Kristina Göransson, Senior Lecturer at the School of Social Work, represented Lund University's Faculty of Social Sciences at the Swedish Academic Collaboration Forum (SACF) in Singapore on 3-4 November. The project's aim is to make Swedish research better known abroad and enable new international collaborations.
The project was initiated by Lund University and implemented in cooperation with Stockholm University, KTH, Chalmers, Uppsala and Linköping University. The project consists of the six universities jointly organizing seminars in a number of selected countries during 2015 and 2016: Brazil, China, Indonesia, Singapore and Korea. The seminars are organized in collaboration with universities and government agencies in their respective host countries.
The overall theme of the seminar in Singapore was the challenges in urban communities. Kristina Göransson presented her research on ethnographic perspectives on generations and aging in the session on "Ageing Societies and Innovative Ideas ". SACF is financed by the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (stint).