Published 1 May 2024 For the first time in the University’s history, a Vice-Chancellor’s decision exists concerning how we are to work on educational qualifications throughout the entire University, as reported in the previous LU News. Half of the University’s faculties have offered the opportunity to apply for recognition as an excellent teaching practitioner or similar for several years. A frame

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/we-are-now-forefront-work-educational-qualifications-higher-education - 2025-05-22

Published 1 May 2024 There is now an updated platform for strategic work which will guide our initiatives between 2025 and 2027. This update is an important part of our efforts to remain relevant and competitive in a rapidly changing world. The world around us is becoming increasingly unpredictable and complex, and in order to meet the new challenges we must act more quickly and in new ways. The p

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/updated-platform-strategic-work-initiatives-international-impact - 2025-05-22

Published 8 May 2024 The current platform for strategic work applies until the end of this year, but a decision on an updated version for the period 2025-2027 has already been taken. The platform describes the University’s strategic work for the years ahead and will support us in adapting the University’s operations more quickly in an unpredictable world. The fact that the updated platform for str

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/platform-strategic-work-2025-2027 - 2025-05-22

By teresia [dot] rindefjall [at] er [dot] lu [dot] se (Teresia Rindefjäll) - published 8 May 2024 As part of the work with Global Dynamic Engagement (GDE), Lund University is announcing three calls for funding to stimulate collaboration and activities that strengthen our international impact in research, education, innovation and cooperation.  Deadline for applications is 21 August 2024. Funded ac

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/international-impact-actions - 2025-05-22

By lina [dot] tornquist [at] innovation [dot] lu [dot] se (Lina Törnquist) - published 7 May 2024 LU Innovation's business lawyer Fredrik Engfeldt works daily to resolve issues relating to the professor's exemption. Photo: Johan Persson. Everyone who conducts research is covered by the intellectual property rights of academic staff ("lärarundantaget"). But what is it? Bring your lunch bag to an op

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/seminar-what-you-need-know-about-intellectual-property-rights-academic-staff - 2025-05-22

By emma [dot] renman [at] innovation [dot] lu [dot] se (Emma Renman) - published 6 May 2024 Petter Pilesjö, Abdulghani Hasan, and Andreas Persson were tired of the feeling of writing articles and presenting at conferences without anything happening. Learn how they went from research results to making use of their findings by starting the company PluvioFlow. Petter Pilsjö is a Professor at Lund Uni

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/they-started-company-spread-their-research-findings-we-need-get-better-handling-floods - 2025-05-22

Published 1 May 2024 The Annual Exhibition is a tradition where students use their studios as exhibition spaces for smaller solo presentations, while all the school's project rooms and common areas become one large group exhibition. The school's students work in a wide variety of techniques and an equally wide variety of themes.The annual exhibition offers an opportunity to recognize current trend

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/malmo-art-academys-annual-exhibition - 2025-05-22

Published 14 May 2024 For those who have been following the course of events surrounding pro-Palestinian demonstrations and how tent camps were established on American campuses and then spread to other parts of the world, it will not come as a surprise that such demonstrations have now reached Sweden. A tent camp was set up in Lundagård on Tuesday morning (14 May) and similar camps have been estab

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/tent-camp-lundagard - 2025-05-22

By anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - published 15 May 2024 COSHE stands for Computational Science for Health and Environment. The hub is based at Geocentrum II in Lund. Photo: Kenneth Ruona/CEC. A computational science hub, COSHE, has been established at Lund University. The aim is to become a creative hub for computational science with a focus on interdiscip

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/computational-science-hub-sharpen-research-environment-and-health - 2025-05-22

Published 15 May 2024 I took part in two interesting seminars a few weeks ago. The first was entitled “The academic book stands firm: Why a leading university needs its own Press in turbulent times”. The other seminar focused on how to apply for and obtain grants from the European Research Council (ERC). The seminar on how to write and publish academic books commendably highlighted the importance

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/international-interest-also-extends-swedish-phenomena - 2025-05-22

Published 21 May 2024 On Saturday 4 May, Lund’s city centre was taken over by Lundaloppet. This year, there was a record number of participants, 8,179, who ran or walked in the races. Among those competing were 784 staff members from Lund University. Lund University was one of the largest employers represented in the race. Many fleet-footed LU staff members took part and we had several runners amo

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-did-your-colleagues-fare-years-lundaloppet - 2025-05-22

By maria [dot] blad [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Blad) - published 22 May 2024 This year’s doctoral degree conferment ceremony, the University’s ceremonial highlight and the faculties’ most important academic celebration, will break the record for the number of conferees. It is time to celebrate the faculties’ doctors, honorary doctors and jubilee doctors. In a solemn ceremony at Lu

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/record-number-conferees-doctoral-degree-conferment-ceremony-31-may - 2025-05-22

By webbansvarig [at] hr [dot] lu [dot] se (HR-sektionens webbansvarig) - published 18 May 2024 According to the Swedish Tax Agency’s regulations on payment of health promotion reimbursement, the reimbursement must be paid, as a rule, during the year for which the application applies. For this reason, as of 2024 Lund University will make 30 November the deadline for health promotion reimbursement a

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-deadline-health-promotion-reimbursement-applications - 2025-05-22

Published 22 August 2024 Rachel Forsyth of the Unit for Educational Services has been selected to be one of the EU's experts in the Digital Education Content (DEC) Expert Group, which is a sub-group of the EEA, the European Education Area. What issues does DEC work with, specifically? “The Digital Education Content (DEC) expert group has been set up by the European Commission. The group works with

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/rachel-forsyth-elected-eu-digital-education-content-expert-group - 2025-05-22

By Sara [dot] Liedholm [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Liedholm) - published 26 August 2024 Do you want to take your research further? Innovation developer Cecilia Jädert at LU Innovation encourages researchers to come and present their idea. Register for a workshop no later than 9 September. Also, read about the Faculty researchers who got help to start a business. So, what is an innovation?"Tha

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/innovation-workshop-researchers-how-think-entrepreneur - 2025-05-22

By Maria [dot] Blad [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Blad) - published 26 August 2024 You are welcome to visit the Main University Building on the following dates in August and September. Visitors can look in at the atrium, Main Auditorium, Pillared Hall and Consistory Room. The Main University Building will open its doors at the start of the semesterThe Main University Building was com

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/visit-main-university-building - 2025-05-22

By roman [dot] balandiuk [at] er [dot] lu [dot] se (Roman Balandiuk) - published 26 August 2024 Scholars at Risk Europe has announced a call for funding for incoming researchers on doctoral and postdoctoral levels from Ukraine. The forthcoming Call for Applications to MSCA4Ukraine is part of the European Commission’s allocation of additional EUR 10 million for fellowships for researchers displaced

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/call-applications-incoming-researchers-ukraine - 2025-05-22

By caroline [dot] cabot [at] uvet [dot] lu [dot] se (Caroline Cabot) - published 26 August 2024 Are you a university lecturer, teacher, student teacher, or researcher in educational science? Or just generally interested in school issues and higher education? You are warmly welcome to this fall’s Higher Seminars in Educational Science. At four different sessions, you’ll have the opportunity to delv

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/discover-falls-seminars-educational-science - 2025-05-22

Published 27 August 2024 Most researchers want to do things correctly and much of the time this is straightforward: you do not need instructions in order to understand that you are to write your own text and not plagiarise others. But not all rules and processes are as obvious and some change over time. In interviews with researchers connected to the HR Excellence in Research project, it emerged t

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-guide-makes-it-easier-researchers-do-things-correctly - 2025-05-22

By stefan [dot] danielson [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Stefan Danielsson) - published 28 August 2024 Who approves your research agreement? What are the rules on secondary employment? What actually needs to be registered in the registration system? There are many rules that researchers employed by a public authority such as Lund University need to take into account. In order to help you ge

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/now-easier-researchers-do-things-correctly - 2025-05-22