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The proceedings from the Focus Asia titled "E-Governance in Asia: Strengthening transparency and accountability?" are now available. 12-13 November 2015 the Centre arranged Focus Asia: E-Governance in Asia: Strengthening transparency and accountability?From a critical perspective the symposium examined the state-of-the-art of e-governance in Asia. The aim was to synthesize knowledge about the chal
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/proceedings-focus-asia - 2025-09-29
The Tibetan Plateau has long been seen as a “hotspot” for international environmental research, and there have been fears that water supplies in the major Asian rivers would drastically decline in the near future. However, new research now shows that water supplies will be stable and may even increase in the coming decades. Read more about the work of Deliang Chen, University of Gothenburg and BEC
https://www.becc.lu.se/article/water-supplies-tibet-set-increase-future - 2025-09-29
Researchers led by Lund University in Sweden have assisted microbiologists in Ukraine in investigating bacterial resistance among the war-wounded patients treated in hospitals. The results, which were recently published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, reveal that many of the patients were affected by bacteria that exhibited an extremely high level of antibiotic resistance. “I am quite thick-ski
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/alarming-antibiotic-resistance-discovered-war-torn-ukraine - 2025-09-29
The Tibetan Plateau has long been seen as a “hotspot” for international environmental research, and there have been fears that water supplies in the major Asian rivers would drastically decline in the near future. However, new research now shows that water supplies will be stable and may even increase in the coming decades. Read more about the work of Deliang Chen, University of Gothenburg and MER
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/water-supplies-tibet-set-increase-future - 2025-09-29
Tuesday 16 August 2016 is "Arrival Day" for over 2,000 new international students at Lund University. Approximately 150 of the students study at Campus Helsingborg and 40 of them are specially welcome to our new International Master's Programme in Strategic Communication. Arrival Day is a dedicated day to welcome international students to their new environment at Lund University. Students are gree
https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/lu-and-campus-helsingborg-welcome-students-around-world - 2025-09-29
The Muslim South Asia Research Forum (MUSA) at SOAS, University of London, UK, arranges a Workshop on Negotiating Technologies, 14-15 October 2016. The MUSA Workshop is organized in collaboration with CEIAS, Paris & the Centre of South Asian Studies, Cambridge, and will be held at Trinity College, University of Cambridge.One session is devoted to South Asian Muslims & the History of Science & Tec
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/cambridge-musa-conference-negotiating-technologies - 2025-09-29
The Faculty of Humanities, Leiden Institute for Area Studies at University of Leiden is looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher in Buddhist Studies. Applications must be received no later than 30 June 2017. The researcher will carry out research on Buddhist scriptures, which is part of the ERC-funded project, “The Composition of Buddhist Scriptures: Open Philology” headed by prof. Jonathan A. Silk.
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/position-available-postdoctoral-researcher-buddhist-studies - 2025-09-29
The Faculty of Humanities, Leiden Institute for Area Studies at University of Leiden is looking for a PhD candidate in Buddhist Studies. Applications must be received no later than 30 June 2017 The candidate will carry out research on Buddhist scriptures, which is part of the ERC-funded project, “The Composition of Buddhist Scriptures: Open Philology” headed by prof. Jonathan A. Silk. Details of t
https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/position-available-phd-candidate-buddhist-studies - 2025-09-29
NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Serena Kelly and Natalia Chaban have together with Ole Elgström published the article "Perceptions of the European Union's Fledgling Delegations: More Coherence, More Effectiveness?" in the journal European Foreign Affairs Review (vol. 21, no. 4). Abstract in English:The debate surrounding the challenge of improving coherence in European Union (EU) foreign policy is ongoi
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/perceptions-european-unions-fledgling-delegations - 2025-09-29
CMES Visiting Professor Dalia Dassa Kaye participated in a discussion about the normalization of relations between Saudia Arabia and Israel on PBS News Hour. The show aired on September 5, 2023 and addresses the changing diplomatic relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia. The US is actively negotiating a normalization deal between the two countries. In the show, Nick Schifrin discussed the possi
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/normalization-israeli-saudi-relations - 2025-09-29
CMES researcher Sara Brogaard has been interviewed in a Radio Sweden program about sandstorms in Iraq. The episode on sandstorms in Iraq is part of Radio Sweden's program "Vetenskapsradion Klotet". Klotet (The Globe) is an environmental program from the science department of Radio Sweden. The episode aired on 22 June 2023. In the episode, Sara speaks about her research on sand- and dust-storms. Th
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/devastating-sandstorms-iraq - 2025-09-29
A paper in Nature Climate Change, co-authored by an IIIEE researcher, alumna and student, shows that pledges to phase out coal are so far largely limited to older plants in richer countries. Reaching climate targets requires phasing out coal power without carbon capture and storage, as pledged by the members of Powering Past Coal Alliance (PPCA). Prof. Aleh Cherp and his co-authors show that these
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/pledges-phase-out-coal-power-are-insufficient-reach-climate-target - 2025-09-29
Professor Nancy Bocken has been awarded the European Research Council’s Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) in the 2019 round of awards. She receives 1.5 million euros during the next five years. Nancy Bocken receives the ERC grant for her new project CIRCULAR X. The project will develop a new field of research on experimentation with circular service business models (CSBMs). E
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/professor-nancy-bocken-receives-prestigious-erc-starting-grant - 2025-09-29
For many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, the health care system was strained already before the coronavirus crisis. Lack of intensive care units and respirators and the difficult economic situation in most African countries limit the resources to combat the pandemic. LUCSUS researcher Karin Steen, who returned from a teaching sabbatical in Zimbabwe when the corona pandemic broke out, share her re
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/perspectives-corona-pandemic-africa - 2025-09-29
Green economy depends on high national ambitionsSustainable growth, supporting a resource efficient and low-carbon economy, is a high priority for most governments today. But which way is the most effective for the transition towards a green economy? IIIEE researchers Luis Mundaca and Lena Neij are soon wrapping up a major global benchmark study in search of the answers.With the start of the globa
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-researcher-luis-mundaca - 2025-09-29
Heart attack and stroke are common complications of diabetes, as the body's ability to repair and form vessels is impaired. Researchers at Lund University have developed a new substance with the capacity to stimulate vascular repair response and the formation of vessels. In diabetes, the body's ability to repair vascular damage caused by the disease is impaired, which can lead to complications suc
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/new-peptide-may-reduce-risk-diabetes-complications - 2025-09-29
Martin Lavička, visiting research fellow at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, co-edited a new publication published by the Palacký University Press. Ideas on the (human) body, gender, and identity lie at the core of many socio-political issues and cultural trends in Asia today, while also inspiring innovative research on artistic expression from Asia's past. By focusing on socio-po
