2022 ACCESS Forum

In order to contribute to research excellence, long-term collaborations and increased academic mobility between the two countries, twelve research areas were identified for the Forum 2022 as common challenges for both countries which related to the SDG focus areas of ACCESS.

These challenges were the starting point of discussions in separate workshops, followed by a general interdisciplinary discussion. Summaries from every workshop can be found below:

1. Causes and consequences of ongoing urbanization processes in Sweden and Chile

2. Comparative eating practices in late modernity

3. Crime as a social problem

4. Food sustainability for global health

5. From ocean to one health: a collaborative and multisectoral approach against infectious diseases and the antimicrobial resistance in aquaculture

6. Healthy brain ageing and improved therapeutics and regeneration for brain disease

7. Immunology & heath: A personalized medicine approach

8. Interdisciplinary perspectives on urban sustainability: communicational challenges and future development prospects towards sustainable cities and communities

9. Memory, heritage and coloniality. Linkages between Chile and Sweden

10. New technologies, policies, and initiatives towards preventing and reducing marine pollution and its consequences: improving the sustainability of life below water

11. Social (In)justice, indigeneity and sustainable future(s): Recognition, interrogation and re-existence

12. Sustainable aquatic food production systems