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Duration: 2021 Hydrosolidarity 2.0 has been granted a Theme at the Pufendorf IAS (autumn 2021). A major global challenge during the coming decades is working towards sustainability. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim to create a better and and more peaceful world by 2030, thus ending poverty, inequality, and urgently addressing peace and climate change. However, integrative methods fo
Funding agency: SRA-MECW. Duration: 2019-2021 The Middle East faces various environmental challenges, including water scarcity. Climate change makes surface waters less reliable and consequently adds up the pressure on groundwater resources, which are already the main supply for agriculture, industry, and drinking sectors. Overexploitation of groundwater leads to the depletion of groundwater resou
Funding by Human Rights Studies, Department of History, Lund University The ultimate aim of this project is to investigate the connection between Swedish democracy promotion policies and what is actually being implemented by Swedish aid practitioners in the name of democracy promotion in the Middle East. The empirical sources used in this study are official Swedish policy documents relating to dem
https://www.cmes.lu.se/cmes-research/research-projects/investigating-swedish-democracy-promotion-middle-east - 2026-05-29
Members of the Scientific Advisory Board Anders Jägerskog Senior Water Resources Management Specialist at the World Bank Anders Jägerskog is Senior Water Resources Management Specialist at the Water Global Practice at the World Bank. Previously he was Counsellor for regional water resources in the MENA region at the Swedish Embassy in Amman, Jordan; Director, Knowledge Services, at the Stockholm I
https://www.cmes.lu.se/centre-advanced-middle-eastern-studies-cmes/cmes-scientific-advisory-board - 2026-05-29
The Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies supports and coordinates research projects with high scientific potential through the Strategic Research Area (SRA): Middle East in the Contemporary World (MECW). Researchers at Lund University are invited to apply to the following calls: CMES travel grant The Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) supports research with high scientific pot
https://www.cmes.lu.se/strategic-research-area-middle-east/cmes-calls-and-research-grants - 2026-05-29
Funding Agency: SRA-MECW. Duration: 2021-2024 The goals of this interdisciplinary project are to identify the climate- and human-induced sources of dust and to determine and explain the factors affecting the dust-source areas such as climate variation, land-use change, social, political, and economic drivers, and water management in time and space using remote sensing and artificial intelligence t
Find our latest publications in the research portal. Latest publications The latest publications from CMES are available via the Lund University research portal. You can also find our researchers and current projects via the research portal. MECW Research Find the latest MECW publications in Lund University's Research Portal. Do you already know who wrote it? It is also possible to find publicatio
https://www.cmes.lu.se/strategic-research-area-middle-east/publications - 2026-05-29
Funding agency: SRA-MECW. Duration: 2021-ongoing Feminist solidarity transcends borders. Yet, there is a tension arising from an entrenched view of feminism as inherently “Western.” Challenging such a dichotomized worldview and exploring the transnational within Arab feminist activism is at the heart of this project, which aims to explore how feminist practices and strategies for change-making tra
https://www.cmes.lu.se/cmes-research/research-projects/comparative-feminist-activism-middle-east - 2026-05-29
Funding agency: SRA-MECW. Duration: 2021-ongoing The Middle East (ME) is an arid area with low precipitation and high evapotranspiration in most seasons of the year. Several natural factors and non-natural human activities have put the groundwater and surface water resources of the ME in risk. In this project, advanced remote sensing (RS), machine learning (ML), and artificial intelligence (AI) me
https://www.cmes.lu.se/cmes-research/research-projects/comparative-water-resources-availability-middle-east - 2026-05-29
CMES is a member of the Swedish Middle East & North Africa Network (SWEMENA). The CMES Director is also part of SWEMENA:s Steering Commmittee. SWEMENA gathers researchers and practitioners from institutions across Sweden who work and conduct research on issues related to the Middle East and North Africa region. On its website you can find information about SWEMENA activities and publications. You
https://www.cmes.lu.se/swemena - 2026-05-29
CMES is a member of the Swedish Middle East & North Africa Network (SWEMENA). The CMES Director is also part of SWEMENA:s Steering Commmittee. SWEMENA gathers researchers and practitioners from institutions across Sweden who work and conduct research on issues related to the Middle East and North Africa region. On its website you can find information about SWEMENA activities and publications. You
https://www.cmes.lu.se/middle-east-contemporary-world-mecw/swemena - 2026-05-29
FUNDING AGENCY: SRA-MECW. DURATION: 2021-ONGOING Since the start of the civil war, Syria has transformed into one of the most significant immigrant sending countries, both in absolute terms and when expressed as a share of the population. The Syrian exodus has had immense impacts on the Syrian economy and societies and has also affected neighboring countries in the Middle East region, as well as t
https://www.cmes.lu.se/cmes-research/research-projects/syrians-work-essays-labor-markets-syria-and-host-countries - 2026-05-29
CMES is a long-standing collaborative partner of the Association of Foreign Affairs in Lund (UPF). Each semester CMES and UPF co-arrange a public event together to broaden knowledge and encourage discussion on human rights issues and the Middle East. In February 2023, CMES and UPF hosted Dr. Pınar Dinç who gave the talk "Eleventh Hour Elections - The Past and Future of Democracy in Turkey".
https://www.cmes.lu.se/upf - 2026-05-29
Management and ResearchRonny BerndtssonCMES Director, MECW Scientific Coordinator ronny [dot] berndtsson [at] tvrl [dot] lth [dot] se (ronny[dot]berndtsson[at]tvrl[dot]lth[dot]se)+46 46 222 9609Lisa StrömbomCMES Deputy Director, MECW Deputy Scientific Coordinatorlisa [dot] strombom [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (lisa[dot]strombom[at]svet[dot]lu[dot]se)+46 46 222 45 53Press and MediaUlrika OredssonP
https://www.cmes.lu.se/contact - 2026-05-29
Funding agency: EU Horizon 2020. Duration: 2018-2021 FASTER is a collaboration between CMES Lund University, CREAF (Barcelona University), INRGREF and associated research centres (IRESA, AVFA) in Tunisia, and companies EFB and Vision. The project is structured into five work packages and amounting to 1 million €, including: coordination; capacity building through training and staff exchanges; liv
Funding agencies: European Commission and Erasmus+ CBHE. Duration: 2018-2021 This project aims at capacity building on the use of spatial data infrastructures and underlaying technologies to improve environmental management in the Middle East. Spatial focus is on Yemen which is facing several issues in the region. Climate change, misuse of environmental resources (e.g., overuse of groundwater) and
Duration: 2020-ongoing This project aims to foster collaboration between academics in Sweden and scholars from Turkey whose academic freedoms are implicitly or explicitly curtailed and violated. Over the past years, there has been a severe restriction of academic freedoms in Turkey. Academics have been dismissed, imprisoned, suffered administrative penalties, and been forced to operate within an a
https://www.cmes.lu.se/cmes-research/research-projects/turkey-beyond-borders-critical-voices-new-perspectives - 2026-05-29
Board Members of the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies Agnes Andersson Dean of Faculty of Social Sciences Email: agnes [dot] andersson [at] keg [dot] lu [dot] se Agnes Andersson is the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Professor in Human Geography. She is the PI of a comparative project on inclusive urbanisation in small towns in Uganda and Tanzania. Previous to this project, Agn
https://www.cmes.lu.se/centre-advanced-middle-eastern-studies-cmes/cmes-board - 2026-05-29
The Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies supports and coordinates research projects with high scientific potential through the Strategic Research Area (SRA): Middle East in the Contemporary World (MECW). Researchers at Lund University are invited to apply to the following calls: Travel Grant (Spring 2025) Application deadline: 20 December 2024 Contact Ronny Berndtsson, CMES director, MECW co
https://www.cmes.lu.se/cmes-research/calls - 2026-05-29
The Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies supports research with high scientific potential through the Strategic Research Area (SRA): Middle East in the Contemporary World (MECW). PhD student in Economic History: Demography in the Middle East The PhD project and the doctoral dissertation must be focused on the demography of the Middle East, and the PhD candidate will will have double institut
https://www.cmes.lu.se/open-cmes-positions - 2026-05-29
