Campus Ultuna receives Green Flag Award for the eighth year in a row

Ultuna continues to receive high marks for its green campus environment and its ambitious plans to refine and refine further. 

- Outdoor environments play an important role in creating attractive campuses where students, researchers and visitors thrive and feel good, and where the environments contribute to learning, performance and recovery. This award is proof that we have succeeded. It gives us valuable external feedback and drives us to constantly improve," says Markus Göransson, Head of Department at Akademiska Hus. 

SLU Kunskapsparken, which is part of campus, also receives praise from the judges as well as the work with biodiversity.

"We have been working for several years to increase biodiversity both in the park and on the rest of the campus, and it is starting to show now. The Kungsäng lilies thrive better in the moist grassland south of Ull's restaurant when it is mowed less often. The meadow areas from our experiments in 2016 have fared well and the regular landscape maintenance on the burial mounds and in Tyskbacken to preserve the campus's unusual dry-hill flora with anemones and wild thyme is noticeable," says John Green, Outdoor Environment Coordinator at SLU: s Department of Infrastructure.

The Green Flag Award has been presented for over 20 years and is administered by Keep Britain Tidy, on behalf of the UK Department of Local Government. The purpose of the Green Flag Award is to recognise and reward well-maintained parks and green spaces, setting a standard for the care and maintenance of recreational spaces in the UK and around the world. In Sweden, there are only two facilities that have received this award; in addition to Campus Ultuna, Jonsered's gardens in Partille.

"Our vision is to continue to develop Campus Ultuna into a place where students, employees and visitors can thrive and work outdoors with a low environmental impact and high quality," concludes Markus Göransson at Akademiska Hus.