About the research station

Tovetorp Research Station is run by the Department of Zoology at Stockholm University. The station was inaugurated in 1969 based on buildings converted from a family farm. Building and expansions have regularly occurred over the years, including an office building, lecture hall, course building, and, most recently, the Signhild Engkvist laboratory in 2004. Both the buildings and grounds are managed by Statens Fastighetsverk.

Thanks to generous donations from two foundations (Stiftelsen Signhild och Olle Engkvist Byggmästare and Stiftelsen Marianne och Marcus Wallenbergs Stiftelse), our Course Building was built and inaugurated in 1994. Since then, most of the field courses in ecology, ethology, faunistics and floristics at Stockholm University spend around 5-10 days at Tovetorp every year. In our Course Building we can house around 40 students and teachers. The nature around Tovetorp provides great opportunities for students to research different habitats and, in addition, the course lab provides facilities for experiments.

Tovetorp consists of both research and education units, focused on animal ecology and behaviour. Every year, Tovetorp is visited by up to 600 students who live and study between 2-10 days at the station. Around 20 researchers actively conduct research at Tovetorp. The results from these research projects are regularly published in international research journals and are regularly publicized in newspapers, radio, and TV.