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On 18 May, Sydsvenskan published an opinion piece by IIIEE PhD students Katherine Whalen and Jessika Luth Richter with the title: "Fördomar måste försvinna – uppfattningen att återanvända elektronikprodukter är sämre än nya och att det finns en risk för att personuppgifter sprids." (only in Swedish)
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/opinion-piece-sydsvenskan-phd-students-iiiee - 2025-10-23
On 16 May the conference "Fossilfritt Skåne" took place in Lund, co-organised by the IIIEE. The student journalist, Josefine Henman, wrote an article summarising the event. Click here to read the article (in Swedish only).
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/highlights-conference-fossilfritt-skane-16-may - 2025-10-23
This year 19 students from the University of Virginia are visiting the IIIEE and will work with four clients (see below). The programme at the IIIEE is run for the 4th time, and the students started at the IIIEE on 15 May. The students have a blog, where they write about their impressions from Lund and Sweden (click here to access the blog).Here are the clients for this year:Fabriken, which “gives
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/university-virginia-visit-4th-time - 2025-10-23
PhD candidates Leonidas Milios and Julia Nussholz discuss key elements of student group work for advanced learning in higher education. In a recent research article, published in the magazine of Lund University ‘Lärande i LTH’, Leonidas and Julia contribute in the analysis of what constitutes a well-designed and effective group work for students in higher education.The article presents the finding
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/insights-highest-level-student-group-work-iiiee - 2025-10-23
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 colleagues and friends, re-visiting Lund and the Institute – in all a fantastically rich, happy and inspiring event! Three d
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-alumni-conference-2017 - 2025-10-23
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:The IIIEE has since inauguration in 1995 acquired flags representing the nationality of the graduating st
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-congratulates-lund-university-350-years - 2025-10-23
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 to see all the energy and enthusiasm! These global sustainability professionals make up an essential part o
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/lu-global-sustainability-professionals - 2025-10-23
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 our Greening the Economy courses and re
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 over 1500 participants. P
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-world-circular-economy-forum-2017 - 2025-10-23
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 återanvänding av it"Link to the Mistra REES programme
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/mistra-rees-researchers-opinion-piece-svenska-dagbladet-naringsliv - 2025-10-23
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 phenomena in cities, and institutionalisati
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/international-mobile-research-lab-sharing-and-collaborative-economy-cities - 2025-10-23
How does migration and globalisation shape the lives of individuals in various countries and how does it affect the children of immigrants in terms of integration, identity, and cultural expressions? Do they themselves use the word integration? These questions occupy sociologist Dalia Abdelhady who is about to conclude a study of three populations in the US, in France and in Germany, based on thei
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/other-sides-story-how-immigrants-children-experience-life - 2025-10-23
A regional project led by Lund University called Make Space för Verkstad has mapped out around 70 creative spaces and labs around Skåne with the aim of highlighting a common infrastructure. The spaces range from artists´workshops to testbeds, labs and hubs within academia or with external partners who can drive the development of new innovations. – These spaces are vital if we are to have a divers
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/mosaic-creative-spaces-connects-knowledge-and-innovation - 2025-10-23
Lund University has been ranked 95th in the world in the QS World University rankings, making it the top ranked comprehensive university in Sweden. QS has ranked almost 1 500 universities, placing the top 100 within the top 7%. The universities are assessed using five indicators: academic reputation, employer reputation, faculty/student ratio, citations per faculty, international student & faculty
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-top-100-global-ranking - 2025-10-23
When asthmatics’ respiratory tracts are exposed to dust mites, their immune response becomes less effective, which can lead to a weaker immune system. People who suffer from asthma associated with infection may therefore be more susceptible to secondary viral or bacterial infections. According to the researchers, the results suggest that asthmatics should avoid house dust mites and that patients w
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-research-dust-mites-and-respiratory-infections - 2025-10-23
Art and culture have the capacity to make us aware of our relationship to ourselves and others, our world and our time. Using existential sustainability as an umbrella term, we can investigate new angles and open the way for new collaborations, according to Anna Lyrevik, senior adviser to the Vice-Chancellor, who has broad experience of delivering cultural projects in various forms. “My mission is
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/art-and-culture-bring-us-existential-awareness - 2025-10-23
When you take a dip in a Swedish lake, it is not unusual to find you cannot see the lake bottom. Lake water coloured brown by organic material can be an inconvenience for swimming tourists, but mainly causes problems for the ecosystem and drinking water. Focusing on Lake Bolmen, researchers, public authorities and local organisations are now joining forces in a research project to find methods tha
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/many-reasons-take-care-lake-water - 2025-10-23
During Monday 15 and Tuesday 16 August international students are arriving in Lund. The autumn's Arrival Days take place in newly renovated premises in AF-borgen. Arrival Days aim to welcome international students to Lund University, provide them with information and ensure that they are settled in before the start of their studies. For two days, staff from Lund University welcome students at Kast
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/arrival-days-welcome-international-students-lund-university - 2025-10-23
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a new method for studying age-related brain disorders. The researchers have focused on the neurodegenerative disorder Huntington’s disease and the results have now been published in the journal Brain. Basic medical research often faces the challenge of developing disease models that correspond to specific disease mechanisms or the disease to
Why do some people develop type 1 diabetes and others do not? Worldwide, researchers are now collaborating to find the answer to this complex question.Diabetes researchers at Lund University recently contributed data to a new study that shows that type 1 diabetes develops in three different ways in children. This improved understanding makes it possible for scientists to conduct new types of studi
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/blood-testing-children-leads-better-understanding-type-1-diabetes - 2025-10-23
