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The Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies supports and coordinates research projects with high scientific potential through the Strategic Research Area (SRA): Middle East in the Contemporary World (MECW). Researchers at Lund University are invited to apply to the following calls: CMES travel grant The Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) supports research with high scientific pot

https://www.cmes.lu.se/strategic-research-area-middle-east/cmes-calls-and-research-grants - 2026-01-20

Funding Agency: SRA-MECW. Duration: 2021-2024 The goals of this interdisciplinary project are to identify the climate- and human-induced sources of dust and to determine and explain the factors affecting the dust-source areas such as climate variation, land-use change, social, political, and economic drivers, and water management in time and space using remote sensing and artificial intelligence t

https://www.cmes.lu.se/strategic-research-area-middle-east/research-projects/ai-service-socio-politically-adapted-sustainable-dust-storm-control-middle-east - 2026-01-20

Find our latest publications in the research portal. Latest publications The latest publications from CMES are available via the Lund University research portal. You can also find our researchers and current projects via the research portal. MECW Research Find the latest MECW publications in Lund University's Research Portal. Do you already know who wrote it? It is also possible to find publicatio

https://www.cmes.lu.se/strategic-research-area-middle-east/publications - 2026-01-20

Funding agency: SRA-MECW. Duration: 2021-ongoing Feminist solidarity transcends borders. Yet, there is a tension arising from an entrenched view of feminism as inherently “Western.” Challenging such a dichotomized worldview and exploring the transnational within Arab feminist activism is at the heart of this project, which aims to explore how feminist practices and strategies for change-making tra

https://www.cmes.lu.se/cmes-research/research-projects/comparative-feminist-activism-middle-east - 2026-01-20

Funding agency: SRA-MECW. Duration: 2021-ongoing The Middle East (ME) is an arid area with low precipitation and high evapotranspiration in most seasons of the year. Several natural factors and non-natural human activities have put the groundwater and surface water resources of the ME in risk. In this project, advanced remote sensing (RS), machine learning (ML), and artificial intelligence (AI) me

https://www.cmes.lu.se/cmes-research/research-projects/comparative-water-resources-availability-middle-east - 2026-01-20

CMES is a member of the Swedish Middle East & North Africa Network (SWEMENA). The CMES Director is also part of SWEMENA:s Steering Commmittee. SWEMENA gathers researchers and practitioners from institutions across Sweden who work and conduct research on issues related to the Middle East and North Africa region. On its website you can find information about SWEMENA activities and publications. You

https://www.cmes.lu.se/swemena - 2026-01-20

CMES is a member of the Swedish Middle East & North Africa Network (SWEMENA). The CMES Director is also part of SWEMENA:s Steering Commmittee. SWEMENA gathers researchers and practitioners from institutions across Sweden who work and conduct research on issues related to the Middle East and North Africa region. On its website you can find information about SWEMENA activities and publications. You

https://www.cmes.lu.se/middle-east-contemporary-world-mecw/swemena - 2026-01-20

FUNDING AGENCY: SRA-MECW. DURATION: 2021-ONGOING Since the start of the civil war, Syria has transformed into one of the most significant immigrant sending countries, both in absolute terms and when expressed as a share of the population. The Syrian exodus has had immense impacts on the Syrian economy and societies and has also affected neighboring countries in the Middle East region, as well as t

https://www.cmes.lu.se/cmes-research/research-projects/syrians-work-essays-labor-markets-syria-and-host-countries - 2026-01-20

CMES is a long-standing collaborative partner of the Association of Foreign Affairs in Lund (UPF). Each semester CMES and UPF co-arrange a public event together to broaden knowledge and encourage discussion on human rights issues and the Middle East.     In February 2023, CMES and UPF hosted Dr. Pınar Dinç who gave the talk "Eleventh Hour Elections - The Past and Future of Democracy in Turkey".  

https://www.cmes.lu.se/upf - 2026-01-20

Funding agency: MECW. Duration: 2022-2023 A decade after the 2011 uprisings, what has been the impact of the revolutionary moment for MENA youth in terms of their activism, participation, and political socialization? On one hand, the experiences of 2011 shaped for many the ideals of State-society relations, citizenship, and systems of redistribution. Yet, the outcomes of the 2011 mobilizations hav

https://www.cmes.lu.se/strategic-research-area-middle-east/research-projects/after-uprising-mena-youth-activism-and-political-socialization-post-2011 - 2026-01-20

Spring Semester 2026 The Centre for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) offers three Arabic language courses during the Spring Semester 2026: -A1 Part 2 – Modern Standard Arabic (Beginners) -A2 Part 2 – Modern Standard Arabic (Beginners) -B1 Part 2 – Intermediate Modern Standard Arabic These courses are exclusively available to Lund University students and staff who are interested in working, conducting

https://www.cmes.lu.se/centre-advanced-middle-eastern-studies-cmes/arabic-language-courses - 2026-01-20

LUCRIS is the Research Portal of Lund University. Find researchers, research outputs (e.g. publications), projects, infrastructures and units at Lund University https://portal.research.lu.se/portal/sv/organisations-units/centre-for-middle-eastern-studies(ef1d35c3-a8ae-4025-afca-527f824d54d6)/publications.html#1

https://www.cmes.lu.se/research-output-lucris - 2026-01-20

Welcome to the CEC Policy Hub! Stay up to date with the latest policy and research funding development in the EU related to climate, agriculture, forestry and sustainable land-use through our Policy Updates, Alerts and Briefings. In a collaboration with the Lund University Profile area Nature based Future solutions and the Universities in South Sweden Brussels office, CEC is monitoring the develop

https://www.cec.lu.se/collaboration/cec-fellows/policy-updates - 2026-01-20

We develop and implement algorithms for solving difficult optimization problems on different quantum platforms using quantum annealing (QA) and the quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA). Application-wise we mostly focus on life science problems, where the group has a long history. For implementation and verification, we employ the D-Wave quantum annealer at the Jülich Supercomputing Ce

https://www.cec.lu.se/research/research-groups/quantum-computing - 2026-01-20

Registration for the kick-off of the 2025 ClimBEco mentoring programme Here we go!It's time to start our long-awaited mentoring programme. The purpose of this kick-off day is to ensure that each of you - as mentor or as mentee - feels confident and inspired to proceed and get the most out of the mentoring relationship you are about to embark on. It is also an opportunity to meet those who will be

https://www.cec.lu.se/form/climbeco-mentoring-programme-kick - 2026-01-20

Excessive growth of administrative staff is a well recognized phenomenon that spans many types of organization within both the public and private sectors. It is often considered to be a plague. Whereas some qualitative explanations are well known, few or no quantitative approaches in terms of dynamical modeling have been pursued. Our group explores how agent-based models can be constructed given t

https://www.cec.lu.se/research/research-groups/agent-based-administration-growth-models - 2026-01-20

The Applied Systems Science for Sustainability research group employs systems thinking, systems analysis and system dynamics modeling to investigate the major environmental and techno-socio-economic challenges the world is facing. The group analyzes, interprets, models and communicates complex dynamic problems using the methods and tools provided by applied systems science.Through extensive intern

https://www.cec.lu.se/research/research-groups/applied-systems-science-sustainability - 2026-01-20

This annual meeting is being held for the first time internationally, and will be partially funded by Erasmus+ funding, which requires a bit more preparations by participants than usual. We have collected relevant information on this page to support your preparations, adding content continually. The Erasmus+ Staff training applicationThe processes for applying for Erasmus+ funding from Lund Univer

https://www.cec.lu.se/climbeco-autumn-meeting-2025 - 2026-01-20

Read more about our annual meetings at the ClimBEco annual meetings page Status message Sorry...This form is closed to new submissions. Leave this field blank

https://www.cec.lu.se/form/register-climbeco-autumn-meeting-2025 - 2026-01-20

Basic teacher training The course "Learning and Teaching in Higher Education – Theory and Practice" is compulsory for PhD students who would like to teach courses at Lund University.Courses for academic staff | Internal Faculty of Science Close Introduction course for PhD students at the Faculty of Science, 0.5 credits This course covers information on general terms of employment, insurance, and m

https://www.cec.lu.se/phd-courses-centre-environment-and-climate-science-cec - 2026-01-20