About SustainGov
SustainGov's mission is to achieve a reformed public sector by 2035 that holistically promotes and facilitates the health and well-being of all citizens regardless of geography and socio-economic status, and ensures society's sustainability transition within planetary boundaries.
SustainGov is an innovation program within Impact Innovation, Sweden's innovation initiative for the 2030s, an initiative of the Swedish Energy Agency, Formas (Swedish research council for sustainable development) and Vinnova (Sweden's innovation agency).
- We create the platform, contexts, tools and insights that will enable real transformation, innovation and societal impact at the system level. The program includes enabling the public sector to move from doing things right to doing the right things through a broad input portfolio that includes, among other things, exchange of experience, skills development, policy labs, new research, new methods, experiments and scale-up. That the public sector itself is involved in the implementation creates ownership of the change that needs to happen and ensures that it happens in a democratic, legally secure and effective way, says Mariell Juhlin, program manager SustainGov.
Mid Sweden University (Mittuniversitetet) is the coordinator for SustainGov and the teams leading the initiatives primarily include need owners in the public sector together with researchers and experts from academia, although the initiatives are open to more societal actors. The steering group includes representatives from the business and non-profit sectors together with the public sector and academia. The initiative also includes advisory bodies with researchers from several Swedish and European universities as well as former politicians.
Operations are carried out in close collaboration with 15 other parties - the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions, Bron Innovation, the County Administrative Board of Västerbotten, the Swedish Veterinary Agency, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, the municipalities of Norrbotten, the Stockholm School of Economics, Region Jämtland Härjedalen, DIGG - the Agency for Digital Government, Skellefteå Science City, Region Västernorrland, Karlstad University Samhällsnytta AB, Tomelilla Municipality, Södertörn University and Sundsvall Municipality.