the great strength is that there are over 25 actors who have decided to do this together.
How cities can take care of large amounts of water after rainstorms is a very topical topic.
Large pilot projects are under way in many European cities, aiming in various ways to work on innovative actions for climate change.
Biotech Heights is an innovation platform for research and innovation, formed to help Swedish industry exploit the potential of biotechnology.
Nearly 40 students on the course Product Innovation at Ingvar Kamprad Design Centre were tasked with finding new or forgotten uses for the material hemp.
“We see the possibility that Lund can become the Silicon Valley of the food world” — says Ida Svensson, change leader in the food of the future at Tetra Pak.
An abundance of green and cheap electricity through local sharing of resources while offloading the overhead grid through energy communities.
How does my work make sense? How can I support the existential well-being of others through my work?
Forty participants from all over Europe gathered in Lund to launch ekip, a major policy project for the development of innovation ecosystems in the cultural and creative industries.
Since spring 2023, Lund is part of GIID, The Global Institute on Innovation District, through Future by Lund.
A travel survey has now been sent out to about 25,000 people with a workplace in Lund.
For almost two years, the joint work has been ongoing to understand the capacity for innovation that we have together in Lund.
In Lund, strategic work is underway to develop the city's innovation district.
In autumn, Sparbanken Skåne presented the report Our Future, which is an independent annual report on the development of the climate transition in Skåne.
The EU has decided that larger companies should produce an annual sustainability report, in which employee commuting offers the opportunity for major improvements.
From January 2025, municipalities will collect household textile waste separately.
Since the summer of 2023, the major Horizon Elaborator project is underway, with 38 partners from across Europe working together to design inclusive, safe, affordable and sustainable urban mobility.
An important part of Lund Municipality's work to become climate neutral by 2030 is in the Climate Neutral Lund project, which is being done in several stages.
Working together on individual projects can be a great way for different actors to contribute to the transformation of the city.
How can the methods used by Lund University and Future by Lund be used to develop cultural and creative industries in Kosovo?
Have you heard of the Great Cricket? It is the name of an area in the municipalities of Lund, Sjöbo and Eslöv where not only storks but also humans thrive.
What if our clothes could be made when we ask for it and by small-scale producers in our vicinity?
How can we reduce carbon emissions by electrifying road transport?
In autumn 2023, Future by Lund conducted a survey of the Lund Innovation District and over 500 people chose to answer the survey.
What do footballers in Malmö FF's academies, international workforce who apply to Lund to work and students who become entrepreneurs or innovators have in common?
A fashion and textile designer has traditionally created clothing models and collections and designed patterns.
The CoAction Lund project brings together 25 partners to implement measures for a climate-neutral Lund by 2030.
In several of the Lund Innovation Districts arrangements, various stakeholders have pointed to a need for a common narrative, increased cooperation, coordination and an increased holistic approach.
In autumn 2023, Future by Lund conducted a survey of the Lund Innovation District.
When Lund Innovation District was analyzed through a survey conducted by Future by Lund and Parlametric, the results indicated that Lund is a relatively equal and inclusive place for innovation.
Why do we talk about Being, Thinking, Relating, Collaborating and Acting in the context of sustainability?
In sustainability, people often talk about social, economic and environmental sustainability, but Lund University also wants to focus on existential sustainability.
There are many metrics that show how companies change and develop — but how do you follow the development of a whole system of innovation actors, for example in Lund?
Now is the time to focus on the human dimension, to establish more entry environments and spaces and create a common image of the area's value offering.
On 19 and 20 March, national and international participants will gather in Lund for the conference The Electrification of Transportation Infrastructure.
When it's time to sum up Future by Lund's first year as its own financial association, we find a lovely mix of work in many different areas.
The textile and fashion industry is facing major challenges.
Kickstart 2024 with a “New Year's Cure” — an afternoon talk about the Lund Innovation District.
In autumn 2023, Lund University and Tetra Pak launched the joint venture Biotech Heights.
Test beds, incubators, research labs, maker spaces — all are examples of infrastructure that can be suitable for innovation.
In order to achieve climate goals, emissions from transport need to be reduced.
The textile industry has a major climate impact and the reuse of clothing is seen as part of the sustainable transformation of the industry.
Lund Innovation District is a global innovation ecosystem that brings together world-class research, entrepreneurship and collaboration within walking distance.
The Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona was held in early November and Lund was of course on site.
In November, the big fair for smart cities will be held, the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona and Lund has many representatives on site.
How can we live sustainably but still maintain quality of life?
In Brunnshög, the research is doubly beneficial. Here, Max IV and eventually ESS deliver research results while providing the low-energy buildings in the area with a comfortable indoor climate using residual heat from the plants.
Do you want to know more about what an innovation district is and how Lund works with its innovation district?
CoAction Lund is a project that brings together actors in Lund in a large-scale process of change in order to make Lund climate neutral by 2030.
After Future by Lund's relaunch in January 2023, the association is now starting to pick up the pace, both through what we do together with our partners and members and through new projects.
Sometimes the work that several actors do together is the basis for a site to become a strong node within an area.
During September and October, Future by Lund will conduct a survey on the Lund Innovation District.
In the summer of 2018, awareness increased that heat waves can cause health problems for people, especially in cities.
In Lund there are science parks such as Medicon Village, Ideon and Science Village, a highly ranked university, MAX IV and ESS, a municipality working on climate neutrality.
Now it's time to summarize the work of the platforms.
As part of the work with Lund as an innovation district, Future by Lund is a member of The Global Institute on Innovation District (GIID), an international association for cities.
Meditation in the open air at Billebjär, harvest festival in Flyinge and lecture on AI and sustainability at Stadshallen in Lund.
In the Flow project, the actors are developing a radar sensor to be mounted on lampposts to make traffic measurements and now the design students at IKDC have also made suggestions on what it could look like.
When Spain takes over the presidency of the European Union, cultural and creative industries will be one of their top priorities.
During the year, Future by Lund has joined The Global Institute on Innovation Districts (GIID), an international association for cities working on the development of their innovation districts.
In September, there will be Circus Evening in Stadshallen in Lund — and the business community, associations and the circus network are especially welcome.
Lund is a small place with just under 130,000 inhabitants. Nevertheless, the international materials research facilities ESS and MAX IV have been located here.
What climate-safe, tasty and healthy food will we eat in the future and how will it be produced, grown and packaged in a more sustainable way?
The forum attracted more than 200 people from all over Europe to the Mejeriet in Lund.
More and more opportunities are being created for monitoring water quality using sensors, which is why the water network WIN Water highlighted a number of players from the industry at its latest meeting.
The municipality of Lund is working on replacing lighting with LED luminaires.
In the future, our clothes will include a tag that we can scan to obtain information.
What do we see as exciting areas of innovation based on the cultural and creative sectors and industries?
In April, Future by Lund held a membership meeting at Trivector Traffic on the combination of human rights and mobility in the theme “Human centred mobility in the Human Rights city of Lund”.
In the spring, the City of Barcelona hosted REACT (Economic Reactivation Conference) which is a gigantic annual open discussion on Barcelona's economic future.
Denmark has a successful industry in Life science and biotechnology where the Biotechbyn Kalundborg is an important node.
The mobility service EC2B has for some years been developed in project form in housing associations and tenants' associations in both Lund and Gothenburg.
Using human rights as a starting point not only affects the work of municipalities so that people are better off, but it can also promote the emergence of innovations that people want to use.
The fashion industry encompasses much more than clothing and textiles — everything from cultivation, production, working conditions, transportation, design and marketing to customer habits, garbage sorting, returns and recycling.
Ten years ago, Vinnova invested in innovation platforms in some Swedish cities — Borås, Gothenburg, Kiruna, Lund, Stockholm and eventually Umeå.
The taxonomy regulation was introduced in the EU in July 2020 as the basis for the EU taxonomy and establishes a list of environmentally sustainable economic activities.
More but smaller productions, more production closer to the local market and faster processes to bring the garments to market can be some of the solutions to make the textile and fashion industry more sustainable.
When we talk about sustainable change in the textile and fashion industries, the focus is often on manufacturing, materials, recycling and emissions.
In Veberöd in the eastern part of Lund municipality, Smart Villages has as its mission to investigate what digital technology can do for a smaller society — as a complement to the smart city.
How can AR and VR change the consumer buying experience and what can we all benefit from IoT in our clothes? What new technologies can drive sustainable change in the fashion industry?
Lund University is successful in its work with the cultural and creative industries, which provides a basis both for meaningful creation and for work on a broader transformation.
On a cold day in February, the bus with about forty Swedish and Danish participants from companies, universities and municipalities drove to Veberöd.
How can digital technology develop the fashion industry? Technology can lead to making it cheaper and more sustainable when clothes are created, distributed and recycled, but the meeting of fashion, the gaming industry and digital technology can also have other effects.
During the week, Lund has been visited by Patrick Child from the EU Commission. Patrick Child is responsible for Mission Cities, an initiative that aims to make 100 cities in Europe climate-neutral by 2030.
In the Brunnshög district, sustainability goals are high. It concerns both technical systems, such as the newly built tramway, a low-temperature district heating network and a garbage collection system that provides fewer heavy transport in the area.
Future by Lund is a membership organisation where universities, municipalities and business have a platform to work together.
At Future by Lund's association meeting at the end of November 2022, the first board of directors of the newly formed economic association was elected.
The innovation platform Future by Lund started in 2012 as a Vinnova-funded project with the municipality of Lund as the principal.
As the innovation platform Future by Lund continues to operate as an economic association, cooperation with the university's KIC office is strengthened.
Astronaut and physiologist “Jim” Pawelczyk has traveled 256 laps around the Earth and at the same time investigated how this affects the human body.
The work with innovation spaces is born out of societal challenges. With barely seven years to go until Agenda 2030, the textile and fashion industries are facing a crossroads.
Fredrik Timour is the CEO and founder of the Fashion Innovation Center, which is a member of Future by Lund.
