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Innovation in the Public Sector

Capacity development programme based on Agenda 2030

Lund University is completing four international education programmes within the Swedish Institute’s Public Sector Innovation Programme that started in 2023 and is offering three more that will run from 2024-2025. The purpose is to strengthen the capacity of professionals to contribute to innovation in the public sector and support the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Participants in the first round of the programmes on a study visit at Brunnshög in Lund. Photo.
Participants in the first round of the programmes on a study visit at Brunnshög in Lund. Photo: Johan Persson

Programmes offered during 2024–2025

Co-ordinated by the Lund University Department of Commissioned Education (shortcut links to page contents):

Delivered by the Lund University Faculty of Medicine’s Division for Social Medicine and Global Health:

  • Strengthening the multisectoral organisational capacity of sexual and gender-based violence in South Sudan, Uganda and Ethiopia through collaborative public sector innovation

Learn about the programme at the Lund University Research Portal

If you have any questions regarding the programme, please contact: jack [dot] palmieri [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (jack[dot]palmieri[at]med[dot]lu[dot]se).

Rights-Based Climate Adaptation in Armenia and Georgia

Duration of the programme: May 2024–August 2025
Open to applicants from: Armenia and Georgia
Application: Apply to the programme at dinkurs.se – deadline 21 April 2024

This programme aims to enhance the integration of human rights and gender equality into climate change adaptation (CCA) and disaster risk reduction (DRR) in Armenia and Georgia. The programme is provided by The Division of Risk Management and Societal Safety the Faculty of Engineering at Lund University and The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (RWI) in collaboration with LUCE, the Department for Commissioned Education at Lund University.

Learn more about the participating organisations:

Innovation in Governance for Urban Nature-based Solutions

Duration of the programme: June 2024– May 2025 
Open to applicants from: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine
Application: Apply to the programme at dinkurs.se – deadline 12 May 2024

The programme focuses on governance and leadership innovation in the area of Nature-based Solutions for improved urban environments. It is provided by the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) in collaboration with LUCE, the Department for Commissioned Education at Lund University.

Learn more about the participating organisations:

Previous programme offerings

New Welfare Services – Sustainable Service Design as a driver for Regional Development: The Great Lakes region

Innovation and Co-design for Sustainable, Resilient and Inclusive Public Spaces and Services

Innovation for Change in Public Transport

Human Rights and Gender Equality in Climate and Disaster Displacement

Innovation in Governance for Urban Nature-based Solutions

This programme is also offered from 2024–2025. Find more information in the programme text above this list.

Strengthening the multisectoral organisational capacity of sexual and gender-based violence in South Sudan, Uganda and Ethiopia through collaborative public sector innovation

Read more about the programme at the LU Research Portal

This programme is also offered in 2024–2025.

For more information, please contact jack [dot] palmieri [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (jack[dot]palmieri[at]med[dot]lu[dot]se).

Contact information

Rights-Based Climate Adaptation in Armenia and Georgia
risk [at] education [dot] lu [dot] se (risk[at]education[dot]lu[dot]se)

Innovation in Governance for Urban Nature-based Solutions
NBSinnovation [at] education [dot] lu [dot] se (NBSinnovation[at]education[dot]lu[dot]se)

Strengthening the multisectoral organisational capacity of sexual and gender-based violence in South Sudan, Uganda and Ethiopia through collaborative public sector innovation
jack [dot] palmieri [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (jack[dot]palmieri[at]med[dot]lu[dot]se)

Programme partners