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Society and mobility

How will we live, travel and live in the future? With new, efficient, climate-neutral solutions for, among other things, community development, food and transport, we want to contribute to a sustainable society for the next generation.

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Our expertise

We want Swedish cities and communities to show the world that it is possible to create good living conditions, transportation and urban environments - while staying within planetary boundaries. We enable the public sector, civil society, industry and academia to work together to create climate-smart solutions and inclusive innovation.

At Vinnova, we work actively with the development of new innovations for how we will live and reside in the future. We conduct current situation analyses, publish reports, create calls for proposals and provide expert opinions, including in:

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National and international initiatives

Vinnova has several major initiatives and programme within the society of the future, both at the national and international level.

 

Our government assignment

  • The Government is tasked with describing and reporting in more detail how the activities have contributed to the goals of regional development policy and the cohesive county council policy, and in relevant parts how their activities have been of significance to the EU's cohesion policy. Vinnova shall in particular report how the activities have contributed with efforts and what results have been achieved within the strategic area of innovation and renewal as well as entrepreneurship and business throughout the country.

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  • The Council for Living Cities will contribute to the sustainable development of attractive cities. The Council will work to implement the government's urban development policy.

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  • The Government is assigning the Swedish Agency for innovation system (Vinnova), together with selected authorities, to develop the work on the strategic innovation programs, within the framework of strategic innovation areas, with the goal that new and existing programme contribute more clearly to transformative transition and sustainable development, as a basis for global competitiveness and societal benefit.

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  • The Government is tasked with contributing to the development of crime prevention work. The authorities shall, based on their current tasks and conditions, analyse which measures the authority can contribute to crime prevention work. To the extent that this is deemed appropriate and within existing financial frameworks, the authorities shall also begin implementing such measures.

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  • The Government instructs the Swedish Agency for innovation system (Vinnova) to, within the framework of the food strategy, carry out innovation-promoting work with a focus on the food chain under 2020-2025, in order to achieve the strategy's overall objective of increased food production that is sustainable and competitive.

    The mission aims to strengthen innovation work within the Swedish food chain, partly through increased innovation levels, and partly by promoting increased cross-sectoral collaboration, for example in the form of a forum for collaboration.

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Last updated 3 July 2025