Published 15 May 2017 Seminar 15 May at the IIIEE Today, 15 May, the IIIEE is organising a seminar on Sustainable Fashion, offering a glimpse of what IIIEE researchers have been working on in the past 10+ years in this area.Clothes, textiles and fashion are indispensable elements of human being. They serve various functions – all the way from meeting the basic needs to protect ourselves from outsi

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/sustainable-fashion-finding-cuts-future - 2025-07-01

Published 15 May 2017 Conference 16 May The transition to a fossil fuel-free society is in full swing and proceeding more easily than many people think. In Skåne there are many good initiatives that show how profitability and prosperity can grow as emissions are reduced.This conference will take place on 16 May at the Academic Society (AF building) in Lund. The focus is on learning for sustainable

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/fossil-free-skane-opportunities-more-modern-future - 2025-07-01

Published 17 May 2017 LUX Lund. Foto Johan Bävman CONFERENCE, 350TH ANNIVERSARY This event is part of the Lund university 350 jubilee and will be held in Swedish only. Therefore the information that follows is in Swedish.Den smarta staden väcker löften om effektivare och mer hållbara lösningar och kommersiella förhoppningar om nya produkter, tjänster och marknader. Men smarta städer är inte nödvän

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/humans-city-day-focusing-sustainable-urban-planning - 2025-07-01

By marianne [dot] sandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Marianne Sandberg) - published 18 May 2017 Photo: Pixabay Research and Action on Sustainable Urban Development from around the World On 18 May 2017, the IIIEE will bring together researchers at Lund University to present and discuss ongoing projects on urban living labs, urban sharing, urban lighting and more, and presentations by alumni fro

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/urban-planet - 2025-07-01

Published 19 May 2017 On 18 May, Sydsvenskan published an opinion piece by IIIEE PhD students Katherine Whalen and Jessika Luth Richter with the title: "Fördomar måste försvinna – uppfattningen att återanvända elektronikprodukter är sämre än nya och att det finns en risk för att personuppgifter sprids." (only in Swedish)

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/opinion-piece-sydsvenskan-phd-students-iiiee - 2025-07-01

Published 19 May 2017 Photo: Jennie Hansson On 16 May the conference "Fossilfritt Skåne" took place in Lund, co-organised by the IIIEE. The student journalist, Josefine Henman, wrote an article summarising the event. Click here to read the article (in Swedish only).

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/highlights-conference-fossilfritt-skane-16-may - 2025-07-01

Published 19 May 2017 This year 19 students from the University of Virginia are visiting the IIIEE and will work with four clients (see below). The programme at the IIIEE is run for the 4th time, and the students started at the IIIEE on 15 May. The students have a blog, where they write about their impressions from Lund and Sweden (click here to access the blog).Here are the clients for this year:

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/university-virginia-visit-4th-time - 2025-07-01

Published 22 May 2017 Photographer: Johan Bävman PhD candidates Leonidas Milios and Julia Nussholz discuss key elements of student group work for advanced learning in higher education. In a recent research article, published in the magazine of Lund University ‘Lärande i LTH’, Leonidas and Julia contribute in the analysis of what constitutes a well-designed and effective group work for students in

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/insights-highest-level-student-group-work-iiiee - 2025-07-01

By hakan [dot] rodhe [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Håkan Rodhe) - published 1 June 2017 IIIEE alumni conference May 2017 Close to 200 IIIEE alumni and students gathered in Lund for the traditional biennial alumni event. The Alumni Conference was organised jointly by the IIIEE and the IIIEE Alumni Network.  Networking, up-dating, sharing of professional insights, the joy of re-uniting with dear col

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-alumni-conference-2017 - 2025-07-01

By hakan [dot] rodhe [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Håkan Rodhe) - published 1 June 2017 Magic flag parade Magic flag parade! On a beautiful Spring day flags from 125 countries, carried by IIIEE alumni & students from all parts of the world, were flown to congratulate the 350 year-old.  May the sun continue to shine on LU as it further deepens its leadership in international sustainability!Footnote

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-congratulates-lund-university-350-years - 2025-07-01

By hakan [dot] rodhe [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Håkan Rodhe) - published 1 June 2017 Photo: Håkan Röjder A unique mingle! Alumni from the original LU international sustainability master programmes joined up for a networking session during LU Sustainability week. Despite more than two decades and together more than 1500 alumni we have never previously managed to gather this group. Very inspiring

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/lu-global-sustainability-professionals - 2025-07-01

Published 8 June 2017 Photo: Coursera On 7 June it was the World Environment Day. And as part of the educational platform Coursera's commitment to promote sustainability and social impact, they especially highlighted the IIIEE's Massive Open Online Courses, the Greening the Economy courses, as top courses taking action on environmental issues!Watch their Facebook post hereWant to know more about o

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiees-greening-economy-courses-highlighted-coursera-top-courses-taking-action-environmental-issues - 2025-07-01

Published 9 June 2017 Attracting interest around current developments within the Mistra REES project. The first ever worldwide open-access conference dedicated to the Circular Economy was held on 5-7 June in Helsinki, Finland. This ground-breaking event presented the world’s best circular economy solutions and gathered together the most recognised experts and decision makers in the field, with ove

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-world-circular-economy-forum-2017 - 2025-07-01

Published 13 June 2017 Photo: Tomas Oneborg On 12 June, Svenska Dagbladet published an opinion piece in which Mistra REES researchers, including Oksana Mont and Andrius Plepys at the IIIEE, were highlighting the problems with the new taxation rules for chemical products, in particular for companies in the reuse-sector. Link to the opinion piece here (only in Swedish): "Ny skatt slår mot återanvänd

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/mistra-rees-researchers-opinion-piece-svenska-dagbladet-naringsliv - 2025-07-01

Published 15 June 2017 Photo: Isabelle Frej On 12-14 June, the IIIEE held an international mobile research lab on Sharing and Collaborative Economy. 15 researchers in their early career including PhD students and postdocs took part in the research lab which aimed at expanding researchers’ existing understanding of the sharing and collaborative economies, sustainability evaluations of these complex

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/international-mobile-research-lab-sharing-and-collaborative-economy-cities - 2025-07-01

Published 16 June 2017 On 15-16 June 2017, the 4th International Workshop on the Sharing Economy took place in Lund. The workshop was arranged by the IIIEE together with the department of urban planning and environment at KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), and attracted nearly a hundred participants from around the world. The workshop consisted of three keynotes, a stakeholder debate, an academi

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/4th-international-workshop-sharing-economy - 2025-07-01

Published 26 June 2017 On "Demand-side policies, governance and socio-technical mitigation pathways of limiting global warming to 1.5°C”. This Special Issue aims to provide a series of multi-disciplinary and comprehensive deep decarbonisation studies addressing various demand-side aspects of energy-economy systems in line with a 1.5°C target.Abstract submission by 15 August 2017.Full paper submiss

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/call-papers-special-issue-journal-energy-efficiency - 2025-07-01

Published 27 June 2017 There is a growing trend to involve citizens in city development to make urban areas more sustainable and livable. The urban living labs approach offers a way to foster new collaborative, trans-disciplinary ways of thinking in urban planning and development, and provides a real-world testing ground for urban innovation and transformation.This handbook aims to bring open inno

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/urban-living-labs-handbook - 2025-07-01

Published 27 June 2017 The June issue of the IIIEE newsletter is out now.Click here to access the June issueClick here for the IIIEE newsletter archiveClick here to subscribe to our newsletter

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/june-issue-iiiee-newsletter-out-now-0 - 2025-07-01

Published 22 August 2017 Batch 23 of the EMP programme in the IIIEE Aula On 15 August batch 23 of our EMP programme (Master in Environmental Management and Policy) began their journey at the IIIEE.A warm welcome! 

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/welcome-batch-23-our-emp-programme - 2025-07-01