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Today, more than half of the world’s population live in cities, and by mid-century it is predicted that more than two-thirds of the world’s population will live in urban areas. This sees cities at the forefront of sustainability, needing to meet social needs within our ecological boundaries. An overarching guiding roadmap to consider sustainability is the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Go

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-podcast-episode-goals-targets-and-indicators-applying-sustainable-development-goals-cities - 2025-10-25

IIIEE researchers have contributed to a special issue in the Journal of Cleaner Production, dealing with the role of regulations and public policies as drivers for the Circular Economy. Carl Dalhammar was one of the guest editors of the issue, which also included two article contributions from IIIEE researchers Leonidas Milios and Jessika Luth Richter. One article co-authored by IIIEE researcher r

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-researchers-contribute-special-issue-regulating-circular-economy-gaps-insights-and-emerging - 2025-10-25

New business models and commercial opportunities in lighting:What stops LEDs from hitting the market? Energy efficient lighting as in LED is an essential technique in a sustainable society. In Sweden, LED is becoming affordable and has a limitless performance. Yet it is still hardly used in schools, hospitals and public areas. Why? IIIEE researcher Andrius Plepys is part of a project in search of

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-iiiee-researcher-andrius-plepys - 2025-10-25

Our colleague Yuliya Voytenko Palgan is one of the driving spirits at the University who are doing everything they can to help Ukraine and the people who are fleeing. Since the war started, she has succeeded in helping her parents and a colleague escape the inferno of the war. Now, she and her father have met Vice-Chancellor Erik Renström and Pro Vice-Chancellor Per Mickwitz. Read the article at l

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/yuliya-fighting-ukraine - 2025-10-25

The year 2021 was characterised by COVID-19 with online meetings and hybrid education, but also by the many innovative solutions to keep a collaborate, engaging and vibrant environment for both students and staff when working from home. Looking back, we managed amazingly well with keeping a creative and joyful working environment. 2021 resulted in fantastic performance including collaborative proc

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-annual-report-2021 - 2025-10-25

The Russian invasion of Ukraine raised concerns about Europe’s dependence on Russian natural gas. In a recent interview to Extrakt magazine Professor Aleh Cherp argues that this will increase the interest of European countries to construct new or prolong the operation of existing nuclear power plants. Aleh Cherp notes that such plans exist in the UK, the Netherlands, Poland and France. He also poi

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/will-war-ukraine-provide-boost-nuclear-power - 2025-10-25

Meet our new colleague Samson Mukanjari who recently joined the IIIEE. Originally from Zimbabwe, with a master’s degree from the University of Cape Town and a PhD from the University of Gothenburg, he has now moved to Lund with his family. Samson has a background in economics and will be working as Associate Senior Lecturer, with focus on climate policy and natural resource management. What did yo

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/welcome-samson-mukanjari - 2025-10-25

In a new article published in Frontiers in Sustainable Cities (Urban Greening section), IIIEE researchers Björn Wickenberg, Bernadett Kiss, Kes McCormick and Yuliya Voytenko Palgan unpack enabling and constraining factors for transformative learning through interpretative case study analysis of two NBS projects in Malmö, Sweden: BiodiverCity and EcoCity Augustenborg. To map instances of learning a

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/seeds-transformative-learning-investigating-past-experiences-implementing-nature-based-solutions - 2025-10-25

Nudging: A tool for sustainable behaviourSometimes, a gentle nudge is all it takes for us to do the right thing. With a report written by three IIIEE researchers, nudging as a behavioural tool has gained interest among a broad Swedish audience.Most of us wish to make sustainable choices and do well for ourselves as well as for society. Yet, we fail, over and over again. Sometimes though, a gentle

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-iiiee-researcher-oksana-mont - 2025-10-25

There is a clear and urgent need to accelerate the implementation of sustainability solutions. We must move beyond simple conceptual understanding of solutions, instead experimenting with collaborators in contexts in order to improve effectiveness, share learnings with others, and avoid future mistakes that waste time. In this episode, we discuss nature-based solutions as a holistic approach addre

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-podcast-episode-its-not-just-concept-holistic-approach-implement-nature-based-solutions - 2025-10-25

Roberto Scaramuzzino spoke at a seminar organized by the Centre for Municipality Studies at Linköping University and gave an interview about the role of civil society in the establishment of new immigrants, focusing on social integration and interaction between public and non-profit organisations. Voluntary forces should be used, especially when the municipalities are under pressure and in many ca

https://www.civilsocietyelites.lu.se/article/roberto-scaramuzzino-civil-society-and-integration - 2025-10-25

Professor Håkan Johansson, School of Social Work, has received more than SEK 35 million from Riksbankens jubileumsfond to lead a research programme about elites in civil society. The progammer is titled "Civil Society Elites" A comparative study of the composition, reproduction, integration and questioning of elites in European Civil Society." Read an interview with Håkan in Swedish here.

https://www.civilsocietyelites.lu.se/article/35-million-research-civil-society-elites - 2025-10-25

During a whole day in April the researchers discussed the relevance of central theoretical and empirical knowledge about elite research for studying civil society elites. The research seminar was filled with discussions about ”shadow elites” in America influencing important geopolitical decisions without visible political leadership, and the power decline of bureaucratic elite groups in the Europe

https://www.civilsocietyelites.lu.se/article/seminar-brings-together-several-international-researchers - 2025-10-25

Roberto Scaramuzzino and Håkan Johansson participated in the yearly conference on civil society arranged by the Swedish Agency for Youth and Civil Society (MUCF). The main theme this year was on elitism in civil society. On the 22nd of October, civil society researchers, politicians, civil servants and civil society organizations gathered in Stockholm to discuss the question of elitism in Swedish

https://www.civilsocietyelites.lu.se/article/elitism-swedish-civil-society - 2025-10-25

The growing populist movements in many European countries affect not only the EU's institutional actors but also EU-based civil society organizations. Professor Carlo Ruzza, a prominent scholar in political sociology based at the University of Trento, has been invited to our program as a guest researcher this autumn. His research is focused on civil society organizations in Brussels and on populis

https://www.civilsocietyelites.lu.se/article/guest-professor-carlo-ruzza-populist-turn-and-its-impact-eu-and-civil-society - 2025-10-25

A new thematic issue on Civil Society Elites is published in Politics and Governance. A new thematic issue on Civil Society Elites, edited by Håkan Johansson and Anders Uhlin and published by an open access journal Politics & Governance is now available. Several researchers in the project as well as other prominent researchers have contributed to the volume. The issue covers a wide range of empiri

https://www.civilsocietyelites.lu.se/article/new-thematic-issue-civil-society-elites - 2025-10-25

The inter-disciplinary research program Civil Society Elites? Comparing elite composition, reproduction, interaction and contestation in European civil societies cordially invites researchers working on civil society studies to Lund University, Sweden, for a mini conference 15-16th of April 2020. The goal is to provide an inspiring arena for academic discussions on contemporary civil society in Eu

https://www.civilsocietyelites.lu.se/article/conference-civil-society-studies-2020-postponed-january-2021 - 2025-10-25

Håkan Johansson spoke to a full venue with members of the public, civil society organsiaitons and academics at a breakfast seminar hosted by Studieförbundet Vuxenskolan, a local adult education association in Lund. The filmed lecture is avalaible here (in Swedish.)

https://www.civilsocietyelites.lu.se/article/hakan-johansson-spoke-breakfast-seminar - 2025-10-25

Mandatperioden för nuvarande skyddsombud löper ut den 31 december. Det innebär att universitetet i höst ska genomföra ett skyddsombudsval för perioden 2024–2026. Valet ska vara genomfört den 31 oktober 2023. Information till anställda Prefekter/motsvarande ska informera anställda om hur skyddsombudsvalet kommer att gå till på respektive arbetsplats. Val i tre steg Valet av skyddsombud och ersättar

https://www.hr-webben.lu.se/artikel/val-av-skyddsombud-i-host - 2025-10-25

Dessa får utmärkelsen För att erhålla utmärkelsen för nit och redlighet i rikets tjänst 2024 behöver man ha varit statligt anställd i minst 30 år (25 år vid pensionsavgång) och ännu inte erhållit utmärkelsen.  Firas under våren 2024 Utdelningen av utmärkelsen kommer att ske vid en högtidlighet under våren 2024. Mer detaljer kommer i separat inbjudan som skickas ut i början av nästa år. Kvalificeri

https://www.hr-webben.lu.se/artikel/anmalan-till-utmarkelsen-nit-och-redlighet-i-rikets-tjanst - 2025-10-25