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This year’s stipend of the Pontus Roos Memorial Foundation is awarded to Sarah Rosenberg. The Pontus Roos Memorial Foundation, represented by the committee members Helen Roos and Tommy Andersson, have announce the winner of this year’s stipend. Pontus Roos was a creative and resourceful person, firmly convinced that practical problems in the industrial and service sector could benefit from advance

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/pontus-roos-memorial-foundation-stiped-2024 - 2026-05-03

Lund University has set aside up to SEK 100 million for a university-wide investment in excellence at Lund University with a focus on Agenda 2030 and sustainable development for the period 2021-2025. Within the framework of this program, the Research Board has previously announced funding for interdisciplinary projects in the spring of 2021. The open call engaged widely and a large number of resea

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-call-applications-funding-projects-focusing-agenda-2030-and-sustainable-development - 2026-05-03

The annual CED Lund Population Day (LPD) 2025 is coming up 8 May on the theme The Two Fertility Puzzles, 2010-2020. We asked the organizer, professor Martin Dribe, three quick questions to learn more. Hi Martin Dribe, professor of Economic History, specializing in Economic Demography, and organiser and lead researcher of the upcoming annual CED Lund Population Day (LPD) 2025.What inspired the them

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/curious-about-lpd-three-quick-questions - 2026-05-04

On 1 December, the University’s insurance with Kammarkollegiet was renewed, which means changed rules for the storage and handling of all lithium-ion batteries used for transportation, such as electric bicycles, scooters etc, and other lithium-ion batteries with a capacity of more than 10 Ah. The new rules mean, among other things, that if you ride an electric bike to work, you must store your bat

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/if-you-ride-e-bike-work - 2026-05-04

It has frustrated me for a long time that we have not been able to use e-signatures, as I know that many other higher education institutions use them. Now they are available at last, and I have used the service in both the Research Programmes Board and the Library Board. The University has long had access to the EduSign tool, and we are now ready to start using it for all internal signatures. Usin

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/we-can-use-e-signatures-last - 2026-05-04

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-much-electricity-have-we-saved - 2026-05-04

How can you enable encounters across boundaries in order to create new experiences, exciting research projects and innovation within education? And can it be done without things getting fuzzy? “Yes, this is something that those of us involved in the Strategy for Cultural Collaboration project have been working on for a while. What we specifically want to do is make Lund University’s artistic and c

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/tinder-cultural-collaboration - 2026-05-04

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-researchers-included-stanford-elsevier-worlds-top-2-scientists-ranking-2025 - 2026-05-03

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/3-millon-sek-research-project - 2026-05-03

Karin Aggestam and Tim Dunne have co-authored the chapter “The failure of diplomacy and protection in Syria”, in Foreign Policy: Theories, Actors, Cases (3d edition), eds S. Smith, A. Hadfield, and T. Dunne, Oxford: Oxford University Press. AbstractThis chapter argues that the international community’s response to the Syrian civil war was a failure of resolute diplomacy. It first recounts how a po

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/karin-aggestam-and-time-dunne-failure-diplomacy-and-protection-syria - 2026-05-03

In a new article published in Cooperation and Conflict Roxanna Sjöstedt, together with Erik Noreen (Uppsala University), examines the dynamics of so-called pluralistic security communities in relation to the management of external threats. Focusing on the Nordic states in relation to the Covid-19 pandemic and the geopolitical tensions caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the articles finds that

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/securitization-security-community-cooperation-and-conflict-nordic - 2026-05-03

You now have a chance to apply for three Phd-positions all related to the evaluation of transformative policy tools for climate-neutral energy systems. As a doctoral student you will work in the project “Evaluating transformative energy governance in an urban context”. The aim of this project is to increase the capacity of cities to govern transformative change towards sustainable and climate-neut

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/are-you-interested-becoming-phd-student-focusing-research-transformative-energy-governance - 2026-05-03

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Middle Eastern research news from Lund University Message from the director The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is an exceptionally dynamic area that has undergone great changes politically as well as economically during the latest decades. The region is likely to continue to display rapid and sudden developments

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-forum-newsletter-8-february-2020 - 2026-05-03

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Ylva van Meeningen will enter the stage in a tough competition to show her skills. Forskar Grand Prix is a competition in presenting science in the most catching way, in few minutes. The audience in Lund will be hundreds of students at Polhemsskolan in Lund, on October 7th.There will also be an expert jury of three pe

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/ylva-van-meeningen-researcher-grand-prix - 2026-05-03

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/teeth-give-away-climate-history - 2026-05-03

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-issue-sydasien-now-available - 2026-05-03

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In June, LUCSUS researchers Genesis Yengoh, Sara Gabrielsson and Ann Åkerman kicked off the capacity building programme Land is Life. During two intense weeks, 13 future leaders from Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda participated in i lecturers, field trips, group work and discussions in Kisumu, Kenya.  The capacity

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-kicked-new-capacity-building-programme-ecosystem-and-biodiversity-kenya - 2026-05-03

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Instead of betting big on bioenergy, governments need to focus on the hard medicine of cutting fossil fuel use. There is no shortcut to climate change mitigation, says Lennart Olsson, professor at Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies and lead author of the IPCC special report on Climate Change and Land, i

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/bioenergy-plantations-could-fight-climate-change-threaten-food-crops-un-panel-warns - 2026-05-03

The new Strategy for Education focuses on digitalisation, teaching and learning, inclusion and internationalisation. The Strategy clarifies the role of generative AI in teaching and is to strengthen the initiative for professional development in teaching and learning. On 11 June, the University Board approved Lund University’s Strategy for First and Second-Cycle Education 2025-2027.The Strategy is

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-strategy-education-highlights-digitalisation-inclusion-teaching-and-learning-and - 2026-05-04

In recent years, there have been changes to the deadlines for applying for reimbursement of health promotion, medication and healthcare expenses. Because of this, we are once again sending out a reminder this year. Health promotion benefitYou can apply for health promotion reimbursement several times a year (preferably as soon as you have used up your entire health promotion allowance of SEK 1,870

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/deadlines-applying-health-promotion-medication-and-healthcare-reimbursements - 2026-05-04