By hakan [dot] rodhe [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Håkan Rodhe) - published 1 June 2017 IIIEE alumni conference May 2017 Close to 200 IIIEE alumni and students gathered in Lund for the traditional biennial alumni event. The Alumni Conference was organised jointly by the IIIEE and the IIIEE Alumni Network.  Networking, up-dating, sharing of professional insights, the joy of re-uniting with dear col

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-alumni-conference-2017 - 2025-07-05

By hakan [dot] rodhe [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Håkan Rodhe) - published 1 June 2017 Magic flag parade Magic flag parade! On a beautiful Spring day flags from 125 countries, carried by IIIEE alumni & students from all parts of the world, were flown to congratulate the 350 year-old.  May the sun continue to shine on LU as it further deepens its leadership in international sustainability!Footnote

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-congratulates-lund-university-350-years - 2025-07-05

By hakan [dot] rodhe [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Håkan Rodhe) - published 1 June 2017 Photo: Håkan Röjder A unique mingle! Alumni from the original LU international sustainability master programmes joined up for a networking session during LU Sustainability week. Despite more than two decades and together more than 1500 alumni we have never previously managed to gather this group. Very inspiring

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/lu-global-sustainability-professionals - 2025-07-05

Published 8 June 2017 Photo: Coursera On 7 June it was the World Environment Day. And as part of the educational platform Coursera's commitment to promote sustainability and social impact, they especially highlighted the IIIEE's Massive Open Online Courses, the Greening the Economy courses, as top courses taking action on environmental issues!Watch their Facebook post hereWant to know more about o

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiees-greening-economy-courses-highlighted-coursera-top-courses-taking-action-environmental-issues - 2025-07-05

Published 9 June 2017 Attracting interest around current developments within the Mistra REES project. The first ever worldwide open-access conference dedicated to the Circular Economy was held on 5-7 June in Helsinki, Finland. This ground-breaking event presented the world’s best circular economy solutions and gathered together the most recognised experts and decision makers in the field, with ove

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-world-circular-economy-forum-2017 - 2025-07-05

Published 13 June 2017 Photo: Tomas Oneborg On 12 June, Svenska Dagbladet published an opinion piece in which Mistra REES researchers, including Oksana Mont and Andrius Plepys at the IIIEE, were highlighting the problems with the new taxation rules for chemical products, in particular for companies in the reuse-sector. Link to the opinion piece here (only in Swedish): "Ny skatt slår mot återanvänd

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/mistra-rees-researchers-opinion-piece-svenska-dagbladet-naringsliv - 2025-07-05

Published 15 June 2017 Photo: Isabelle Frej On 12-14 June, the IIIEE held an international mobile research lab on Sharing and Collaborative Economy. 15 researchers in their early career including PhD students and postdocs took part in the research lab which aimed at expanding researchers’ existing understanding of the sharing and collaborative economies, sustainability evaluations of these complex

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/international-mobile-research-lab-sharing-and-collaborative-economy-cities - 2025-07-05

Published 16 June 2017 On 15-16 June 2017, the 4th International Workshop on the Sharing Economy took place in Lund. The workshop was arranged by the IIIEE together with the department of urban planning and environment at KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), and attracted nearly a hundred participants from around the world. The workshop consisted of three keynotes, a stakeholder debate, an academi

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/4th-international-workshop-sharing-economy - 2025-07-05

Published 26 June 2017 On "Demand-side policies, governance and socio-technical mitigation pathways of limiting global warming to 1.5°C”. This Special Issue aims to provide a series of multi-disciplinary and comprehensive deep decarbonisation studies addressing various demand-side aspects of energy-economy systems in line with a 1.5°C target.Abstract submission by 15 August 2017.Full paper submiss

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/call-papers-special-issue-journal-energy-efficiency - 2025-07-05

Published 27 June 2017 There is a growing trend to involve citizens in city development to make urban areas more sustainable and livable. The urban living labs approach offers a way to foster new collaborative, trans-disciplinary ways of thinking in urban planning and development, and provides a real-world testing ground for urban innovation and transformation.This handbook aims to bring open inno

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/urban-living-labs-handbook - 2025-07-05

Published 27 June 2017 The June issue of the IIIEE newsletter is out now.Click here to access the June issueClick here for the IIIEE newsletter archiveClick here to subscribe to our newsletter

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/june-issue-iiiee-newsletter-out-now-0 - 2025-07-05

Published 22 August 2017 Batch 23 of the EMP programme in the IIIEE Aula On 15 August batch 23 of our EMP programme (Master in Environmental Management and Policy) began their journey at the IIIEE.A warm welcome! 

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/welcome-batch-23-our-emp-programme - 2025-07-05

Published 9 June 2025 Photo: Håkan Rodhe Today was a big day at the IIIEE with the graduation of students from the IIIEE's 30th round of the Masters' program. Batch 30 from the IIIEE legacy Master's program "Environmental Management and Policy" graduated today after two years studies. Family and friends gathered in Lund to celebrate and the graduation ceremony took place at Kulturen in Lund. An in

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/anniversary-batch-celebrating-graduation - 2025-07-05

Published 11 June 2025 The IIIEE is pleased to announce that we are part of Lund University's 'Shape the Future of Research' initiative with the a vacancy for an Assistant Professor (Associate Senior Lecturer) in AI for Sustainable Transformation. We are now recruiting an Assistant Professor (Associate Senior Lecturer) in the interdisciplinary field of Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Trans

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/join-iiiee-assistant-professor-ai-sustainable-transformation - 2025-07-05

Published 13 June 2025 Photo: Philipp Montenegro Today, Lisa Heldt successfully defended her PhD dissertation on "Embracing the Mess? Building Sustainability and Resilience at Supply Chains’ Upstream End. Insights into Digital Technologies, Dynamic Capabilities and Complex Adaptive Systems." Opponent was docent Cristina Sancha Fernandez, Ramon Llull University, Spanien. Members of the committee we

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/successful-phd-defense-lisa-heldt - 2025-07-05

Published 22 March 2016 Professor Oksana Mont Photo: Kennet Ruona IIIEE researcher Oksana Mont, Professor in Sustainable Consumption and Production, receives the Swedish Foundations’ Starting Grant Fellow, which is a grant that addresses researchers, based in Sweden, that have been scored among the best in Europe but have not received funding from the ERC’s Starting Grant (the European Research Co

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/oksana-mont-one-europes-most-talented-researchers-become-swedish-foundations-starting-grant-fellows - 2025-07-05

Published 14 June 2025 Photo: Philipp Montenegro On 11th of June, Emma Johnson successfully defended her PhD dissertation titled "Towards Circular Business Models for Sustainability: Exploring Innovation, Implementation, & Environmental Impact." The faculty opponent was Professor Anna Öhrwall Rönnbäck from Luleå University of Technology. Members of the Examination Committee were Professor Fenna Bl

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/emma-johnson-has-successfully-defended-her-doctoral-degree - 2025-07-05

Published 30 March 2016 IIIEE researcher Alvar Palm On 29 March, IIIEE researcher Alvar Palm published a debate article on VAT and second hand: "Slopa momsen på second hand". The article was published in the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet.

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-researcher-alvar-palm-debate-article-svenska-dagbladet - 2025-07-05

Published 22 June 2025 Photo: Astrakanimages This year, Lund University climbed three spots higher than last year making it Sweden’s top-ranked university. Lund University continues to score high in the QS World University Rankings 2026 - now ranked 72nd globally.QS has evaluated over 8,400 institutions, ranking 1,501. Lund has consistently placed among the world’s top 100 universities and has adv

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/lund-university-continues-climb-international-university-rankings - 2025-07-05

Published 5 April 2016 Nora Smedby defends her Doctoral thesis on 8 April On 8 April 2016, Nora Smedby at the IIIEE will defend her Doctoral thesis with the title: Local Environmental Governance: Assessing proactive initiatives in building energy efficiency.Oponent is Professor Matthew J. Hoffmann and supervisor is Professor Lena NeijView press release here (Swedish only) 

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/thesis-defence-8-april - 2025-07-05