Karolinska Institutet’s Sustainability Award
Many students and staff at KI promote sustainability in different ways. The aim of KI's Sustainability Award is to celebrate and inspire continued and new actions for sustainable development at KI.
Recipient 2024
Photo: Stefan ZimmermanEmma Swärdh receives KI’s Sustainability Award
KI has presented this year’s sustainability award to Assistant Senior Lecturer Emma Swärdh for her dedication and leadership in the field of sustainable development. Created in 2023, the award was presented at KI’s Sustainability Day for the second time.
Recipients 2023
Photo: Erik FlygHanna Karlsson and Sara Widén receive KI’s new Sustainability Award
Hanna Karlsson and Sara Widén are the first ever recipients of KI’s new Sustainability Award, which they have earned in recognition of their efforts to support the KI faculty on issues of sustainability. They were presented with the award consisting of SEK 30 000 by KI's president Annika Östman Wernerson at KI's Sustainability Day on 24 May 2023.
What does the award entail?
The winner is presented at KI's Sustainability Day and is awarded a diploma and a check of SEK 30 000 to develop or enhance the awarded initiative or activity at KI.
Who can nominate for the award?
Heads of departments, directors, environmental and sustainability representatives and the student unions at KI are encouraged by direct invitation to nominate one or several candidates for the award. The motivation should include examples of how candidates has contributed to sustainability work within KI, as well as the effects the work has had and is expected to have in the future.
How is the award decided?
KI's Council for Environment and Sustainable Development decides on the award, based on a review of the nominations made by an assessment group.
More about sustainability at KI
Photo: Getty ImagesSustainable development
An important part of KI:s sustainability work is to highlight and strengthen research and education that contribute to knowledge about how society affects human health, now, in the future, locally and globally.
Photo: Gabriel Holmbom Eg Design/CONCORD SverigeEnvironment and Climate Action Plan 2021-2024
By 2030, Karolinska Institutet will be a groundbreaking, engaged and global university, as stated in the KI's Strategy 2030. Sustainability is a prerequisite for this work and will permeate all of the university's activities, including ensuring that the campus is environmentally and socially sustainable in the long term.