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Illustration: Catrin Jacobsson. Jesica López wins the Agenda 2030 Award for her research on the endangered Amazon rainforest. Carbon capture, end-of-life care and death cafés are also recognised in this year's edition. From the left Jamie Woodworth, in the middle Jesica López, the winner and Lina Lefstad to the right. Photo: Sara Håkansson When the Agenda 2030 Graduate School at Lund University ha
A week-long event from 19-23 May will bring together 45 representatives from EUGLOH universities to collaborate on cultural issues in teaching and research. Participants will attend from Tromsø, Porto, Hamburg, Alcalá, Munich, Szeged and of course Lund. We have also invited speakers from Singapore and Melbourne. "Culture is an important part of the University’s soul. In May, around 40 colleagues f
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/cultural-networking-event-and-smask - 2025-09-06
A newly procured case management system, a new Support Centre, LU Box clear out and a gentle reminder to obtain strong authentication – from 9 June it will also be required for booking business travel. New case management system procuredThe procurement of a new case management system for the entire University has now been completed. The new supplier and system is HaloITSM. HaloITSM is a British co
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/it-news-case-system-support-centre-and-document-clear-out - 2025-09-06
Many people come to the party as a finalization of the competition. During the month of May, staff from the University took part in a competition along with 18 other organisations in CoAction Lund to commute as sustainably as possible. By walking, cycling or using public transport to commute, over 1,000 participants have reduced their climate impact in a joint effort. Today, around 60 per cent of
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/three-winners-climate-friendly-commuting-competition - 2025-09-06
Digitalisation and AI affect us all – whether we work in research, teaching, administration or management. In order to face the future with the right tools and knowledge, we have formed an Ad hoc group to support our employees in developing their expertise in digitalisation and AI. We are launching an AI course for all staff as the semester gets underway. It is a basic course, aimed at those who a
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-ad-hoc-ai-group-bolster-staff-expertise-digitalisation-and-ai - 2025-09-06
The University's Sustainability Plan has been revised. It now includes new sustainability requirements for purchasing and procurement. Logistics and communication have also been given greater emphasis. The aim of the plan is to accelerate the pace of transition to sustainable development – both within the University and in society. At the same time, it aims to make use of the knowledge and skills
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/updated-sustainability-plan - 2025-09-06
It took four weeks to build the new laboratory. Photo: Erik Andersson After a trip from Portugal, the new exposure chambers have arrived in Lund. LTH’s aerosol and climate scientists welcome the lab delivery with great expectations and are getting ready for a four-week construction project. Several years of preparation are now bearing fruit. The aerosol and climate labs at LTH have merged into one
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/unique-combo-lab-paves-way-new-research-breakthroughs - 2025-09-05
Anders Lindskog (on the left) and Johan Lindgren, studying fossils. Photo: Johan Joelsson During the excursion week this spring, Master’s students from the Department of Geology visited Öland and the Danish town of Faxe. This year there was also a new location in the programme. Students had the opportunity to learn more about the Cretaceous period and its fossil remains in the bat-filled Tykarp Ca
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-collaboration-between-university-and-underground-world - 2025-09-05
Elif Tiryakioglu, Turkey, Roxanne Mae Targa, the Philippines and Nawapan Boonchum from Thailand did their degree projects at Tetra Pak 2020, within the Erasmus Mundus Master's programme FIPDes, Food Innovation and Product Design. Photo: Erik Andersson "When I was a kid, I said tetra about all the juice drinks," says Roxanne Mae Targa when she talks about her first experience with Tetra Pak. Now sh
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/degree-project-students-appreciate-open-working-climate-tetra-pak - 2025-09-05
On January 18th the Association of Swedish Higher Education Institutions (SUHF) organized an information and discussion meeting about the profile areas. The general sentiment was that the new task provided surprisingly little direction for how the financing of the profile areas should be developed. On January 13th the Swedish government (U2022/00168) gave the Swedish Research Council and the other
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/national-level-funding-profile-areas-has-moved-forward - 2025-09-05
In January, the university director will make a decision on adopting a new remit and organisation for Corporate Communication within the Central Administration. Corporate Communication must be able to meet new needs at no extra cost. In this situation, other activities need to be deprioritised. The University Management has identified LUM as an activity that should be reprioritised in favour of ot
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/proposal-reprioritisation-leads-closure-lum - 2025-09-06
Three projects have been awarded funding under the Sustainability Fund's call for proposals to test solutions to sustainability challenges in the organization, Sustainable Proposal Testbed. The focus is on mental health for students and reducing climate emissions from academic travel. For the second time, the university has awarded grants to employees who want to test sustainability solutions. The
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/sustainable-workplace-project-wins-award - 2025-09-06
Researcher Jesica López flew over a fire-ravaged Amazon during fieldwork in Colombia. The fires are a consequence of climate change and expanding cattle breeding. Photo: Private Colombia is the world’s most dangerous country for those fighting to protect the rain forest and the environment. Last year, 79 people were killed for that reason, three times as many as in the second most dangerous countr
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/safe-fieldwork-important-plan-thoroughly - 2025-09-06
The researchers have mapped how the outcomes for heart-transplanted children have changed over time and examined how the results compare in an international context. Photo: iStock In a new observational study, researchers at Lund University in Sweden looked at all children listed for heart transplants in the Nordic countries between 1986 and 2023. A total of 597 children were included in the study
Could burying carbon dioxide under the seabed be the answer for the future? Lina Lefstad, who received an Honourable Mention in the Agenda 2030 Award, is exploring this in her research. Photo: Sara Håkansson She grew up in oil-rich Norway, with a father who travelled the world working in the oil sector. Little did Lina Lefstad know that just two decades later she would be a researcher at the foref
https://www.agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se/article/can-oil-industrys-know-how-help-solve-climate-crisis - 2025-09-05
The researchers have mapped how the outcomes for heart-transplanted children have changed over time and examined how the results compare in an international context. Photo: iStock In a new observational study, researchers at Lund University in Sweden looked at all children listed for heart transplants in the Nordic countries between 1986 and 2023. A total of 597 children were included in the study
Ingen teknik, förutom medicineringsroboten, bidrog till att minska personalbristen, visar den nya studien. Foto: Sebastian Scholtz/Creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ Brist på valmöjligheter, krockande åsikter och tidspress är fynd i en första artikel om välfärdsteknologi, från projektet Welfare@home, där SWEAH-doktoranden Samantha Svärdh, Lunds universitet, ingår. Hennes andra artikel ger oss in
https://sweah.lu.se/artikel/valfardsteknik-ingen-losning-utan-anvandarnas-medverkan - 2025-09-05
Med 36 miljoner i ryggen kraftsamlar aktörer i Skåne för att utveckla och kommersialisera excellent forskning inom ATMP, Advanced Therapy Medical Products. Målet är att påskynda nästa generations banbrytande terapier så att fler potentiellt livräddande ATMP-behandlingar når patienter som idag saknar effektiva behandlingsalternativ. Med projektet ATMP Path2Patient ska involverade aktörer skapa effe
https://www.innovation.lu.se/artikel/storsatsning-att-ta-avancerade-terapier-fran-forskning-till-patient-i-skane - 2025-09-05
Årets mottagare av Hjärt-Lungfondens Stora forskningsanslag är Gunilla Westergren-Thorsson, professor i lungbiologi vid Lunds universitet. Foto: Agata Garpenlind. Aktivering av lungans självläkningsförmåga med hjälp av fysisk träning ger ökad överlevnad och förbättrar symptomen hos KOL-patienter. Men kunskap om vad som händer på cellulär och molekylärnivå vid ökad fysisk aktivitet saknas. För att
