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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Professor Alexandra-Maria Klein, from the University of Freiburg, will be the holder of a Hedda Andersson visiting professorship during 2019 and 2020. The Centre of Environmental and Climate research, CEC, and the strategic research area Biodiversity and Ecosystem in a Changing Climate, BECC, will act as professor Kle

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/hedda-andersson-visiting-professorship-cec - 2026-05-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Hampus Nilsson, now a PhD-student at the CEC, is being awarded for his master thesis on how to predict and prevent urban flooding. The Swedish Hydrological Council (SHR) has appointed Hampus Nilsson's master thesis from LTH and Lund University's GIS Center to be the best master thesis within hydrology in 2017. Hampus

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/master-thesis-awarded-world-water-day - 2026-05-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Mark Brady, Cecilia Larsson and Ida Nordin from CEC and AgriFood have, at the invitation of the European Commission, participated in a Civil Dialogue Group meeting in Brussels. On the agenda was the European Commission's first draft for reforming the Common Agricultural Policy, The Future of Food and Farming, which wa

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/cec-participated-dialogue-brussels - 2026-05-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Lund University and the Simrishamn Municipality have received funding from Region Skåne to start a new research and innovation environment at the Marine Centre in Simrishamn. The aim is to study and solve environmental problems and societal challenges linked to the sea, water and coastal areas of Skåne and southern Sw

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/new-research-initiative-will-address-environmental-problems-baltic-sea-region-hano-bay - 2026-05-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The report "Collective implementation of ecological focus areas" evaluating effects on ecosystem services, agriculture and administration is now available in English. Ecosystem services are fundamental to the welfare of mankind, yet these services are often invisible in many social decisions. The report  "Collective i

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/report-about-ecological-focus-areas - 2026-05-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Many pollinating insects benefit from a small-scale agricultural landscape with pastures, meadows and other unploughed environments. In landscapes dominated by arable land, they lack both food and nesting places. Sown flower strips can increase the availability of food for pollinating insects, and are therefore assume

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/sowing-strips-flowering-plants-has-limited-effect-pollination - 2026-05-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Research and society in close cooperation: that is the basis for Farm2Forest, a project aiming to produce evidence guiding Swedish and European agricultural and forestry policymaking. The idea is to combine economic and ecological data and models to evaluate different future scenarios for marginal agriculture in fores

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/farm2forest-sustainable-agriculture-biobased-future - 2026-05-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The European Union will ban the world’s most widely used insecticides from all fields due to the serious danger they pose to bees. The ban on neonicotinoids, approved by member nations today, is expected to come into force by the end of 2018 and will mean these insecticides can only be used in closed greenhouses.This

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/eu-agrees-ban-use-neonicotinoids - 2026-05-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. CEC's Hampus Nilsson describes his journey towards doing research on nature-based solutions and multiple ecosystem services in cities. Hampus Nilsson was honored by the Swedish Hydrological Council with the award of best master thesis within hydrology. In a blog post at the Swedish Water House, SIWI, he describes his

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/how-become-researcher - 2026-05-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Researchers from the CEC comments climate change and risk management on Swedish national radio. Johanna Alkan Olsson answers questions regarding if there is a connection between climate change and the nice spring weather in Sweden this year.Listen to the interview with Johanna on sverigesradio.se.Ullrika Sahlin answer

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/cec-swedish-national-radio - 2026-05-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The CEC and Lund University is part of the core team for Climate-KIC's latest Flagship programme, eCircular, aiming to crack down on plastic waste and radically reduce the use of plastic materials. The project eCircular aims to explore and use innovative digital tools to improve plastics waste prevention. This can, fo

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/catalysing-switch-circular-economy-through-plastic-waste-prevention - 2026-05-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. While attending the 5th European Congress of Conservation Biology organized by the Society for Conservation Biology last week in Jyväskylä, Finland, CEC's Lovisa Nilsson was awarded First Place for her outstanding student poster. Lovisa has studied annual flower strips used to compensate for biodiversity losses in agr

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/lovisa-nilsson-awarded-outstanding-student-poster - 2026-05-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The COST project has been studying if there is any difference in biodiversity found at organic and conventional farms. Some of our colleagues at the CEC have spent summer doing fieldwork studying bumblebees. Romain Carrié and others from the COST project have collected pollen from bumblebees and surveyed flower resour

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/field-study-biodiversity - 2026-05-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The CEC has produced a new report evaluating analyses and data collection of winter loss in honeybees in Sweden. Swedish beekeeping rely on the health of the honey bee Apis mellifera. Loss of colonies during winter is an indicator of poor honey bee health.This report evaluates current data collection of winter loss in

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/winter-loss-honey-bees-sweden - 2026-05-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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. The annual summer meeting was held August 29–30 in Höllviken, with the theme ‘Land use and ecosystem-based climate adaptation’. Inspiring talk

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/eye-opening-discussions-phd-students - 2026-05-27

Hallå Magnus Wärja, verksamhetsutvecklare på universitetets tentamensavdelning. Tusentals Lundastudenter behöver varje år olika anpassningar när de tenterar. I höst införs förändringar som förenklar institutionernas arbete, men vid årsskiftet höjs priset rejält. Vad gör ni på tentamensavdelningen?– Vi arrangerar ungefär hälften av alla salstentor, runt 100 000 tentor skrivs varje år i våra salar,

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/tentamensavdelningen-satsar-och-hojer-priset - 2026-05-28

Hur fick man hönorna att verka berusade i filmen om Emil i Lönneberga? Och finns Bullerbyn? De frågorna kan Caroline Cabot, kommunikatör på Institutionen för utbildningsvetenskap, svara på. Hon har tagit tjänstledigt två somrar i rad för att samla in historier från Astrid Lindgrens hembygd i Vimmerby. – Jag är intresserad av barnkultur. Oavsett om det är mitt eget projekt eller om jag skriver ett

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/skriver-guidebok-om-astrid-lindgrens-hembygd - 2026-05-28

Svenska eller engelska? Åsikterna går isär. Joachim Schnadt är ursprungligen från Tyskland och var Fysiska institutionens prefekt i sex år fram till årsskiftet. Han värnar om användningen av svenska i både tal och skrift. Språket definierar hur vi tänker. Mer svenska på universitetet skulle öka den språkliga variationen hos många och bredda tänkandet, tillföra fler aspekter på olika problem och le

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/fem-anledningar-att-kommunicera-pa-svenska - 2026-05-28

Att göra karriär som postdoktor inom humanvetenskapliga ämnen är en svår balansakt mellan traditioner och vad som för tillfället betraktas som värdefull forskning och en framgångsrik karriär. Varför är det så och vad kan man göra åt det? Det har utbildnings­vetaren Jonatan Nästesjö undersökt. Konkurrensen mellan unga forskare är stenhård och vägen till en fast tjänst innebär en långvarig social oc

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/vill-se-fler-karriarvagar-unga-ht-forskare - 2026-05-28

Hur känns det att leva med en demenssjukdom? Det besvarar ”demenssimulatorn” som virtual reality-forskarna vid LTH har tagit fram. Simulatorn tar in användaren i en virtuell kontext där olika upp­levelser av hur det är att leva med en kognitiv sjukdom genereras. LTH-forskarna Joakim Eriksson och Maria Hedin har under flera år arbetat med forskning om virtuella naturupplevelser för äldre med demens

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/tema-innovation-lyckad-kommersialisering-av-demenssimulator - 2026-05-28