Swedness is a SSF sponsored graduate school in neutron scattering (http://www.swedness.se) which was launched in early 2017 and has been extended to 2025. The intention of the SwedNess initiative is to increase the number of users for neutron scattering and to strengthen expertise within this area in Sweden. This is important in light of the European Spallation Source (ESS, www.europeanspallationsource.se) which is currently being built in Lund.