1. Presentation of SLU Facts and figures based on the 2016 annual report
Welcome to this brief introduction to SLU. The presentation shows SLU's overall goals and visions, how SLU is organised and some key figures from our annual report for 2016.
SLU is a university with a unique profile, engaged in education, research and environmental monitoring and assessment. Our knowledge is central to several of the major challenges we face, for example supplying a growing world population with food, animal feed, fibres, energy and materials in an efficient and sustainable manner.
Presentation of SLU Facts and figures based on the 2016 annual report

2. Mission statement Vision
SLU develops the understanding and sustainable use and management of biological natural resources.
This is achieved by research, education and environmental monitoring and assessment, in collaboration with the surrounding community.
Vision
SLU is a world-class university in the fields of life and environmental sciences.
SLU has a number of strategic objectives, for instance that the work we do should be of the highest international class and that there should be close links between education and research.
Our research, education and environmental monitoring and assessment should be conducted in collaboration with selected higher education institutions, the relevant sectors and the community as a whole. One key goal is that SLU should strengthen Sweden's position as a knowledge nation and contribute to the sustainable global use and management of natural resources.

3. SLU nationwide
SLU is a university with a nationwide presence, its largest campuses being at Alnarp, Skara, Umeå and Uppsala. SLU has a unique profile, focused on areas of strategic importance to society - nationally and globally.
SLU develops knowledge on agriculture, forestry and horticulture from Skåne in the south of Sweden to Norrbotten in the far north.
This geographical distribution also provides a unique opportunity for regional collaboration.
SLU conducts activities of varying scope at just over 30 locations in the country, including all experimental parks and experimental stations.

4. Organisation Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation University Board
Internal audit
SLU is the only higher education institution falling within the responsibility of the Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation. The university comprises four faculties, 36 departments and units, a number of administrative units and some twenty collaborative centres.
SLU Holding is a wholly-owned subsidiary whose mission is to encourage entrepreneurialism and the commercialisation of innovations.
SLU is also home to the only university animal hospital in Sweden.
SLU Holding AB
Administration
Vice-Chancellor
University Animal Hospital
Library
Faculty of Landscape Planning, Horticulture and Crop Production Science
Faculty of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science
Faculty of Forest Sciences
Departments and units

5. Our special strength is …
We create and integrate knowledge about production, the environment, and animal and human health and quality of life, combining scientific excellence with competence in application- oriented issues.
From: SLU’s strategy 2017–2020
Agriculture and horticulture
Landscape planning
Food production
Nature conservation
Forestry and wood processing
Fisheries and aquaculture
Veterinary medicine and livestock husbandry
The SLU of today is a modern university, conducting work of high quality in fields of great relevance to society, nationally as well as globally.
Our knowledge is central to several of the major global challenges: food supply, productivity in agriculture and forestry, land use, water shortage and water quality, pandemics and zoonoses, climate change, impoverishment of genetic and aquatic resources, non-renewable raw materials, urbanisation and lifestyle changes.

6. Four future platforms
To address complex issues holistically, SLU has gathered its strengths to create four inter-faculty and interdisciplinary research platforms:
Future Forests
Future Food
Urban Future
Future Animals and Health
SLU's interfaculty ‘Future’ platforms have enabled us to create new structures for research.
The platforms provide a base for work done by natural and social scientists, humanists and design scientists, together with sector representatives, on identifying research needs and carrying out interdisciplinary analyses and syntheses.

7. Breakdown of expenditure
Total costs: SEK 3,172 million
Environmental monitoring and assessment 13%
SLU is a research-intensive university. More than two-thirds of our budget goes to research and doctoral (third-cycle) education. Courses and programmes at undergraduate and Master’s level account for 17 per cent. Environmental monitoring and assessment is a field unique to SLU.
Undergraduate and Master’s courses and programmes 16%
Research and
doctoral education 71%

8. Main funding sources (SEK)
SLU’s external funding has increased by 9 per cent between 2012 and In 2016, external funding amounted to 52 per cent of the total. More than half of the external funding is made up of grants from research councils and scientific foundations, that is grants awarded in competition and after a review process. The single biggest funder is the research council Formas (SEK 276 million in 2016).
External funding
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
50%
53%
52%

9. Scientific publications
Number of papers with at least one SLU author 2007–2016
SLU researchers published about 1,600 articles and reviews during 2016, an increase by about 11 percent compared to Most articles were published in the areas of ecology and environmental science, followed by forest science, plant science and veterinary medicine.
10.5 per cent of the scientific articles from SLU belong to the 10 percent most widely cited in their fields. In plant science and marine and freshwater biology, more than 20 per cent of the articles are among the 10 per cent most widely cited.

10. Doctoral (third-cycle) education
SLU has around 600 active doctoral students. Of these, 59 per cent are women. The number of new admissions has fallen in recent years but increased again in 2016, when 95 new doctoral students were admitted.
SLU has around 600 active doctoral students, half of whom are women. In 2016, 131 people were awarded their doctorate.

11. Degree programmes 23 undergraduate programmes
17 Master’s programmes, mostly in English
3,745 full-time students (2016)
4 students per teacher
Good exchange agreements and international collaboration
SLU has a high teacher-student ratio, and more teachers holding a doctorate per student than any other university in Sweden.
In the survey done by the Swedish Higher Education Authority (Studentspegeln/Student Mirror), SLU students rate their courses and programmes very highly when it comes to for example the number of hours of classroom, the discussion climate in class and the close links to research.
Our professional programmes start at Bachelor’s level. Applicants per place for programmes varies. Animal-related courses and programmes have the highest number of applicants. All Master's programmes except one are taught in English.
In 2016, 850 students graduated from SLU.

12. 23 undergraduate programmes
Bachelor’s/professional programmes
Agricultural and rural management
Biology and environmental science
Companion and sports animals
Economics
Economics – sustainable development
Equine science
Ethology and animal welfare
Forest management
Horticultural management – cultivation
Horticultural management – design
Landscape engineer
Veterinary nursing
Longer professional programmes
Agricultural science – economics
Agricultural science – animal science
Agricultural science – rural development
Agricultural science – food science
Agricultural science – soil/plant
Energy systems engineering (UU)
Environmental and water engineering (UU)
Horticultural science
Forest science
Landscape architecture – Alnarp
Landscape architecture – Ultuna
Veterinary medicine

13. Environmental monitoring and assessment – EMA
Delivers science-based decision support
Guided by societal needs
Constantly evolving
Environmental monitoring and assessment is a unique SLU mission in addition to education and research. Using our knowledge about ecosystems and how we use them, SLU delivers science-based decision support for Sweden's national environmental objectives and the work with global sustainability goals, as well as our commitments under international agreements.
The objective is to highlight resource use in society and its environmental impact, in support of a growing bioeconomy and long-term sustainable development.
In concrete terms, it’s about SLU analysing environmental trends. This requires expert knowledge about coastal areas and seas, forests, agricultural landscapes, lakes and watercourses and species and high-quality environmental data.
Analysing changes in the environment also requires continuity in data collection to generate the long-time data series needed. At the same time, EMA needs to constantly adapt to adjust to new societal needs, new knowledge and new technology.
SLU is an internationally leading actor within EMA, and also in the forefront of publishing the results as open access.
EMA at SLU has become an important hub for environmental monitoring based on volunteering, so-called citizen science. One of our flagships is the Species Observations System, which to date contains over 50 million species observations and has been known to report over 20,000 observations in a single day.

14. Ten EMA programmes Forest Agricultural Landscapes
Lakes and Watercourses
Coastal and Sea Areas
Built Environment
Climate
Biodiversity
Eutrophication
Acification
Non-toxic Environment
EMA meets society’s need for decision support in the ten programmes linked to Sweden's national environmental objectives, global sustainability goals and international environmental cooperation. Each programme has one or two coordinators who act as contact points for their respective area.
EMA activities are mainly financed through external funds and clients include the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management, the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and the Swedish Board of Agriculture. SLU is Sweden’s largest actor in environmental monitoring and assessment.
Some examples of major EMA projects are the Swedish National Forest Inventory’s annual forest statistics, the work done by the Swedish Species Information Centre on threatened species and the annual assessment of the conditions for fish and shellfish done by the Department of Aquatic Resources.
SLU cooperates with national and international stakeholders as well as organisations in the field of environmental assessment. For example, we are partners in the ETC Biodiversity consortium, which assists the European Environmental Agency with data on biodiversity.
SLU researchers head various working groups within Helcom, a convention for protection of the marine environment of the Baltic Sea. Another example is the considerable presence of SLU researchers in ICES, the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea.
In addition, SLU researchers assist in Sweden’s international reporting to the UN convention on climate change, UNFCCC, on the carbon sink of Swedish forests and trends in other land use categories.
The research vessel R/V Dana at a bottom trawl sampling in the North Sea for the monitoring of EU fisheries policy.

15. Gender distribution
The number of women in each staff category and students
In most staff categories, the distribution of gender is between 40 and 60 per cent, with the exceptions of professors, lecturers, library staff and administrative staff. The number of female professors was 29 per cent in 2016, a reduction of 1 per cent compared to 2015.

16. Breakdown of income Total turnover SEK 3,350 million Financial >0%
Fees 21%
Direct government funding accounts for 52 per cent of incomes. Compared to 2015, government funding has increased by SEK 74 million (4 per cent). This increase is above all due to an increase in the funding for education of 30 million, bringing it up to the same level as before 2012, when funding was reduced by the same amount.
Incomes from fees have shrunk by 4 percent, which is due to a reduction in the number of employees. The incomes from fees and other payments have increaed by 10 per cent, primarily due to increased incomes from animal care and from conference events.
Direct government funding 52%
External grants 28%

17. P/L account (million SEK)
Profit and loss account
2015
2016
% (2016)
Income
Direct government funding
1,657
1,732 52
Fees and payments
627
688 20
External grants
960
924 28
Financial income
3.7 7
Total
3,248
3,350
Expenditure
Personnel costs
1,948
1,962 61
Premises
396
404 12
Operating costs
691
736 23
Financial expenses
3.9 8
Depreciation and amortisation
135
137 4
3,246
Operating profit
103
The university's finances are balanced, showing a surplus of SEK 103 million, including the results from fully-owned SLU companies.