The Vice-Chancellor has now decided on a revised Sustainability Plan for 2023-2026. The revised plan contains concrete measures with a high level of ambition. It is hoped that the revised plan will help the University achieve the ambitious goals set out in the 2019 Sustainability Strategy. The work on the revision has involved many bodies across the University: the Education Board, Research Board,

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/we-will-work-broadly-sustainability-coming-years - 2025-09-06

The University's Sustainability Plan has been revised and will now replace the previous plan. The Sustainability Plan more firmly establishes the areas and overall goals identified in the University’s Sustainability Strategy within first, second and third-cycle education, research, external engagement and management and administrative services. As part of this revision, new goals and activities ha

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/sustainability-plan-2020-2026-has-been-revised - 2025-09-06

The Vice-Chancellor has decided that, by the middle of 2023 at the latest, all organisations within Lund University are to report incidents and occupational injuries digitally in the IA system. The following organisations already use the IA system for reporting incidents and occupational injuries: Central administration Faculty of Law Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts MAX IV Faculty of Medicine

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-digital-system-reporting-incidents-and-occupational-injuries - 2025-09-06

Lund University administers a range of awards, some well-known and well-used, others more obscure. In order to bring greater clarity to this broad flora, the Vice-Chancellor has now decided to set up an Awards Council and undertake a review of which awards should exist. The decision is in line with the Government’s reform of the public reward system for Sweden’s top awards (in Swedish). Vice-Chanc

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-awards-council-established-and-review-carried-out - 2025-09-06

As of 1 March 2023, you should report suspected disciplinary cases against students via a form on the Staff Pages, instead of emailing the report to the Legal Division. This is to make the handling of disciplinary matters easier and quicker. The form gives clear information about what needs to be included in a report. When the formula is sent in, a case is automatically created in W3D3. More infor

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-method-reporting-disciplinary-matters - 2025-09-06

Take part and run the Lundaloppet together with your colleagues. As usual, Lund University will pay the registration fee on behalf of employees. Lundaloppet is Skåne’s biggest race where people of all ages gather to run or walk. Choose if you would like to run 5 kilometres or 10. “It is great that so many LU employees choose to take part, and we are hoping to break a record this year,” says Univer

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/run-lundaloppet-6-may - 2025-09-06

Every year, university-wide funding for research infrastructure is announced. The minimum amount that can be awarded is SEK 250,000 per year and the maximum amount is SEK 10 million. The infrastructure can receive funding for a maximum of 5 years. Interdisciplinary research environments of particular strategic significance for the University are the focus. If these environments are also linked to

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/apply-funding-research-infrastructure-1-march - 2025-09-06

After nearly two years of working at home, we were able to return to the office in spring 2022. In the autumn of 2021, the Vice-Chancellor decided on new guidelines for remote working in preparation for our return. For technical and administrative staff this meant whole new possibilities to work partly from home that were not there before the pandemic. This was part of the subject of the Future of

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/remote-working-technical-and-administrative-staff-what-was-outcome - 2025-09-06

A village in Tanzania. Researchers use photos such as this to measure the degree of poverty. The same villages have also been measured using artificial intelligence. Photo: Google Poverty reduction globally is one of the UN’s primary goals. But how can wealth and economic development be measured in a smart way? Artificial intelligence, AI, and satellite photos are able to give more effective and p

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/measuring-poverty-ai-and-satellite-photos - 2025-09-06

The seminars with LU give the students in Ukraina well needed respite and inspiration. The on-screen lecture looks like any other digital seminar. But this is no normal session. The audience lives in the university town of Zhytomyr in Ukraine, and they are taking part in a series of online seminars organised by around ten researchers and teaching staff from Lund. One of the organisers of the knowl

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/respite-ukrainian-students-through-collaboration-lund - 2025-09-06

Jan Olof Nilsson. Photo: Private Gender studies is not something to engage in. This is a common statement in eastern Europe, where there is major resistance and study programmes are under constant threat of closure. Now the Department of Sociology and the Department of Gender Studies in Lund are joining forces to support colleagues and programmes in the region. Particular focus is being placed on

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/supporting-controversial-studies-eastern-europe - 2025-09-06

Maria Stanfors. Photo: Johan Persson This spring, LU is launching a joint faculty initiative to further train already established research supervisors. They constitute a hitherto forgotten group when it comes to professional development according to Maria Stanfors, vice chair of the Research Programmes Board (Swedish abbreviation FUN) and the person leading the project. “Over the years, there has

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/overlooked-supervisors-receive-further-training - 2025-09-06

Nerve cells created from stem cells. Photo: Janko Kajtez /Parmar Group Thanks to stem cell research, we now understand much more about the earliest stages of human development and what underlies many of our diseases. In recent years, the field has been revolutionised by several discoveries that have completely changed the landscape of stem cell research. Since its establishment as a strategic rese

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/twenty-years-revolutionary-stem-cell-research - 2025-09-06

Skin cells have been reprogrammed into brain cells. The process takes a couple of weeks. Photo: Åsa Hansdotter It is Thursday morning and time for the miniature brains to have lunch. The temperature in the cell incubator is a comfortable 37 degrees, perfect for a tiny brain. Anna Falk prepares the nutrient solution that the cells need to grow. These are cells that have made the remarkable transfor

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/feeding-time-miniature-brains - 2025-09-06

LU Business Track has been designed to speed up the development of growth companies born out of Lund University's research. Innovation is a driving force for the transition to a more sustainable society - and Skåne is one of the world's most innovative regions. At Lund University we see research results that can turn into knowledge-intensive innovations and technologies, which in turn can be the s

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/launching-lu-business-track-new-way-commercialize-research - 2025-09-06

University of California at Santa Cruz. In a world marked by geopolitical changes and climate impact that create entirely new conditions, we need to alter the way we work on international matters. This is the starting point for a new way of working – Global Dynamic Engagement (GDE). GDE aims to strengthen and develop the University’s international impact in research, education, external engagement

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/global-dynamic-engagement-will-enhance-our-international-presence - 2025-09-06

It is important that doctoral students, regardless of category and financing, have the same opportunities and conditions, as far as possible, for their admission to and conducting of third-cycle education. Unfortunately, that is not the case today, as the situation varies between the faculties. Sometimes this is due to factors related to the subjects, but in some cases, it is because there has bee

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/are-opportunities-and-conditions-same-all-universitys-doctoral-students - 2025-09-06

Visualisering av en byggnad på Science village New construction is a time-consuming process. It always is, even when building a private house. And if you are building premises for a complex future organisation, it takes even longer. The University has been working on establishing operations in Science Village for many years and is still only on step 2 of the 9 steps in the building process. (The b

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/year-we-are-developing-premises-programme-science-village-0 - 2025-09-06

University of Auckland, New Zealand Aerial City Campus. With the aim of strengthening and developing the University’s international impact in research, education, external engagement and innovation, a new way of working has been decided by the Vice-Chancellor. The University’s international work is to be based on an approach called Global Dynamic Engagement (GDE). GDE is to be a proactive way of w

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-way-working-international-matters-global-dynamic-engagement - 2025-09-06

Photo from a inauguration ceremony. On 17 March, 26 new professors will be inaugurated in a ceremony at the auditorium of the Main University Building, followed by a reception in the Pelarsalen. The University’s new professors are inaugurated by the Vice-Chancellor. In connection with the inauguration, one of the new professors, Professor Mia Liinason, will hold a short popular science lecture. Th

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/inauguration-ceremony-new-professors-17-march - 2025-09-06