Lund University has collected the top research of the university's twelve strategic reseach environments in a new book. MERGE is one of these environments. In 2008, the Swedish Government designated 20 ‘Strategic Research Areas’ (SRAs) in its research-policy bill. Within these 20 areas, 43 research environments were chosen for specific funding in a special evaluation in 2009. They were all conduct

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/todays-great-explorers - 2025-08-23

Today, Monday 26 January, the new report "Klimatsäkrat Skåne" will be launched. The report is a knowledge review and analysis of Skåne's climate work including opportunities and challenges. The launch event focuses on three panel discussions on how we should make our society less vulnerable to climate change, how we use ecosystem services and the implications of climate change for business. Markku

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/new-report-about-regional-climate-challenges-and-adaptation-skane - 2025-08-23

Arctic View, CC Photo: UN, Mark Garten The role of biogeophysical feedbacks and their impacts in the arctic and boreal climate system is the name of Wenxing Zhangs thesis, which he defended on February 6 2015. On February 6th Wenxin Zhang defended his thesis The role of biogeophysical feedbacks and their impacts in the arctic and boreal climate system. Opponent was Laxmi Sushama.In the thesis Wenx

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/role-biogeophysical-feedbacks-and-their-impacts-arctic-and-boreal-climate-system - 2025-08-23

ClimBEco is a two-year graduate research school that promotes young scientists to engage in interdisciplinary research on climate, earth system and society in a changing world. Application to ClimBEco is open right now until the 14th of April. The Research School is open to students who are already enrolled as PhD students. Priority will be given to PhD students enrolled at Nordic Universities eng

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/apply-climbeco-graduate-research-school-2015-2017 - 2025-08-23

DataGURU is a tool for researchers to disseminate and find climate, land use, biodiversity and related data. The tool can also be of value as open data strategy in future applications for research funding. This work has been commissioned by the strategic research areas MERGE and BECC. The team, led by researcher Veiko Lehsten, developed a tool for the dissemination of the research data that can be

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/dataguru-new-tool-disseminating-and-finding-spatial-temporal-data - 2025-08-23

The Strategic Research Area initiative for research funding was launched by the Swedish Government in the research and innovation bill of 2008. 43 Swedish strategic research areas (SRA’s) was funded by the Swedish government from 2010-2014. MERGE is one of the SRA’s that now have been evaluated. Today the evaluation, together with recommendations for the future, was published and we are happy to a

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/positive-evaluation-merge - 2025-08-23

Photo: Luciana Porfirio Tropical rainforests have long been considered the Earth’s lungs, sequestering large amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and thereby slowing down the increasing greenhouse effect and associated human-made climate change. Scientists in a global research project now show that the vast extensions of semi-arid landscapes occupying the transition zone between rainfores

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/new-article-science-shows-savannahs-slows-climate-change - 2025-08-23

On May 11-13 an international LUsTT/BECC/MERGE workshop was organized in Landskrona, with around 60 leading researchers within the field of dynamic vegetation modelling. Report from the LUsTT/BECC/MERGE Workshop: “Dynamic global vegetation modelling: towards a third generation”.LPJ-GUESS is a Dynamical Global Vegetation model (DGVM) maintained and further developed at the Department of Physical Ge

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/report-dynamic-global-vegetation-modelling-towards-third-generation - 2025-08-23

On February 24th and 25th, the kick-off meeting for the NordicESM project took place in Oslo. The aim of NordicESM is to enhance the collaboration on the field of Earth System modelling within the Nordic Countries. The project therefore involves all Nordic research groups working with the Earth System models NorESM and EC-Earth. Amongst other institutes in Europe, Lund University has an active rol

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/nordicesm-meeting - 2025-08-23

A recently published report is a revision and expansion of the 2008 edition of the BACC book. Several MERGE researchers has contributed to this work. The Second Assessment of Climate Change for the Baltic Sea Basin (BACC II), a recently published report, serves as a revision and expansion of the 2008 edition of the BACC book.“The current publication for the Baltic Sea area is a regional variant on

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/new-report-consolidates-knowledge-climate-change-baltic-sea-region - 2025-08-23

On 15-16 June 2015 MERGE's annual spring/summer meeting was held at Örenäs Castle in Glumslöv. MERGE researchers and PhD students got together for two days of discussions, scientific presentations and beautiful walks around the castle area. You can find the presentations from the meeting here. Markku Rummukainen, coordinator of MERGE, started the meeting with a background on MERGE's development as

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/merge-summer-meeting-2015 - 2025-08-23

A new working group, lead by MERGE board member Marie-José Gaillard, will work with global reconstructions of anthropogenic land-cover change over the last 6000 years for climate models. PAGES (Past Global Changes) supports research aimed at understanding the Earth’s past environment in order to make predictions for the future.The new PAGES working group "LandCover6k" has the goal to produce globa

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/new-pages-working-group-will-produce-global-recontructions-anthropogenic-land-cover-change - 2025-08-23

Nicolae Paladi och Stefano Cucchiella har grundat CanaryBit. Med start våren 2022 kommer CanaryBit vara en del av projekt HARPOCRATES med syfte att utveckla nästa generationens integritetsbevarande dataanalys-tjänster. Bakom projektet står ett konsortium av 13 universitet, universitetssjukhus samt små och medelstora företag runt om i Europa. Projektet beviljas nu 420 000 Euro genom EU's Horizon Eu

https://www.innovation.lu.se/artikel/canarybit-far-over-4-miljoner-kronor-fran-horizon-europe - 2025-08-23

Reccan och in2cure är två av de projekt som tilldelas pengar i innovationsprogrammen Swelifes och Medtech4Healths gemensamma utlysning. 14 projekt som verkar för en bättre hälsa har fått dela på 34,8 miljoner kronor i innovationsprogrammen Swelifes och Medtech4Healths gemensamma utlysning. Två av dem är Lunda-projekt: Reccan och in2cure, som valdes från totalt 94 sökande projekt. Reccan utvecklar

https://www.innovation.lu.se/artikel/lundabolag-bland-14-projekt-som-delar-pa-35-miljoner - 2025-08-23

LU Holdings portföljbolag Stairway Medical tar in kapital från tidigare ägare för att utveckla prototyp och testa deras medicinska hjälpmedel för fri luftväg under sedering. Bolaget har utvecklat en apparat som ska hålla andningsvägarna öppna under lättare narkoser i samband med undersökningar och kirurgiska ingrepp. Pengarna ska användas för att tillverka en prototypserie samt de första preklinis

https://www.innovation.lu.se/artikel/stairway-medical-utvecklar-prototypserie - 2025-08-23

Birgit Janicke och Annette Säfholm från Gedea Biotech tog emot priset som Årets Rapidusföretag. Gedea Biotech, ett av LU Holdings portföljbolag och är verksamt inom kvinnohälsa, tilldelas det ärofyllda priset årets Rapidusföretag av nyhetstjänsten med samma namn. Gedea Biotechs ambition är att utveckla den första antibiotikafria behandlingen som både förebygger och botar bakteriell vaginos. Och de

https://www.innovation.lu.se/artikel/gedea-biotech-arets-rapidusforetag - 2025-08-23

Cognibotics supersnabba plockrobot, kallad HKM. Cognibotics utvecklar avancerad robotteknik och toppmoderna industrirobotar. Företaget startade från forskning vid LTH redan 2013, och nu tar de in 60 miljoner kronor i nytt kapital för att ta fart ut på marknaden. Cognibotics har i dagsläget två robotar för industrin, en större variant som kan borra, fräsa och hantera tunga saker samt en mindre robo

https://www.innovation.lu.se/artikel/cognibotics-tar-60-miljoner - 2025-08-23

Karin Ebbinghaus, vd Elonroad. Elonroad utvecklar ett hightech-koncept för elektriska vägar. Sedan 2017 är de i LU Holdings portfölj och de senaste åren har deras elvägsprototyp testats i Lund. Nu lanserar de laddstationer för elektriska fordon. Precis som med deras elväg blir det en laddstation med automatisk laddning genom skenor i marken.  – Det nya här är att den automatiska laddningen går igå

https://www.innovation.lu.se/artikel/elonroad-lanserar-laddstationer - 2025-08-23

Babak Mohammadi, vd och medgrundare Xenergic. Foto: Kasper Dalkarl. LU Holdings portföljbolag Xenergic, som utvecklat en teknik för energisnåla minnen, har i hård konkurrens fått omkring 2,5 miljoner Euro i anslag från EIC Accelerator Program, Europeiska innovationsrådets prestigefyllda acceleratorprogram. Xenergic AB grundades 2017 från forskning vid Institutionen för elektro- och informationstek

https://www.innovation.lu.se/artikel/25-miljoner-till-xenergic-fran-europeiska-innovationsradet - 2025-08-23

En ny fond ska finansiera projekt som driver på en hållbar utveckling och minskar universitetets klimatpåverkan. Genom att stötta idéer på ett tidigt stadium kan forskning bidra till en positiv samhällsomställning. Tolv miljoner har avsatts till fonden och stödet kan sökas av både forskare och studenter vid universitetet. Lunds universitet har höga mål om att minska verksamhetens negativa miljö- o

https://www.innovation.lu.se/artikel/nytt-stod-hallbara-innovationer - 2025-08-23