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During Sustainability Week at Lund University, students from the Service Management and Strategic Communication master programmes organized a panel discussion during Sustainability Week at Campus Helsingborg, exploring the textile industry’s shift towards circular economy practices. Marie Ledendal, Lecturer and Researcher at the Department of Communication and Réka Tölg, Postdoctoral Fellow, Horiz

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/panel-discussion-textile-industry-during-sustainability-week - 2026-06-13

This year's excursion for the students at the department specialising in tourism offered both sunshine and memorable experiences. For the second year in a row, both bachelor and master students participated, which created a wonderful dynamic and strengthened the community between the programmes. The trip went to Helsingborg's twin town Pärnu in Estonia, with a stop in the capital Tallinn - a city

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/sun-studies-and-student-community-field-trip-estonia - 2026-06-13

On Friday 23 May, the university's major ceremony, the doctoral conferment, took place. During the ceremony in Lund Cathedral, the 239 doctors who have completed their doctoral studies and defended a doctoral thesis at Lund University over the past year, including some from the Department of Service Studies, were awarded their doctorates. At Friday's ceremony, the newly awarded doctorates marched

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/festive-and-solemn-universitys-doctoral-conferment - 2026-06-13

The Campus Helsingborg International Student Career Programme, launched in the spring of 2025, consists of a series of events specifically designed to equip international students with the tools needed to navigate the Swedish labour market, apply for jobs and internships, visit local companies, and build valuable professional networks. The programme is organised in collaboration between the Depart

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/closing-international-student-career-programme-semester-event-internships - 2026-06-13

On 27 May 2025, Formas announced the results for Explore— a highly competitive open call that supports ground-breaking sustainability research. This year, a mere 83 out of 1,117 submitted projects received funding, representing a success rate of just 7 %. One of these successful projects is IDLE – Investigating Doing Less in Everyday Life, led by associate professor Tullia Jack from Lund Universit

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/idleness-vice-or-virtue-tullia-jack-receives-formas-explore-funding-idle-project - 2026-06-13

On the 12th of June, the graduation ceremony for our Master's students was arranged by the Faculty of Social Sciences at the AF-Borgen’s Stora Salen. During the ceremony, below thesis was awarded the honorary award from the department for her excellent work. The ceremony began with live music and a speech by student Carolina Sandoval Marmolejo. Following that, Elin Bommenel, the program director o

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/graduation-ceremony-our-masters-students-0 - 2026-06-13

The rapidly rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere affect plants’ absorption of nitrogen, which is the nutrient that restricts crop growth in most terrestrial ecosystems. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have now revealed that the concentration of nitrogen in plants’ tissue is lower in air with high levels of carbon dioxide, regardless of whether or not the plants’ growth is

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/increased-carbon-dioxide-levels-air-restrict-plants-ability-absorb-nutrients - 2026-06-13

The photosynthesis of tropical species in montane rain forest is very sensitive to high temperature which means high-altitude rain forests are particularly under threat by global warming. This has been shown by researchers from the University of Gothenburg in a study published in the journal New Phytologist. An increase in temperature usually stimulates photosynthesis and growth for plants at our

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/tropical-montane-rain-forests-sensitive-temperature-increase - 2026-06-13

The SRA evaluation, new publications in Science and Global Change Biology, researchers in media, and much more. Find the latest MERGE newsletter here - and sign up for the MERGE e-mail list and get all MERGE related news. Among the headlines are:Continuing the journey - Markku Rummukainen sums up the evaluation of the SRA'sIncreased carbon dioxide levels in air restrict plants ability to absorb nu

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/merge-newsletter - 2026-06-13

On November 16-17 the 1st Nordic Chapter Risk Conference will be held in Lund. The topic is The Future of Risk Analysis in the Nordic Countries. The conference is open to all researchers, practitioners and policy makers that are working with or are interested in risk research and education. The Nordic Chapter of the Society for Risk Analysis in Europe and Lund University Centre of Risk Assessment

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/1st-nordic-risk-conference-lund-16-17-nov - 2026-06-13

Solar storms and the particles they release result in spectacular phenomena such as auroras, but they can also pose a serious risk to our society. In extreme cases they have caused major power outages, and they could also lead to breakdowns of satellites and communication systems. According to a study published today in Nature Communications, solar storms could be much more powerful than previousl

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/traces-enormous-solar-storms-ice-greenland-and-antarctica - 2026-06-13

Deliang Chen, MERGE researcher at the University of Gothenburg, along with colleagues from four other European universities have published a book that shows the development of European extreme weather for the period 1801-2000. It has involved a huge amount of work to collect and analyse all the meteorological data for the book, entitled European Trend Atlas of Extreme Temperature and Precipitation

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/europes-extreme-weather-over-200-years-presented-new-book - 2026-06-13

Africa is very vulnerable to climate change. However, challenges remain in understanding the full set of climate impacts for the region. Improved climate models may help contribute to solutions for reducing vulnerability. A step in the right direction, according to the researchers Minchao Wu and Markku Rummukainen, is to incorporate into todays climate models how regional ecosystems are affected b

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/improving-climate-models-reduce-vulnerability - 2026-06-13

Most African countries contribute only marginally to the increase of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, in the atmosphere. Nevertheless, Africa is the continent most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. The impact varies across the continent and also within individual countries. An improved set of data increases the possibilities for evaluating future risks, and how to best address

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/africas-vulnerable-ecosystem - 2026-06-13

Professor Deliang Chen has been elected Fellow of TWAS, the world academy of sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries. Professor Deliang Chen, University of Gothenburg and PI in MERGE, has been elected Fellow of TWAS, the world academy of sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries. He was one of 44 new Fellows elected on the Academy's 26th General Meetin

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/deliang-chen-new-fellow-twas-world-academy-sciences - 2026-06-13

Right now Markku Rummukainen, coordinator of MERGE, is in Paris for the COP21. His role is with the Swedish climate negotiation delegation and the EU’s negotiation organisation as a science expert. Read an interview with Markku about his thoughts on what is needed to reach the 2 degree goal. While limiting the global mean warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius would lead to avoiding increasingly l

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/early-action-and-cooperation-reach-2-degree-goal - 2026-06-13

New data presented by researchers at Lund University and others in the journal Oceanologia show that the air along the coasts is full of hazardous nanoparticles from sea traffic. Almost half of the measured particles stem from sea traffic emissions, while the rest is deemed to be mainly from cars but also biomass combustion, industries and natural particles from the sea. “This is the first time an

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/sea-traffic-pollutes-our-lungs-more-previously-thought - 2026-06-13

On 11-12 November, the MERGE community was invited to Hotel Skansen in Båstad, Sweden to discuss the future of MERGE. Find the presentations from the meeting here. 11 November12.00 – 13.00 Lunch and registration13.00 – 13.05 Introduction13.05 – 13.35 Overview of the Horizon 2020 CRESCENDO project and CMIP6Paul Miller, Lund University13.35 – 14.05 - Palaeoclimate studies with EC-Earth in collaborat

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/presentations-merge-autumn-meeting-2015 - 2026-06-13

FORMAS will give five information meetings during February and talk about their open call. For more information about a specific meeting and regional activities, see contact information under each meeting below. The call will be published on Formas webb page on March 3: www.formas.se/ February 11, 13.00 -15.00, SLU Alnarp Location: Crafoordsalen, Alnarp, see building nb. 6 on this mapPreliminary p

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/five-information-meetings-about-formas-open-call-2016 - 2026-06-13

PhD student Behnaz Pirzamanbin has been awarded twice for the paper "Modelling Spatial Compositional Data: Reconstructions of past land cover and uncertainties", both as winner and honorary mention. Congratulation to Environmental Science PhD student Behnaz Pirzamanbin and MERGE colleagues, who has been awarded twice for the paper Modelling Spatial Compositional Data: Reconstructions of past land

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/two-awards-phd-student-paper - 2026-06-13