Settling in
Malmö offers a wealth of professional communities, workplaces, and resources to help you get a strong start in your working life. Below you’ll find co-working spaces, establishing services, job resources, and organisations which host professional events in English.
Worklife in Malmö
Malmö is Sweden’s youngest and fastest-growing city, whose business sector is expanding more quickly than any other city in the country. Malmö has a track record of bold decisions regarding transformation, urban development, and sustainability.
Of the 365,000 people who live here, nearly half are under 35. People of 188 different nationalities from all around the world now call Malmö home.
With nearly 40,000 companies based here, Malmö offers a varied and dynamic business landscape, especially in the design, communication and tech sectors, where newcomers, small enterprises, and established brands thrive side by side in a vibrant mix.
Malmö’s business community is often described as diverse, creative, and down-to-earth—much like the city itself.
There is a strong sense of community in Malmö, and a tradition of creating together and sharing knowledge. The city is relatively small but well connected, which likely contributes to this culture: everything and everyone is close by, making it easy to build networks.
Have you recently moved to Malmö due to your partner’s new job? The Soft Landing Program helps the partners of international talents to connect with the local business community and discover Malmö. Join group sessions, 1-on-1 meetings, social gatherings, bike tours, dinners, and professional networking activities, all designed to build connections and explore Swedish work culture.
Soft Landing Program
Co-working spaces
Malmö offers many meeting places that cater to the business community. Many of these venues host events, workshops, and social gatherings, which offer opportunities for networking, collaboration, and exchanging ideas.
The majority of these meeting places are open to the public: you can drop by to say hello and take a tour, work on-site, and take part in activities and events.
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Media Evolution
A community-owned platform for competence development and futures thinking, plus a co-working and meeting place. Runs a public program featuring classes, seminars and social gatherings.
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STPLN
A hub for independent artists and creatives with co-working, events, skills development incubator, lab, and community-based informal learning.
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Game Habitat
A community organisation for the games development industry in southern Sweden. Offers events, support and guidance, and fosters an inclusive culture for game developers.
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Minc
The ‘startup house’ of Malmö, Minc supports a community of like-minded, passionate people to connect with, learn from and grow alongside. Offers mentorship, networking, and funding support for entrepreneurs.
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Mindpark
Flexible co-working, networking and community space, featuring a café, lounge, and meeting rooms. Mindpark has two locations in Malmö: City and Hyllie.
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BLING
Supporting founders from day zero through empowerment, incubation and acceleration. Support is free and includes access coaches, experts, mentors and resources.
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Djäkne Startup studio
A space dedicated to (co-)founders of early-stage software companies. Features a coffee bar and meeting place, and hosts events.
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The Ground
A co-working space for entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, and freelancers. Offers events, lunches, and after-work drinks.
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United Spaces Studio
A hub for innovation, learning and networking. Offers a co-working space and lounge, plus dedicated desks and private offices for rent inside the Studio building.
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Level Malmö
An incubator with co-working space and business coaching in multiple languages.
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Drivhuset
A hub for entrepreneurial students. Featuring free coaching, networking events and a startup pre-incubator.
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Medeon Science Park & Incubator
Sweden’s first science park focussed on the life sciences. Offers a co-working lab and incubator, plus networking opportunities and tailored education for life science companies.
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Botildenborg
Food-business incubator for small-scale producers, featuring a social farm and kitchen.
Service centers and establishing services
From municipal contact points to international hubs across southern Sweden, these centers help residents and international newcomers get access to public services, find support, and navigate local opportunities.
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Malmö City Contact Center
First point of contact with the municipality for questions and guidance via phone, email, chat, or in-person visits. They answer questions on everything from preschools and building permits to fault reports, or direct you to the appropriate department within the municipality.
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The Swedish Government Service Center
Statens servicecenter is a public drop-in service providing support and advice on how to use e-services from state agencies including the Social Insurance Agency, the Public Employment Service, the Tax Agency, and the Pensions Agency. Drop-in service.
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Digital International House Skåne
Run by Region Skåne, this initiative connects international STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) talent with local companies to help them move to Skåne and find jobs.
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International Citizen Hub Lund (ICHL)
Offers information and support to international employees and their families, as well as organising activities and programs, and providing a space to connect with others.
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Helsingborg International Connection (HIC)
Events, information, networking and regular drop-in sessions for the international community in Helsingborg, north-west Skåne.
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International House Copenhagen
A one-stop entry point and hub for registration services, events, social activities, and career programs designed to welcome international newcomers to Greater Copenhagen.
Organizations with English-speaking professional events
Here we’ve gathered various places and organizations in Malmö that host events in English. All of them work to make their activities accessible, and to welcome and include as many people as possible.
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Media Evolution
Offers a public program for co-creation, knowledge sharing, and futures thinking. Local and global experts engage with the community through seminars, workshops, courses, exhibitions, and social events.
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Minc
Hosts monthly events that benefit or interest the startup community. Guests range from thought leaders in the local and global startup communities to internationally-renowned TED speakers.
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STPLN
Offers a diverse range of events such as seminars, workshops, meetups, launches, exhibitions, and cultural experiences.
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Game Habitat
The community and its members host events to share knowledge, create business opportunities, provide support and guidance—and to meet people and have fun. Some events are open to all, while others are just for games industry professionals.
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Goto10
Offers events on internet innovation, knowledge-sharing, and the digital future. Everyone is welcome to join talks, workshops, and activities exploring tomorrow’s internet.
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Drivhuset
Offers events (such as hackathons, courses and networking) for students that inspire, challenge and create new opportunities for would-be entrepreneurs, innovators and changemakers.
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Malmö University
Offers a broad variety of seminars, lectures, workshops and conferences, many of which are open and free for everyone to participate in.
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Mindpark
Hosts a variety of different events and community gatherings at both its locations in Malmö (City & Hyllie), as well as in Lund and Helsingborg.
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Library events
All of Malmö’s fourteen libraries host a wide range of events, such as language cafés, book clubs, lectures on contemporary topics, and much more. The main City Library also hosts engaging talks with international authors.
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Pink Programming
Sweden’s biggest community for programmers that are women and non-binary. Work towards a gender equal tech industry by introducing coding, support developers already working in tech, and help companies become more inclusive.
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She told me a story
A monthly meetup for women in the Malmö community (and beyond) to share, empower, and support each other through storytelling and in-person connections.
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The House Malmö
The House is a innovation hub where women & non-binary entrepreneurs come to connect, create, and lead - smashing stereotypes & transforming industries.
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List of upcoming events in Malmö
Thousands of meetings, events, and congresses are held in Malmö every year—everything from small business meetings to large medical congresses with several thousand participants. The City of Malmö maintains a list of the events that have come to its attention.
Jobs - your path to employment
There are many different ways to look for jobs and employment in Sweden. Many vacancies are never advertised publicly, and are filled instead through networks, recruitment agencies, and LinkedIn. Here, we’ve gathered a few places where you can start finding information.
Start a business in Sweden
There are nearly 40,000 companies based in Malmö, and the city’s business community is expanding faster here than in other major Swedish cities. If you’re an entrepreneur looking to start a business in Sweden, check out these key sources.
Malmö’s cultural and social scene
To even begin to list all the cultural, social and artistic goings-on in Malmö would require a whole other website! While the best way to find out what’s happening is to ask a local friend (and maybe tag along with them) you can get a head start with the resources listed here.