Published 29 November 2022 A microglia (Image: iStock/slevaneara) The brain's big-eating immune cells can slow down the progression of Alzheimer's disease. This is shown by a study that is now published in Nature Aging. The brain's own immune cells are called microglia and are found in the central nervous system. They are big eaters that kill viruses, damaged cells and infectious agents they come

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/brains-immune-cells-can-be-triggered-slow-down-alzheimers-disease - 2025-07-03

Published 30 November 2022 Photo: Kaleni/Pixabay Just over two weeks after the UN climate summit in Egypt, the leaders of the world’s countries are meeting again, this time to address another acute crisis facing humanity – the loss of biodiversity. The issue is less well-known than the climate crisis and no framework corresponding to the Paris agreement is in place – something that many people hop

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/un-conference-it-time-biodiversity-take-centre-stage - 2025-07-03

Published 1 December 2022 Rita Charon and David Julius Two world-leading American researchers known respectively for their research within medical humanities, and the sensory nervous system and perception of pain and temperature have been named honorary doctors at the Faculty of Medicine. The honorary doctorates will be conferred on 26 May 2023. Ever since David Julius’ discovery of the temperatur

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Published 2 December 2022 Photo: Malmö City Council In political debate, the notion of climate transition is often presented as a road lined with sacrifices. Many researchers, however, paint a picture of a day-to-day life that could be better than today’s. What is experienced as good or bad varies from one person to the next, and may vary over time.  “Whether something is getting better or worse i

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/what-city-life-will-be-if-we-reach-our-climate-goals - 2025-07-03

Published 12 December 2022 The two arms of the antibody can bind to two different sites on a target protein. (Illustration: Wiley Editing Services) Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered an antibody with the potential to protect against Strep A infection, as well as a rare form of antibody binding, that leads to an effective immune response against bacteria. The discovery could e

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/antibody-discovery-paves-way-new-therapies-against-group-streptococcal-infections - 2025-07-03

Published 16 December 2022 Erik Renström Southern Scandinavia and Northern Germany form a leading life science region with unique research infrastructures that can help transform research into innovation. There is especially a large unused potential for industrial and clinical researchers to use these unique facilities. The HALRIC consortium led by Lund University has now received EU funding to bu

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/11-million-euros-life-science-research-and-innovation-infrastructure-synergies-northern-europe - 2025-07-03

Published 28 August 2017 Mespom students at the IIIEE On 28 August, batch 12 of the Mespom programme (European joint Master's programme in Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management) began their time at the IIIEE - welcome!This year the students come from: Germany, Belgium, the UK, Tanzania, Canada, Jordan, India, Pakistan, Austria and China.

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Published 28 August 2017 From the left: Luis Mundaca, Oksana Mont, Jenny Palm and Nancy Bocken. Photo: Jenny Loftrup The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) was established in 1994 as an international centre at Lund University to address complex environmental challenges. Over the years, the IIIEE has developed into a unique interdisciplinary centre of excellence

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Published 21 September 2017 On 29 September 2017, the annual Graduation Day at the IIIEE takes place. This year it is batch 22 who graduates from the Master's programme in environmental management and policy (EMP programme) at the IIIEE.If you would like to be part of this event and did not get an invitation, please contact Håkan Rodhe, Director of External Relations at the IIIEE.View invitation h

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Published 25 September 2017 Photo: Håkan Rodhe From Thursday 21 September until Thursday 28 September, batch 22 of the Master's programme in Environmental Management and Policy are presenting and defending their Master's theses. The opponents are people from academia, business and industry.The week ends with the annual graduation ceremony on 29 September in the Lund University Assembly Hall.Click

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/msc-thesis-presentation-week-iiiee - 2025-07-03

Published 28 September 2017 Handbook on Urban Living LabsThere 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. Th

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Published 3 October 2017 Photo: Sofie Sandin Håkan Rodhe at the IIIEE is in the process of finding out. Dr. Håkan Rodhe, senior lecturer and researcher at the IIIEE, is part of a committee at the Swedish Higher Education Authority, which is in the process of evaluating just how sustainable higher education is in Sweden. An interview with Håkan Rodhe was published in Lund University Magazine where

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Published 6 October 2017 The programme aims to put Sweden on the map as a country that actively and critically works with the sharing economy in cities. The objectives of the programme are to: develop world-leading test-beds for the sharing economy in Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö and Umeå, and develop a national node, Sharing Cities Sweden, in order to strengthen national (and international) coope

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/sharing-cities-sweden-national-programme-sharing-economy-cities - 2025-07-03

Published 20 October 2017 Building new networks between schools, industry and academia. On 13 October the Raw Materials University Day was held in Vattenhallen Science Center in Lund. The event targeted upper secondary school students in Lund and was organised by the IIIEE, EIT Raw Materials at LTH, Lund University and Vattenhallen Science Center. The aim of the day was to increase the interest in

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Published 23 October 2017 A half-day seminar about the green city (in Swedish only). Kan mer natur bidra till en ekologiskt, socialt och ekonomiskt hållbar stad? Vilka är vinnarna och vilka är de eventuella förlorarna? Välkommen till ett halvdagsseminarium om den gröna staden.Seminariet innehåller kortare presentationer om: gröna visioner, gestaltning, drivkrafter och barriärer för att bevara och

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/vision-green-city-how-green-can-it-become - 2025-07-03

Published 23 October 2017 Photo: Allgmstips.com Study published in the peer-reviewed open access journal Sustainability. Researcher Julia Nussholz at the IIIEE has published the study Circular Business Models: Defining a Concept and Framing an Emerging Research Field in the peer-reviewed open access journal Sustainability.The study focuses on conceptualizing circular business models and clarifying

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Published 23 October 2017 Seminar at Malmö Live 23 October! On Monday, 23 October at 11:00-12:00, at Malmö Live, researchers from Lund University and Malmö University will discuss with Isabella Lövin, Sweden's Minister for International Development Cooperation and Climate, what we need to do to achieve the 1.5-degree goal.This seminar is in Swedish only:Forskare från Lunds universitet och Malmö hö

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/climate-change-knowledge-politics-how-do-we-reach-15-degree-goal - 2025-07-03

Published 25 October 2017 Luis Mundaca, from the IIIEE, joins the 3rd Lead Author Meeting of the ‘IPCC Special Report on the Impacts of Global Warming of 1.5⁰C above Pre-industrial Levels’. Luis Mundaca, from the IIIEE, joins the 3rd Lead Author Meeting of the ‘IPCC Special Report on the Impacts of Global Warming of 1.5⁰C above Pre-industrial Levels’. This special report, requested by the UN, is l

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-attending-ipcc-lead-author-meeting - 2025-07-03

Published 26 October 2017 Photo: Joanna Nicklasson Mikael Backman, Director of the Swedish Polish Sustainable Energy Platform at the IIIEE, attended and presented at the 6th Biogas Forum in Warsaw. The forum is organised in the framework of the RENEXPO international trade fair and conferences for renewable energy and energy efficiency.

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-attending-6th-biogas-forum-warsaw - 2025-07-03

Published 27 October 2017 On 26 October 2017, Kes McCormick at the IIIEE, presented online the early findings on nature-based solutions from the Urban Regional Innovation Partnerships in Naturvation to the National Cities Forum organized in Melbourne, Australia.This national forum examined approaches to catalysing urban transformation for low carbon resilient cities that are based on calls for fun

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/re-inventing-city-nature-based-solutions - 2025-07-03