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BECC welcomes proposals for research funding within the vision and aims of BECC for the years 2018-20. This is a joint call, up to 20 million SEK, between LU and UGOT and aims at a continued consolidation of the collaboration between research groups and major projects within and between Lund and Gothenburg universities.BECC strives to assess the impacts of climate change on terrestrial biodiversit

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/becc-call-research-funding-2018-2020 - 2025-12-01

At the NanoLund Annual Meeting 2020, Camilla Modéer gave her honorary lecture as part of the program. We are happy to be able to show it to all of you who could not attend the event – academic leaders, researchers, and business professionals working with research and development. Is there a conflict between, on the one hand, scientific excellence and on the other research utilization, collaboratio

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/academia-needs-boosting-purpose-perspective - 2025-12-01

Last week was the launch for a new European project with the goal to empower households to reduce food waste and extend fashion’s lifespan. Christian Fuentes, Emma Samsioe and Réka Ines Tölg from the Department of Service Studies participates in the project. CARE is a new and innovative Horizon Europe project committed to enabling circular consumption and combatting climate change by transforming

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/new-project-sets-out-enable-circular-household-consumption - 2025-12-01

Weiming Huang, a researcher and a recent doctoral graduate at our department, has been awarded a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in Singapore plus a two-year repatriation grant back to Sweden from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. The project aims to connect and integrate different sources of data in order to enable a richer understanding of the world around us in relation to geospatial i

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/weiming-huang-awarded-fellowship-postdoc-studies-singapore - 2025-12-01

Gifted and enthusiastic students work with the "layers of history" in our beautiful Sculpture Hall. Pufendorf IAS is situated in one of the most beautiful buildings in Lund (if we may say so ourselves), originally built in 1886. The last major renovation of the former Department of Physics and Classical Department was done in 2009, just before the Pufendorf Institute moved in. It was of great impo

https://www.pi.lu.se/en/article/welcome-back-classical-archaeology-and-ancient-history - 2025-12-01

The project is focused on the emotional economy of anti/pro-democratic expressions of grievances, with an aim to explain how anti-social grievance politics transform into democratic political action. Congratulations on the research grant! Project name: Politics of Grievance and Democratic Governance (PLEDGE)SummaryContemporary politics is angry and vengeful, with affective polarization and uncompr

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/catarina-kinnvall-and-ian-manners-represent-lund-university-horizon-project-pledge-politics - 2025-12-01

The world is facing several crises in terms of water quality, quantity, and safety. Policy measures to date focus on a 'business as usual' approach that prioritises economic and/or green growth. But measures that prioritize growth largely fail. A group of some of the world's most prominent water scientists highlights the crucial role that policy capture has played. They call for measures that are

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jesper-svensson-et-al-beyond-growth-response-worlds-water-crises - 2025-12-01

In order to further stimulate research on South Asia at Lund University SASNET invites applications for research grants on an ongoing basis. SASNET will offer three types of grants: Initiation Grants (up to one month) will support researchers who are writing an application for a big grant.Research Collaboration Grants will support researchers who wish to initiate pilot research projects that invol

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/call-applications-sasnet-research-grants - 2025-12-01

Together with Ryan G. Smith (Missouri University of Science and Technology), Jingyi Chen (University of Texas), and Rosemary Knight (Stanford University), CMES researcher Hossein Hashemi has co-authored the article "Apportioning deformation among depth intervals in an aquifer system using InSAR and head data", available online in the Hydrogeology Journal. Abstract Land surface subsidence due to ex

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/surface-deformation-aquifer-system - 2025-12-02

CMES is organising the Third Annual Swedish Middle East and North Africa Network (SWEMENA) Conference, Lund University, 22-23 August 2024. This interdisciplinary annual conference reflects SWEMENA’s main objective to bring together different communities of researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers across Sweden with an interest in the Middle East and North Africa region SWEMENA encourages the

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/swemena-annual-conference-2024 - 2025-12-01

NanoLund’s affiliated member Pablo Villanueva Perez from Synchrotron Radiation Physics has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant for the project Probing MHz processes in 3D with X-ray microscopy. The ERC project aims to develop a novel X-ray microscope capable of filming processes in 3D, at least 100 times faster than up-to-date 3D X-ray imaging techniques. Today, this is done with microtomography (μ

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/erc-starting-grant-nanolund - 2025-12-01

The SURCO project looks at the effects of droughts, poverty and migration in two rural regions of northern Colombia, and is directed by Andrés Palacio, Associate Professor in Economic History at LUSEM. Using expertise from disciplines such as economic history, biology, economics, ecology, geography, law and political science, the project aims to enhance the sustainable development of rural and dis

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/water-scarcity-rural-colombia - 2025-12-01

Mats Heide is currently the project leader for the large research project Communicative Organization (2014–2017), which he runs together with Jesper Falkheimer, Howard Nothhaft, Sara von Platen, and Charlotte Simonsson, all active researchers at the Department of Strategic Communication. Rickard Andersson, Phd student is also involved and writes his dissertation within and around the project. The 

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/what-are-communicative-organizations - 2025-12-01

How can cities and urban actors facilitate the circular economy? A Special Issues article points to the complexity that cities are facing and gives glimpses of how circular cities may evolve in the future. The urban context is an experimentation space to accelerate the transition to a circular economy. This Special Issue explores how and why cities engage in circularity. This Special Issue include

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/achieving-circular-economy-exploring-role-local-governments-business-and-citizens-urban-context - 2025-12-01

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bramsen-and-austin-politics-seeing-differently - 2025-12-01

What skills and qualities are needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030? Sarah Emond, CEO at By EMOND guides you through the Inner Development Goals framework, and Christine Wamsler, Professor of Sustainability Science, provides input from a research perspective. In 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were created to provide a comprehensive plan for a sustainable world

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/inner-development-goals-building-sustainable-development-skills-1811 - 2025-12-02

Hampus Nilsson, now a PhD-student at the CEC, is being awarded for his master thesis on how to predict and prevent urban flooding. The Swedish Hydrological Council (SHR) has appointed Hampus Nilsson's master thesis from LTH and Lund University's GIS Center to be the best master thesis within hydrology in 2017. Hampus began studying technical mathematics at LTH and completed his MSc thesis by devel

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/master-thesis-awarded-world-water-day - 2025-12-02

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/sustainable-workplace-project-wins-award - 2025-12-02

One of the medical students who has begun working at Skåne University Hospital to strengthen Skåne's health service in the fight against Covid-19 is Hanna Djerf. For her, giving help where it’s needed is an obvious thing to do. She is also gaining valuable insight into how intensive care works. At the end of March, the Faculty of Medicine and Region Skåne announced that they had reached an agreeme

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/you-want-help - 2025-12-01

Universities all over the world have closed their campuses and turned to digital teaching solutions. Even though students are stuck at home, the new environment may have advantages over the conventional academic setting. Martin Joormann, Postdoc at the Sociology of Law Department, represents Lund University in VirtualLAS, a digital teaching project, involving universities in five countries, initia

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/will-travel-bans-lead-more-internationalized-classrooms - 2025-12-01