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Storartad utdelning till Lunds universitet när Vetenskapsrådet (VR) beslutat om vilka ansökningar som beviljats bidrag inom medicin och hälsa 2019. Sammanlagt beviljas 210 600 000 kronor till forskare inom medicin och hälsa till forskningsprojekt, etableringsbidrag för yngre forskare, kliniska forskare på halvtid samt utveckling av metoder för ersättning, begränsning och förfining av djurförsök (3

https://www.lu.se/artikel/210-miljoner-till-forskning-inom-medicin-och-halsa - 2025-11-18

23-24 May 2019 Today on 23 May, the IIIEE kicks off the 11th Alumni Network Conference, a conference that takes place every second year at the IIIEE.We are happy to see so many familiar faces in the house from our EMP and MESPOM Master’s Programmes!We are proud to have so many cool people in the house bringing back inspiration, positive energy and stories of all the amazing projects they are invol

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/kick-11th-alumni-conference-iiiee-and-25-years-education-and-research - 2025-11-18

The Swedish Government has appointed Johanna Lissinger Peitz, an IIIEE alumna, attaché of environmental issues at Permanent Mission of Sweden to the United Nations in New York. Johanna's mission is to prepare for the UN meeting, the Climate Summit, taking place on 23 September 2019.Link to the news on the Swedish Government's website (in Swedish only)

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-alumna-johanna-lissinger-peitz-appointed-special-attache-un-new-york - 2025-11-18

Researchers Steven Curtis and Sofie Sandin at the IIIEE have launched a new episode of the podcast ‘Advancing Sustainable Solutions’. In the monthly podcast, Steven and co-host Sofie Sandin discuss sustainability research conducted at the IIIEE. In this month’s episode, Steven and Sofie share insights into evaluating research impact. Check out their episode!Episode Title: “Is anyone listening?” Re

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-podcast-episode-anyone-listening-reflections-evaluating-research-impact - 2025-11-18

Today on 29 May, Jonas Sonnenschein defends his doctoral dissertation with the title: 'Green growth and rapid decarbonisation? Assessing policy objectives, instrument choice and behavioural mechanisms'The defence takes place on 29th May at 9:00-12:00, in the Aula of the IIIEE. The opponent is Prof. Patrik Söderholm (Department of Business Administration, Technology and Social Science, Luleå Univer

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/jonas-sonnenschein-defends-his-doctoral-dissertation-green-growth-and-rapid-decarbonisation - 2025-11-18

Julia Nussholz, Katherine Whalen and Jessika Luth Richter will be participating in the World Circular Economy Forum 3-5 June. Jessika Luth Richter, Julia Nussholz and Katherine Whalen will be representing IIIEE at the World Circular Economy Forum 2019 in Helsinki. Information about WCEF (from their website): The World Circular Economy Forum (WCEF) is the global initiative of Finland and the Finnis

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-taking-part-world-circular-economy-forum-helsinki-3-5-june - 2025-11-18

Sofie Sandin, Lena Neij and Per Mickwitz have published a new article in the international peer-reviewed open access journal Energy, Sustainability and Society. BackgroundThe transition towards a more sustainable energy system is urgent for addressing global environmental and social challenges, and will require transformative changes including improved energy efficiency in the built environment. T

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-publication-transition-governance-energy-efficiency-insights-systematic-review-swedish-policy - 2025-11-18

The June issue of the IIIEE newsletter is out now.Click here to access the June issueClick here for the IIIEE newsletter archiveClick here to subscribe to our newsletter

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/june-issue-iiiee-newsletter-out-now-1 - 2025-11-18

We welcome your application! Last application date 22 July! Are you interested in Sustainable Urban Governance, Smart Grids and Smart Cities? Then take a look at these two Doctoral positions:Doctoral student in Sustainable Urban Governance and Smart GridsDoctoral student in Smart grids and Smart cities 

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/two-doctoral-positions-focusing-sustainable-urban-governance-smart-grids-and-smart-cities - 2025-11-18

EEA 25 years – A much needed institution in challenging times On 19 June, the IIIEE Director Per Mickwitz gave an anniversary speech at the 25th anniversary of the European Environmental Agency in Copenhagen. Per Mickwitz was invited as the chair of the Scientific Committee of the EEA and gave a well received speech shared here.Download the speech here: EEA 25 years – A much needed institution in

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-director-mickwitz-congratulates-eea-turning-25-years - 2025-11-18

Associate Professor Kes McCormick at the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) has achieved 100,000 downloads of his publications in Lund University Publications (LUP), which is the institutional repository for scholarly publications from Lund University.His most downloaded publication is the Greening the Economy Compendium with some 20,000 downloads. He has 4 publ

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/100000-downloads-publications-and-counting - 2025-11-18

Kes McCormick, the programme coordinator for Sharing Cities Sweden, has presented the national programme at two Australian Universities in June 2019 – the Centre for Urban Transitions at Swinburne University of Technology and the Monash Sustainable Development Institute at Monash University.The presentations focused on the ambitions of Sharing Cities Sweden, the emerging findings on the sharing ec

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-presentations-australian-universities - 2025-11-18

IIIEE researchers Yuliya Voytenko and Kes McCormick have joined a group of international researchers to act as guest editors for a Special Issue on smart and sustainable cities in the Local Environment journal. The special issues brings together a diverse collection of papers that explore the relationship between urban sustainability and smart city development. Read more on the Local Environment,

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-researchers-guest-editors-special-issue-smart-and-sustainable-cities - 2025-11-18

The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research has granted SEK 47 million for four years to Mistra REES. The aim of the programme is to facilitate the transition by Swedish manufacturing industry to a circular economy. Business and academia collaborate to facilitate the transition by Swedish manufacturing industry to more resource-efficient solutions.Mistra REES, where “REES” is an ac

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/mistra-continue-funding-research-circular-economy-transition - 2025-11-18

New research implies that green growth climate mitigation policies are not sufficient for reaching the ambitious targets of the Paris Agreement, to limit global warming to well below 2°C by the end of the century.Green growth policies dominate the climate change mitigation discourse but how much can they contribute to rapid decarbonisation? Jonas Sonnenschein at the IIIEE, Lund University, has ass

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/current-green-growth-policies-are-not-enough-reach-paris-agreement-climate-targets - 2025-11-18

A paper in Nature Climate Change, co-authored by an IIIEE researcher, alumna and student, shows that pledges to phase out coal are so far largely limited to older plants in richer countries. Reaching climate targets requires phasing out coal power without carbon capture and storage, as pledged by the members of Powering Past Coal Alliance (PPCA). Prof. Aleh Cherp and his co-authors show that these

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/pledges-phase-out-coal-power-are-insufficient-reach-climate-target - 2025-11-18

Kes McCormick was interviewed by Neal Gorenflo at Shareable about the fast-approaching Sharing Cities Summit. Shareable is an award-winning non-profit news, action and connection hub for the sharing transformation.The interview covered both the background and ambitions of Sharing Cities Sweden and the planning for the Sharing Cities Summit with a focus on connecting the sustainable development goa

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/building-sharing-cities-summit - 2025-11-18

IIIEE researchers have partaken in the development of an interdisciplinary approach for evaluation of policy instruments and research initiatives, focusing on capturing transformative change. The guidance was developed within the research project Transition Governance, which engaged researchers at Lund University and the Finnish Environment Institute between 2016-2019.The report combines interdisc

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-report-guidance-evaluation-transformative-focus - 2025-11-18

As part of the EIT Raw Materials funded REFER project, IIIEE will be co-hosting an event to raise awareness about critical raw materials in electronics and repair in Lund on International Repair Day. International Repair Day occurs annually on the 3rd Saturday of October to promote the  value and importance of repairing.As part of the REFER project, IIIEE is hosting an event with Repair Café Lund,

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-will-raise-awareness-about-critical-raw-materials-international-repair-day-19th-october - 2025-11-18

27 students from 15 countries! On 22 August, 27 students from 15 countries arrived at the IIIEE!They are the 26th batch of our Master's programme in Environmental Management and Policy.Welcome to the IIIEE!

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/welcome-batch-26-our-masters-programme-environmental-management-and-policy - 2025-11-18