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The University’s contract education needs to grow in order to match the skills needed among companies and public authorities in the region. A new report proposes to give the departments the main responsibility for the development of contract education. Employees who work as consultants on the side are to become more involved in the University’s own contract education which is to be integrated into

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/put-departments-charge-contract-education - 2025-10-09

The forest is currently at the centre of an intense debate. It concerns, in simplified terms, which climate benefits the forest can provide, either by sequestering carbon in standing forest, or by being used to substitute fossil fuels and fossil-intensive materials. In a new literature review from the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC) at Lund University in Sweden, Markku Rummukain

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/climate-benefits-forest-balancing-act-prioritisation - 2025-10-09

The forest is currently at the centre of an intense debate. It concerns, in simplified terms, which climate benefits the forest can provide, either by sequestering carbon in standing forest, or by being used to substitute fossil fuels and fossil-intensive materials. In a new literature review from the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC) at Lund University in Sweden, Markku Rummukain

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/climate-benefits-forest-balancing-act-prioritisation - 2025-10-09

This Regional Outlook provides insight into an emerging environmental hazard: dust storms in the Middle East, one of the driest regions in the world. It also sheds light on the typical drivers and new technologies that can help investigate this phenomenon. Some sustainable mitigation measures are also discussed. Significant changes in recent years, such as population growth and climate change, hav

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-regional-outlook-dust-storms-middle-east-insights-satellite-data-and-ai - 2025-10-09

The theme for the first online Transformations Conference (17 – 18th June 2021), co-organised by LUCSUS, is about enabling positive tipping points for sustainability transformations. In this interview, conveners J. David Tàbara (GCF) and Diego Galafassi (LUCSUS), speak on key aims and hopes for the upcoming conference, and emphasise how a positive framing of the future can replace fear, social clo

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/transformations-conference-2021-enabling-positive-tipping-points-sustainability - 2025-10-09

In a major leap forward for preclinical nuclear medicine research at Lund University Bioimaging Centre (LBIC), the IngaBritt and Arne Lundberg Research Foundation has granted 2.6 million SEK to upgrade important equipment at centre’s Preclinical Nuclear Medicine platform. The funds will be used to enhance the positron emission tomography (PET) and single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)

https://www.lbic.lu.se/article/lund-university-bioimaging-centre-secures-26-million-sek-nuclear-medicine-imaging-equipment-upgrade - 2025-10-09

Deputy Vice-Chancellor Eva Wiberg represents Lund University all over the world – from Europe to Indonesia and Saudi Arabia. She argues that global challenges and dwindling EU funding call for more intense collaborations with a few carefully selected international partners. Eva Wiberg together with the students Jens Worning and Ida Olsson. The internationalisation activities at LU will be supporte

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/deputy-vice-chancellor-eva-wiberg-international-collaboration-strengthens-economy - 2025-10-09

Type 2 diabetes is a chronic disease that usually requires lifelong treatment. A central goal for many diabetes researchers is to develop new cell therapies that can cure the disease. The Bo and Kerstin Hjelt Diabetes Foundation provides support to two diabetes researchers at Lund University Diabetes Centre who contribute with new knowledge to this research field. Type 1 diabetes is a condition wh

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/hjelt-diabetes-foundation-supports-research-can-pave-way-new-cell-therapies - 2025-10-09

Young Connectors of the Future (YCF) is an intercultural leadership programme initiated by the Swedish Institute, 2016 run for the third or fourth time. The programme is directed towards young people with leadership talents from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka who represent different sectors of society and are visionaries in positions to make a difference. SASNET deputy dire

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/successful-swedish-institute-leadership-programme-young-southasians - 2025-10-09

During the winter, the Sustainability Fund opened a call for proposals to test solutions to sustainability challenges in the organisation. Lund University is deeply committed to its sustainability strategy and sustainability plan, aiming for remarkable achievements in this area. We know that change requires new ideas. That's why staff at Lund University have the opportunity to seek funding to addr

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-ideas-sustainable-workplace-gets-funding - 2025-10-10

Selma Maric har inte tagit den klassiska vägen i forskningsvärlden. – Jag har aldrig värjt mig mot att avsluta saker om något annat dyker upp. Jag har bara ett liv och måste göra det som är mest intressant och spännande, säger hon. Kanske är det flykten från före detta Jugoslavien som har påverkat hur hon ser på livet, säger synkrotron- och neutronforskaren som 2018 bytte bana och idag är näringsl

https://www.lu.se/artikel/flykten-fargade-synen-pa-livet-och-karriaren - 2025-10-10

All over the world, thousands of experts are sitting entering information about their home countries into a huge democracy database. Soon, three quarters of the world’s countries will have been entered. “In my megalomaniac moments, I usually compare the database to the CERN particle accelerator. It will be as important a tool for political scientists as CERN is for physicists”, says Jan Teorell, w

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/gigantic-database-stores-information-about-democracy-worldwide - 2025-10-09

In the so far largest clinical study of the development of microbiomes, i.e. intestinal flora, in infants, researchers at the Baylor College of Medicine, USA, have found that development takes place in different phases that can be associated with lifestyle changes during the early stages in life. The findings are based on samples from the TEDDY study and are published in two articles in the scient

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/new-findings-intestinal-flora-development-infants - 2025-10-09

Rain – both its presence and more particularly its absence – controls most things in the Sahel. Despite the fact that the belt of land south of the Sahara has become greener, the outlook is gloomy when it comes to making resources stretch to a growing population in the face of climate change. Now researchers want investments in agriculture, education and family planning to help resources go around

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/family-planning-new-weapon-against-threatened-sahel - 2025-10-09

Are financial instruments really the solution to deforestation and degradation? Do states truly manage forests for societal benefit? And to what extent are so-called sustainable forest governance initiatives really including local people in decision-making? These are some of the questionable myths that currently obscure the path to sustainable forest governance according to a new publication in th

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/five-forest-myths-obscure-path-transformational-and-sustainable-forest-governance - 2025-10-09

Samarbete och tvärvetenskap lönar sig. Så leendena var breda när samarbetsprojekten mellan forskningscentrumet CASE och forskargruppen EPI@LUND nyligen tilldelades två stora anslag på totalt elva miljoner kronor från Formas forskarråd. Utlysningen "Hållbara vistelsemiljöer" är en av Formas största satsningar inom samhällsbyggande någonsin. Tilldelningen innebär att samarbetet mellan CASE och EPI@L

https://www.case.lu.se/artikel/case-epilund-stora-anslag-fran-formas-framjar-tvarvetenskapligt-samarbete - 2025-10-09

Delvis nöjda, delvis besvikna. Och förvånade över att det saknas så många svar. Så kan man sammanfatta vicerektorerna Stacey Ristinmaa Sörensens och Bo Ahréns reaktioner på den forskningspolitiska propositionen som sent omsider lades fram i slutet av november. Ett stort problem för Lunds universitet är att det varken finns en långsiktig strategi eller öronmärkta pengar för driften av den stora for

https://www.lu.se/artikel/forskningsproppen-fokus-pa-samverkan-men-inget-till-max-iv - 2025-10-09

Samarbete och tvärvetenskap lönar sig. Så leendena var breda när samarbetsprojekten mellan forskningscentrumet CASE och forskargruppen EPI@LUND nyligen tilldelades två stora anslag på totalt elva miljoner kronor från Formas forskarråd. Utlysningen "Hållbara vistelsemiljöer" är en av Formas största satsningar inom samhällsbyggande någonsin. Tilldelningen innebär att samarbetet mellan CASE och EPI@L

https://www.lu.se/artikel/case-epilund-stora-anslag-fran-formas-framjar-tvarvetenskapligt-samarbete - 2025-10-10

Hur följs det upp hur innehållet i mensskydd påverkar kropp och miljö? Det undrade doktoranden Louise Klintner på Ekonomihögskolan och fann en marknad utan gemensamma riktlinjer. – Alla andra produkter som man har i eller nära kroppen är standardiserade eller reglerade, säger hon. Försäljningen av sanitetsprodukter, inklusive bindor, tamponger och på senare år, menskoppar, är en miljardindustri. Ä

https://www.lu.se/artikel/mensforskaren-vi-behover-standarder-mensskydd - 2025-10-09

Under året som gått har sjukvården bevittnat allt fler patienter med långtidseffekter av covid-19, bland annat kroniska symtom som tyder på pots. Pots är ett tillstånd som gör att pulsen rusar när man står upp. Hittills vet man för litet om pots som komplikation efter covidinfektion, men forskare från Lunds universitet och Karolinska institutet beskriver nu i en fallrapport om tre svenska patiente

https://www.lu.se/artikel/fallstudie-belyser-pots-vid-langtidscovid - 2025-10-10