About us

We are a partner driven community where the Food Industry, Academia, Society and sometimes NGOs work together, tackling the large scale sustainability challenges of the food system in terms of health, sustainability, attractiveness and preparedness. We start, drive and facilitate collaboration, initiatives and projects that contribute to the development of a regional, national and global sustainable future food system.

Create change on a systemic level

Livsmedelsakademin is a meeting place for actors in the food system. We lead and enable collaboration between the food industry, academia and society in order to create a sustainable growth in the food industry. Our main activities are projects and networks.

We take on challenges, and work with large and complex issues that no individual stakeholder can manage on their own. In doing so, we create systemic changes, unique collaborations and make way for new companies, business models and entrepreneurs to thrive.

We are funded by our partners, Region Skåne and financiers in our different projects. And we aim to be the best platform for stakeholders who want to collaborate and innovate the food system together.

Our focus areas

Healththroughfood & beverages

Based on the premise that healthy and nutritious food must be tasty and accessible to everyone, we create the conditions for using food as a force for change for better health.

Attractingtalent to thefood sector

Many more people must choose a profession in the food industry. The food sector could and should be a natural choice and extremely popular with those who want to work with sustainable development and make real difference.

Sustainable & circularfood system

Creating tomorrow’s food system where resources are utilised in every part of the value chain is a challenge that requires collaboration across all borders. A solution is the transition to a modern circular economy where sustainability and profit rules.

Resilience& securefood system

Sweden’s food system and food supply must be strengthened. It is about increasing our own capacity to produce food and beverages, but also about creating a sustainable food chain with access to necessary resources under any condition.

Projects

Our projects aim to drive development within our four focus areas. Most often it is about creating long-term systemic change in issues that no single actor can handle on their own and where business, academia and society need to cooperate to achieve results.

Projects can be initiated either by Livmedelsakademin, which then invites partners to participate, or by our partners themselves.

Networks

We run four networks that are open to our partners to participate in and that target different professional groups. These are the CEO Network, the Innovation Network, the Communication Network and Framtidens ledare (The Leaders of the Future), which is our leadership development program. The networks meet regularly around current themes to share and gain knowledge, be inspired and make new contacts.

Strategic foresight

Strategic foresight is a method for interpreting weak signals of trends and movements in society. It is a way for us to predict the direction the future will take.

We use foresight to stay up to date with what is happening in the food system and issues affecting the food industry. We translate this knowledge into our projects and networks.