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The African Union’s organisation for development cooperation (AUDA-NEPAD) sent a delegation to Lund in May to strengthen and further develop cooperation concerning education for African professionals. For the second year in succession, there is a contract education course on innovation policy and innovation leadership through the Department of Economic History. In May, the African participants had

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-cooperation-sustainable-development-africa - 2026-05-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A European consortium, led from Lund University, is to receive SEK 50 million from the EU for research which is to develop our understanding of the functional mechanisms of the brain. The research project, called INTUITIVE, is one of the Innovative Training Networks within the framework of Horizon 2020. The aim of the

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/additional-sek-50-million-research-brains-mechanisms - 2026-05-09

Breath-holding spells are common in young children and are benign. Yet children often undergo unnecessary diagnostic interventions when seeking medical care. This is because there are no national or international guidelines on how to assess children in these cases. A team of researchers at Lund University, Sweden has now proposed guidelines to reduce the number of emergency and unplanned medical v

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/children-breath-holding-spells-undergo-unnecessary-diagnostic-interventions - 2026-05-09

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-will-climate-change-affect-bird-populations - 2026-05-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Astronomers have managed to take unusually colourful images of a group of galaxies using a telescope in Hawaii. The photos reveal new facts about this spectacular galaxy cluster. Remnants of star matter attest to a phenomenon known as galactic cannibalism. At a distance of approximately 250 million light years from ou

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/colourful-photo-reveals-cannibalism-galaxy-cluster - 2026-05-09

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/danish-queen-named-honorary-fellow - 2026-05-10

As a student or doctoral candidate at Lund University who wishes to study at one of our partner universities in Europe, you have the opportunity to apply for the Erasmus+ grant for exchange studies. Shortcuts to page content: About the grantHow to applyIf you are awarded a grant for exchange studies  Application periods for Erasmus+ grant The application period for exchange studies during the autu

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/current-students/international-opportunities/grants-and-scholarships-studies-and-traineeships-abroad/erasmus-grants/erasmus-grant-exchange-studies - 2026-05-09

Newborn babies are already being screened for mutations and genetic tests help families with hereditary breast cancer. Genomic-driven precision medicine (GDPM) is an emerging approach for disease treatment. Around 30 Swedish researchers suggest a direction forward in a review article in Journal of Internal Medicine (JIM). "At the moment newborns are screened for a small number of mutations. In the

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/precision-medicine-emerging-approach-complex-diseases - 2026-05-09

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/pharmaceutical-companies-violate-own-regulations - 2026-05-09

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/sek-60-million-doctoral-programme-authoritarian-asian-states - 2026-05-10

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Biomarkers are one of the most important tools to increase the effectiveness of various cancer treatments. Now the national innovation programme SWElife has decided on its first grants within cancer research and two of them will go to researchers at Lund University who are developing biomarkers for various forms of ca

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-grants-faster-and-better-treatment-tumours - 2026-05-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Novo Nordisk Foundation recently made the announcement to grant DKK 225 million to Lund University for the construction and operation of MicroMAX, a new beamline for the MAX IV research facility in Lund, Sweden. The beamline will become one of the world’s strongest protein microscopes and an important tool for res

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/millions-invested-new-beamline-max-iv - 2026-05-09

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-method-increases-life-span-donated-brain-tissue - 2026-05-09

Processing of personal data at Lund University Lund University processes personal data in order to provide education, conduct research, and collaborate with the wider society. All processing of personal data at the University aims to support this assignment. The University applies the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and supplementary legislation.In the drop-down list below, we have gathe

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/about-university/contact-us/privacy-policy - 2026-05-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Through a computer-simulated study, astronomers at Lund University in Sweden show that it is highly likely that the so-called Planet 9 is an exoplanet. This would make it the first exoplanet to be discovered inside our own solar system. The theory is that our sun, in its youth some 4.5 billion years ago, stole Planet

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-theft-behind-planet-9-our-solar-system - 2026-05-09

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/major-investment-more-environmentally-friendly-solar-energy - 2026-05-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Geologist Birger Schmitz from Lund University in Sweden has found the fossil of an extinct meteorite that collided with Earth about 470 million years ago. The finding is the first of its kind and of a type of meteorite that no longer falls on Earth. The discovery, which could lead to new knowledge about our solar syst

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/extinct-meteorite-changes-our-understanding-solar-system - 2026-05-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Ten-day-old baby birds are able to maintain their regular body temperature despite nest box temperatures of 50C° or above. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden can now show that nestlings pay a high price for regulating their body temperature: they grow less. Therefore, the recommendation when putting up a nest bo

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/avoid-south-facing-birdhouses-nestlings-sake - 2026-05-09

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/bacteria-are-vital-diversity-and-survival-insects - 2026-05-09

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/quantum-physics-artificial-light-harvesting-0 - 2026-05-09