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There is a lot happening at the moment within the University concerning LU’s engagement in the work environment and equal opportunities. It is time to elect health and safety representatives – a very significant role. We are also marking 150 years since women gained the right to study at university and highlighting the fantastic attendance when LU took part in Pride for the first time. Take the op
Photo Agata Garpenlind. The Faculty of Medicine’s new knowledge centre, Forum Medicum, has been inaugurated with great pomp and ceremony. During August, staff and students moved into the building and filled the premises. Forum Medicum brings together the University’s health sciences and biomedical research and education at a single knowledge centre in the middle of the Knowledge Highway on Sölvega
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/forum-medicum-opens-its-doors - 2025-08-30
It has been a good summer for LU. The call for applications in the spring for the EU’s framework programme for research and innovation, Horizon Europe, has resulted in approved grants for 40 new projects. The success has been on a broad front, involving researchers from seven of our faculties. The approved projects are as follows: 4 ERC Starting Grants 1 ERC Proof of Concept 22 collaborative proje
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lu-receives-grants-40-eu-projects - 2025-08-30
The music programme for the autumn is on the theme of “Spirituality” and offers concerts, guest performances and discussion about music. The programme begins with a theme week in which Odeum, along with LU’s Cultural and Public Centres (LUKOM), including the Botanical Garden, is collaborating with Lund Cathedral to mark its 900th anniversary. One of the Swedish composers who has written music with
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/spirituality-theme-odeums-autumn-programme - 2025-08-30
Pausit is a pause program that offers exercises during the working day and which all employees can download to their computer. The licence is to be renewed for another year, giving staff members continued access to short pause exercises at work. The program is a computer-based tool which presents exercises that prevent stiffness and pain in the back, shoulders, head and neck. The exercises also r
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/renewed-pausit-agreement-sake-your-health - 2025-08-30
The term of office for current health and safety representatives ends on 31 December. This means that in the autumn, the University will hold a health and safety representative election for the period 2024 to 2026. The election is to be completed by 31 October 2023. Who do you want to nominate? Think about who you want to nominate at your workplace to become a health and safety representative for
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/time-elect-health-and-safety-representatives - 2025-08-30
Six winners will share SEK 500,000 and obtain support to drive their projects forward. Staff and students from all disciplines are welcome to submit their ideas. Our world faces major challenges. There is an enormous demand for innovative solutions. Could your idea make a difference? The Future Innovations Award has been presented in collaboration with Sparbanken Skåne since 2017. The competition
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/future-innovations-award-2023 - 2025-08-30
Staff from Stellenbosch University, South Africa, on exchange in Lund. The host for the visit is Pär Svensson, External Relations. This week, (11-15 Sept) Lund University is visited by a group of technical and administrative staff from Stellenbosch University in South Africa. The visit is part of a digital and physical exchange programme that started in May and will end in December. The group from
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/staff-stellenbosch-university-exchange-lund - 2025-08-30
Anders Forslid has witnessed a shift in animal health and animal experiments during his 30 years as a veterinarian at Lund University. Veterinarian in charge Anders Forslid is retiring after 30 years working to improve the welfare of research animals at Lund University. He has witnessed a paradigm shift in animal health and animal experiments, and the way animal testing and humans’ obligations are
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/if-we-are-going-have-animal-testing-then-we-have-do-it-well - 2025-08-30
MAX IV. After just over a year as acting director of MAX IV, Olof Karis was named ordinary director earlier this summer. Was it an easy decision to stay on? “Oh definitely, I communicated my interest both in the application and in interviews. Ever since I was a doctoral student, I have wanted to see an increased use of synchrotron radiation in Swedish research.” What do you feel most proud of sinc
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/challenges-await-new-ordinary-director-max-iv - 2025-08-30
Ester Barinaga studies local currency initiatives. Photo: Juan Ocampo Local currencies may arise when there is a clear need for certain products and services in a local area and where the competences to produce them exist but the lack of traditional money puts obstacles in the way. The lack of money might be the result of pandemics, war, natural disasters, financial crises or poverty. Ester Barina
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/local-currencies-solution-times-crisis - 2025-08-30
31 percent of the professors at Lund University are women. Photo: Gunnar Menander Evaluate employees’ performance differently – it could be a route to achieving a more gender equal university. This according to Rebecca Selberg, associate professor of gender studies. “A better, more holistic perspective on career development is needed,” she says. It is clear that a lot has happened in the area of g
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/rethink-employee-performance-and-improve-gender-equality - 2025-08-30
Polar bears followed the expedition in the Arctic. Ice sheets, snow and the ocean as far as the eye can see. No shipping vessels or people in sight, and only polar bears for company. The icebreaker Oden sails between Svalbard and Greenland, and this spring, doctoral student Lovisa Nilsson joined the ship to study the transition from winter to summer in the Arctic, and how soot affects the melting
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/polar-bears-company - 2025-08-30
The excavation in Uppåkra will go on for many years. Photo. Kennet Ruona Why are there hundreds of jumbled human bones in the ground at Uppåkra? That is one of the mysteries that archaeologists at Lund University hope to be able to solve in the next few years. They will be aided by the latest DNA technology. A quiet calm rests over Uppåkra, just outside Lund. The only sound under the enormous tent
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-technique-reveals-uppakras-violent-past - 2025-08-30
In the interdisciplinary REICOR project, researchers will map the ground with the help of drones and other tools. Here, Lars Beckel from the Geological Survey of Sweden (SGU) is seen preparing a drone. SGU is a collaborative partner. Photo: Tina Martin Through an interdisciplinary research project in collaboration with industry, a group of researchers hope to identify a more efficient way of asses
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/improving-efficiency-construction-railway-future - 2025-08-30
How are we affected when education moves out of the classroom and onto digital platforms? Listen to Lucas Cone from the University of Copenhagen discuss this in the seminar "I'm a Google teacher": digital platforms, affective attachments, and pedagogical monopolization in Danish public education. Time and place: October 10th from 3:15 to 4:45 PM in room C121 at LUX. The deadline for registration i
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/seminarium-im-google-teacher-lucas-cone - 2025-08-30
Few employees utilise health promotion benefits Keep in mind that you should no longer submit original paper receipts when applying for reimbursement for health promotion, health care and medication costs. Instead, attach your original receipts in digitally scanned format (not photographed) when registering an application in Primula. However, you need to be able to present the paper receipts for t
During the academic years 2023/24 and 2024/25, doctoral students and doctoral supervisors have increased opportunities to apply for Erasmus+ scholarships for a stay at a partner university within and outside the EU/EEA. Mobility to members of LU's prioritised networks EUGLOH, LERU and U21 is particularly encouraged. Erasmus+ scholarships for mobility to higher education institutions outside the E
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/erasmus-scholarships-doctoral-students-and-doctoral-supervisors - 2025-08-30
Employees and students at Lund University are hereby invited to propose candidates for the 2024 Lund University Administrative Prize before the 6 November. With this award, the University management wishes to recognize extraordinary contributions in administration throughout the University. Lund University’s administrative prize is to be awarded annually to an employee at Lund University for outst
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/nominate-candidates-university-administrative-prize-2024 - 2025-08-30
The Sustainability Fund offers an opportunity to explore innovative potential and fund activities outside the scope of existing research projects. Its purpose is to support the development of early innovative ideas from research projects that have an impact on sustainable development. The second call for applications attracted a diverse range of applications, out of which five were granted funding
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/five-new-projects-awarded-grants-sustainability-fund - 2025-08-30
