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Innovation in the Public Sector

Capacity development programme based on Agenda 2030

This year, Lund University is completing four international education programmes within the Swedish Institute's Public Sector Innovation Programme and starting four more that will run during 2023 to 2024. 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 2023–2024

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:

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

Innovation in Governance for Urban Nature-based Solutions

Duration of the programme: June 2023–May 2024
Target countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine

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.

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

Duration of the programme: August 2023–May 2024
Target countries: Cambodia, Indonesia, North Macedonia and Turkey

The programme focuses on increasing the capacity of municipal officials to co-design inclusive public environments and services. The programme is provided by Lund University’s Centre for Environmental and Climate Research (CEC), the Raoul Wallenberg Institute (RWI) and SKL International in collaboration with LUCE, the Department for Commissioned Education at Lund University.

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

Duration of the programme: May 2023–May 2024
Target countries: Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya.

The programme on New Welfare Services focuses on sustainable services for the East Africa Great Lakes Region and aims at highlighting sustainable service design and management as a tool for regional development. It focuses on governance as service, as well as governance as a facilitator for inclusive commercial service design, development, and management. Primarily the programme aims to increase and create more sustainable (social as well as environmental) national and inter-regional cooperation within and between industry-specific actors, where synergies between the respective industry-specific representatives. The programme is provided by the Department of Service Management and Service Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Lund University and Entebbe International University, Uganda for local facilitation and support in collaboration with LUCE, the Department for Commissioned Education at Lund University.

Previous programme offerings

Contact information

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

Innovation and Co-design for Inclusive Public Spaces and Services
codesign [at] education [dot] lu [dot] se

New Welfare Services – Sustainable Service Design as a driver for regional development: The Great Lakes region
NEWS [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

Programme partners