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The 8 March, Lund University will send out a questionnaire to 8,800 researchers associated with the University in order to gain a picture of how well LU is fulfilling the European Charter for Researchers. The questionnaire, which is open for two weeks, aims to provide a broad picture of how researchers at LU feel the University is living up to the European Charter’s principles for working conditio

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/university-conducting-major-survey-principles-strong-research-environments - 2025-10-24

All Lund University employees and students are welcome to participate in this year's edition of the Future Innovations Award. Applications are open until May 5. The Future Innovations Award celebrates groundbreaking ideas from Lund University. Ideas with the potential to change our world. It has now opened for applications for 2025. Since its start in 2017, it has become an important platform for

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/future-innovations-award-2025-competition-opens-over-1-million-sek-prizes - 2025-10-24

EduLab has been a successful project and has meant that the University has had an infrastructure in place to support and manage educational initiatives. As a result, the University’s EduLab experimental platform has now been extended until December 2026. All faculties have taken the opportunity and received assistance from EduLab to develop and expand their range of courses and financial support.

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/edulab-continue-and-focus-x-courses - 2025-10-24

Lund University makes annual purchases totalling SEK 1.5 billion. Together, these purchases make up a large part of the University’s carbon footprint. How can we meet the high demands of research on materials and products, and at the same time become a resource-efficient organisation with a carbon footprint that is as small as possible? Anja Björnberg Ekstrand works as a procurement officer at the

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/importance-sustainable-purchasing-and-procurement - 2025-10-24

The University is now launching a new round of excellence initiatives to bolster the recruitment of top international researchers through the Wallenberg Academy Fellows (WAF) programme. With this initiative, the University aims to foster its international research presence and provide early-career researchers with the best opportunities to advance their careers. Previous roundThe first call for ap

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-round-excellence-initiatives-early-career-researchers-and-wallenberg-academy-fellows-2027 - 2025-10-24

The City of Lund and Lund University have approved a joint strategy to foster the local innovation environment and business community. This means that efforts to attract companies and talent and to bolster Lund’s international position are now being stepped up. “It sends out a strong signal that we speak with one voice. Sweden ranks high in terms of patents from academia. Lund University is third

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-statement-intent-city-lund - 2025-10-24

Stay Curious is a new English-language newsletter that makes it easy for you to find out about the latest research from your University colleagues in a concise and engaging format. The newsletter is published monthly on LinkedIn – a platform focused on knowledge sharing and professional networking. Using LinkedIn for the newsletter allows us to build on our already strong presence on the platform

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/stay-curious-universitys-new-newsletter-about-our-research - 2025-10-24

The University started the year on a high in The Conversation, the international platform where researchers write about research and analyse current social issues. This year, 21 articles have already been published. This means that 2025 could be another record year. Researchers from several faculties have contributed to this year’s productive start. The Faculty of Social Sciences accounts for eigh

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/university-gets-flying-start-conversation-2025 - 2025-10-24

A unique archive in Lund, Sweden, holds 500 in-depth interviews with survivors of the Ravensbrück concentration camp. The interviews were conducted immediately after the survivors arrived in Sweden in spring 1945. The archive has now been nominated to the UN agency UNESCO to become part of the Memory of the World Register, as a piece of written cultural heritage of great value to humanity.The Taj

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/ravensbruck-archive-lund-university-has-been-nominated-unesco-memory-world - 2025-10-24

Without students we would have no University, it is as simple as that. Lund’s incredibly rich and extensive student life is one of the main reasons why students apply to Lund University. The three pillars of student life: the student unions, student nations and Academic Society offer a broad spectrum of activities and contexts, and we are dependent on each other – because without the University th

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/strategy-student-life-way - 2025-10-24

During the spring, the Purchasing and Procurement Office will gradually take over responsibility for all procurements over SEK 700,000. The previous threshold (below which no support was available) was SEK 1.5 million. A new procedure is being introduced, which means that procurements worth over SEK 700,000 will be carried out with support from procurement officers in the Division of Finances. The

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/threshold-procurement-support-being-reduced - 2025-10-24

Do you want to be better at summarising your research in an engaging and easily understandable way? If so, the Researchers’ Grand Prix could be for you. The Researchers’ Grand Prix is Sweden’s biggest presentation technique competition for  researchers. The challenge is to convey your research in just four minutes and make it as simple, inspiring and educational as possible. At the same time, the

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/hone-your-presentation-skills-researchers-grand-prix - 2025-10-24

More than one in seven staff members has already started using strong authentication. This is a good start – but what is important now is that more follow their example. Strong authentication is a way to log in that makes it more difficult for an unauthorised person to gain access to an IT service, for example by using both a password and a mobile app (such as Freja+). To protect the University ag

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/one-seven-staff-members-already-has-strong-authentication - 2025-10-24

Learning Hub Syd is a new initiative that aims to generate and share knowledge about collaborative governance. The hub focuses on developing the cities’ capacity to manage complex climate challenges with other stakeholders. This is done by creating a platform where the cities can work together and benefit from each other’s experiences and knowledge. The project will be coordinated by Lund Universi

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/learning-hub-syd-new-collaboration-and-knowledge-sharing-platform-climate-neutral-cities - 2025-10-24

Students from Lund University have been winners in the global competition RISE Awards. The competition is for projects on sustainability and innovation linked to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. The RISE awards stands for Real Impact on Society and the Environment. Over the past five years, the University has had winners in four editions of the competition. Thirty member universities compet

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lu-students-are-serial-winners-sustainability-innovation - 2025-10-24

An exhibition based on news items from Lund University’s research account on Instagram is now on display in a shop window on a square in central Lund, Knut den stores torg. The collaborative organisation Lund Citysamverkan took the initiative a few years ago to start a collaboration with Lund University to highlight knowledge, research and innovation through displays in the shop windows of tempora

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lu-research-display-central-lund-shop-window - 2025-10-24

The faculties’ honorary doctors for 2025 have been announced and they will receive their honorary doctorates at the Doctoral Degree Conferment Ceremony on 23 May. Information on the honorary doctors’ lectures will be updated regularly during the spring. The title of honorary doctor, doctor honoris causa in Latin, is a distinction which is awarded by a faculty. The honorary doctors are people who h

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/full-list-faculties-honorary-doctors-2025 - 2025-10-24

Are you thinking about starting to commute to work by bike now that the spring is coming, but maybe you can't quite get started? Here are some of the university's test cyclists, in Innovation Skåne's project Case: Supercycle routes, with their best tips. Recently you could read in LU News about how both fitness and sleep improved for most of the test cyclists, even though the project only lasted s

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/test-cyclists-best-tips-bike-commuting - 2025-10-24

Although emissions from air travel at Lund University have slightly decreased compared to last year*, longer journeys remain a major source of emissions. Now, a group of five researchers from different departments is tackling the challenge of shifting travel norms and reducing air travel with fresh perspectives. Funded by the University's Sustainability Fund ("Hållbarhetsfonden"), the project, ‘Bi

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/researchers-aim-change-travel-norms-and-reduce-air-travel-lund-university - 2025-10-24

The aim of the Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies is to stimulate interdisciplinary research within Lund University. The Institute supports researchers working together across disciplinary borders. One of the instruments available for interdisciplinary research is the Advanced Study Group (ASG).  Take the opportunity to apply for an ASG at Pufendorf IAS! The ASG provides a flexible format fo

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/start-advanced-study-group-pufendorf-institute-advanced-studies - 2025-10-24