Alexandra Hvalgren

The Vision Fund

In 2016, the author Conny Palmqvist came to the Vision Fund looking for funding for a little documentary on the Sewing Club, a group that smuggled refugees across the strait in the 1940s. The film was picked up by Danish television, which made SVT sit up and pay attention. This year, a book is being written based on that film. SVT is discussing a large-scale documentary project and an American production company is interested in making a miniseries of Conny’s story. This is a great example of how a small local project can make ripples in the water, all the way to the US. There are so many amazing projects and passionate people! Through the Vision Fund you can get money to test something that would otherwise have trouble finding support. It’s not purely a cultural fund or innovation fund, it’s a mixture!

You can work with both integration and tech, or maybe a combination of the two? It’s not only funding that’s available but also support and help with lowering the thresholds in the city. The Vision Fund is for the brave people who are doing something that no one else in Helsingborg has done. Something that can benefit the people of the city. One of the craziest projects was the Vegetable Ballet, where a bunch of retired dancers went around dressed as vegetables at HX Festival, showing off some very advanced choreography. The aim was to get older people to eat more vegetables, and it worked! Another favourite is Cinderella, who moved home from the US at the same time as the big influx of refugees in 2015. She saw that many people had a hard time learning Swedish, and she asked herself what she could do about it. She got help with starting a song language café. For a year, people came to Dunkers to sing in Swedish and learn what the songs were about – it was a quick and fun way to get those first essential basics with a new language. The Vision Fund is the first and biggest opportunity for many to make something of their own. There are grants of up to SEK 100,000 available. I’m trying to be like a squid and use my tentacles to spread the word on the Vision Fund all over town.

Alexandra Hvalgren
Idea Coach

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We live in a society of excess and we need to adapt our behaviour to consume in a more sustainable way. When a product has been used up according to the user, the product can live on in a new form with a new user – we create a cycle of resources.

Eva Ståhl

We live in a society of excess and we need to adapt our behaviour to consume in a more sustainable way. When a product has been used up according to the user, the product can live on in a new form with a new user – we create a cycle of resources.

Hamse Kjerstadius

The City of Helsingborg will be the first in Sweden to build a large-scale urban sewer system for waste separation in Oceanhamnen. Starting from the 1960s, the current sewer system has to a large extent been extended in stages to solve the environmental problems arising from the city’s sewage.

Hanna Bergström

I have found my community in Helsingborg, and it gives me the support and drive I need to continue working for what I believe in.

An innovation culture starts behind the school desk. Or rather around it. Above, under, beside, and in front of the school desk. Perhaps more specifically, in the whole classroom, the whole school, the whole municipality.

Hugo Lunsjö

An innovation culture starts behind the school desk. Or rather around it. Above, under, beside, and in front of the school desk. Perhaps more specifically, in the whole classroom, the whole school, the whole municipality.

“My ideas are being heard, and that’s impressive”
I am active in Helsingborg’s divers club Delfinen, and we pick up trash from the ocean floor at least once a year.

Jonny Magnusson

“My ideas are being heard, and that’s impressive”
I am active in Helsingborg’s divers club Delfinen, and we pick up trash from the ocean floor at least once a year.

Within the enormous wood industry, both producers and researchers are searching for more sustainable binding agents as an alternative to the synthetic products used today in, for example, particleboard. Greener adhesives are needed, and that’s where we come in.

Mahmood Hameed

Within the enormous wood industry, both producers and researchers are searching for more sustainable binding agents as an alternative to the synthetic products used today in, for example, particleboard. Greener adhesives are needed, and that’s where we come in.

When I moved to Helsingborg, not in my wildest dreams did I think that someday I would be involved with the city, running community projects and would meet such amazing people. It all started with being wholly lost in translation in my first few months, looking for information and things to do.

Parul Ghosh

When I moved to Helsingborg, not in my wildest dreams did I think that someday I would be involved with the city, running community projects and would meet such amazing people. It all started with being wholly lost in translation in my first few months, looking for information and things to do.

In the innovation initiative that the City of Helsingborg has launched with H22, we’re aiming for big, bold changes – what’s known as radical innovation. This ambition involves two key prerequisites that clearly differentiate innovation from traditional development.

Patrick Lindqvist

In the innovation initiative that the City of Helsingborg has launched with H22, we’re aiming for big, bold changes – what’s known as radical innovation. This ambition involves two key prerequisites that clearly differentiate innovation from traditional development.

Innovation is important but sometimes can be hard to understand, or for that matter describe. But if you put the world ‘social’ before it, it’s another thing altogether.

Poul Witting

Innovation is important but sometimes can be hard to understand, or for that matter describe. But if you put the world ‘social’ before it, it’s another thing altogether.

Dialogue work is about engagement, community, happiness, and trust. Happiness is an especially important aspect for me. Every person deserves to be met with a smile and a greeting. This is the moment when the potential for dialogue and a sense of community is realised.

Saul Sagnia

Dialogue work is about engagement, community, happiness, and trust. Happiness is an especially important aspect for me. Every person deserves to be met with a smile and a greeting. This is the moment when the potential for dialogue and a sense of community is realised.

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