Skåne Innovation Week is a week of activities, innovations and ideas in the creation of the world’s most innovative region and how we are all a part of it. 2016 events will take place between 30th May and 3rd June. Science Village Scandinavia AB with other partners is involved in the innovation week and will open Möllegården to the public on Wednesday, June 1st from 5pm until 7pm.

Möllegården is the newly renovated farm at Science Village between ESS and MAX IV. The farm building now houses an exhibition. Here you can learn how MAX IV and ESS work, and how they can be useful. You can also learn how Brunnshög and Science Village will be developed. There is also a description of Uppåkra and its connection to the people who lived at the Science Village area thousands of years ago.

Close to Möllegården we have – in cooperation with Kraftringen – placed a “Giraffe 2.0” a combined wind and solar power plants from Innoventum. At the Open House in Möllegården June 1st from 5pm to 7pm, representatives from Kraftringen and Innoventum will be on hand to inform about the “Giraffe”.

For sustainable travel we recommended visitors to take bus No. 20 from Lund C to Lund ESS, the farm and the giraffe are really close to the bus terminal. The bus runs every ten minutes, the last one leaving at 7.21pm back to Lund C. There is good accessibility by bicycle to the area. The number of car parking spaces is limited.

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Lund University has decided to evaluate those of its activities that may be candidates for relocation to Science Village. The reason for this explains Rector Torbjörn von Schantz is:

– The desire to create something really good in the area is strong and there are many ideas. Above all, we want to create synergy when, in the space of only a few years, both facilities, ESS and MAX IV will be in operation. They will not only be attractive to researchers, but most of the business and public sectors also. SVS has the responsibility to house support functions for the two large facilities, but it will also be an important place where academia and industry come together. We want to create opportunities for all faculties of the university to take part in the innovative environment.

In the forefront comes Medical and Science faculties together with LTH. They will submit in the spring a basis for the transfer of larger or smaller parts of these activities to Science Village.

Lund University is one of three owners of Science Village Scandinavia AB, and has long expressed an interest in the establishment of the Science Village. Now that the inauguration of MAX IV is fast approaching and ESS starts to rise from the ground, the university’s interest has materialised in its decision to develop a strategy.

We are very happy about this decision, and we hope that within a few years we will welcome staff and students to the new, fine buildings of the Science Village area!

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French Chamber of Commerce has published a major theme issue concerning the relationship between Sweden and France as a follow up of the Swedish King’s visit to France and the French Prime Minister’s state visit to Stockholm last autumn.

The magazine, Echanges Internationaux, is distributed via the French embassies around the world. Science Village is featured in one of the articles – The-place-to-be in Lund.

Read the English version in the PDF below

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Three project applications – in which Science Village is a co-proposer – have been granted EU funding. The three projects are all important to ensure that the developments around ESS and MAX IV will move forward.

1. ESS and MAX IV Cross Border Science and Society

This project is aimed at maximising the impact of the ESS and MAX IV research facilities. The main focus is on strengthening the skills of young researchers, but there are also sub-projects in lowering barriers, and promoting measures to ensure that researchers thrive and feel welcome, as well as how companies can become suppliers of products and services to the two large facilities.

The project is a collaboration between 27 players, including eight universities, in the Öresund-Kattegat-Skagerrak region. The total project budget is approximately 200 MSEK and runs for three years.

More information is available on the project website

2. Materials Business Centre

This project works towards creating a platform for interaction between established industries, small- and medium-sized enterprises, entrepreneurs, academia and other institutions. The ambition is that the contacts that are facilitated between the participants will lead to long-term collaborations, developments and business initiatives.

The project is a regional cooperation between Region Skåne, Lund University, Skåne Innovation, Invest in Skåne and Science Village Scandinavia AB. The total project budget is about 12 MSEK and it will also run for three years.

3. Development laboratories around the ESS and MAX IV

The project enables a short feasibility study to be carried out aimed at identifying which scientific infrastructures are needed around the ESS and MAX IV and how those needs could be financed.

The project is a collaboration between Lund University, Region Skåne, ESS, MAX IV and Science Village Scandinavia AB. The total project budget is 0.8 MSEK and it will run for nine months.

As an initial first step to reach the goal of “Brunnshög becoming a European model for sustainable urban planning” Science Village Scandinavia and Kraftringen are collaborating in an energy project that will result in the Visitor Centre for the ESS and MAX IV being self-sufficient in electricity.

To accomplish this a hybrid power plant will be located close to the newly renovated visitor centre. The power plant, a Giraffe 2.0, will provide the building with electricity via both solar cells and wind power. The Giraffe will be supplied by the Swedish innovation company InnoVentum.

The Giraffe is expected to generate electricity surplus to our needs, which can then be sold to the grid. Such a hybrid power plant does not need more than a 25 m² footprint which makes it easy to place on the SVS site. The Giraffe is built with a framework of wood, derived from sustainably-managed forests, and recycled steel.

Kraftringen is Science Village Scandinavia’s energy partner. The partnership covers a collaboration aimed at finding innovative energy and mobility solutions to meet Brunnshög’s vision. The hybrid power plant is the first visible example of our cooperation.

The renovation of the Visitor Centre was completed at the end of 2015. It is located in the former Miller’s House, close to the 17th century wooden windmill which is now to be renovated. An exhibition of ESS and MAX IV is soon to be installed in the building. The exhibition area will be avialiable to be booked for interested Groups.

Kraftringen and Science Village Scandinavia has recently signed a cooperation agreement aimed at creating more sustainable solutions in Lund’s new neighborhood Brunnshög. All who wish to establish themselves in the Science Village Scandinavia have to follow the cooperation agreement guidelines for sustainable transport and energy solutions.The vision is that in Lund new green neighborhood Brunnshög will be locally produced renewable energy and sustainable transport. Science Village Scandinavia is the part of Brunnhög which will be built between the ESS and MAX IV. The district will universities, research institutes and companies to have their businesses. In addition, there will be service functions, like temporary accommodations, restaurants and meeting places for visiting researchers, employees and the public.

The energy used in the Science Village will be both renewable and locally produced, and as the primary heating, the heating used. A source of renewable locally produced energy is residual heat from research facilities, as Kraftringen take advantage of its district heating network.

Kraftringen will offer construction and real estate as well as district heating grid and power fiber connection. Kraftringen and Science Village Scandinavia will also, along with contractors and construction companies, creating new and innovative solutions for energy and transportation in the district.

– With strong partners and high ambitions for sustainability and innovative solutions, we can ensure that we build a neighborhood world-class, says Ulrika Lindmark, President of the Science Village Scandinavia AB.

– We look forward to an exciting and stimulating collaboration with the Science Village Scandinavia, which contributes to the achievement of sustainability goals in Brunnshög concludes Kraft Ring CEO, Sylvia Michel.

In May 2015 we were pleased to welcome a Chinese delegation to Lund. During their visit, a Letter of Intent was signed between Lund Municipality, Shenzhen DXHR Science and Technology, and Cleantech Scandinavia with the goal of working towards the establishment of an International Cleantech Centre in Lund.

In November, the Chinese visit was reciprocated by a delegation from Lund Municipality, headed by Anders Almgren, the Mayor, who made a return visit to Shanghai.

Hope for a future Chinese Cleantech Center in Science Village

The Chinese group expressed the intention of establishing itself in Science Village, and work has begun to flesh out the content, timelines and funding of this plan. It is hoped that the initiative will result in the construction of a Chinese Cleantech Centre at Science Village in the near future.

More than 500 people visited us during the Night of Culture Night. People of all ages called in to Skomakaregatan during the three hours we were open, to take advantage of our updated model, pictures of our new building and news of the archaeological excavations.

It is really pleasing that so many are interested in our vision and ambition when it comes to developing the world’s best Science Village.

Thank you all for visiting.

On June 4th Lund’s Planning and Building Board decided to launch the consultation process for part of the Zoning Plan for Östra Torn 27:13 (Brunnshög).

For Science Village Scandinavia, this represents a positive step forward for the development of the area. The Zoning Plan includes the area where the first new building, SPACE, will be built as well as the renovation of existing ones, the wooden windmill and Möllegården.

The Zoning Plan regulates what is to be in the area including building land as well as public spaces such as squares, parks and streets. It comprises a formal layout and explanatory illustrations and descriptions. The consultation process will take place from late June to mid-September.

Proposed Zoning Plan.

For those interested the Zoning Plan is published on Lund Municipality’s website during the consultation period. There you will find information on how to give your opinion.