About START - Centre for Sustainable Agrifood Systems

START is a research driven collaboration platform that enables crucial knowledge-sharing across universities and offers researchers an unique opportunity to engage in new national partnerships with an international focus. The platform favours interdisciplinary collaborations across all sciences disciplines. The strong, integrative, inclusive and interdisciplinary profile of START enables the researchers to adopt mission-based research approaches that impel solutions and strategies for a more sustainable development of the agrifood system.

Strategy

How we work in compliance with the national ambitions and targets for sustainability in agrifood systems in Denmark, in line with agreed international goals and objectives? Learn more here.

Organisation

Read more about how START is organised in a joint effort by the united Danish universities, based on a distributed governance model and operated by the START Steering Committee under a rotation chair principal.

Administrative team

START is operated by the Administrative team represented by the eight danish universities involved. Get an overview of the full START Administrative Team and Hub coordinators here.

START Key Strategic Areas

START is focused and organized around seven strategic priority areas defined as key issues in the green transition of the agrifood system – all of which requires an integrative, inclusive and interdisciplinary approach and collaboration in order to find future green solutions.

START focus´ on seven key priority areas within the green transition of the agrifood system. — The seven key priority areas of START.

Motivation and incentives

Research networks across disciplines
Funding opportunities and consortia
Increased exposure to European and national research and innovation landscapes
Increased international impact and visibility
Increased access to research infrastructures across the institutions
Increased access to data, analyses, and models