In 2017, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences' campus Ultuna was the first to receive the Green Flag Award in Sweden. SLU and Akademiska Hus now receive the award for the fourth year in a row, thus showing that the award-winning green areas continue to develop.
Ultuna continues to receive high marks for its green areas and its ambitious plans to further refine and refine. The knowledge park receives particularly good grades and is a place for both research and recreation. A big part of the Green Flag Award is also to get feedback on the work that is done.
-I am proud to receive the award again because we have intensified the work of making the Ultuna campus a place for recovery, creativity and work. Not only for our employees and students but also for all local, national and international visitors to campus, says John Lööf Green, outdoor environment coordinator at SLU's real estate department.
-I believe that the work with the campus leads to better studies, research and innovation, not least in the outdoor environment area where we have already been able to see concrete results in the form of alternatives to lawns. Now I hope that together with Akademiska hus we can take that work further in areas such as land construction, city trees and green roofs, John Lööf Green continues.
-It is very gratifying that Campus Ultuna receives the Green Flag Award again. We see this as proof of our good collaboration with SLU, where we have together developed Ultuna into a campus at a sustainable cutting edge. The area is used by both students and researchers but is also an open, green asset for the whole of Uppsala - something that feels important at a time when we have to spend more and more time outdoors, says Marie Löwling, property manager at Akademiska Hus.
The Green Flag Award has been awarded for over 20 years and is administered by Keep Britain Tidy, on behalf of the British Ministry of Local Government. The purpose of the Green Flag Award is to draw attention to and reward well-kept parks and green spaces and thus set a standard for the care and maintenance of recreational areas in the UK as well as in the rest of the world.
In Sweden, there are only two facilities that have received this award; in addition to Campus Ultuna also Jonsered's gardens in Partille, which received its first flag this year.