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The Mrs Berta Kamprad Foundation is donating SEK 420 million to cancer research at Lund University. This is the largest donation to the university since its foundation in 1666. The donation is dedicated to translational cancer research, meaning applied cancer research in antibody and cell therapies with the aim of improving prognosis and quality of life for today's cancer patients.The administrati

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/sek-420-million-cancer-research-lund-university - 2026-05-09

Purpose: to promote legal research at the Faculty of Law in Lund. Through its activities, the Foundation will support, encourage and facilitate research at the faculty. Anyone actively conducting research at the Faculty of Law in Lund is eligible to apply for a grant. Grants will be awarded primarily for costs directly incurred while conducting or reporting on a research project. This includes suc

https://www.law.lu.se/article/rune-and-lena-lavin-foundation-legal-research-faculty-law-lund - 2026-05-09

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/visiting-scholar-centre - 2026-05-09

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/research-day-east-and-south-east-asian-studies - 2026-05-09

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/artikel/utlysning-om-att-arrangera-kurser-med-finansiering-sfo-epihealth - 2026-05-09

Emilia Viklund is a SWEAH-affiliated doctoral student in health sciences at the Faculty of Education and Welfare Studies, Åbo Akademi University. In her research, she examines the mental well-being of the elderly and the connection to the use of digital tools. Her research concerns older people in Finland and Sweden. She also examines what the health promotion work aimed at older people looks like

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/emilia-viklund-winner-poster-competition-during-sweah-milestone-conference - 2026-05-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. She has survived a brain tumour and hates empty phrases such as “seize the day” and “live in the present”. Despite this, after the tumour operation Ulrika Sandén both researched and wrote a book on what she calls “Contentment in the moment”, an approach to life that she assimilated during her years in Vesterålen in no

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/contentment-moment-makes-life-more-enjoyable - 2026-05-09

CASE researchers Björn Slaug and Susanne Iwarsson have shown that their instrument for assessing accessibility in housing for the elderly also works in Japan - even though it was originally developed according to Swedish conditions. Swedish research contributes to improving public health in Japan.– Through long-term and careful work, we have been able to transfer it to a very different cultural co

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/japan-takes-help-case-developed-research-tool - 2026-05-09

In collaboration with the Pufendorf IAS, the LMK Foundation invites to an annual Idea Forum for young researchers. Last autumn, Maya Kylén and Magnus Dustler Medfak participated, and this is what it was like for them. Deadline to nominate for participation this year is April 15. Maya Kylén: "It was exciting and rewarding! The moderators (Göran Bexell, Sven Strömqvist and Susanne Åkesson) did a fan

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/nominate-ideforum-2024-unexpected-outside-perspectives-can-be-more-important-world-leading-experts - 2026-05-09

SWEAH's travelers left an almost 30-degree Sweden and arrived in typical September rain and Stirling half as hot. But then the sun came and a packed program with, among other things, lectures and workshops on quantitative and qualitative methods, and a competition where the best presentations were crowned. The postdoctoral students competed in their own class, where Thomas Lowe from the Netherland

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/old-and-new-contacts-are-made-great-britain - 2026-05-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Orpheus is a European network that has committed to developing and disseminating best practice as well as promoting harmonisation within PhD education in biomedicine and health sciences. The network carries out evaluations to ensure quality within PhD programmes. So far, 10 European medical faculties have become accre

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/faculty-phd-programme-gains-accreditation - 2026-05-09

Den 1 september återupptog arbetsgivaren (Lunds universitet) och de lokala fackliga organisationerna förhandlingarna avseende genomförande av lönerevision. In English Förhandlingarna ska bland annat leda fram till tidpunkten för löneöversyn, samt hur översynen ska genomföras med hänsyn till de avtal som är tecknade på central nivå mellan Arbetsgivarverket och respektive facklig organisation. De lo

https://www.hr-webben.lu.se/artikel/loneforhandlingar-ar-aterupptagna - 2026-05-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In a large hall on Margaretavägen in Lund, next to LDC, the air is full of the hum of computers. The supercomputers Alarik, Erik and Platon – the most powerful in southern Sweden – are busy computing complex problems that Lund University researchers are not able to solve on their own. At the moment, a simulation of a

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lunarc-universitys-powerhouse - 2026-05-09

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/2022-nobel-laureate-physics-give-lecture-lund-december-14 - 2026-05-09

Efter att ha plöjt nästan 800 fallstudier har forskare identifierat de tolv bästa sätten att minska biltrafiken i städerna. Resultatet visar att en kombination av morot- och piskaåtgärder utgör ett vinnande recept, samtidigt som en ”vinnare” stickar ut: trängselavgifterna. Sådana kan minska biltrafiken i stadskärnan med upp till en tredjedel. Utsläpp från transporter är en betydande orsak till de

https://www.lu.se/artikel/basta-satten-att-minska-biltrafiken-i-stader-enligt-ny-metastudie - 2026-05-10

Lund University has risen to 75th place in the prestigious QS annual ranking. This is an improvement of ten spots on the previous year, placing Lund as the top ranked comprehensive university in Sweden. In addition, the University has been awarded the QS Sustainability Champions Award. QS has published annual university rankings since 2004. On 4 June, QS published its latest list (ranking 2025) fo

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-university-climbs-global-ranking-wins-sustainability-award - 2026-05-10

Lund University has been ranked 85th in the world in the QS World University rankings, making it the top ranked comprehensive university in Sweden. QS has published university rankings annually since 2004 and the ranking is done in collaboration with Elsevier. On 27 June, QS published its latest list (Ranking 2024) in which 2,963 institutions were evaluated and 1,503 universities were ranked. Lund

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-university-ranked-85th-qs-world-university-rankings - 2026-05-10

Graduation was approaching and alumnus Erik Månsson didn't know what he wanted to do. A few months later he received the diploma in his hand, as well as his first job - CEO for a start-up within Food Tech. We had a talk with Erik about his job - as well as the start-up world, student life and sources of inspiration. Editor's note: this interview is from 2024.Erik, tell us about what you do today!I

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/erik-mansson-alumnus-bsc-business-and-economics-2019 - 2026-05-09

Three researchers within the Social Science Faculty at Lund University have compiled an anthology challenging the notion of the refugee crisis of 2015. The book also investigates how Germany, Sweden, and Denmark use bureaucracy to control, discipline, and shape asylum seekers’ lives. In 2015, the number of asylum seekers arriving in the EU doubled from the previous year, totalling at over 1.3 mill

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/how-northern-european-welfare-states-exercise-bureaucratic-violence-asylum-seekers - 2026-05-09

THINK TEAM. Don't strive for perfection, take small steps instead. And dare to ask the really tough questions. Annika Lindström, Innovation Developer at LU Innovation, gives advice to aspiring entrepreneurs. To "succeed" in realising an idea, the most fundamental thing in my eyes is to be truly driven by the desire to solve a problem and create value for an end user or customer.It's easy to fall i

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/dont-fall-love-your-own-idea - 2026-05-09