Scandinavian ECO-Collaborate Living Lab: Sustainable Solutions for Climate Change Resilience in Food Security

The ‘’Scandinavian ECO-Collaborate Living Lab: Sustainable Solutions for Climate Change Resilience in Food Security (SECO-Collab)’’ project, is based in Sweden, and a collaborative platform proposal. The consortium includes SweGreen, an agtech company and a pioneer in vertical farming and sustainable agriculture, Fotografiska, a museum based in Stockholm and renowned hub for sustainable food with a Green Michelin-star restaurant, and MDU (Mälardalen University), with specializations in human-in-the-loop artificial intelligence (AI) solutions within a wide spectrum of applications through data processing & visualization, supervision and cyber-physical systems control. The consortium has a background of over 4 years of collaboration and successful delivery based on European and National grant-funded projects in the areas of precision farming, AI-based farming unit and host building integration etc.

Our project centers around urban food production and consumption and local chain, foodtech, alternative future food and local varieties of Scandinavian region that could all together build a resilient Nordic food system. We have an already existing physical farming unit and network collaborations with local/urban farmers, tech companies and entrepreneurs at Fotografiska, where sustainable food practices are embodied with the restaurant’s business practices addressing climate change and food security in the Scandinavian context. Fotografiska approaches climate adaptation and mitigation by allowing its facilities to be the host fora high-tech controlled environment farm established by SweGreen, a large-scale urban beekeeping solution, and also a collaborative platform for partnership with local farmers within the concept of Fotografiska Studio 2000 (that focuses on food security issues based on land use for sustainable living). The commitment of Fotografiska in sustainability is a huge advantage for our consortium, as the infrastructure readiness is at a high level without any extra need for investment in our SECO Living Lab.

Project objective

Our objectives: pioneering sustainable climate-resilient food solutions and a replicable collaboration model around local and hyper-local food production especially in the urban context. Through tech, community engagement, and expert insights, we aim to transform food production, distribution, and consumption.