About CSS

Since then, the focus has widened to include:

• human-animal-nature relations and sustainability (One Health)
• music
• soundscapes and health
• disaster-related disorders
• kindness and wisdom

Purpose

The purpose of CSS is to map ongoing research in social sustainability, initiate and support research projects and identify factors preventing and enhancing collaboration within organisations and society. It also aims to build national and international networks to co-create projects within the areas of empathy, compassion, trust and altruism.

Mission

The mission of CSS is to continue developing the CSS platform for researchers, educators and practitioners from different disciplines, and serve as a springboard for action-oriented and system-building practices.

Collaboration

CSS is carrying out research projects on social sustainability with collaborators such as:

• Lund University
• Royal College of Music in Stockholm
• Royal College of Technology
• Stockholm school of Economics
• Gothenburg University
• Linköping University
• Uppsala University

It also collaborates with international educational institutions such as:

• Helsinki University
• Georgetown University
• Harvard University
• University of Chicago
• Imperial College
• London School of Economics
• Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law
• International Law in Heidelberg
• University of Pavia
• Global Brain Institute in Ireland
• King’s College in London
• Paris Technological University

Together with these institutions, we explore the research forefronts linking medicine, arts, technology, economics, psychology, and cognitive science, with a social sustainability perspective.