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No 54, 5 February 2026 Welcome to the latest addition of the NAISS training newsletter. We re-advertise a number of events advertised before. If you like to discuss with us in a zoom session, please join us for the Zoom-in on 12th February.An overview on our events is available on the NAISS training page (NAISS).Questions on NAISS training events and general input for the NAISS training team sh
https://www.compile.lu.se/article/naiss-training-newsletter-7 - 2026-06-29
What can be done about the fact that more Ukrainian civilians die in traffic accidents than from Russian bombs? How is it that trains run on time – even though Ukraine is at war? And how do you rebuild a country that wants to move beyond the old Soviet structures, with a green transition in sight? These were some of the topics of discussion when a ministerial delegation from Ukraine visited LTH. I
https://www.lthin.lth.se/en/article/2025/road-mutual-exchange-knowledge-and-resilience - 2026-06-29
On 15-17 May 2024, SMHI, the strategic research areas MERGE and BECC, and the Bolin Centre for Climate Research invite you to the second Swedish Climate Symposium in Norrköping. A symposium for increased scientific understanding of climate change and its environmental and societal consequences. Climate change strongly affects natural systems and humanity. In Sweden, the effects of climate change a
https://www.becc.lu.se/article/now-you-can-submit-your-contribution-swedish-climate-symposium - 2026-06-29
On 15-17 May 2024, SMHI, the strategic research areas MERGE and BECC, and the Bolin Centre for Climate Research invite you to the second Swedish Climate Symposium in Norrköping. A symposium for increased scientific understanding of climate change and its environmental and societal consequences. Climate change strongly affects natural systems and humanity. In Sweden, the effects of climate change a
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/now-you-can-submit-your-contribution-swedish-climate-symposium - 2026-06-29
Helena Elding Larsson har sett många framsteg inom diabetesvården sedan hon inledde sin karriär som diabetesforskare och barnläkare. Hennes målsättning är att förhindra att sjukdomen bryter ut. Årets Medeonstipendiat är en av föreläsarna under evenemanget Världsdiabetesdagen Skåne, som arrangeras i Malmö den 12 november. Som diabetesforskare vid Lunds universitets diabetescentrum (LUDC), barnläkar
Helena Elding Larsson har sett många framsteg inom diabetesvården sedan hon inledde sin karriär som diabetesforskare och barnläkare. Hennes målsättning är att förhindra att sjukdomen bryter ut. Årets Medeonstipendiat är en av föreläsarna under evenemanget Världsdiabetesdagen Skåne, som arrangeras i Malmö den 12 november. Som diabetesforskare vid Lunds universitets diabetescentrum (LUDC), barnläkar
https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/diabetesforskaren-helena-elding-larsson-vill-forhindra-att-typ-1-diabetes-bryter-ut - 2026-06-29
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The students, wider society and the path to academic success were important points in Torbjörn von Schantz’s inauguration speech on the University’s foundation day, 28 January. After the usual pomp and ceremony, and with the vice-chancellor’s chain hanging splendidly round his neck, he expressed his thanks for the app
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-vice-chancellor-safeguard-student-influence - 2026-06-29
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Catarina Kinnvall and Tereza Capelos have co-edited the special issue “The Psychology of Extremist Identification” (volume 26 Issue 1, 2021) in the journal European Psychologist. The special issue aims to widen the analysis of extremism to account for the unresolved puzzles that continue to plague practitioners, polic
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kinnvall-how-extremism-can-be-prevented - 2026-06-29
The interactions between molecules are the foundation of life and how we treat diseases using medicinal drugs. But what does it actually look like when a protein meets another molecule and binds to it? A new research project that has been awarded EUR 8.7 million by the European Research Council now aims to shed light on this elusive process. The research team consists of researchers from Lund Univ
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/erc-synergy-grant-research-dynamic-interactions-between-molecules - 2026-06-29
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Andra Jugånaru comes from the threatened CEU university in Hungary. After three months as a visiting doctoral student at LU, she is not sure whether she will have any university to return to. Andra Jugånaru and Samuel Rubenson. Photo: Jenny Loftrup “If the university is closed down, it is a very big step backwards, a
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/research-community-deplores-threat-closure-hungarian-ceu - 2026-06-29
Congratulation to Wolfgang Knecht and his collaborators, who have been awarded a grant for a LINXS theme initiative titled Pandemics and Alertness (PandA)! The theme is a “spin-off” from the Pandemics and Alertness the thematic collaboration initiative at Lund University, with a deeper focus on advancing understaning of viruses and strengthening crisis preparedness. The themes want to achieve an i
https://www.virology.lu.se/article/grant-awarded-linxs-theme-initiative-pandemics-and-alertness-panda - 2026-06-29
Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Bara hälften av de äldre män som lider av smärta i kroppen behandlas för detta. Det kan bero på fördomar om att värk och ont hör till hög ålder och att smärtbehandling då inte är så effektivt. Men smärtbehandling kan hjälpa och höja livskvaliteten även för de äldsta. Ny forskning vid Lunds universitet visar att sjuk
https://www.geriatrik.lu.se/artikel/aldre-far-inte-tillracklig-smartlindring - 2026-06-29
There has been a record-breaking number of applicants for Lund University’s international recruitment drive. The original total of 25 advertised positions has been increased to 45 – researchers from some of the world’s leading universities who are now heading to Lund. As part of Lund University’s global excellence initiative, the Faculty of Law has hired an assistant professor and three visiting p
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Economist and researcher Andreas Bergh is closely involved in public debate. Few things make him really angry. One of them is stupidity. Like when the city of Malmö fails to create simple entry-level jobs because of unreasonable demands on people who want to start mobile food trucks. “That is how the sluggish Swedish
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/advocating-capitalist-welfare-state - 2026-06-29
Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. What's the status on today’s citizen journalism? And what are the potential consequences of writers trying to push a particular narrative? In order to explore these questions, the organizers behind The Festival arranged a talk show in Malmö Folkets Park on September 2, 2018. Andreas Mattsson participated in the talk
https://www.journalistik.lu.se/artikel/talk-show-about-citizen-journalism-kickstarted-media-festival - 2026-06-29
(By natascha [dot] kljun [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Natascha Kljun and Julia Kelly) - published 6 August 2024)Even in Earth’s high northern-latitude forest, climate change is predicted to make wildfires more frequent and severe.Earth’s far north hosts the boreal forest, a vast green belt that stretches from North America to Siberia. The boreal forest is one of the world’s largest CO₂ sinks. Over
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/forests-destroyed-wildfires-emit-carbon-long-after-flames-die - 2026-06-29
Despite the pandemic, the mood is good among those working with international students. Richard Stenelo and Louise Corrigan think it is fantastic that so many of them have managed to arrive in Lund. “They have defied obstacles such as closed airports and vacated embassies. The most creative students seem to have made it here – and these are exactly the type of students we want”, they observe. Ther
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/international-students-managed-arrive-lund - 2026-06-29
Ett av våra tvärvetenskapliga Teman, Antika synagogor och det mänskliga sensoriet, bestämde sig för att göra maj ännu mer händelserik. Inte oss emot! Speciellt eftersom de bjuder på simuleringar av det förflutna med hjälp av avancerade metoder, internationella experter och ... mat. De tre evenemangen är öppna för alla. De kommer att hållas på engelska – och du behöver registrera dig för dem. Sympo
https://www.pi.lu.se/artikel/ett-tema-flera-evenemang - 2026-06-29
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Just before Christmas, his department lost out on a top international researcher, an investment worth over SEK 100 million. A month later, his group reported a major breakthrough in pheromone research. Professor Christer Löfstedt, head of the Department of Biology, one of the largest departments at Lund University, fe
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/rollercoaster-life-head-department - 2026-06-29
Nature-based solutions offer excellent opportunities to address environmental and social challenges. They can help mitigate climate change and protect biodiversity. However, better governance and funding, complemented by clear political priorities, are needed to scale up such solutions in the Nordic region. This is the finding of a new research report from the Nordic Council of Ministers, in which
https://www.becc.lu.se/article/opportunities-scale-nature-based-solutions-nordics - 2026-06-29
