- Kes McCormick sets new record! IIIEE Associate Professor Kes McCormick has achieved over 160,000 downloads of his publications in Lund University Publications (LUP), which is the institutional repository for scholarly publications from Lund University.Recently, Kes McCormick has become the most downloaded author at Lund University. Currently, his most downloaded publication is the Greening the E

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/most-downloads-lund-university - 2025-08-27

Delegation from the West Pomeranian regional authority A delegation from the West Pomeranian regional authority are visiting the IIIEE to discuss continuing collaboration in the framework of the Swedish-Polish Sustainable Energy Platform.For more information, please contact mikael [dot] backman [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Mikael Backman)

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/delegation-west-pomeranian-regional-authority-are-visiting-iiiee - 2025-08-27

Postdoctoral fellow Katharina Reindl and colleagues from Institute for Social-Ecological Research (ISOE), Germany publish new article in Nature and Culture "Plastic Packaging, Food Supply, and Everyday Life. Adopting a Social Practice Perspective in Social-Ecological Research", Lukas Sattlegger, Immanuel Stieß, Luca Raschewski, and Katharina Reindl. Nature and Culture, vol. 15:2.Abstract: The arti

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-publication-plastic-packaging-food-supply-and-everyday-life - 2025-08-27

Welcome to the 2020 City Futures Summit on Thursday 8 October 2020 between 12.00-14.00 CET – an online event connecting people, places and projects around the world! Check out the website for the City Futures Summit to learn more about the event – www.cityfutures.seRegister here for the event 

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/launch-website-city-futures-summit - 2025-08-27

Doctoral student in Sustainable urban governance on mission-oriented innovation The doctoral student will work in the area of sustainable urban governance with a focus on mission-oriented innovation.The transformation to a sustainable society involves a multitude of actors including municipalities, business, public organizations and citizens, together advancing new knowledge and going beyond tradi

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/vacancy-iiiee - 2025-08-27

There is growing attention on green stimulus recovery packages around the world, and policy-oriented research and expertise at the IIIEE is being increasingly considered to support policy initiatives in this important area. Recently, the International Energy Agency (IEA) launched the development of the ‘World Energy Outlook Special Report on Sustainable Recovery’. The IIIEE Policy Analysis theme w

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-policy-analysis-theme-contributes-iea-special-report-sustainable-recovery - 2025-08-27

Redesigning our economies and communities in the face of pandemics and crises. In this article, Kes McCormick, Yuliya Voytenko Palgan and Charlotte Leire at IIIEE, present the ambitions and design of a new Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on five ways to shape the sharing economy in cities.The article is published on the Viable Cities website, an innovation programme for smart and sustainable cit

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/five-ways-shape-sharing-economy-cities - 2025-08-27

"Circular Economy in Home Textiles: Motivations of IKEA Consumers in Sweden" Ever wondered what motivates consumers to engage in circular home textile disposal practices? IIIEE researchers Matthias Lehner, Oksana Mont, Giulia Mariani, and Luis Mundaca have just published a study in Sustainability, answering this question based on a sample of IKEA Consumers in Sweden. Abstract (by the authors):If p

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-publication - 2025-08-27

With a growing interest in the Circular Economy, where new business models are needed, the role of the consumer needs to be explored and this study contributes to this need with an expert study. A team of researchers from Lund University (Nancy Bocken) and TU Delft (Vivian Tunn, Ellis van den Hende, Jan Schoormans), led by PhD researcher Vivian Tunn have conducted an expert study on the role of th

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/business-models-sustainable-consumption-circular-economy-expert-study - 2025-08-27

The Belgian national science funding association FWO’s 90 year anniversary spotlighted the future national research agenda, focusing on collaboration to solve complex societal questions such as climate change. The Belgian national science funding association FWO’s 90 year anniversary spotlighted the future national research agenda, focusing on collaboration to solve complex societal questions such

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/circular-business-models-experimentation - 2025-08-27

IIIEE staff, board members, former board members, students and alumni. After nine years, I have decided to leave my assignment as Director at the IIIEE. Together with you I have had the privilege to further develop the Institute in being an innovative and creative arena for interdisciplinary education and research within Lund University. It has been a time of engagement and joy in providing and sh

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/thank-you-all - 2025-08-27

Weine Wiqvist Lund University has appointed Weine Wiqvist, CEO of Avfall Sverige ­– the Swedish Waste Management Association – as an adjunct member of the IIIEE faculty in the subject "Circular Economy Policies” at the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE), which is a specialised centre of the University.Weine Wiqvist will work on a part-time basis on research assi

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/ceo-swedish-waste-management-association-new-collaboration-lund-universityiiiee - 2025-08-27

CIRCUSOL consortium meeting in Antwerp, Belgium, followed by co-creation session at Cohousing Waasland to discuss circular solar business model options. On 23-26 January the CIRCUSOL project consortium is coming together to discuss progress on the circular solar business model demonstrators and next steps to explore second-life use of solar PV and batteries.Demonstrator-leaders have been busy co-c

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/circusol-project-discusses-circular-solar-business-model-options - 2025-08-27

IIIEE is a partner in the EIT Raw Materials project which is organizing community electronics repair events across Europe in 2019 to educate about critical raw materials. Raw materials are crucial for maintaining a quality of life and for the transition to a low carbon economy, but many critical materials face potential supply disruptions in the near future. Many of these critical raw materials ca

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/refer-project-educating-about-critical-raw-materials-electronics - 2025-08-27

Prof. Nancy Bocken talking at the first Open Innovation Seminar of the year at UC Berkeley, Haas Business School, organised by Prof. Henry Chesbrough. Circular Economy is one of the concepts that can help us address pressing challenges such as climate change.  As engaged researchers, we need to find new ways of doing research to address these pressing challenges. This talk discussed recent researc

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/invited-talk-uc-berkeley-haas-business-school-latest-developments-circular-business-model-research - 2025-08-27

Steven Curtis & Matthias Lehner publish open access journal article that proposes a logically-consistent definition of the sharing economy that prioritises sustainability. The sharing economy is largely promoted to facilitate access over ownership, which proponents of the sharing economy suggest leads to reduced resource consumption. However, the purported sustainability potential of the sharing e

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/publication-defining-sharing-economy-sustainability - 2025-08-27

New book on Innovation for Sustainability Nancy Bocken, Professor in Sustainable Business at the IIIEE, has co-edited a new book: Innovation for Sustainability: Business Transformations Towards a Better World, available hereThe aim of the book:The aim of this edited book is to provide a comprehensive overview of the opportunities and challenges related to innovation for sustainability. Combining w

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/innovation-sustainability-business-transformations-towards-better-world - 2025-08-27

Supporting the project Environmental and socio-economic benefits from Swedish biofuel production. Philip Peck at the IIIEE has completed a new support analysis together with scientists at IVL and Bio4Energy (LTU). The analysis is a support analysis for the project Environmental and socio-economic benefits from Swedish biofuel production within the f3 and Swedish Energy Agency collaborative researc

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-support-analysis-completed-socio-economic-metrics-transport-biofuels-review - 2025-08-27

Professor Luis Mundaca guest edited a special issue of Energy Efficiency, volume 12, issue 2. His editorial is open access and available here: Demand-side approaches for limiting global warming to 1.5 °C 

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-issue-out-energy-efficiency-guest-edited-professor-luis-mundaca - 2025-08-27

A new article has been published by Lucie Zvolska, Yuliya Voytenko Palgan and Oksana Mont at the IIIEE with the title: 'How do sharing organisations create and disrupt institutions? Towards a framework for institutional work in the sharing economy'.AbstractThe sharing economy is a new form of resource distribution that is affecting traditional markets, cities and individuals, and challenging the p

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-publication-how-do-sharing-organisations-create-and-disrupt-institutions-towards-framework - 2025-08-27