At IKEA Food we are passionate food lovers that from our Malmö office develop and provide food for the many people around the world. Every year 680 million visitors experience a taste of Sweden in the IKEA Restaurants, Swedish Food Markets and Bistros in our different markets.

With an ambitious health- and sustainability agenda, we want to deepen our knowledge base on the concept of sustainable nutrition and find ways to integrate it into our product development process.

We are looking for you with an interest in food, nutrition, and sustainability to lead this project and deliver a tool we can use to create better food for people and the planet.

We are looking for a food/nutrition student to write their Master or Bachelor thesis.

The aim of the assignment is to create a deeper understanding of the robustness of our internal nutritional profiling system (NPS) IFNPS by comparing with other external NPSs, e.g., Nutriscore. This includes:

• Perform nutritional evaluation of IFNPS by comparing towards externally available front-of-pack (FOP) nutrition labelling systems.  
• Identify strengths, gaps or challenges in IFNPS that can be used to support ongoing and future communication activities, and feed into review and updates of INFPS.  
• Perform a field study to investigate purchasing behavior based on provided nutrition information in the form of FOP solutions, either based on IFNPS or e.g., Nutriscore.  

The assignment will include scientific research and benchmarking as well as development of a field study framework to investigate difference between different NPSs. By the end of the assignment, the student should be able to present a science-based recommendation for the performance of IFNPS, improvement possibilities of the IFNPS as well as give insights on consumer behaviors related to NPSs in general and the ones included in the study in more detail.

You are a curious, motivated, and self-lead nutrition- and health talent, with a specific interest in the intersection between Food, Health and Sustainability. You have experience researching complex topics and communicating that research in simple ways. We want you to do the thesis during the spring term of 2023. 

We offer you a couple of months in the Health- and Nutrition team at IKEA Food where you have the opportunity to make an impact on people and planet. We are physically present in Malmö, Sweden, but could offer flexibility in location and working hours, so you can work part-time or full-time between January and July 2023. During your thesis you will have a dedicated mentor.

Apply latest by 20th of November. In your application we would like your comprehensive CV, a motivational letter, and a proposal for how you would go about the assignment, all in English. If you have any further questions about the internship, contact Nutrition and Health Leader Elin Boll at [email protected].

We look forward to working with you to continue building our knowledge on healthy and sustainable living!

Please note: 
To take part of the Thesis work, you must be enrolled in a thesis course provided at university level/Thesis agreement with the university.