Foto: Jenny Leyman Maj Hasager, rector at Malmö Art Academy, will be installed as Professor of Fine Arts at a ceremony in the University House auditorium on October 18th. In addition to her role as rector, Hasager is active as an international artist, focusing on moving images and photography in the social sphere. In connection to the installation as professor, we took the opportunity to ask her a

https://www.khm.lu.se/en/article/maj-hasager-rector-malmo-art-academy-installed-professor-fine-arts - 2025-08-27

Today and yesterday, approximately 160 housing offers were sent out. Applicants who have received an offer need to respond before Tuesday 9 July. All Guaranteed students have now received at least one housing offer. LU Accommodation sent out housing offers yesterday (4 July) and today (5 July), and have now sent out offers for all available accommodations. All applicants in the queue should have r

https://www.luaccommodation.lu.se/article/second-round-housing-offers-sent - 2025-08-27

Fernando Garnero. Photo: Maire Palacios. Fernando Garnero has been a doctoral student at the Malmö Academy of Music since September 2020 and will defend his dissertation project "Mutations in the Composable – Compositional Practice as a Space of Experimentation, Tension, and Uncertainty” on 12 May 2025. Part of his doctoral defence is a concert that will take place at IAC (11 May 2025). What is yo

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The conference was opened and closed by Soraida Chindoy Buesaquillo, a representative of the Resguardo Indígena, Condagua, Putumayo, Colombia. Inspiring, diverse, and multidisciplinary! DevRes2024, hosted by Lund University, brought together 200 researchers and practitioners from 16 different countries, for a two-day conference in October. DevRes 2024 was hosted by Lund University on 21 - 23 Octob

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/devres2024-inspiring-diverse-and-multidisciplinary - 2025-08-27

Photo: Mathias Osvath Research from Lund University in Sweden shows that ravens can plan for different types of future events, while also demonstrating self-control and sensitivity to different lengths of time. Such skills are central to humans, and previous research has indicated that they are unique to humans and great apes. The new findings reveal that complex cognition can arise several times

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/ravens-parallel-great-apes-their-planning-abilities - 2025-08-27

The most important skills Takehiro Kawahara learnt in LUMES are: knowledge related to energy systems and environmental policies, research methodology such as interviews, and collaboration within a culturally diverse group. Takehiro Kawahara graduated from the LUMES programme in 2012. He works as an Analyst at BloombergNEF, which offers advisory service based on analysis on global commodity markets

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/lumes-alumni-takehiro-kawaharas-path-graduation-research-analyst-tokyo - 2025-08-27

Carbon offsetting is an environmental strategy based on financing climate measures in developing countries to compensate for greenhouse gas emissions in industrialised countries. In recent years, it has become a popular strategy among companies as well as private individuals to reduce their carbon footprint.Tree-planting has become one of the most popular – albeit most controversial – forms of the

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/planting-trees-africa-dubious-environmental-strategy-study - 2025-08-27

Meet Ellen Hillbom, the economic historian, who, in cooperation with a Dutch and a German colleague, has created an online textbook on trends in Africa’s economic history. The book, which can be downloaded free of charge from the internet, has so far reached over 4,000 readers. Ellen Hillbom. Where did you get the idea for a free digital textbook about Africa? “At a world congress that is held eve

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/ellen-hillbom-about-free-digital-textbook-about-africa - 2025-08-27

Lund University. Photo: Kennet Ruona. Lund University has achieved third place globally in the QS Sustainability Rankings, according to a press release issued by the university on Tuesday. The QS World University Rankings: Sustainability evaluates approximately 1,750 institutions worldwide on their contributions to sustainable development. Lund University ranks first in Sweden, second in Europe, a

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/henrik-smith-systematic-efforts-behind-lund-universitys-top-sustainability-ranking - 2025-08-27

Professor Martha Bailey and the Swedish Riksbank’s First Deputy Governor Anna Breman have been appointed 2024 honorary doctors at Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM). American economist and economic historianMartha Bailey is a Professor of Economics at the University of California (UCLA). She also works at the prestigious National Bureau of Economic Research. Professor Baile

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Cooperation agreement is signed by Erik Renström, Pancras Hogendoorn and Björn Ekmehag. In the background Minister of Education Anna Ekström and her Dutch counterpart Robbert Dijkgraaf. Photo: Chris Jonker © MinBZ Skåne University Hospital, Lund University and Leiden University Medical Center will collaborate to develop research, education and care delivery in the field of ATMPs (Advanced Therapy

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/international-collaboration-strengthen-development-atmps - 2025-08-27

On February 24th and 25th, the kick-off meeting for the NordicESM project took place in Oslo. The aim of NordicESM is to enhance the collaboration on the field of Earth System modelling within the Nordic Countries. The project therefore involves all Nordic research groups working with the Earth System models NorESM and EC-Earth. Amongst other institutes in Europe, Lund University has an active rol

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/nordicesm-meeting - 2025-08-27

“Solutions to limit the climate impact of plastics” was the topic of this years Climathon in Lund. The 24 hour hackathon gathered 54 participants and was thereby one of the larger among the 113 Climathons held simultaneous all around the world. Climathon in Lund was organised by a consortia of five very different organisations, Lunds Universitet, Lunds Kommun, Sysav, Ideon Innovation, EIT Climate-

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Sara Wettemarks studies abroad are being pursued from home in Sweden. Photo: Private In mid-December 2019, Sara Wettemark took a flight to Vancouver, Canada, for a semester of Master’s studies in Biomedicine at the University of British Columbia (UBC). She intended to return home in May but, like so many others, had to alter her plans due to the coronavirus pandemic. Now, her studies abroad are be

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/studying-abroad-during-coronavirus-epidemic - 2025-08-27

Jishnu J.R, Ph.D Scholar from the Department of Law at University of Kerala in India, recently travelled back to Kerala after a month in Lund. Jishnu is pursuing his Ph.D on "Copyright and trademark aspects of social media" at University of Kerala and was here as a guest-reseacher at the Department of Law and SASNET. Jishnu has not only a interest in property and cyber laws but a keen interest in

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/jishnu-jr-guest-researcher-lund-university - 2025-08-27

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Memorandum being signed by three people with two people in the background, and the Swedish, Dutch and EU flags Skåne University Hospital, Lund University and Leiden University Medical Center will collaborate to develop research, education and care delivery in the field of ATMPs (Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products). That is the essence of a Memorandum of Understanding that was signed at the SciLif

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/international-collaboration-strengthen-development-atmps - 2025-08-27

Photo: Andrea Piacquadio. Pexel In a new PhD thesis from Lund University in Sweden, gender studies researcher Marco Bacio interviewed male sex workers in Sweden and Italy. What surprised him the most was that a majority of the sex workers were well-educated - and middle class. Female sex work is far more common than male sex work, and so is research about the same topic. According to Marco Bacio,

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/male-sex-workers-are-often-well-educated-and-middle-class - 2025-08-27

Ahead of spring, the University’s International Council has started working on the development of a new approach to broad international issues. The objective is to enable the University to act faster and more proactively in its international work, while applying a more long-term perspective. The working method, which the members of the International Council have chosen to call ‟Global Dynamic Enga

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/path-clearer-global-engagement - 2025-08-27