Sven Rosenkvist

The city is constantly changing, and so are we

A modern and smart city is safe and secure, and it offers, appreciates, and facilitates access to a good social and physical environment for the city’s residents. A smart city stimulates and utilises the power and knowledge found within all people, businesses, and organisations, and it creates good conditions for all these groups to be able to interact and work together in different ways.

The Family Erik Banck’s Foundation is a foundation for the benefit of the public with the goal of creating good rent-free housing for Helsingborg’s elderly. It has now – eighty years after the Banck Family gave its first loving gift to Helsingborg – chosen to continue on in the spirit of giving. The city is fantastic, but it also faces a continuing challenge in creating mixed and good-quality housing environments, and that includes in the city’s most attractive locations.

The foundation wants to give people in different circumstances the opportunity to live in some of the city’s most attractive areas and create vibrant, exciting, and safer home environments that enrich everyone. We believe that a good mix of elderly and young people, pensioners and professionals, is beneficial both for the individual but also for the smart city.

Through this, we also make it possible for more people to gain access to what the inner-city has the offer. The city is constantly changing, and so are we. We have therefore created an ocean-inspired boutique hostel in one of our city properties. The idea is for visitors, in an atmosphere of community, sustainability, and generosity, to be able to find reasonably priced, central accommodation while at the same time contributing to making a difference to the lives of the elderly.

When we open up the possibilities for people in different circumstances to live in attractive areas, it makes a big difference to the individual tenants, but it also creates more vibrant, exciting, and safer inner-cities.

The Family Erik Banck’s Foundation can, and wants to, do more. By collaborating with the city and others, we can reach even further. Hopefully we can also inspire other players in Helsingborg’s housing market.

Sven Rosenkvist
The Family Erik Banck’s Foundation

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Alexandra Hvalgren

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.

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.

The city is constantly changing, and so are we

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