The Division of Food and Nutrition Science (FNS) at Chalmers University of Technology tackles major societal challenges in sustainable food production, nutrition, and health through fundamental and applied research, innovation, education, and dissemination. Their work aims to provide new knowledge and solutions for a sustainable planet and healthy humans. Research areas include food chemistry, food technology, and molecular and data-driven nutrition.

The division focuses on marine and plant-based food systems to enhance food quality, reduce losses in the value chain, and recover nutrients from alternative biomasses. In nutrition, they conduct human observational and intervention studies, as well as cell-based model studies, using advanced data-driven methods and OMIC technologies to understand and predict the impact of foods and dietary patterns on human health. The research also addresses global food security in an international context.

Webpage: Chalmers, Food and nutrition science

KTH Royal Institute of Technology is Sweden’s largest technical university leading sustainable societal development. KTH FOOD is a research environment striving for a sustainable, resource efficient and fair food system, resulting in food products with a positive impact on health and wellbeing.

KTH FOOD has unique competencies in research and educational activities focused on food systems, from farm to fork: production, processing, distribution, consumption and circular flows that contribute to research in the food science field in Sweden. KTH offers access to excellent research infrastructure that can be applied in the strategic research fields: sustainable food production, circular food processes, logistics and consumption and functional food products and health.

Webpage: KTH Food

With Future Food at RISE, we ensure the utilization of our entire interdisciplinary expertise and create broad collaboration with public entities, the food industry, authorities, academia, and companies. Together, we can find new, innovative, and competitive solutions to the needs and challenges facing the food system. In this way, we at RISE make a difference from farm to fork.

We have expertise in all parts of the food chain. As an innovation partner, RISE provides companies with access to our expertise across the entire food chain. We can develop innovative technologies and processes for sustainability, efficiency, and quality. We research new foods with a focus on positive health effects throughout life. We offer training related to the challenges and opportunities of the food industry and networks tailored to the needs of a food company or public entity. Additionally, we can support you in your business, marketing, product, and/or innovation development.

Webpage: Future food at RISE

SLU Future Food is a future platform at SLU that develops research and collaboration for ecologically, economically, and socially sustainable food systems. Their mission is an interdisciplinary initiative to meet future challenges and contribute to Sweden’s efforts to achieve the global goals for sustainable development by 2030 and beyond.

SLU Future Food works towards a sustainable and competitive food system by stimulating interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral collaborations, communicating scientifically based knowledge, and identifying key issues. The platform addresses complex sustainability challenges with a future perspective and seeks new knowledge and solutions across disciplines together with industry, authorities, and other sectors.

The activities focus on future perspectives, research platforms, sustainability, the food system, and interdisciplinarity.

Webpage: SLU, Future Food

Örebro University’s profile area, Food and Health, focuses on making sustainably produced food with health benefits the first choice for consumers. The vision is to offer food that tastes good, is healthy, sustainably produced, and affordable.

The research within Food and Health aims to understand which dietary changes lead to specific health effects, for whom, and at what stage of life. Researchers also investigate what influences consumers’ food choices and how to encourage people to eat individually tailored diets that promote long-term health and well-being. The goal is to make it easier for people to eat right and sustainably, and to develop new methods and technologies to measure health effects at the individual level.

Webpage: Örebro university, Food and Health