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The European Union will ban the world’s most widely used insecticides from all fields due to the serious danger they pose to bees. The ban on neonicotinoids, approved by member nations today, is expected to come into force by the end of 2018 and will mean these insecticides can only be used in closed greenhouses.This ban on three main neonicotinoids has widespread public as well as scientific supp

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/eu-agrees-ban-use-neonicotinoids - 2025-12-20

CEC's Hampus Nilsson describes his journey towards doing research on nature-based solutions and multiple ecosystem services in cities. Hampus Nilsson was honored by the Swedish Hydrological Council with the award of best master thesis within hydrology. In a blog post at the Swedish Water House, SIWI, he describes his journey from being a student in technical mathematics at the civil engineering pr

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/how-become-researcher - 2025-12-20

Researchers from the CEC comments climate change and risk management on Swedish national radio. Johanna Alkan Olsson answers questions regarding if there is a connection between climate change and the nice spring weather in Sweden this year.Listen to the interview with Johanna on sverigesradio.se.Ullrika Sahlin answers questions about risk management in research.Listen to the interview with Ullrik

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/cec-swedish-national-radio - 2025-12-20

The CEC and Lund University is part of the core team for Climate-KIC's latest Flagship programme, eCircular, aiming to crack down on plastic waste and radically reduce the use of plastic materials. The project eCircular aims to explore and use innovative digital tools to improve plastics waste prevention. This can, for example, include blockchain solutions for improved market transparency, data an

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/catalysing-switch-circular-economy-through-plastic-waste-prevention - 2025-12-20

While attending the 5th European Congress of Conservation Biology organized by the Society for Conservation Biology last week in Jyväskylä, Finland, CEC's Lovisa Nilsson was awarded First Place for her outstanding student poster. Lovisa has studied annual flower strips used to compensate for biodiversity losses in agricultural landscapes. These flower strips are intended to support pollinators and

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/lovisa-nilsson-awarded-outstanding-student-poster - 2025-12-20

The COST project has been studying if there is any difference in biodiversity found at organic and conventional farms. Some of our colleagues at the CEC have spent summer doing fieldwork studying bumblebees. Romain Carrié and others from the COST project have collected pollen from bumblebees and surveyed flower resources at 19 different farms in Skåne.– From earlier fieldwork, we know there is a d

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/field-study-biodiversity - 2025-12-20

The CEC has produced a new report evaluating analyses and data collection of winter loss in honeybees in Sweden. Swedish beekeeping rely on the health of the honey bee Apis mellifera. Loss of colonies during winter is an indicator of poor honey bee health.This report evaluates current data collection of winter loss in honey bees in Sweden, with the purpose to give recommendations for future improv

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/winter-loss-honey-bees-sweden - 2025-12-20

ClimBEco is a two-year graduate research school that promotes young scientists to engage in interdisciplinary research on climate, earth system and society in a changing world. The annual summer meeting was held August 29–30 in Höllviken, with the theme ‘Land use and ecosystem-based climate adaptation’. Inspiring talks by Terese Thoni (CEC, Lund University), Åsa Kasimir (Earth Sciences, University

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/eye-opening-discussions-phd-students - 2025-12-20

PROJECT SUPPORT. Ted Svensson and Catia Gregoratti have each been granted two months’ worth of research time (by the Faculty of Social Sciences) to refine their research ideas and turn them into formal funding applications. Ted SvenssonCatia Gregoratti  

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/refining-research-ideas - 2025-12-20

NEWS FROM OUR RESEARCHERS. Catarina Kinnvall & Ted Svensson are the editors of the recently published anthology Governing Borders and Security. The Politics of Connectivity and Dispersal (Routledge). Learn more...

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-anthology-governing-borders-and-security - 2025-12-20

NEWS FROM OUR RESEARCHERS. Niklas Altermark has penned the article "The ideology of neuroscience and intellectual disability: reconstituting the ‘disordered’ brain", which has recently been published in Disability & Society. Learn more...

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/reconstituting-disordered-brain - 2025-12-20

Uppsala university announces 3 PhD student positions in peace and conflict research with focus on international water cooperation. Apply by November 3. Learn more...

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/phd-positions-uppsala - 2025-12-20

RESEARCHER OUTREACH. Mi Lennhag lectures on the EU, bureaucracy, transparency and anti-corruption work, as part of the Swedish Institute’s Summer Academy for Young Professionals (aimed at post-Soviet country residents). Learn more...

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/lecture-eu-bureaucracy-transparency-and-anti-corruption-work - 2025-12-20

NEWS FROM OUR RESEARCHERS. Jens Bartelson discusses David Armitages’s book "Foundations of Modern International Thought", in a special review article in "Contemporary Political Theory". Learn more...

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/review-foundations-modern-international-thought - 2025-12-20

RESEARCHER OUTREACH: Fariborz Zelli organises a side event at the UN climate change conference in Lima (December 4). Learn more...

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/zellis-event-beside-climate-change-conference - 2025-12-20

STUDENT NEWS: EU External Action welcomes application for international internships in 2015. Apply no later than December 5. Learn more...

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/international-internships - 2025-12-20

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Ole Elgström has written the chapter Leader, Bridge-builder or ‘Hobbled Giant’? Perceptions of the EU in Climate-Change Negotiations that is included in the recently published anthology Communicating Europe in Time of Crisis: External Perceptions of the European Union (Palgrave). Learn more...

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/leader-bridge-builder-or-hobbled-giant - 2025-12-20

RESEARCHER OUTREACH: Tobias Nielsen was recently included in an international group of researchers that prepared a report for the Nordic Council of Ministers working group for global climate negotiations ahead of the current COP20 UN negotiations. Tobias Nielsen

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/preparing-report-global-climate-negotiations - 2025-12-20

RESEARCHER OUTREACH: Tobias Nielsen talks about Ecuador’s Socio Bosque and Peru’s Programa Bosque as Role Models? at a UN climate conference side-event (Dec. 4).  REDD and Beyond: International and Indigenous Strategies in Forest ProtectionREDD is one a series of incentive-based mechanisms for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In addition to REDD, and partly out of criticism to it, a number of fu

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/nielsen-talks-about-south-american-role-models - 2025-12-20

NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Carlo Knotz and Johannes Lindvall have co-authored the article Coalitions and Compensation. The Case of Unemployment Benefit Duration which has recently been published in Comparative Political Studies. Learn more...

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/knotz-and-lindvall-comparative-political-studies - 2025-12-20