InSyNC – Integrating Sustainability in Nutrition Care National Doctoral Programme

InSyNC (Integrating Sustainability into Nutrition Care) is the first national doctoral programme ever in dietetics.

This is a collaboration between all three Swedish universities with entitlement to award professional qualifications for dietitians: Uppsala University, Umeå University and University of Gothenburg.Dietitians, as experts in evidence-based nutrition care, are needed to an increasing extent in both health promotion work and highly specialized healthcare.

The main theme for the InSyNC programme is to integrate sustainability into nutrition care, with three focus areas:Nutrition and eating from a life course perspectiveNutrition in health promotion effortsAccess to high quality essential nutrition care through digitalization and innovation.Uppsala University coordinate the InSyNC, to which eleven doctoral students will be admitted.

Courses on 15 ECTS are held in collaboration between the universities. Joint annual symposia are organized, and in addition digital seminars take place several times per year.

National and international advisory boards are engaged.InSyNC will raise the quality of all dietetic educations in Sweden by building and integrating new knowledge in areas such as health promotion, digitalization and innovation as well as specialized nutrition care.

A new generation of teachers will develop research and teaching skills, expertise in nutrition and dietetics, and will be trained in applying a sustainability perspective through all these areas.