Three winners in the climate-friendly commuting competition

Today, around 60 per cent of all the employees within CoAction Lund travel sustainably to and from work. However, to achieve joint climate goals, more employees need to leave their car at home and instead choose to walk, cycle or take public transport. In addition, several major roadworks around Lund that started in the spring of 2025 meant traffic flows disruptions. 

The organisations therefore chose to challenge each other in a sustainable commuting competition with the aim of showing that sustainable commuting habits are possible – and make a difference. By the end of the five-week competition, 19 per cent of the participants had increased their sustainable travel. Looking in more detail at the target groups that had low sustainable commuting before the competition (max. 2 days per week), 70 per cent had increased their sustainable commuting during the competition.

A total of 19 organisations took part in the competition that had over 1,000 participants. The competition concluded with a CoAction party in Stadsparken, where the competition winners were presented. Prizes were awarded both to the organisations that commuted most sustainably, and to individual staff members.

Prize-winning organisations

• The team with the highest total of points: LKF
• The team with most participants in percentage terms: Trivector Traffic
• The team that made the biggest journey toward change during the competition (the organisation that made the biggest change from unsustainable to sustainable travel): Wihlborgs

Winners from Lund University

Yuxiang Lim, doctoral student, Department of Energy Sciences
The individual with the highest total of points (drawn at random from among the top five of all the competitors)
Prize: Gift card (bike)

Tony Stillfjord, senior lecturer, Centre for Mathematical Sciences
The individual who registered sustainable travel every working day throughout the period (drawn at random from among all those who fulfilled the criterion). 
Prize: Gift card (bike)

Adina Olnert, HR partner, Departmental Office for Medicine 
The individual who tried combining a new means of transport or route (drawn at random from among all those who took on the bonus assignment). Prize: Skånetrafiken Sommarkort (summer travel card)

Results at LU 

1. Yuxiang Lim, Faculty of Engineering (LTH) (2)
2. Ylva van Meeningen, Faculty of Science (15)
3. Aferdita, Central Administration (16)
4. Maria Södergren, Faculty of Science (20)
5. Helena Fritz, Faculty of Medicine (28)
6. Louise Berglund, Faculty of Science (29)
7. Malin Å, Faculty of Science (35)
8. Timo Vilkas, School of Economics and Management (41)
9. Emilié Larsson, Faculty of Medicine (44)
10. Jenny Nilsson, Faculty of Medicine (48)