An industrial research centre with oat in focus

Who we are

Passionate about oat, we are working together, for more knowledge and products

What we do

In six work packages, from genome to healthy, sustainable products and tests in a wet milling pilot plant, scientists and companies work together to get knowledge and new, innovative products

Ystad Summit 2024

ScanOats deltog med temat Havre: igår, idag och imorgon

På scen var ScanOats programdirektör och professor Leif Bűlow, WP-ledarna och forskarna Lieselotte Cloetens och Sofia Marmon, samt styrelseordförande och tidigare Vd Lantmännen R&D Mats Larsson. Moderator var Cecilia Nebel.

Om du missade att få veta mer om hur havre kan förbättra hälsan, gynna svensk industri och möta de miljö- och klimatutmaningar vi står inför, kan du se hela inslaget här…

“Our goal is to develop food industry using oat as the fundamental ingredient”

– CEO, Leif Bülow

Our ambition with ScanOats is to take a world-leading role in the development of unique products and applications based on oat. The centre will form a link between advanced basic research and industrial applications. This dual approach will benefit Swedish industry, society and agriculture in terms of new knowledge, new products, improved health, a more sustainable environment, increased exports and new jobs. Through the unifying force that ScanOats will provide, we expect that a variety of products and innovations will be delivered partly through members’ activities and partly by ScanOats directly.

Our goals
  • ​Develop new oat varieties
  • Develop new ingredients
  • Promote cultivation of oats
  • Increase the number of application areas
  • Double the exports of oat based products
  • Educate 8-12 experts, start 1-2 companies and create >100 new jobs​
Who we are

Lund University and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) together with Lantmännen and Oatly AB working in a strong collaboration with each other.

Organisation

ScanOats is managed by a Centre Board represented by Lantmännen and Oatly. Both companies with a long tradition and experience of working with oat and oat products. The day-to-day management is handled by a Centre director.

New PhD thesis from ScanOats

Mohammad Mukul Hossain defended June 13th his thesis Health Benefits of Oat (Avena Sativa) Bioactives: Acute and Second-meal Effects of Oat Polar Lipids and Beta-glucans

New PhD thesis from ScanOats

Siri Norlander defended 10th of November her thesis Harvesting the Health Potentials of Oat Fibre: Xylanase bioprocessing of Arabinoxylan

Read the popular science summary…

New PhD thesis from ScanOats

Alfia Khairullina defended 29th of September her PhD thesis Controlling Fusarium head blight in oat.

Read the popular science summary…

ScanOats gets its first PhD

Nikos Tsardakas Renhuldt defended 1st of September his PhD thesis Annotating and making use of the Avena sativa cv. Sang reference genome. Read the popular science summary…

Havrens hela genuppsättning publicerat i tidskriften Nature

Nu har forskare på ScanOats och CropTailor i Lund kartlagt och karakteriserat havrens hela genuppsättning

ScanOats utvecklar framtidens hälsosamma havre

ScanOats utvecklar framtidens hälsosamma havre

Forskningscentrumets ambition är att ta en världsledande roll i utvecklingen av unika produkter och applikationer med goda hälsoeffekter baserade på havre. Framtidens Forskning, nr 1, 2024

Cecilia Tullberg is awarded the prize for young researchers

Cecilia Tullberg is awarded the prize for young researchers

Cecilia Tullberg, WP leader in ScanOats, is awarded the prize for young researchers from Kåre Larsson och Gunnar Sandbergs forskningsstiftelse - Camurus Lipid Research Foundation, for her scientific achievements. Dr. Cecilia Tullberg (ScanOats and Division of...

Meet ScanOats work packages leaders

Meet ScanOats work packages leaders

Meet ScanOats work packages leaders Sofia Marmon, Alfredo Zambrano, Johanna Wetterlind (not pictured), Cecilia Tullberg, Lieselotte Cloetens and Martin Hedström…

ScanOats R&D

1] The oat genome

2] New oat varieties

3] Sustainable oat cultivation

4] Oat processing

Oat diets

5] Oat diet for disease prevention

Oat diets

6] The Pilot plant