Kristianstad is a town founded by the Danish king Christian the 4th in 1614. The town does still bear witness of this period in its history through its architecture and the king’s emblem as ornaments around town. Along the Helge river, which is crossing through town, is the Tivoli garden with exotic trees, an orangeries…
About Action Learning and Sustainability at NMBU
Close to Christmas Nordplus mobility brought me to the Norwegian University of Life Sciences at Ås, appr. 40km south of Oslo. According to NMBU’s website, its mission is to contribute to the wellbeing of the planet through its interdisciplinary research on food, health, environmental protection, climate and sustainable use of natural resources. Coming from sustainable…
Sustainable Exchange of Knowledge
We arrive at Helsinki airport with an early Tuesday morning flight. It’s efficient and clean – as we know it from Copenhagen. When we’re comfortable in our seats on the train, the difference and breath taking beauty of this country starts to unfold, the land of a thousand lakes and trees, it already feels highly…
Sustainable food production in Iceland
We headed for Iceland to learn about sustainability of Icelandic food production. During our trip we met Dóra Svavarsdóttir from Slow Food and Solheimar Eco-Village, Haflidi Halldórsson from Icelandic Lamb, representative of Matis, and Eyjólfur Fridgeirsson, the founder of Islensk Hollusta. We also saw quite a few incredible landscapes, ate various Icelandic delicacies and even…
Study trip to Iceland – discussions about sustainable food
Skyr is only the tip of the iceberg of Icelandic food. We dived into the food scene of Iceland and found out that the country is much more than we had dared to imagine. As every travel guide loves to mention, Iceland is the land of fire and ice. For food production, this means incredible…
How can YOU contribute to a more sustainable world?
As you hear more and more reports on climate change it’s easy to get overwhelmed. There’re melting ices in the north pole, the average temperature of the earth is rising, and as I’m writing this there’s an important climate conference going on in Poland that could determine whether or not we take enough action against…
HKR Students in Finland
We are three students from Sweden that have had the great opportunity to go to Finland to learn more about Finnish food culture, look at their approach on sustainable food and food of the future! In this segment we would like to introduce ourselves, our school and the project that made this trip possible. Our…
Share your experiences!
This blog is about sharing ideas and experiences on Sustainable Nordic Food. It was begun in 2018 through Nordplus cooperation between four higher education institutions: JAMK University of Applied Sciences (Finland), Kristianstad University (Sweden), Högskolan på Åland (Åland) and Metropolitan University College (Denmark). The main objective of the Nordplus project is to strengthen and develop the…
Sustainable Nordic Food 