Sustainability Week
9–13 March
Welcome to Sustainability Week!
Halmstad University’s second sustainability week will be held on 9–13 March. It will consist of five days of lectures, exhibitions and activities highlighting the area of sustainable development. The themes for the week are sustainable mobility and sustainable food production.
Programme
Some of the activities during Sustainability Week are student activities, while the rest of the programme is open to all visitors. Most activities are held on campus. The exhibitions are offered throughout the week, 9–13 March. The programme is being updated continuously before the week begins.
- 9 March
9 March at 12.45–13.15
Pop up opening with free coffee
Kick off the Sustainability Week with a free cup of coffee at any of the coffee stations around campus!
You will find the coffee stations at R3, S3 and Q3.
Target group: Students
Language: Swedish and English
Location: R3, S3 and Q3.
9 March at 13.30–14.30
Climate change up close – experiences from Svalbard and South Africa
Join us to learn how exchange studies can provide experience in seeing and experiencing climate change in real time. Saga guides us through her travels from the savannahs of South Africa to the glaciers of Svalbard.
Saga is a student at Halmstad University, studying the programme Conservation and Diversity. During her studies, she has twice studied at universities abroad and experienced ecosystems that are completely different from our own.
Target group: Students
Language: Swedish
Location: R1204
Exhibition: What does the future look like for traffic and travel in Halmstad?
How do we want to travel in Halmstad in the future? How can we create a city with fewer traffic jams, better air quality and more space for people? Halmstad Municipality’s exhibition tells you more about the new Travel Center, Stationsstaden, the bridges and public transport of the future – and how the municipality is planning to make it easier to walk, cycle and travel sustainably.
On Wednesday 11 March and Thursday 12 March, from 11.00 to 14.00, traffic strategists and traffic planners from Halmstad Municipality will be on site. Take the opportunity to ask questions, share your thoughts and learn more about how the city’s traffic and mobility are being planned for the future.
Location: Lab City
Language: Swedish
Exhibition: Fish from Swedish farmers
Fish are crucial to the functioning of the marine ecosystem. But now the oceans and the fish that live there are under threat because we are fishing too much – there has never been so little fish in our oceans as there is today. We need to rethink, we need to think in new ways. We need our Swedish farmers.
Location: Glass corridor
Language: Swedish
Exhibition: E-waste and sustainable cyber security – how is it handled?
Students present their projects from the course Cybersecurity and Sustainable Development. Learn how cybersecurity can be integrated into a sustainability perspective throughout the entire IT system lifecycle. In this activity, students present their projects from the course Cybersecurity and Sustainable Development. The course covers sustainable cybersecurity strategies and the safe handling and disposal of electronic equipment, and is part of the University’s sustainability focus in education.
The exhibition will be staffed by students from the course on Thursday, 12 March, between 10.00 and 12.00. The students’ final seminar will be held on Thursday between 13.00 and 17.00 in rooms S3049 and S3062.
Location: in the corridor between the S building and R building
This exhibition is held in Swedish.
Exhibition: Sustainable food from farm to table
Which fruits and vegetables are in season? What is farmed seafood? How can we make food production sustainable? Find out all this and more in the exhibition Sustainable food from farm to table.
Location: Glass corridor
Language: English and Swedish
Exhibition: Knowledge for change – books on sustainability
This exhibition presents a selection of books that highlight sustainability from different perspectives – environmental, social and economic. Here you will find facts and stories that shed light on a highly topical subject such as sustainable development in a global context.
Location: University Library
Language: English and Swedish
Exhibition: Can you knit with plastic and weave with bicycle tubes?
From 11 to 13 March, Halland Material Academy will keep its mobile material container open during the University’s Sustainability Week. Here, art, industry and research come together in an experiment where waste material from companies in Halland is given new life.
Over several weeks, artist Lisa Burenius, together with project managers from academia and industry, has collected waste and residual materials from industry in Halland. The result is an experimental material installation where visitors can experience new possible uses for materials that would otherwise risk becoming waste.
For example, can you knit with plastic from the construction industry or weave with old bicycle inner tubes from Monark? These are some of the questions explored in the container.
Time and place for the exhibition
11 March at 10.40: Opening with artist Lisa Burenius
11 March, 12 March and 13 March at 11.00–14.00: FabLab students show the container.
Location: Outdoors, at the short side of buildings R and S towards Laholmsvägen
Find your way to the exhibition via MazeMap External link.
More information
Target group: Students and staff
Language: Swedish
About Sustainability Week
Theme week on sustainable development
Twice a year, in week 50 of the autumn semester and week 11 of the spring semester, Halmstad University organises Sustainability Week for all students and staff at the University. The week in December 2025 was the first theme week.
Sustainability Week 2025 will highlight sustainability based on the three dimensions of ecological, social and economic sustainability. During the week, visitors could learn more about ongoing projects and research in the field of the environment and sustainable development, listen to speakers in the field, visit interesting exhibitions and participate in activities around the campus.
The weeks tie in with the University’s vision
During the sustainability weeks on campus, visitors will come together around the theme of sustainable development and have the opportunity to gain new insights and knowledge about sustainable social development from multiple perspectives. The weeks tie in with the University’s overall vision that the institution should create value, drive innovation and develop people and society for the future, including by creating conditions for, and contributing to, more sustainable social development.
The University’s vision, goals and strategies2
times every year, the University arranges a Sustainability Week.
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days of lectures, exhibitions and activities highlighting the area of sustainable development.
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different activities within the focus ecological, social and economic sustainability during the first Sustainability Week.
Collaboration partners 2026
More about sustainable development at the University
Sustainable Development Policy
Sustainability and sustainable development are some of the greatest challenges of our time, and every decision, measure and action has a sustainability dimension. Halmstad University has adopted a policy for sustainable development and supports the Climate Framework for Swedish Universities and Colleges developed by the Swedish Association of Higher Education (SUHF).
The University’s Sustainable Development Policy
Sustainability focus in education programmes
For the autumn semester of 2024, the University launched its sustainability focus for undergraduate programmes. New students admitted to programmes included in the sustainability focus are taking an elective course based on the UN’s Agenda 2030 and the global goals for sustainable development. Ten of the undergraduate programmes were included in the autumn semester of 2024, and 26 of the programmes are included from the autumn semester of 2025.
The sustainability focus will grow in the coming years. New students starting their studies will take a sustainability course in most undergraduate programmes.
Contact
Eleonor Gullberg, Environment and Security Coordinator
Photography and filming may take place during the week.
Photo: Halmstad University.
