Sustainable Future Hub
Sustainable Future Hub is a collaboration hub for students, researchers and external actors focusing on economic and social sustainability. Sustainable Future Hub catalyzes projects and collaborations where different actors can work together to drive development in the area of sustainability.
News and events on sustainability
Newsletter November 2020
Don't miss out our third newsletter from Sustainable Future Hub, read it here.
Companies must broaden their sustainability work
On 18 November 2020, the annual conference Sustainable Business was held, where Susanne Arvidsson, Associate professor and Senior lecturer at Lund University School of Economics and Management, participated and talked about how sustainability affects growth and profitability. This year's edition of the Di Group's ranking Sustainable companies focus on risk. Here, Swedish companies are generally in a learning process, according to Susanne Arvidsson, who also led the work with the ranking. Read the whole article from DI here (in Swedish).
Susanne Arvidsson ranks sustainable companies
In this year's version of the ranking Sustainable companies, great emphasis has been placed on how the companies map and manage risks in climate and sustainability. This is how the stock market giants are ranked - "some seem completely unconscious". Read the full article from DI here (in Swedish).
New sustainability plan approved and Sustainability Forum broadens its remit to include students and education
A new sustainability plan has been approved at Lund University and Sustainability Forum will be permanent with a broadened mission to include students and education. Full article here. More about the new sustainability plan here (in Swedish only).
Newsletter October 2020
Don't miss out on the second newsletter from Sustainable Future Hub, read it here.
Social Innovation Summit 2020: Community currency – a tool for bringing premises to life around the clock?
On November 11 Ester Barinaga, Professor in social entreprenurship, gave a talk on community currencies during an event hosted by Midroc during the conference Social Innovation Summit 2020. More info here.
How to be a change maker - The IKEA way of social sustainability
Did you miss our recent digital talk focusing on people, impact and sustainability? You can watch it on YouTube above. This was the panel:
- Lisen Wirén, Programme Manager at the IKEA Social Entrepreneurship at Inter IKEA Group and alumni from Lund University School of Economics and Management
- Caroline Wigren, Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer at Lund University School of Economics and Management
- Harmke Lüken, Master's student in Innovation and Global Sustainable Development, member of Sustainable Future Hub's Student Network and moderator of the event
Digital coffee with researchers - Episode 2 with Lina van Dooren
The student Els Heile is interviewing researchers about their current research on sustainability over a cup of coffee. Watch the second YouTube episode here.
The Reversed mentorship programme - a mutual eye opener
How can sustainable ideas be implemented and used in Alfa Laval's business operations? That was one of the topics discussed through the Reversed mentorship programme, a pilot project conducted this spring, which has been a mutual eye opener for the involved students and the company Alfa Laval. Read the interview with their own reflections.
Call for cases: does your company or organisation want to review your sustainability strategy from a communication perspective?
Our students in strategic marketing can help with reviewing your brand strategy, finding a clear and unique position in the market, strengthening the customer relationship, doing an external analysis and future prospects or a digital marketing strategy. Contact Martina if you want to know more!
Interdisciplinary collaboration inspires to reflect on our economic systems
There is a new podcast episode and a blog post with our PhD student Juan Ocampo (who is alo part of the student network), about the values of our current and future financial systems! Listen to the section here and read the blog post here.
Sustainable Future Hub’s student network
In our newly launched network of students, we act together on the sustainability challenges through competitive intelligence/strategic intelligence, reversed mentoring and cases from companies and organizations. The network consists of 15 students at different levels with different academic backgrounds, from Lund University School of Economics and Management and other parts of Lund University.
Get to know the students who are currently part of our student network.

Funded by Sparbanken Skåne
Sustainable Future Hub becomes a reality through the investment of Sparbanken Skåne and Sparbanksstiftelsen Finn. In a first step, this is planned to extend over five years. Through the foundation, profit distribution from the bank can be invested in community development efforts.
We want to invest in a future that is good for both us and future generations. By working with other actors, we can increase our focus on sustainability issues together. Sustainability work is about a long-term approach to the outside world and a willingness to make a difference. It's a journey we want to be part of.
Today, the sustainability perspective is an integral part of Sparbanken Skåne's operations, where the investment with the School of Economics and Management is an example. More about the bank and the foundations here.