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All Lund University employees and students are welcome to participate in this year's edition of the Future Innovations Award. Applications are open until May 5. The Future Innovations Award celebrates groundbreaking ideas from Lund University. Ideas with the potential to change our world. It has now opened for applications for 2025. Since its start in 2017, it has become an important platform for

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/future-innovations-award-2025-competition-opens-over-1-million-sek-prizes - 2026-10-14

EduLab has been a successful project and has meant that the University has had an infrastructure in place to support and manage educational initiatives. As a result, the University’s EduLab experimental platform has now been extended until December 2026. All faculties have taken the opportunity and received assistance from EduLab to develop and expand their range of courses and financial support.

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/edulab-continue-and-focus-x-courses - 2026-10-14

Lund University makes annual purchases totalling SEK 1.5 billion. Together, these purchases make up a large part of the University’s carbon footprint. How can we meet the high demands of research on materials and products, and at the same time become a resource-efficient organisation with a carbon footprint that is as small as possible? Anja Björnberg Ekstrand works as a procurement officer at the

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/importance-sustainable-purchasing-and-procurement - 2026-10-14

The University is now launching a new round of excellence initiatives to bolster the recruitment of top international researchers through the Wallenberg Academy Fellows (WAF) programme. With this initiative, the University aims to foster its international research presence and provide early-career researchers with the best opportunities to advance their careers. Previous roundThe first call for ap

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-round-excellence-initiatives-early-career-researchers-and-wallenberg-academy-fellows-2027 - 2026-10-14

The City of Lund and Lund University have approved a joint strategy to foster the local innovation environment and business community. This means that efforts to attract companies and talent and to bolster Lund’s international position are now being stepped up. “It sends out a strong signal that we speak with one voice. Sweden ranks high in terms of patents from academia. Lund University is third

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-statement-intent-city-lund - 2026-10-14

Stay Curious is a new English-language newsletter that makes it easy for you to find out about the latest research from your University colleagues in a concise and engaging format. The newsletter is published monthly on LinkedIn – a platform focused on knowledge sharing and professional networking. Using LinkedIn for the newsletter allows us to build on our already strong presence on the platform

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/stay-curious-universitys-new-newsletter-about-our-research - 2026-10-14

The University started the year on a high in The Conversation, the international platform where researchers write about research and analyse current social issues. This year, 21 articles have already been published. This means that 2025 could be another record year. Researchers from several faculties have contributed to this year’s productive start. The Faculty of Social Sciences accounts for eigh

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/university-gets-flying-start-conversation-2025 - 2026-10-14

Associate professor at the Department of Informatics, Miranda Kajtazi, is currently involved in a mix of internal and external grants. At the Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies, Miranda Kajtazi is leading an Advanced Study Group on "Human Rights, Digital Inequalities, and Social Consequences of AI". This project is ongoing from September 2023 to June 2024."This ASG focuses on digital innovat

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/ai-human-rights-and-digital-welfare-miranda-kajtazi-takes-lead - 2026-10-14

The Department of Informatics uses Microsoft Azure as a cloud solution for students attending the Bachelor’s Programme in Design of Information Systems. It allows us to have complete BYOD-solutions in our computer rooms, which attracts students to campus while also saving energy and money. Informatic’s director of studies, Björn Svensson, was interviewed by Microsoft for an article in “Din digital

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/cloud-solution-azure-bjorn-svensson-interviewed-microsoft - 2026-10-14

Are you looking to enhance your professional network and learn from industry experts in your field and beyond? Discover how LinkedIn can bring unexpected opportunities and connect us to people around the world, from insights shared by Markus Lahtinen at his seminar “Beyond expectations: Learn more about LinkedIn!”. With over 5000 connections and a top 2% industry SSI (Social Selling Index) ranking

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/learn-more-about-linkedin-markus-lahtinen - 2026-10-14

Dr. Viswanath Venkatesh attracted a large crowd to his seminar "Let's Get Ready to Contextualize", where he spoke about the importance of contextualization in research. Dr. Venkatesh shared some of his latest research on contextualization, including discussions on: Problems tied to lack of context in research;What researchers face in new contexts; How to think about the concept of scientific contr

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/viswanath-venkatesh-holds-seminar-informatics - 2026-10-14

Associate Professor Vincenzo Corvello, joining us from the University of Messina, is an established business and innovation scholar as well as the Editor in Chief of the European Journal of Innovation Management. Hosted by lecturer Markus Lahtinen, Vincenzo Corvello started his visit with a Meet-and-greet, giving a brief presentation on his recent research on corporate-startup collaboration. He sp

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/informatics-welcomes-vincenzo-corvello-meet-and-greet-fika - 2026-10-14

Since its release in November 2022, ChatGPT has made international headlines. While concerns have been raised that ChatGPT and generative AI may be used as a tool for cheating, department lecturers Markus Lahtinen and Björn Svensson challenge this fear by actively incorporating the chatbot into the department’s educational programme. “Integrating ChatGPT into our education is simply a matter of su

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/informatics-starts-integrating-chatgpt-its-educational-programme - 2026-10-14

I kölvattnet av klimatförändringar och ett allt varmare och torrare klimat blir skogsbränder allt vanligare. I Ukraina ökar kriget risken ytterligare. Redan i mars i år bröt bränder ut runt Tjernobyl. Forskaren Lina Eklund befarar att en torr sommar kan leda till ytterligare bränder med katastrofala humanitära och miljömässiga konsekvenser. Naturgeografen Lina Eklund, som under de senaste åren stu

https://www.lu.se/artikel/forskare-varnar-okad-brandrisk-i-krigets-ukraina - 2026-10-14

Fredagen 6 maj ägde universitetets stora högtid, doktorspromotionen, rum. Sammanlagt vid denna första och extrainsatta doktorspromotion promoverades 300 doktorer. SE BILDER FRÅN PROMOTIONEN PÅ FLICKR Det speciella med promotionen den 6 maj är att den är extrainsatt för de 300 doktorer som inte kunnat delta i en fysisk doktorspromotion 2020 och valt att inte delta i den digitala doktorspromotionen

https://www.lu.se/artikel/arets-forsta-doktorspromotion-i-skir-gronska - 2026-10-14

Möt namnkunniga forskare, lokala företagsledare, studenter och deras startups för en heldag om entreprenörskap i förändring. Välkommen att delta på hela eller delar av programmet, på plats i Lund eller på distans. Ur programmet Demo Day En mässa med snabba pitchar där du får möta våra magisterstudenter i entreprenörskap som presenterar sina start-ups. Kanske möter du morgondagens företagare och fö

https://www.lu.se/artikel/inbjudan-till-ekonomidagen-i-lund-popularvetenskaplig-dag-om-entreprenorskap - 2026-10-14

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Idag presenterade regeringen ett nytt lagförslag som innebär att statliga universitet och högskolor ska kunna omvandlas till privata stiftelser. Regeringen menar att en ny särskild stiftelseform, högskolestiftelser, skulle ge lärosäten större handlingsfrihet. En högskolestiftelse blir en egen juridisk person som kan

https://www.lu.se/artikel/rektor-om-regeringens-stiftelseforslag - 2026-10-14

En lägre risk för rökare att utveckla prostatacancer, men en högre risk att dö av sjukdomen. Det visar en ny epidemiologisk studie ledd från Lunds universitet där forskarna följt över 350 000 personer genom flera årtionden och som nu publiceras i European Urology. Prospektiv studie / kombinerad dataanalys av fem kohortstudier / registerbaserad studie Det är sedan tidigare känt att rökare har en ök

https://www.lu.se/artikel/rokning-och-prognos-man-som-drabbas-av-prostatacancer - 2026-10-14

Huntingtons sjukdom är ärftlig, genetisk och debuterar vanligtvis i åldersspannet 30 till 50 år. I Sverige har omkring 1000 personer diagnosen och flera tusen lever med risk att insjukna. Ännu fler har en koppling till sjukdomen då symptomen också i hög grad påverkar de anhöriga. Sjukdomen leder till för tidig död och det finns ingen bromsande behandling. Med ökad kännedom om sjukdomens uttryck ka

https://www.lu.se/artikel/huntingtons-en-komplex-hjarnsjukdom-som-paverkar-rorelser-tankar-och-kanslor - 2026-10-14

Med hjälp av neutron- och röntgentomografi har ett forskarlag, lett från Lunds universitet, undersökt en meteorit från Mars. Tekniken, som förmodligen kommer att användas när Nasa runt 2030 hämtar hem prover från vår röda grannplanet, visade att meteoriten utsatts för mycket begränsad påverkan av vatten. I ett moln av rök landade Nasas fallskärmsförsedda rymdrover Perseverance på Mars dammiga yta

https://www.lu.se/artikel/ny-studie-indikerar-begransad-vattencirkulation-sent-i-mars-historia - 2026-10-14