System Innovation for Active School Trips

Purpose and goal

The three-year innovation project was initiated and run by Innovation Skåne and Trivector Traffic. The project will concretely show how a system shift can be carried out, spread and scaled up, by combining several existing initiatives and lessons learned in a norm-creative method for an increased proportion of active school trips. The method is to be implemented in four primary schools in Skåne, based on needs collected via the "innovation guild". To ensure dissemination, the method will be anchored during the project with a diversity of different solution providers and stakeholders.

Expected effects and result

Project goal 1: The method with associated toolbox we are taking is to be applied in four different primary schools (grades F-6) in Skåne. The goal is that the measures taken should result in the percentage of children walking or cycling to school increasing by 50% in the spring of 2026, compared to the spring of 2024. Project goal 2: The methodology should be spread and made available to primary schools in Sweden, through our project partners, but also through collaboration with organizations, associations and initiatives that will be invited to participate in the project.

Planned approach and implementation

By identifying and integrating different parts of the transport system and its actors, including schools, parents, municipalities and the business community, the project aims to create a holistic and long-term change, where an important aspect of the approach is to consolidate existing initiatives, tools and methods on system level.