Participants in EUGLOH Week, Lund 2022. EUGLOH Week at Lund University was organised between 9 and 12 May, with participants from the alliance’s five member universities in France, Portugal, Germany, Sweden and Hungary. Many of the participants also attended the virtual workshop that took place over two days in February. EUGLOH Week is based on the concept of Staff Week, which is organised in many

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/eugloh-week-internationalisation-and-exchange-home - 2025-09-08

The Vice-Chancellor has taken a decision on a new funding model for publication fees. For a while now, the University Library has had to pay increasing costs for publication fees. This is a result of the national library consortium for e-media licensing, (Bibsam), by Government remit, going over to signing publishing agreements with both reading and publication rights. The publishing agreements ha

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-funding-model-publication-fees - 2025-09-08

Photo from the University Management's visit at Utrecht University. The University Management Group visited Utrecht University at the end of April. After several educational days in Utrecht, they came away inspired and full of new ideas and thoughts about open science, holistic thinking, collaboration and teaching qualifications. The University Management Group have written about their experiences

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/university-management-group-were-inspired-utrecht-university - 2025-09-08

Photo: Johan Persson. This was no catastrophic carnival, despite its title. On the contrary, many gratifying records were broken. New records were made for public attendance, participants (7 545 students took part), biggest turnover, most admission tickets sold and longest parade in the history of the event. The exact figures have not been calculated yet, but we already know that records were set

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/years-carnival-broke-many-records - 2025-09-08

Lund University is announcing new funding for thematic collaborative initiatives, TSI, for the period 2023-2025. Up to four initiatives will receive funding of SEK 1 million per year over three years Applications must be multi-disciplinary and include at least three faculties as well as at least one external partner, preferably more. New for this call is that it will also welcome applications that

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/information-meeting-1-june-new-call-funding-thematic-cooperation-initiatives - 2025-09-08

Almedalen in Visby on the island of Gotland. Photo: Nadezhda Kharitonova /Shutterstock For the first time in two years, Lund University will be in Visby for Almedalen Week. In times of crisis and war, such democratic meeting places are more important than ever. “A magical place for dialogue, exchange and unexpected encounters that contribute to the development of our society.” This vision statemen

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/almedalen-opportunity-lu-meet-decision-makers - 2025-09-08

It took four weeks to build the new laboratory. Photo: Erik Andersson After a trip from Portugal, the new exposure chambers have arrived in Lund. LTH’s aerosol and climate scientists welcome the lab delivery with great expectations and are getting ready for a four-week construction project. Several years of preparation are now bearing fruit. The aerosol and climate labs at LTH have merged into one

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/unique-combo-lab-paves-way-new-research-breakthroughs - 2025-09-08

Linnea Mörth, Eva Åkesson och Carina Jarl studying some responses about the establishment in Science Village. Photo: Maria Lindh There is widespread agreement among the physicists and chemists for their establishment in Science Village to take place simultaneously and as soon as possible. There are also proposals for how the two departments could work together. Leif Bülow, head of the Department o

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/chance-lifetime - 2025-09-08

Anders Lindskog (on the left) and Johan Lindgren, studying fossils. Photo: Johan Joelsson During the excursion week this spring, Master’s students from the Department of Geology visited Öland and the Danish town of Faxe. This year there was also a new location in the programme. Students had the opportunity to learn more about the Cretaceous period and its fossil remains in the bat-filled Tykarp Ca

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-collaboration-between-university-and-underground-world - 2025-09-08

Yulia Vakulenko outside Ingvar Kamprad Design Centre in Lund. Photo: Jan Olsson Yulia Vakulenko grew up in a small Russian town north of the Arctic Circle, today she works at Lund University. When Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February, her world was turned upside down. The first thing Yulia Vakulenko says when she meets me on the staircase of her workplace at the Ingvar Kamprad Design Centre, IKDC

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/yulia-russia-helps-refugees-ukraine - 2025-09-08

Tim Ekberg, Head of Planning at Lund University. Photo: Kennet Ruona The results of the election in September may have an impact on academic freedom and the independence of universities from political power. The principle of keeping an arm's length between politics and higher education and research is increasingly being called into question. “I think we are currently in a situation in which the mo

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/academic-freedom-under-threat - 2025-09-08

Elisabet Englund teaches medical students at autopsy demonstrations. Photo: Johan Persson Pathologists and coroners are now commonplace in crime novels and TV crime series and are often depicted as slightly odd people. Elisabet Englund has worked at the Division of Pathology in Lund for over 40 years. She has often been told that she is a little ‘too happy’ to be a pathologist. “Yes, there is a st

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/death-our-textbook-life - 2025-09-08

The building called The Spark is the entrance to Medicon Village. Photo: Kennet Ruona It was not an entirely uncontroversial decision to gather cancer researchers in the abandoned AstraZeneca premises ten years ago. Carl Borrebaeck was pro vice-chancellor at the time and pushed for the move which in itself cost SEK 50 million in central university funds. “I was not very popular with the deans at t

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/medicon-village-ten-years-after-start - 2025-09-08

During fall, more career activities for academic staff is on offer. All activities are in English, and free of charge, some examples follows:   Academic writing – from perfectionism and procrastination to flow; workshop. August 18th. Finish on time workshop for PhDs. August 19th. Finish on time workshop for postdocs. August 23rd. Take charge of your career; workshop online, 2 half days September 1

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/career-development-academic-staff-1 - 2025-09-08

Why are there always these incomprehensible abbreviations? LU stands for Lund University, which the most of us know by now. EOSC stands for the European Open Science Cloud and the EOSC Association has been created to develop and manage the EOSC. Lund University applied for membership in the association and was approved at the General Assembly on 24 May in Brussels. From Sweden, Chalmers, the Karol

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lu-has-now-joined-eosc-what - 2025-09-08

Applications for funding for new thematic collaboration initiatives are now open. The purpose of the thematic collaboration initiatives is to support work on solutions in areas where Lund University has established research that can contribute to future breakthroughs. New for this year’s call, in addition to focusing on the intersection between research and collaboration, is the opening up for app

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-opportunities-apply-collaboration-funding - 2025-09-08

The Workplace of the Future project has now presented its first report to the Vice-Chancellor. It concluded with concrete suggestions for LU to continue working on in order to become an attractive and sustainable workplace for the long-term. The report describes what emerged from a total of eleven workshops with employees and managers from different categories of staff, who were asked what they th

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/workplace-future-project-has-finished-its-first-report - 2025-09-08

A new fund will finance projects that promote sustainable development and reduce the University’s impact on the climate. By supporting ideas at an early stage, research can contribute to a positive societal transition. SEK 12 million has been allocated to the fund and applications can be made by researchers and students at the University. Lund University has big goals to reduce the negative impact

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-support-sustainable-innovations - 2025-09-08

If you need help with layouts, video production, web development, illustrations or other communication services, you are to use the agencies with which the University has an agreement. The new contracts are now ready and replace the previous ones. The procurement of communication services has been completed and Lund University has concluded agreements with agencies in the following five categories

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-agreement-communication-agencies-place - 2025-09-08

Summer, sun and annual leave! Read through the recommendations below so that you will be able to wind down properly during your time off. Some weeks before your vacations Enter your annual leave into Primula (don't applies for teachers) Submit outstanding travel expense reports Primula Take the opportunity to register your documents before the summer holidays so that your colleagues can easily fin

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/what-bear-mind-your-summer-vacation - 2025-09-08