Published 3 April 2017 Lund University Lund University just released a new film about studying and working here. You can check it out above. Lund University was founded in 1666 and is repeatedly ranked among the world’s top 100 universities. The university has 42 000 students and 7 400 staff based in Lund, Helsingborg and Malmö.   

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Published 25 April 2017 This is the third year that tourism researchers from CLCS (Center for Leisure and Culture Services) and Lund University collaborate to develop a two day workshop on social media for students at their respective Service Management programmes. Collaboration between Helsingborg and CopenhagenThe workshop, which takes place in Helsingborg and Copenhagen campuses, combines resea

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/app-development-during-social-media-workshop - 2025-08-13

Published 1 June 2017 One of the essays written last spring by our master student Anna Spitzkat, just received an award from The Swedish Retail and Wholesale Council. The winners of the The Swedish Retail and Wholesale Council award as well as the Hakon Swenson Foundation are now appointed. There were over 40 nominated essays but the jury has awarded only two. The winning essay of The Swedish Reta

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/master-student-essay-received-award - 2025-08-13

Published 9 June 2017 The graduating master students of 2017. On Monday June 5, our master students, together with all graduate Master students at the Faculty of Social Sciences, had their Graduation Ceremony in the old University building in Lund. This year the audience had the pleasure of listening to Lars Danielsson, Sweden's Ambassador to the EU. At the ceremony, Sparbanksstiftelsen, also hand

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Published 13 June 2017 The graduating master students of 2017. My Lindersson is in the front row, the second from the left. Sparbanksstiftelsen handed out a scholarship of 25 000 sek during the Graduation Ceremony 2017, which this year was awarded to My Lindersson. My Lindersson wrote the thesis: Applying a lens of practice theory to understand the role of sustainability-labels in sustainable fash

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Published 21 August 2017 Last week, on Tuesday the 15th, a little over 2 000 international students arrived in Lund. They are all here to study at Lund University and a few of these will study at Campus Helsingborg and The Department of Service Management and Service Studies. On Monday the 28th of August, the autumn term starts, and nearly 50 master students at our international programme in Servi

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Published 13 October 2017 Our researchers, Devrim Umut Aslan and Cecilia Fredriksson, have just released their book about ongoing transformations in city retail. We asked Devrim to tell us a little about the book. This book is based on the changing relationship between retail and cities. In recent decades, retail has changed in several fundamental ways. Traditional stores are in a transformation p

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/new-book-about-city-retail-transformation - 2025-08-13

Published 8 October 2014 Kalmar Castle and MERGE researchers in the evening sun. On 6-8 October, the MERGE autumn meeting of 2014 was held in Kalmar. The three interesting days focused on the future possibilities of research within MERGE and what is to come. For those of you who could not join the meeting - and those of you who would like to see a particularly interesting presentation again - we h

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/merge-autumn-meeting-presentations-and-summary - 2025-08-13

Published 5 November 2014 During the past week, 350 delegates from 120 countries have gathered in Copenhagen, to go through and come to a common conclusion about the state of knowledge on climate change. The result was finalized as a synthesis report which states that the human influence on the climate system is clear and recent anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases are the highest in histor

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Published 1 December 2014 We would like to welcome Franziska Aemisegger, who will be a MERGE guest researcher for the coming two years. For the coming two years, Franziska Aemisegger will be a MERGE guest researcher with a Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship (SNSF). In her current research she is studying land-atmosphere interactions in the midlatitude water cycle from a weather systems p

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/new-guest-researcher-franziska-aemisegger - 2025-08-13

Published 27 November 2014 Comparing the first simple climate models with those of today is like comparing a little blurry black and white line drawing with a large, high-resolution full-color photo. Everything has increased dramatically - both complexity, geographical resolution and model datasets. Read the interview with Markku Rummukainen, coordinator of MERGE. - The development is quickly movi

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/advanced-climate-models-lacks-computing-power - 2025-08-13

Published 10 December 2014 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

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Published 25 January 2015 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 c

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/new-report-about-regional-climate-challenges-and-adaptation-skane - 2025-08-13

Published 5 March 2015 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 Sus

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/role-biogeophysical-feedbacks-and-their-impacts-arctic-and-boreal-climate-system - 2025-08-13

Published 9 March 2015 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

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/apply-climbeco-graduate-research-school-2015-2017 - 2025-08-13

Published 16 March 2015 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 r

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/dataguru-new-tool-disseminating-and-finding-spatial-temporal-data - 2025-08-13

Published 30 April 2015 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 publish

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Published 28 May 2015 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

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/new-article-science-shows-savannahs-slows-climate-change - 2025-08-13

Published 15 June 2015 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 De

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/report-dynamic-global-vegetation-modelling-towards-third-generation - 2025-08-13

Published 2 April 2015 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 Unive

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/nordicesm-meeting - 2025-08-13