Forum 2024

In order to contribute to research excellence, long-term collaborations and increased academic mobility between the two countries, thirteen research areas were identified for the Forum 2024 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. Artistic Research, Experimentation and Cultural Sustainability in Chile and Sweden

2. Biodiversity Changes in a Changing World: Challenges and Experiences from Chile and Sweden

3. Breaking the Tide: Blue-Green Innovations for Preserving Our Coastal Seas

4. Collective Action for Just, Inclusive, and Sustainable Societies: Micro, Meso and Macro Perspectives

5. Crime as a Social Problem

6. Environmental Exposures, Diseases and Epigenetic Regulation: From Scientific Evidence to Prevention

7. Healthy Brain Ageing and Improved Therapies for Brain Disease

8. Integrating Water Soil Food Energy (WSFE) Nexus: Towards Sustainable Agriculture Systems in Sweden and Chile

9. Sustainable Aquatic Food and Biomaterial Production; Relevance of Aquaculture Diversification

10. Sustainable Lithium Mining in Salt Flats, Preserving Ecosystems and Biodiversity

11. Sustainable Water Use, Food Security and Transformative Climate Policy: Interdisciplinary and Comparative Perspectives from Chile, Sweden and Beyond

12. Territories and Commons in the Global North and South: An Intersectional Look at Forests, Land, Water and Bodies

13. The Politics of the Low-emission Energy Transition (POLTRANS)