SLU have approximately 4400 full-time equivalent students. SLU offers approximately 50 degree programmes in natural sciences, social sciences, technology and the humanities. We also offer professional programmes such as those that lead to qualifications as an engineer, veterinary surgeon, equine scientist, landscape architect, forestry manager and agronomist, as well as a Bachelor education in Animal Welfare and Ethology. SLU offers many international Masters’ programmes, e.g. in Animal Science and Sustainable Food Systems.
Research and doctoral education stand for 70 per cent of SLU’s turnover, and we have more than 500 active PhD-students. Sound basic research combined with applied research to solve concrete problems, and researchers typically work interdisciplinary. We have expertise in the natural sciences, and in the fields of humanities and social science, and combine strong, curiosity-driven basic research with more specific studies aimed at solving concrete problems, both locally and globally.
SLU collaborate extensively with relevant sectors, universities, authorities and organisations around the world. SLU takes on the global challenges. Food supply, competition for land, genetic resources, pandemics and zoonoses, and climate change are issues with implications for the world’s poorest countries in particular. SLU is a part of Global Challenges University Alliance (GCUA), which is a network of 20 university partners from across the globe with a common vision of contributing to sustainable, global development. GCUA 2030 offers a global learning forum for PhD students and young researchers providing a range of learning and networking activities.
Since 2019 the Swedish Centre for Animal Welfare at SLU became a World Animal Health Organisation (WOAH) Collaborating Centre for Animal Welfare together with IZSAM, Teramo. In 2021, SLU were appointed as the leader of the European Union Reference Centre for Animal Welfare (EURCAW) Ruminants & Equines by the EU Commission. The Centre is a collaboration between BOKU in Austria, INRAE in France, ELGO-DIMITRA, Veterinary Research Institute in Greece), IZSAM in Italy) and UCD in Ireland.
Webpage: https://www.slu.se
Contacts:
Associate Prof Galia Zamaratskaia
Department of Molecular Sciences
Phone: +46 73562 28 74
e-mail: galia.zamaratskaia@slu.se
DVM Elina Åsbjer
Swedish Centre for Animal Welfare, SCAW
Phone: +46 703-74 61 49
e-mail: elina.asbjer@slu.se
M.Sc. Birgitta Staaf Larsson
Swedish Centre for Animal Welfare, SCAW
Phone: +46 18672157
e-mail: Birgitta.Staaf.Larsson@slu.se
Dr Geir Löe
University administration, Division of Educational Affairs
Phone: +4618671235
e-mail: geir.loe@slu.se
Prof. Anders Karlsson
Department of Animal Environment and Health
Phone: +4651167210
e-mail: Anders.H.Karlsson@slu.se