For us, innovation is more than just new ideas. It is creating value and contributing to a more sustainable and equal society where, in collaboration with other social actors, we create, share and spread knowledge to understand, explain and develop society.

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In the autumn of 2023, Malmö University launched an exciting new idea competition, exclusively tailored for students. The mission? To ignite creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship for a sustainable future. FutureMakers provides Malmö University students with a unique opportunity to unlock the potential of their visionary ideas. Participants compete for a generous prize of 50,000 SEK to help their visions come to life. The competition spans throughout the autumn, culminating in the grand finale—the FutureMakers Award. FutureMakers is organized in proud collaboration with the Sparbanken Syds Foundation.

Stormathon is an innovation development challenge at Malmö University that gives students the opportunity to develop skills in creativity, problem solving and entrepreneurship in collaboration with business, the public sector and the non-profit sector. The challenge aims to prepare students for future professional life and to practice identifying and finding innovative solutions to societal challenges linked to their future roles in working life. Stormathon is based on complex issues and societal challenges where the solutions require interdisciplinary collaborations that bridge organisational boundaries and are co-created with actors outside the university.

Innovation environments

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The innovation environment Storm is a creative and social meeting place that aims to inspire and promote the development of new ideas, innovative power and entrepreneurship at Malmö University. The environment is specifically designed to explore, develop and facilitate new ways of working, both within the University and in collaboration with other actors in society.

People working on projects in a classroom.

DESIS Lab (Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability) focuses on how design can be used to explore and spark discussions about society's challenges. This is done through research and teaching.

MaU Innovation's mission is to apply knowledge from Malmö University to make a difference and improve our society. We support researchers, students and other employees at Malmö University who want to develop their ideas or create value with their research. Together, we transform research results and ideas into products, methods, processes and services that create value and contribute to solutions to the societal challenges of our time.

MaU Holding is Malmö University's holding company and part of the university's innovation activities. We invest in companies that conduct research and development work for the commercialisation of projects and knowledge, developed or created within the framework of the activities at Malmö University. Our mission is to ensure that knowledge benefits society - to create new companies based on knowledge and research results from Malmö University that contribute to a sustainable and equal society.

Forum for Social Innovation Sweden

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The Forum for Social Innovation Sweden is a national knowledge and collaboration platform for social innovation and social entrepreneurship in Sweden, based at Malmö University. Together with academia, business and public and other creative actors, we build a capacity for innovation that meets societal challenges.

Anna and Savita.

Researchers at Malmö University collaborate with actors from all sectors of society. The aim is to create mutual added value for the University, participating parties and society. As a higher education institution, Malmö University contributes with research-based knowledge and education. The videos are in Swedish but English subtitles can be added.

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