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Would you like to: • Find out more about sustainable mobility • Learn how to run solution-oriented innovation activities • Work together in a diverse group of people • Win amazing prices • And have fun while making an impact Then come and join us! Climathon is a global climate action program that takes place in 100+ cities around the world, with a hackathon at its core. We would like to invite you
https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/climathon-lund-2021 - 2026-05-15
If the university's information security fails, it can have major consequences. Therefore - take a course (LUISA) on safer information management. In order to carry out your work and duties as an employee, researcher or student, you both produce and have access to large amounts of information and data necessary for your particular role. It needs to be correct and accessible whenever you need it. I
https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/important-course-about-information-security - 2026-05-15
How do you measure biodiversity impacts from products and raw materials extracted in very different places around the world? Researcher Carla Coelho from Lund University and member of BECC with colleagues, developed a new way to estimate the impact of mines and quarries - and how much they actually perforate their surroundings habitats. Perforation—human activity that creates “holes” in the landsc
https://www.becc.lu.se/article/mining-last-wild-method-identify-mines-intact-landscapes - 2026-05-15
New publication in the journal Kritisk Etnografi from CMES researcher Nina Gren. Read article here.ABSTRACT: In this article we explore and compare three different cases of military occupation: the Israeli occupation of Palestine; the Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara; and the Russian occupation of Georgian South Ossetia. Building on ethnographic fieldworks carried out in 2022 and 2023, we
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/occupied-intimacies-borderisation-palestine-georgia-and-western-sahara - 2026-05-15
From 1 January 2026, a new collective bargaining agreement on working hours for researchers and associate researchers at the University will take effect. As part of the agreement, these groups will transition to annual working hours. The annual working hours entail a total of between 1,700 and 1,756 hours over the course of a calendar year, depending on the number of annual leave days. The workloa
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-collective-bargaining-agreement-working-hours-researchers - 2026-05-16
The annual CED Lund Population Day (LPD) 2025 is coming up 8 May on the theme The Two Fertility Puzzles, 2010-2020. We asked the organizer, professor Martin Dribe, three quick questions to learn more. Hi Martin Dribe, professor of Economic History, specializing in Economic Demography, and organiser and lead researcher of the upcoming annual CED Lund Population Day (LPD) 2025.What inspired the them
https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/curious-about-lpd-three-quick-questions - 2026-05-16
After three years’ work, the newly cast sphinxes have returned to the roof of the Main University Building. The work, which uses a crane, began on 2 October. Now all the four of theme are landed. It was during an inspection of the University Main Building’s facade that the National Property Board of Sweden discovered that the building’s four sphinxes were in such poor condition that they needed to
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/sphinxes-have-landed - 2026-05-16
Five English language courses for University staff will be offered in spring 2025. The courses are freestanding and range from general English to more specific language skills. The courses focus on oral and written language proficiency or English for presentations. The following courses will be offered in spring 2025:General Proficiency Course for University Staff 1 (registration deadline: 6 Febru
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/english-language-courses-university-staff - 2026-05-16
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The breast cancer screening tests offered to women may in many cases be unnecessarily painful. New research from Lund University in Sweden shows that strong compression of the breast during mammography screening does not automatically lead to a better basis for diagnosis. Every year, hundreds of thousands of women age
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/breast-cancer-screening-could-be-better-and-less-painful - 2026-05-15
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. During 7-8 of May, 80 researchers within BECC and MERGE met to learn about the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, and how their research can be linked, and contribute, to the implementation of the goals. We are just as far from reaching the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) as Burkina Faso. We just have different
https://www.becc.lu.se/article/spring-meeting-2019-becc-merge-jointly-sustainable-development-goals - 2026-05-15
Worldwide, coastal river deltas are home to more than half a billion people, supporting fisheries, agriculture, cities, and fertile ecosystems. In a unique study covering 49 deltas globally, researchers from Lund University and Utrecht University have identified the most critical risks to deltas in the future. The research shows that deltas face multiple risks, and that population growth and poor
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/coastal-river-deltas-threatened-more-climate-change - 2026-05-15
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Wolfgang Knorr, a researcher at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, is one of three authors of a high-profile climate article recently published in The Conversation. The article, about our future carbon footprint, has received widespread coverage after being shared on Twitter by Greta Thunberg.
https://www.science.lu.se/article/researcher-was-given-helping-hand-greta-thunberg - 2026-05-15
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Can insulin absorbed in small doses through food in early childhood get the immune system accustomed to insulin and thereby delay – or prevent – type 1 diabetes? Researchers hope to find the answer through POInT, a study starting in Skåne this autumn. Newborn babies in Skåne with a high risk of autoimmune diabetes (ty
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/new-study-babies-skane-prevent-type-1-diabetes - 2026-05-15
The SWEAH postgraduate course 'Gerontology – Multidisciplinary and Integrative Perspectives on Aging', is well underway. On April 3-4 it was time for lectures and seminars and 16 SWEAH PhD students gathered at University of Gothenburg. One of them was Sandra Lukic, from Lund University.How were the days in Gothenburg?– Absolutely fantastic, good lectures and fruitful discussions, as well as very g
https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/learned-new-course-ageing-can-be-superpower - 2026-05-15
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. SCHEDULE & ABSTRACTS Four sessions:1. Tuesday 20 Sept, 14.30–16.302. Wednesday 21 Sept, 10.00–12.003. Wednesday 21 Sept, 15.30–17.304. Thursday 22 Sept, 09.00-11.00VENUE: Konsertsalen, Akademiska Föreningen (AF), Sandgatan 2, LundChairs: Ravinder Kaur, Rajni Palriwala & Sonalde DesaiScheduleDay 1 20 September (Sessi
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/panel-6-youthful-modernities-negotiating-past-present-and-future - 2026-05-15
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. So say Mats Benner and Freddy Ståhlberg after having reviewed both self-evaluations and assessor reports. The RQ20 Research Quality Evaluation Project is now entering its final phase and, so far, the results are looking good. “But it would be out of the question for us to sit back now just because we’re known globally
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/rq20-research-still-evaluated-despite-pandemic-obstacles - 2026-05-15
For many years, a bottleneck in technological development has been how to get processors and memories to work faster together. Now, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have presented a new solution integrating a memory cell with a processor, which enables much faster calculations, as they happen in the memory circuit itself. In an article in Nature Electronics, the researchers present a new c
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/nanowire-transistor-integrated-memory-enable-future-supercomputers - 2026-05-15
Have you ever wondered what it takes to grow a brain in a petri dish or how scientists use viruses to fight genetic diseases? These are just some of the fascinating topics explored on UniStem Day 2023 at Lund Stem Cell Center in Sweden. On 10 March 2023, more than 220 high school students from across Sweden's southern Skåne region arrived at Lund Stem Cell Center at Lund University for a day of le
https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/inspiring-tomorrows-scientists - 2026-05-15
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In 2016, a forgotten archival treasure was found in the cellar of the Department of Geology. The material included a unique map of Iceland from 1844 and a geological map of the whole of New Zealand dated 1869. Now 322 works have been restored and plans are afoot for an exhibition. Through arched windows, a pale Novemb
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/forgotten-treasure-trove-maps-restored-its-former-glory - 2026-05-15
