Pathways to Crisis-Resilient Food Systems: Linking Sustainability Transition with Competitiveness

Food Science Sweden Conference 2025

In recent years, different climate, sanitary and geopolitical crises have revealed major vulnerabilities in our food provisioning and have highlighted the need to transform our current food system towards increased preparedness and resilience.

The theme of this year’s Food Science Sweden Conference 2025 focuses on active strategies and pathways towards crisis-resilient food systems, integrating both sustainability transitions with competitiveness. We will hear from the newly established interdisciplinary centres for Contingency planning and competitiveness in the food system, which will bring together academia, industry, public authorities, and other societal actors to address critical questions related to food preparedness.

Additionally, the conference will highlight the innovative research projects of LiFT doctoral students, showcasing their contributions to advancing food system sustainability and resilience.

Programme

09:30 Arrival and coffee
10:00 Welcome: KTH and Food Science Sweden
10:05 Invited speaker: Assoc. Prof. Arita Holmberg. Swedish Defence University. Director of Campus Total Defense.
10:50 LiFT with selected PhD presentations (inkl. break)
12:00 Lunch and poster session
13.15 Invited speaker: Professor Tiina Silvasti, University of Jyväskylä (Finland) 
14.00 Presentations of the Formas centres
  • AgroDrive (RISE Research Institutes of Sweden)
  • Food Defence Research Centre (FOI)
  • FORCE (Lund University)
  • PLATE (Stockholm Resilicence center)
  • PLENTY (KTH)
14.45 Coffee break
15:15 Round table. Pathways to Crisis-Resilient Food Systems
16.00 Closing session

 

When: On Wednesday the 23rd April 2025, between 10:00 – 16:00

Where: AlbaNova University Centre (Roslagstullsbacken 21), KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm (Sweden)

Registration

Make your registration to the Food Science Sweden conference 2025 here