The university has 39,000 students and 5,600 employees.

About Stockholm Environment Insitute (SEI)
SEI is an international research institute that works with policy related issues within the environmental and sustainable development fields. The institute carries on applied research within the following areas: climate, energy, air pollution, ozone, land and water use, urban environments, risk- and vulnerability and also does strategic environmental studies. SEI runs projects in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America. The institute has, besides its head office in Stockholm, offices in Boston, Tallin, York, Oxford, and Bangkok.

SEI seeks to be a leader in the creation of a new field of sustainability science aimed at understanding the fundamental character of interaction between nature and society, and to contribute to the capacities of different societies to build transitions to more sustainable futures.

About The Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics
The Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics is an international research institute of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. The institute conducts studies that lie in the borderland between ecology and economics and its staff collaborates with scholars and networks internationally.

Major objective of the institute is to carry out research and stimulate cooperation between scientists, university departments, research centres and institutes to promote a deeper understanding of the interplay between ecological systems and social and economic development.

Cooperation efforts include collaborative research between economists and ecologists and related disciplines on fundamental and applied problems in relation to sustainability, as well as teaching and training on those issues nationally and internationally.

Major activities include international research programmes, synthesis workshops, a broad set of research projects, teaching and training programs, dissemination of results, the science-policy interface and collaborative communication.

About Albaeco
Albaeco is an independent non-profit organisation communicating the latest in sustainability science with a focus on Nature´s importance to society and its economy.

It was founded 1998 by researchers in Natural Resource Management at Stockholm University together with people from advertising and media and funded by e.g. Sida, Formas, a private foundation, but also through consulting services, lectures and courses. Albaeco publishes two newsletters, helps scientists with mediarelations and has been responsible for the The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment outreach activities in Sweden.

Albaeco will collaborate with the Stockholm Resilience Centre on communications.