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The university-wide accessibility project ends on 30 September. Over the course of 18 months, the project has focused on increasing awareness of the new legal requirements for digital accessibility and building up support resources for web accessibility. Work on web accessibility at Lund University will not end just because the project is over, as the work must be embedded and continue along the s

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/web-accessibility-project-comes-end-support-remains-available - 2025-11-08

I have participated in a very interesting conference arranged by the Association of Swedish Higher Education Institutions (SUHF) on the theme of administration quality – changes in ways of working. Several researchers from Swedish higher education institutions shared knowledge and ideas about how, based on experiences from the pandemic, we can create even better conditions for our work. The questi

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/future-workplace-lessons-learned-conference - 2025-11-08

LU Holding focuses on supporting researchers/teaching staff and students who have ideas that can be transformed into companies. Using this approach, ideas and/or research results can contribute to creating growth and job opportunities in the region through the start-up of new companies. The innovation organisation at the University includes a wholly-owned holding company, LU Holding. The work of h

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/converting-research-results-companies-do-you-know-about-lu-holding - 2025-11-08

I am very pleased to announce that the centres are now fully open again, and offer fantastic programmes that include exhibitions, student-guided tours, concerts, lectures, writers’ evenings, music festivals and conversations about science. During the pandemic, Lund University’s Cultural and Public Centres have been valuable assets for the University’s staff and students as well as the general publ

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lus-cultural-and-public-centres-lukom-are-fully-open - 2025-11-08

Lund University’s Cultural and Public Centres – Skissernas Museum – Museum of Artistic Process and Public Art, Odeum, the Historical Museum and the Botanical Garden – are now fully open and offer fantastic programmes: exhibitions, student-guided tours, concerts, lectures, writers’ evenings, music festivals, lectures and conversations about science. Cultural and public centres Lund University have

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/welcome-lus-cultural-and-public-centres-lukom - 2025-11-08

The sustainability project Sustainable Future Hub at the Lund University School of Economics and Management is now starting the Change Maker Future Track. In October, the initiative kicks off with a series of live calls with well-known sustainability profiles. Students, staff and the general public are welcome to the webinars. How to do business that impact the world with Rebecka Carlsson In the f

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/inspiration-activists-and-leading-creators-lusems-new-sustainability-track - 2025-11-08

On Saturday 16 September, there will be Lund Culture Night with a lot of activities from Lund University open for everyone. Culture NIght Lund is a festival for the whole Lund Municipality, and Lund University is a part of the programme. Bring your family or friends and take a part of the events and activities that Lund University have to offer. For everybody and all ages. Some of the activities i

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-culture-night-saturday-16-september - 2025-11-08

The Career Control programme offers focused training in career planning for all LU’s doctoral students. The Career Control programme offers focused training in career planning for all Lund University’s doctoral students. It provides a framework for making sense of your career options and priorities, setting preferred goals and mapping the steps you need to take to reach them. It will not tell you

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/career-control-programme-career-planning-doctoral-students - 2025-11-08

After the IPCC report, it’s clear that changes must be made rapidly. A lot of people are wondering whether the University is doing something about it or just talking. Climate change and sustainability are discussed a lot internationally, nationally and at Lund University. However, it is clear, particularly after the latest IPCC report, that changes must be made rapidly. A lot of people are therefo

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/theres-lot-talk-about-sustainability-university-doing-anything-about-it - 2025-11-08

With the objective of digitizing Swedish printed material from the 1400s to modern times, a collaboration has been established between the National Library of Sweden and the five university libraries in Lund, Gothenburg, Stockholm, Uppsala, and Umeå. The undertaking lays the basis of a long-term digitization undertaking. The material included in the digitization is composed of books, newspapers, m

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/national-library-collaboration-will-digitize-swedish-printed-material - 2025-11-08

On 30 September, the vice-chancellor decided on updated guidelines for remote work for technical and administrative (TA) staff. The guidelines enter into force on 1 October and replace the previous guidelines from 2019. The guidelines apply to employees at Lund University with the exception of those included in the current working hours agreement for teaching staff or the local manager agreement.

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/updated-guidelines-remote-work-technical-and-administrative-staff - 2025-11-08

Lund University’s Future Week 18-24 October offers exhibitions, lectures, debates and tours - on site and online. The theme for this year's Future Week is "Breakthroughs". What breakthroughs are needed in research and in society for us to be able to manage our future in the best way possible? What breakthroughs do we expect to happen soon? The university’s researchers addresses this year’s theme t

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/future-week-18-24-october-2021 - 2025-11-08

The new EU framework programme Horizon Europe is more generous than ever. It makes just over EUR 95.5 billion available for European researchers and innovators to share. The first calls for applications have opened and the remainder will be announced continuously over the next seven years. “It is time to prepare applications for the next round now”, says Caroline Sundberg, EU Policy Officer at the

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/eu-more-generous-ever - 2025-11-08

The idea of publishing research findings in open access journals is in many ways an asset in the research community. Unfortunately, it has also entailed the emergence of many unprofessional agents on the market. Their only purpose is to trick researchers into giving them money. Olga had published academic work over 25 times before she fell victim to a predatory journal. Today she is embarrassed be

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/watch-out-predators - 2025-11-08

The idea of publishing research findings in open access journals is in many ways an asset in the research community. Unfortunately, it has also entailed the emergence of many unprofessional agents on the market. Their only purpose is to trick researchers into giving them money. Not only does a successful researcher need to produce good research, their findings must also be visible among tough comp

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/always-check-magasine-carefully - 2025-11-08

Cyberattacks against the University have sharply increased over the past two years. They mainly take the form of email attacks, known as phishing, which aim to penetrate and take over entire IT environments. The attacks often succeed. Lund University is no different from the crowd. Cyberattacks against higher education institutions and other public authorities, as well as against companies, have s

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/dramatic-increase-cyber-attacks-against-universities - 2025-11-08

A lot has happened in coagulation medicine since Jan Astermark first started his research in the 1980s. The most recent progress is in gene therapy and the first patients with severe haemophilia who were treated in Malmö last year. “It is fantastically exciting to work in a research field where so much is happening. The research and the progress in treatment that have taken place in recent decades

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/promising-results-new-gene-therapy-method - 2025-11-08

If you look carefully at Niclas Nilsson’s hands and arms, you can still see the scars from all the injections he has received through the years for his haemophilia, although they have faded considerably since January 2020. That was when he got his last injection. Indeed, since his treatment with gene therapy, Niclas has not needed a single injection. Niclas Nilsson comes from a family of haemophil

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/i-wore-hockey-helmet-until-i-was-four-years-old - 2025-11-08

“Toke is shy but does the most exploring of all of them, while Siggi is relaxed and friendly. But you have to know them to be able to work with them”, says cognitive scientist Stephan Reber. He is not talking about his colleagues but the alligators now on site in Ystad zoo, where the researchers have a specially adapted facility to study the animals’ behaviour. The heat and humidity hit you as soo

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/alligators-are-key-world-dinosaurs - 2025-11-08

In connection with the ongoing main University building renovation project, the National Property Board (SFV) discovered during an inspection that the building’s four sphinxes are in such poor condition that they must be taken down and recast. This is to prevent the risk of injury to passers-by from falling pieces of concrete. It is hoped that the recast sphinxes will be in place in 2022. The top

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/main-university-buildings-sphinxes-are-be-renovated - 2025-11-08