On 30 September, the vice-chancellor decided on updated guidelines for remote work for technical and administrative (TA) staff. The guidelines enter into force on 1 October and replace the previous guidelines from 2019. The guidelines apply to employees at Lund University with the exception of those included in the current working hours agreement for teaching staff or the local manager agreement.

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/updated-guidelines-remote-work-technical-and-administrative-staff - 2025-09-11

Lund University’s Future Week 18-24 October offers exhibitions, lectures, debates and tours - on site and online. The theme for this year's Future Week is "Breakthroughs". What breakthroughs are needed in research and in society for us to be able to manage our future in the best way possible? What breakthroughs do we expect to happen soon? The university’s researchers addresses this year’s theme t

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/future-week-18-24-october-2021 - 2025-09-11

Caroline Sundberg, EU Policy Officer at the Brussels office of the Universities of South Sweden network. Photo: Melinda Szabo The new EU framework programme Horizon Europe is more generous than ever. It makes just over EUR 95.5 billion available for European researchers and innovators to share. The first calls for applications have opened and the remainder will be announced continuously over the n

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/eu-more-generous-ever - 2025-09-11

The open access market i lucrative. Not all magasines are genuine. Illustration: David Parkins The idea of publishing research findings in open access journals is in many ways an asset in the research community. Unfortunately, it has also entailed the emergence of many unprofessional agents on the market. Their only purpose is to trick researchers into giving them money. Olga had published academi

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/watch-out-predators - 2025-09-11

Aprile Clark says that the university libraries can help to find out if an OA magasine is genuine or not. Photo: Åsa Hansdotter The idea of publishing research findings in open access journals is in many ways an asset in the research community. Unfortunately, it has also entailed the emergence of many unprofessional agents on the market. Their only purpose is to trick researchers into giving them

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/always-check-magasine-carefully - 2025-09-11

Cyber attacks against universities have skyrocketed during the pandemic. The blackmailers often succeed. Photo: Shutterstock Cyberattacks against the University have sharply increased over the past two years. They mainly take the form of email attacks, known as phishing, which aim to penetrate and take over entire IT environments. The attacks often succeed. Lund University is no different from the

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/dramatic-increase-cyber-attacks-against-universities - 2025-09-11

Jan Astermark has done research in coagulation medicine since the beginning of the '90s. Photo: Åsa Hansdotter A lot has happened in coagulation medicine since Jan Astermark first started his research in the 1980s. The most recent progress is in gene therapy and the first patients with severe haemophilia who were treated in Malmö last year. “It is fantastically exciting to work in a research field

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/promising-results-new-gene-therapy-method - 2025-09-11

Niclas Nilsson does not need injections after being treated with gene therapy for haemophilia . Photo: Åsa Hansdotter If you look carefully at Niclas Nilsson’s hands and arms, you can still see the scars from all the injections he has received through the years for his haemophilia, although they have faded considerably since January 2020. That was when he got his last injection. Indeed, since his

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/i-wore-hockey-helmet-until-i-was-four-years-old - 2025-09-11

Stephan Reber with two of the alligators he works with. Photo: Kennet Ruona “Toke is shy but does the most exploring of all of them, while Siggi is relaxed and friendly. But you have to know them to be able to work with them”, says cognitive scientist Stephan Reber. He is not talking about his colleagues but the alligators now on site in Ystad zoo, where the researchers have a specially adapted fa

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/alligators-are-key-world-dinosaurs - 2025-09-11

In connection with the ongoing main University building renovation project, the National Property Board (SFV) discovered during an inspection that the building’s four sphinxes are in such poor condition that they must be taken down and recast. This is to prevent the risk of injury to passers-by from falling pieces of concrete. It is hoped that the recast sphinxes will be in place in 2022. The top

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/main-university-buildings-sphinxes-are-be-renovated - 2025-09-11

There is now a blog devoted to the work on “Introducing a management system for information security”, which will enable you to follow information security developments at the University. Among other things, you can read about the information security course recently taken by the University Management. The blog’s main focus is on the project, but it will also feature relevant new material on infor

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-information-security-blog - 2025-09-11

I attended a LERU meeting to discuss issues relating to education strategies, lifelong learning, exchanges of experience for improvements in teaching, and the challenges of interdisciplinary programmes. On 7-8 October, there was a two-day meeting in Utrecht of the policy group Teaching and Learning in LERU (League of European Research Universities), which includes vice-chancellors and deputy vice-

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/taking-train-leru-meeting-utrecht - 2025-09-11

To achieve the University’s goal of reducing emissions that have an impact on the climate, we need to make changes throughout the organisation. One of these adjustments is to choose more sustainable travel options, now that opportunities to travel are opening up again. One way is to choose the train when travelling within Europe. The University’s travel agent is constantly working to create better

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/choose-train-europe - 2025-09-11

During autumn 2020, a higher education institution review of Lund University was launched, focusing on the extent to which the University’s systematic quality assurance work functions satisfactorily in relation to the criteria set by the Swedish Higher Education Authority (UKÄ). Now a decision and statement from the assessment group have been announced. UKÄ reviewed Lund University’s internal qual

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/results-announced-swedish-higher-education-authoritys-review-higher-education-institutions - 2025-09-11

LU’s updated Research Portal (portal.research.lu.se) with a new design and many new functions was launched on 19 October. The aim of the Research Portal is to present a collective picture to external and internal visitors of the research being carried out at Lund University. Via the Research Portal, you can see who is active in different research areas, publications, projects, research infrastruct

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/research-portal-has-new-design - 2025-09-11

The challenges we need to continue working on in education are mobility between higher education institutions, lifelong learning and how we can intertwine research and education. A small delegation from Lund University travelled to Porto for the Annual Summit 2021 to discuss future challenges and opportunities. The issues under discussion included mobility between higher education institutions, li

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/discussions-euglohs-annual-summit - 2025-09-11

The EU is now focusing efforts on innovation work – and it is also important for LU to pick up the pace! The question “How can a university sharpen up its innovation environment”, was on the agenda at the LERU meeting “Policy group enterprise and innovation” recently. Universities in Europe have started to position themselves more clearly in terms of the role the universities can, and perhaps simp

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/innovation-work-european-perspective - 2025-09-11

On 14 October, the vice-chancellor approved the overall goals for the University’s work environment management for the next few years. The goals are within four focus areas:   Sick leave statistics Managers’ preparedness Organisational and social work environment Student health The goals are based on the results from the annual follow-up of systematic work environment management, on needs that hav

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/overall-work-environment-goals-lund-university-2021-2023 - 2025-09-11

I oktober är det dags för Sveriges första Swedish Biodiversity Symposium. En helt ny mötesplats där experter och intressenter inom biologisk mångfald samlas för att främja en positiv utveckling på området. Vi fick en pratstund med Mats Björkman, projektledare för symposiet. Mats Björkman är universitetslektor på Institutionen för biologi och miljövetenskap vid Göteborgs universitet. Han är också e

https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/artikel/det-har-har-saknats-premiar-swedish-biodiversity-symposium-en-ny-motesplats-biologisk-mangfald - 2025-09-11

Parkslide och andra främmande invasiva arter sprider sig snabbt och hotar både ekosystem, infrastruktur och ekonomi – och när de väl har fått fäste är de svåra att bli av med. Men vilka metoder finns egentligen för att bekämpa parkslide och andra invasiva arter? Främmande invasiva arter är ett begrepp vi hör allt oftare. För att en art ska klassas som invasiv enligt en skandinavisk definition ska

https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/artikel/kampen-mot-den-invasiva-arten-parkslide-utmaningar-och-framsteg - 2025-09-11