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The Centre for European Studies at Lund University (CFE) announces the availability of funds for seminars, symposia, and lectures on European themes to be organized at Lund University during the autumn semester 2025 and/or spring semester 2026. The funds can be used for inviting guest speakers or lecturers to seminars, lectures, symposia and similar events. The theme must deal with Europe, Europea

https://www.cfe.lu.se/en/article/grants-seminars-symposia-and-lectures-0 - 2025-11-07

The Centre for European Studies welcomes submissions for the Best Thesis Award on European matters. The award is given to a Bachelor's or Master's thesis, defended at Lund University with distinction at the Faculties of Humanities and Theology, Social Science, Law, and the School of Economics and Management during the autumn semester 2024 or spring semester 2025. Supervisors, examiners, and heads

https://www.cfe.lu.se/en/article/call-submissions-best-thesis-award-2025 - 2025-11-07

In an event on Europe Day 2025, Maria Strömvik from the Centre for European Studies spoke on the importance of the Öresund Bridge as an example of European integration. Together with students who shared personal experiences she criticised the border controls and outlined a number of scenarios that could be instrumental for their abolishment. On May 9, Europe celebrates Europe Day. This year marks

https://www.cfe.lu.se/en/article/bridging-border-bewtween-sweden-and-denmark - 2025-11-07

On 16 June, Jörgen Hettne assumed his position as a judge at the General Court in Luxembourg. The General Court is part of the Court of Justice of the European Union, which is the EU’s judicial authority. We would like to extend our warm congratulations to our colleague Jörgen Hettne, who has been appointed as a judge at the General Court of the European Union. In Luxembourg, he succeeds Fredrik S

https://www.cfe.lu.se/en/article/jorgen-hettne-appointed-judge-general-court - 2025-11-07

The Centre for European Studies at Lund University (CFE) announces the availability of funds for seminars, symposia, and lectures on European themes to be organized at Lund University during the spring and autumn semester 2026. The funds can be used for inviting guest speakers or lecturers to seminars, lectures, symposia and similar events. The theme must deal with Europe, European conditions, and

https://www.cfe.lu.se/en/article/grants-seminars-symposia-and-lectures-autumn-2025 - 2025-11-07

The Centre for European Studies at Lund University (CFE) announces the availability of grants for Lund University employees for preparing research applications on European matters. The grant may be used for various types of research applications, including applications for Horizon Europe. The research topic must deal with Europe, European conditions, and/or questions of clear European relevance. I

https://www.cfe.lu.se/en/article/grants-preparing-research-applications-autumn-2025 - 2025-11-07

This year, the Centre for European Studies has awarded the 2020 Best Thesis Award to Kristy Louise Rhades for her thesis in the Master of Arts of European Studies. Note: this article was originally published on December 18, 2020.  Kristy Louise Rhades’ thesis is called “How European welfare states perpetuate the growth imperative and why alternatives are needed” and this is how the jury motivated

https://www.cfe.lu.se/en/article/best-thesis-award-2020 - 2025-11-07

Professor Sölve Elmståhl is co-author of the article Predictive Performance of the FIF Screening Tool in 2 Cohorts of Community-Living Older Adults which has been published in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. The study shows that the screening tool First-time Injurious Fall (FIF) can identify fall risks in older men and women and be used for preventive purposes. Injurious

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/new-study-shows-screening-tool-fif-can-prevent-first-time-injurious-falls-among-older-adults - 2025-11-07

Charlotte is a professor at the Department of Clinical Sciences at Lund University and research group leader for the unit Epigenetics and Diabetes at Lund University Diabetes Center (LUDC). Charlotte defended her dissertation in endocrinology at the University of Gothenburg in 2002 and after a job as a postdoctoral fellow at Lund University, where she studied genetics of type 2 diabetes, she devot

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/we-welcome-professor-charlotte-ling-new-board-member-epihealth - 2025-11-07

Soon we will all be able to help fight the corona infection by reporting daily how we feel in a new app. The information will show where in Sweden the risk of infection is high, how fast it spreads and who belongs to certain risk groups. - It can give healthcare an early indication of where the number of disease cases is expected to increase, says Paul Franks, professor of genetic epidemiology. Lu

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/video-app-will-map-corona-infection-sweden - 2025-11-07

A free app that will help map the spread of infection in Sweden and increase knowledge about the coronavirus is launched by researchers at Lund University. - Data from the app can give us a better picture of the course of the disease and why some are only slightly affected while others become seriously ill and die, says Paul Franks, professor of genetic epidemiology. Read more about the app on the

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/app-covid-symptom-tracker-launched-sweden-and-researchers-need-your-help-0 - 2025-11-07

In Sweden, the number of people over the age of 80 will increase from 500,000 to 800,000 within the next ten years - an increase of 300,000 people, at the same time as healthcare will be affected by large retirements during the same period. - This is one of the biggest challenges ever for Swedish healthcare, says Sölve Elmståhl, professor and chief physician in geriatrics and project manager of th

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/reportage-good-aging-skane-mapping-how-future-care-should-be-planned - 2025-11-07

What shapes our health later in life does not just depend on how we live, our childhoods, or when we we in the womb. How our parents were feeling and how they lived when we were born can affect our health. Peter M Nilsson, professor of clinical cardiovascular research at Lund University wants a broad focus on health and lifestyle counseling for young people and for those who plan to have children.

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/reportage-live-healthily-sake-your-future-children - 2025-11-07

In the large population study Malmö Offspring Study, researchers try to find out how our intestinal flora is affected by diet and what significance this has for health. - We have about one and a half kilos of bacteria in the intestines, says Louise Brunkwall - PhD. student in diabetes and cardiovascular disease and genetic epidemiology. Please read the entire report here.

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/reportage-bacteria-important-gut-feeling - 2025-11-07

2018-02-07 New EU general data protection regulation This new law will come into force on 25 May 2018. A bill will be presented to the Swedish Parliament in April to adapt Swedish legislation to the EU Data Protection Regulation. All epidemiological researchers who work with follow-ups and registers are recommended to familiarize themselves with these new regulations.  https://www.datainspektionen

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/new-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr - 2025-11-07

7 February, 2018 The strategic research area EpiHealth - Epidemiology for Health - together with LUPOP - Lund University Population Research Platform - now opens a call for proposals for new PhD - courses of relevance for population research. We will fund 3 - 5 courses during 2018 related to e.g. epidemiological data analysis, medical statistics, biobank studies, bioinformatics or related to regis

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/announcement-arrangement-courses-funding-sra-epihealth - 2025-11-07

SRA EpiHealth has conducted an interview with board member of EpiHealth Professor Martin Englund and postdoc Andrea Dell'isola about the EpiHealth cohort, how they plan to use it in their research, and what it means to them and SRA EpiHealth. Martin has been awarded research support from SRA EpiHealth for the employment of Andrea as a postdoc for the project “The role of lifestyle and metabolic he

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/epihealth-cohort-gives-us-access-detailed-information-about-environmental-exposures-and-life-style - 2025-11-07

Professor Olle Melander has been awarded research support from SRA EpiHealth for the employment of a postdoc for the project “Translational epidemiological studies of the cardiometabolic hormones neurotensin and adrenomedullin” SRA EpiHealth is interested in knowing how he intends to use the EpiHealth cohort in his research and Olle explains “The beauty of a big cohort such as the EpiHealth cohort

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/epihealth-cohort-includes-biobank-which-we-can-retrieve-important-research-data - 2025-11-07

The purpose of this communications strategy is to outline the approach we will take to ensure that existing research within the national and international communities are developed and communicated to relevant stakeholders. Epidemiology for Health - EpiHealth is a joint strategic research initiative between Lund University and Uppsala University with the aim to achieve and maintain national and in

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/read-our-epihealth-communications-strategy - 2025-11-07

A representative from the strategic research area (SRA) EpiHealth has talked to Martin L. Olsson, who is the faculty management representative of the EpiHealth board and Deputy Dean with special responsibility for research infrastructure and strategic issues at the Faculty of Medicine. Martin is also a Professor of Transfusion Medicine at the Department of Laboratory Medicine and a consultant in t

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/genetically-upgraded-epihealth-cohort-gold-mine-could-help-more-researchers-excel - 2025-11-07