Now you can apply for seed money to develop new courses and programs in collaboration with foreign universities, before 1 February 2024. To ensure that the educational offer at the University is of high quality and meets the needs of the future, the university management wishes to stimulate the development of new courses and programmes and at the same time set demands for elements of international

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/apply-seed-money-course-and-programme-development - 2025-08-28

Recent geopolitical changes have increased the interest for, but also challenged, academic freedom. It is generally considered that academic freedom in the Nordic countries is high. But is this really the case? In this seminar, Prof. Terence Karran will present his study on academic freedom in Scandinavia and discuss if the Nordic model has survived. Speaker: Terence Karran, Emeritus Professor, Un

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/academic-freedom-scandinavia-has-nordic-model-survived - 2025-08-28

Eager to explore digital educational collaborations with partners from around the world? Join us at our upcoming workshop! On 29 November, between 9:00-15:00, Casey Dinger and Leslie Alvarez from the University of Denver will be hosting a workshop on Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL). COIL is a digital collaboration between educational institutions in at least two different countr

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/explore-global-digital-educational-collaborations - 2025-08-28

Guided tour at the Botanical Garden during Sustainability Week 2023. Photo: Kennet Ruona. Sustainability Week is an annual event focusing on sustainable development, organised as a joint venture by Lund University and Lund municipality. The program offers discussions and actions, exploring both societal challenges of today and hopeful visions for the future. In April 8-13 2024, the Sustainability

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/sustainability-week-returns-2024 - 2025-08-28

Since 2018, Lund University has had a special focus on integrating the arts and culture in teaching, research and external engagement through the “Strategy for Cultural Collaboration”. Is LU a culture university? Can everyone utilise the arts and culture in their activities? We will examine these questions at LU’s first major Culture Meeting on 24 November.” One of the goals of the Strategy is to

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/tinder-cultural-collaboration-lus-first-major-culture-meeting - 2025-08-28

All the faculties have now concluded their elections of new deans and faculty boards. At some faculties the present dean will continue, but in most cases new people will take up the posts. See the list below of the new faculty managements for the next term of office 1 January 2024 to 31 December 2026. School of Economics and Management Joakim Gullstrand and Andreas Inghammar. Joakim Gullstrand, ne

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-deans-faculties - 2025-08-28

The University building. Photo: Kennet Ruona On 26 October, Times Higher Education (THE) published its Rankings by Subject. Lund University does very well in comparison to higher education institutions around the world. We are ranked best in Sweden in THE’s subject areas Law, Business and Economics, Social Sciences, and Arts and Humanities. Regarding Law, we are ranked 38th in the world.Our rankin

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-university-best-sweden-four-subjects-according-times-higher-education-2024 - 2025-08-28

Last year Max Liljefors, professor of Art History and Visual Studies at the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology, applied for seed money to develop an idea for a course with colleagues from one of the EUGLOH universities. The course, entitled “Arts and Creative Health and Wellbeing”, focuses on how the arts can be used in healthcare and how the arts affect our health. “When I saw that it was

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/idea-course-development-help-seed-money - 2025-08-28

Listen to Gloria (11 November) and the Lund University Academic Choir’s 75th anniversary concert (18 November). Odeum, the University’s music centre, invites you to two major autumn concerts in November. On 11 November, as part of Odeum’s Spirituality theme, musicians and singers from the academic and ecclesiastical spheres meet again for a concert in which the Lund University Academic Orchestra a

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/listen-gloria-and-lund-university-academic-choirs-75th-anniversary-concert - 2025-08-28

Birth rates are declining in Sweden. The government has now launched an inquiry to understand why — and Åsa Hansson at LUSEM has been appointed to lead the work. Photo: iStock Åsa Hansson, Associate Professor of Economics at LUSEM, has been appointed by the Swedish government to lead a new investigation about Sweden’s declining birth rate. Birth rates in Sweden have been falling. According to Stat

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/why-are-fewer-children-being-born-sweden - 2025-08-28

The Sparbanken Skåne Center for Sustainable Enterprising (SSCEN) at Lund University and Sparbanksstiftelsen Finn award an annual thesis prize to encourage business and engineering students to contribute with valuable knowledge on how to achieve a sustainability transformation. To be considered for the prize, the thesis should be written for obtaining a master’s degree in business studies at LUSEM

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/call-nominations-sscen-sustainability-prize-masters-theses-2025 - 2025-08-28

The World Economic History Congress (WEHC) is an international and interdisciplinary event, taking place every third year, and this year, it’s being held in Lund. With the congress fast approaching, we naturally wanted to learn more — and who better to ask than Professor Mats Olsson serving as host on behalf of the Department of Economic History. What makes the World Economic History Congress uniq

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/curious-about-world-economic-history-congress-three-quick-questions - 2025-08-28

Bulgaria is on its way to adopting the euro. Joakim Zander, Senior Lecturer in Business Law at LUSEM, explains what this means. What does it mean for a country to switch to the euro? In a recent interview with Swedish Radio (Sveriges Radio), Joakim Zander, Senior Lecturer in Business Law at LUSEM, discussed Bulgaria’s transition into the euro area.On 1 January 2026, Bulgaria will officially adopt

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/lev-euro-what-happens-when-bulgaria-changes-currency - 2025-08-28

Lund University continues to rise in the QS World University Rankings 2026 and is rated number 72 in the world. That is three places higher than last year and means that Lund University is the top-ranked higher education institution in Sweden. The QS World University Rankings has published annual university rankings since 2004. In the latest QS rankings (2026), 8,467 higher education institutions

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/lund-university-climbs-72nd-qs-world-rankings-2026 - 2025-08-28

When 1,200 researchers from 60 countries arrived at the end of July, it marked a milestone: the largest academic congress ever held in the city – and the most important event in the field of economic history worldwide. For one week, the World Economic History Congress (WEHC) transformed Lund into a hub for ideas, networking, and public engagement. “I was very nervous right up until Monday morning,

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/nerves-pride-lusem-made-history-lund-universitys-largest-congress - 2025-08-28

Linn Ternsjö earned her PhD in late April at Lund University School of Economics and Management, at the Department of Economic History. The dissertation is called: 'Garment Workers and the Labour Issue in Development: The Case of Mauritius' . Production for the textile and fashion industry can, for many countries, represent a first step out of poverty. But what does this mean for those who work in

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/model-inclusive-growth-or-warning-lessons-garment-industry-mauritius - 2025-08-28

Donald Trump’s trade wars have dominated the news cycle for quite some time. According to economist Fredrik NG Andersson, we risk becoming blind if we only focus on the short term. What is happening is not just about immediate effects but about the dawn of a new global order and the end of the world order that emerged in the 1990s after the Cold War. The trade wars have clearly affected the global

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/bid-1990s-fare-well - 2025-08-28

Extra screen time may boost disadvantaged students’ academic performance. Photo: Louise Larsson For decades, doctors have warned parents that too much TV can harm children’s development. After all, television is one of the main activities in kids’ daily lives, and school performance plays a crucial role in shaping their future opportunities in the job market. It’s no wonder that physicians and edu

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/can-technological-innovations-entertainment-boost-academic-performance - 2025-08-28

Emma Samsioe and Carys Egan-Wyer highlight three retail megatrends, in their new anthology: Technology, sustainability, and consumer well-being. Photo: Louise Larsson The research areas remain the same, but our perspective on them has changed. This is how consumption researchers Carys Egan-Wyer and Emma Samsioe describe the development in retail research over the past ten years. “In one of our rec

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/uncertainty-new-normal-retailers-and-consumption-researchers - 2025-08-28

Kids playing in the backyard of newly built houses in Johanneshov, Stockholm, 1943. Photo: Johansson (SvD). Stadsmuseet i Stockholm/Stockholmskällan. The new research project, “Socioeconomic Segregation - The Impact of Neighborhoods, Schools and Policy Across the Life Course”, aims to establish a research environment involving health economists, education and labour market economists, geographers,

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/new-project-explores-socioeconomic-segregation-then-and-now - 2025-08-28