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-6 - 2025-08-21

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 - 2025-08-21

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 - 2025-08-21

Maria Strövik and students 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 E

https://www.cfe.lu.se/en/article/bridging-border-bewtween-sweden-and-denmark - 2025-08-21

Kristy Louise Rhades (photo). 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 t

https://www.cfe.lu.se/en/article/best-thesis-award-2020 - 2025-08-21

In November 2020, a hybrid form of the annual conference Europaforum Hässleholm was held. The Centre for European Studies participated during the morning panels on the future of the EU in relation to the pandemic and the US elections.  Note: this article was originally published December 22, 2020.   Read more about the panels on our Swedish website.  

https://www.cfe.lu.se/en/article/coronavirus-and-us-elections-europaforum-hassleholm - 2025-08-21

Photo: Pexels Around the midpoint of August this year, doctoral candidate Alena Minchenia arrived in Belarus to encounter a nation that had erupted into mass demonstrations. The internationally disputed August 9 presidential elections in Belarus were followed by three days of massive protests countered by extreme state repression in what Minchenia says has since become known as ‘the war’. Since th

https://www.cfe.lu.se/en/article/adaptive-and-creative-protests-belarus - 2025-08-21

Illustration: Catrin Jakobsson Håkan Jönson and Kiran Maini Gerhardsson are two of twenty-two authors from Lund University who will present their books at this year's book fair, Bokmässan, in Gothenburg - in Lund's digital stand - on Thursday 23 September.   Håkans Jönsson's book is entitled "Perspektiv på ålderism – diskriminerar yngre sig själva i framtiden?" and Kiran Maini Gerhardsson's book,

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/case-researchers-participate-bokmassan-2021 - 2025-08-21

Stig Ålund is a social worker and has extensive experience as a professional in the municipal sector, including as director of the Kommunförbundet Skåne. As a pensioner, he is very active in the civil society and has positions of trust for the National Association of Pensioners (PRO) at both local and regional level. Since 2013, Stig Ålund has been an extremely active representative of older peo

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/stig-alund-honorary-doctor-faculty-medicine - 2025-08-21

Christina Heller, PhD student, Department of Health Sciences, Lund University Mid-way review 2022/02/01. With Björn Slaug, main supervisor, and one of the reviewers Marianne Abramsson. CASE PhD student Christina Heller just had her Mid-way review: "Simulation models as a tool to compare housing policies for a population aging in place". Housing policies can be instrumental in addressing several ma

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/urgent-need-develop-sustainable-housing-policies-older-people-their-home-environments - 2025-08-21

Congratulations to CASE researcher Giedre Gefenaite who has received so-called "research space" for three years from the Medical Faculty Board. Giedre is active in the research group Active and Healthy Aging at the Department of Health Sciences and has recently also been appointed associate professor. In 2019, the board decided to introduce a new type of support for younger researchers who already

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/case-studies-importance-environment-aging-receive-funding - 2025-08-21

Lund University's collaboration initiatives are meeting places for knowledge and development in a number of different defined problem areas. “Social rights and housing for the aging population” (2018–2021) is one of the eighteen initiatives currently in place at the university. The steering group's report of what has been achieved during the period is now ready. Foto: Kennet Ruona. Oskar Jonsson,

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/new-processes-and-products-through-social-rights-and-housing-aging-population - 2025-08-21

Christine Etzerodt Laustsen's dissertation is part of the research program UserAge. The goal of the program is to gain more knowledge about involvement of older people, relatives and professionals in research in aging and health. UserAge is a collaboration between Lund University, University of Gothenburg, Linnaeus University and Kristianstad University. Christine Etzerodt Laustsen has been linked

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/first-userage-phd-student-defends-her-dissertation - 2025-08-21

The jury has unanimously agreed to award the Susanne Iwarsson Sohlberg Prize. To be eligible, the candidate must have built up a strong research group and initiated research of great importance for the development of gerontology. The prize will be awarded during the opening ceremony of the Nordic Gerontology Congress - 26NKG - in Odense on June 8. The prize goes to a researcher working in a Nordic

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/susanne-iwarsson-awarded-sohlberg-prize-nordic-regions-largest-prize-ageing-research - 2025-08-21

Photo by Georg Arthur Pflueger on Unsplash. This study explains how older people experienced and managed everyday life during the first 100 days of the coronavirus pandemic. The findings showed how doing was adapted and changed, how the pandemic gave opportunities for being and appreciating the moment, but that possibilities for becoming and developing were severely restricted, and the sense of be

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/new-research-article-hundred-days-confinement-doing-being-becoming-and-belonging-among-older-people - 2025-08-21

On June the 16th at 09.15, Erik Smedberg will defend his Licentiate thesis “Egressibility – Applying the concept of accessibility to the self-evacuation of people with functional limitations”.  The defense will take place in hybrid mode, and it will be conducted fully in English. The defense will take place in the room V:A, V-building, Lund University, John Ericsons väg 1, Lund and on zoom https:/

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/erik-smedberg-licentiate-thesis-defense - 2025-08-21

CASE User board. From the left: Ulf Selin, Anneli af Klinteberg, AnnMari Storm, Oskar Jonsson, Göran Ternéus, Christer Ohlin och Ingemar Bryman. Ageing and health researchers involve users in their research to improve quality and ensure relevance, but there is no consensus among them whether users should be involved in publicly funded research. User involvement in research has rapidly increased an

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/new-article-case-user-involvement-ageing-and-health-research-survey-researchers-and-older-adults - 2025-08-21

Wenqian Xu. Childlessness is a growing phenomenon in many countries, especially in China. Wenqian Xu will the next three years work with evidence-building, capacity-building and public-engagement activities on the topic "Ageing without children", within this grant. Could you please comment upon this international postdoc grant, what does it mean to you? - I am honored to receive this international

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/case-guest-researcher-wenqian-xu-receives-large-international-postdoc-grant-swedish-research-council - 2025-08-21

Technology adoption for active and healthy ageing, through a generational lens (half-time review Jens Offerman). Technology plays and will play an important role in promoting active and healthy ageing for current and future generations of older adults. However, very few studies highlight the specific knowledge needed to use different kinds of technologies and there is a lack of research addressing

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/what-kind-technology-wanted-support-active-and-healthy-ageing - 2025-08-21

Kristofer Hansson, Vanessa Stjernborg, Lena Levin and Eva Månsson Lexell. Despite efforts to overcome public transport barriers, major challenges remain. The rapid transition to a more transport-efficient society also includes digitization and new forms of mobility. This creates a growing concern about widening exclusion and digital divides and new research is needed. The new research project aims

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/new-case-research-understanding-obstacles-and-facilitators-current-and-future-public-transport - 2025-08-21