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Sustainability Week 8-13 April 2024

A brief introduction to the Sustainability Week

The Sustainability week is an annual event in Lund organised as a joint venture by Lund University and Lund municipality. The week serves as a platform for bringing together ideas, for cross-disciplinary collaborations, for raising public awareness and for inspiring sustainable change.

You can find the programme for Sustainability Week 2024 at hallbarhet.lu.se, scroll down for events that will be held in English.

  • The Sustainability Week is organized every year with up to 100 events around Lund, in the surrounding area, and online.
  • During the week, lectures, seminars, workshops, guided tours and exhibitions are arranged - all connected to sustainable development, both ecological, economic and social.
  • Everyone is welcome during Sustainability Week, but different events can target different target groups, such as students, professionals, adults or children.
  • All events during Sustainability Week are free.

Information organisers

As an organizer, you are mainly responsible for the content and planning of your event yourself, but we in the planning group are happy to help out with brainstorming ideas for your event, facilitate venues and contribute with contacts.

Marketing

As the organiser, you are responsible for reaching out to your desired target group and for marketing your own event.

Marketing suggestions:

  • Newsletters
  • Targeted email invitations within your own networks
  • On the website of your faculty or department
  • Posters in LU's premises (please use the Sustainability Week logo)
  • Social Media

In all marketing - state that the event is part of Sustainability Week and refer to the overall programme.

Social Media

Feel free to use the hashtag #hållbaralund in posts on social media.

Feel free to create a Facebook event for your event. Add Lund University Sustainability Forum (Lund University) and Hållbara Lund (Lund Municipality) as co-hosts to appear in these pages' event lists.

Lund University Sustainability Forum - facebook.com
Hållbara Lund - facebook.com

Images

Feel free to use the Sustainabilit Week graphic material for marketing

Sustainability Week image - English: Download (.png 1,7 MB)

Wide Sustainability Week image - English: Download (.png 1,6 MB)

Sustainability Week poster - English: Download (PDF 2,8 MB)

Overall marketing of the program

The Sustainability Forum at Lund University and The Sustainability Unit at Lund Municipality are jointly responsible for the overall marketing of the week. It will be seen on buses, trains, billboards in Lund and on social media.

Questions?

Please contact our project managers if you have any questions regarding the week. 

Stina Lundkvist
Project manager, Lund University
stina [dot] lundkvist [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (stina[dot]lundkvist[at]cec[dot]lu[dot]se)

Erika Frimanson
Communication strategist, Lund Municipality 
erika [dot] frimanson [at] lund [dot] se (erika[dot]frimanson[at]lund[dot]se)

Contact for students:
Johanna Weitekamp
Student employee, Lund University
johanna [dot] weitekamp [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se
 

People looking at plants inside a greenhouse. Photo.
Guided tour at the Botanical garden during Sustainability Week 2023. Photo: Kennet Ruona