Region Blekinge (lead partner) received funding for 7 months project starting September 2021. The partners include Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden, InnoBaltica, Poland, The Association of Sea Cities and Municipalities, Poland, Association of Klaipėda region municipalities, Lithuania and the State Enterprise of the Kaliningrad region “Avtovokzal”, Russia. The project idea springs from the recently finalized [...]

Here are now previously promised results from a pre-study within the Roadmapper Project that is led by Henrik Ny from the SustainTrans team. With Volvo Cars in Olofström and the planned Southeast Link as an example, we show how a factory, while waiting for an electrified railway connection, can make its transports fossil-free, sustainable [...]

After prestudies, planning and hiring we are now scaling up the Roadmapper project to full speed. We invite all project partners a kickoff meeting on April 15. Agenda: Results from the prestudy and a project start package with more detailed project plan and work routines (full agenda will be posted the week before). The [...]

The SustainTrans Research Team, consisting of researchers from the BTH departments of sustainable development (TISU) and  spatial planning (TIFP), is now a member of the UN Habitat universities network. This network is made up of distinguished universities across the globe and conducts various international capacity building activities linked to sustainable development such as webinars, [...]

We are finally staffing up for the new Roadmapper project! A new PhD student position (Doktorand i strategisk hållbar utveckling) has been announced at the BTH website.  Applicants should be strong in sustainability and systems dynamics and modeling. They should also have a good command of English and Swedish. There are more requirements but [...]

The Swedish government's restart package takes commendable steps forward but does not deliver climate benefits on a par with what would be possible. Henrik Ny, from SustainTrans, shows how this could be remedied. This opinion piece was published in the Swedish environmental magazine Aktuell Hållbarhet in October 2020. It was a follow-up of Henrik's opinion [...]