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The research project is funded with 2.2 million SEK from the R&D Fund of the Swedish Tourism & Hospitality Industry. The project aims to increase knowledge about how a destination's various actors, such as hotels, retail, and different associations can offer an inclusive stay for tourists with dogs. The project investigates both the needs of dog owners and how the actors at the destination can sup

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/dog-tourism-focus-quality-life-and-destination-resilience - 2025-10-05

The research project has been rewarded SEK 1.8 million from the R&D fund of the Swedish Tourism and Hospitality Industry. The aim of the research project is to create new knowledge about the role of the tourism industry in vulnerable areas with a particular focus on socially sustainable place attractiveness. At first glance, it seems excellent to create attractive tourist destinations in vulnerabl

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/attractiveness-marginalized-places-conditions-tourism-vulnerable-areas - 2025-10-05

From climate change disasters to the war in Ukraine and the shaky global economy, there is a growing and palpable sense of living in a time of perpetual crisis and uncertainty. How do crises and uncertain times affect place branding discourse and practice and what are the implications for research? In October, researchers and practitioners gather at a unique world-leading conference to discuss tod

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/place-branding-crisis-and-uncertain-times - 2025-10-05

A research conference was held in Lund in October 2023. The conference, organized jointly by the Psychological Defence Research Institute and the Swedish Psychological Defence Agency, gathered researchers representing institutions across Sweden from varied disciplines such as international relations, political science, sociology, strategic communication and law. The conference is planned to become

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/psychological-defence-research-conference - 2025-10-05

Gedea Biotech secures €1.3 million (14 MSEK) to advance its antibiotic-free vaginal infection treatment pHyph towards market launch. Gedea Biotech, part of LU Holding’s portfolio, announced in May that it has raised €1.3 million (14 MSEK) for additional development activities of their product pHyph for antibiotic-free treatment of vaginal infections. The funds will be used for: • An ongoing proof-

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/gedea-biotech-secures-eu13-million - 2025-10-05

Petter Pilesjö, Abdulghani Hasan, and Andreas Persson were tired of the feeling of writing articles and presenting at conferences without anything happening. Learn how they went from research results to making use of their findings by starting the company PluvioFlow. Petter Pilsjö is a Professor at Lund University Centre for Geographical Information Systems (GIS Centre), as well as a founder of Pl

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/they-started-company-spread-their-research-findings-we-need-get-better-handling-floods - 2025-10-05

The Magical Garden is a pedagogical system for preschool mathematics created around a digital learning-through-play game. The system is based on more than 10 years of research and development. Now, it’s been awarded a proof-of-concept grant. Learning early math is not just fundamental for children to do better in math; it’s a key predictor of overall school success, according to Agneta Gulz, profe

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/innovative-system-teaching-preschool-maths-receives-sek-38-million-proof-concept-funding-wallenberg - 2025-10-05

PluvioFlow, a pioneering technology company specializing in flood modeling, announces the appointment of Jonatan Green Brzezinski as its new CEO and Inriver founder Johan Billgren as Chairman of the Board. Simultaneously, the company is launching a pilot program following highly positive market feedback. "I'm excited to join the team and get started," says Jonatan Green Brzezinski, the new CEO. "I

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/pluvioflow-wants-increase-societies-resilience-floods-appoints-new-ceo-and-launches-pilot-program - 2025-10-05

To address the unique needs of Sweden's innovative and fast-growing startups and scaleups, a new collaborative initiative called Sweden Startup Nation has been established. This initiative aims to serve as an independent, national knowledge hub that enhances understanding of startups, scaleups, and their ecosystem through comprehensive data collection, analysis, and accessibility. The initiative i

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/new-initiative-strengthen-swedens-startups-and-scaleups - 2025-10-05

THINK TEAM. Don't strive for perfection, take small steps instead. And dare to ask the really tough questions. Annika Lindström, Innovation Developer at LU Innovation, gives advice to aspiring entrepreneurs. To "succeed" in realising an idea, the most fundamental thing in my eyes is to be truly driven by the desire to solve a problem and create value for an end user or customer.It's easy to fall i

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/dont-fall-love-your-own-idea - 2025-10-05

Trauma surgeon Dr. Gabriel Börner often saw patients suffer from complications after open abdominal surgery. Inspired by evidence that the small-bites technique could significantly reduce these issues, he founded Suturion in 2018. Now Suturion has entered the first commercial production of SutureTOOL™. Resembling an advanced surgical sewing device, SutureTOOL™ enables surgeons to adopt the recomme

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/bench-bedside-suturion-enters-first-commercial-production-suturetooltm - 2025-10-05

“It's an amazing feeling to see your research put to practical use in the real world," explains Magnus Gäfvert, new Innovation Developer at LU Innovation who works with researchers at LTH. After having been co-founder and CEO of the software company Modelon, which is based on LTH research, he has now returned to Lund University. Now he wants to help the next generation of researchers transform the

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/ceo-innovation-developer-magnus-gafvert-coaches-researchers-lth-become-next-generation-innovators - 2025-10-05

A point-of-care test developed by researchers at Lund University is poised to transform fertility treatment protocols globally. The innovation, backed by a clinical study published in Frontiers in Endocrinology, enables rapid identification of optimal hormone treatments for IVF patients, significantly improving success rates while minimising side effects. Led by Professor Yvonne Lundberg Giwercman

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/breakthrough-testing-method-ivf-treatment-shows-38-increase-babies-born - 2025-10-05

The new HPC resource at LUNARC, COSMOS, will be installed during the fall. Are you curious about what new possibilities this resource offers you as a researcher? Would you like to know how existing users take advantage of LUNARC resources? Do you have questions regarding the use of LUNARC services? Do you need help improving your scientific workflows? If you answer yes to any of these questions, p

https://www.lubi.lu.se/article/cosmos-dreams-presentation-cosmos-and-new-possibilities-12th-october-1330-1530 - 2025-10-05

One of the national services offered by NBIS/SciLifeLab is the Bioinformatics Peer review Support track (a.k.a. WABI), providing competences in large-scale data analysis for genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, Cryo-EM/ET and other technologies. This support has been enabled by funding from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, and is a part of the SciLifeLab & Wallenberg Natio

https://www.lubi.lu.se/article/apply-now-oct-6-bioinformatics-peer-review-support-track-now-including-cryo-emet - 2025-10-05

  Introducing LU-Fold workshops! First workshop 28th November 2023: “AlphaFold2 made easy” An introduction to modeling structures of proteins and small complexes, interpreting and visualising the results Location: E12034, Forum Medicum Cost: Free! Registration is required. Strictly limited to 30 places, allocated on a first come, first served basis, with priority for Lund University affiliated par

https://www.lubi.lu.se/article/registration-open-first-lu-fold-workshop - 2025-10-05

2024 LU eScience Hub Event on Thursday 14 March:  Presenting the InfraVis visualisation infrastructure - visualisation experts at your service Programme:13:15 Alexandros Sopasakis - welcome on behalf of the LU eScience hub 13:20 Emanuel Larsson, Node Coordinator for InfraVisTitle: "Introducing Infravis @LU and application experts" 13:35 Jonas Lindemann, LUNARCTitle: "Visualising dams with Python a

https://www.lubi.lu.se/article/presenting-infravis-visualisation-infrastructure-march-142024 - 2025-10-05

 The course covers the basics of R with a focus on basic functions, different data structures, import and export of data between R and other programs, data visualization, functions to summarise and manipulate data, Rstudio – an integrated development environment (IDE), as well as basic statistics functions in R.  This course is given jointly with the ClimBEco and IBIO research schools. Places on t

https://www.lubi.lu.se/article/registration-opened-introduction-r-2-8-may-2024 - 2025-10-05

https://www.lubi.lu.se/article/lu-fold-seminar-video - 2025-10-05

LUBI will start organizing a seminar series this spring. The seminars will focus on methods in bioinformatics. The focus of these seminar series are methods: how-to apply bioinformatics in a study or in one´s research, described at a level that can attract researchers at many different stages The first seminar will take place on March 3rd, at 13-14, where Ulrich Pfisterer and Per Brattås from CTG

https://www.lubi.lu.se/article/start-lubi-seminar-series - 2025-10-05