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Quaternary geologist Raimund Muscheler and physical geographer Thomas Pugh have been awarded the ERC Advanced Grant by the European Research Council. They will receive EUR 2.5 million each over a five-year period to study historical solar storms and the rate at which trees grow and die around the world. The European Research Council (ERC) supports research of the highest quality in all fields. The

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/two-lund-researchers-receive-prestigious-eu-grant - 2025-10-24

Sustainability Week in Lund has established itself as a recurring meeting place for challenging issues and innovative solutions. This year's program included over 70 events and gathered a few thousand participants in total. In mid-April, Lund was bubbling with sustainability issues. Project manager Stina Lundkvist breathes a sigh of relief after a successful week."We are very pleased with all the

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/great-participation-during-sustainability-week - 2025-10-24

On Sunday (28 April) and Thursday (2 May), several of the University’s employees received two different sophisticated phishing email messages. Now the Division of IT wants to warn everyone in order to prevent deception. The first email was sent from a number of generated accounts at umassmed.edu (University of Massachusetts Chan School of Medicine) and was presented to look like a quarantine messa

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/be-alert-suspicious-emails - 2025-10-24

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 framework is now being int

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/we-are-now-forefront-work-educational-qualifications-higher-education - 2025-10-24

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 platform for strategic

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/updated-platform-strategic-work-initiatives-international-impact - 2025-10-24

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 strategic work is alread

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/platform-strategic-work-2025-2027 - 2025-10-24

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 activities should be completed no later than 31 July 2025.Get Started Funding – funding to develop c

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/international-impact-actions - 2025-10-24

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 open seminar on the Stairs with LU Innovation's business lawyer Fredrik Engfeldt on 21 May at 12.30 to find out more. The seminar is held in Swedish. For information in English, please contact Lina Törnquist at LU Innovation: lina [dot] tor

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/seminar-what-you-need-know-about-intellectual-property-rights-academic-staff - 2025-10-24

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 University Centre for Geographical Information Systems (GIS Centre), as well as a founder of Pl

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/they-started-company-spread-their-research-findings-we-need-get-better-handling-floods - 2025-10-24

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 trends and meet a new gene

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/malmo-art-academys-annual-exhibition - 2025-10-24

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 established around other hi

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/tent-camp-lundagard - 2025-10-24

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 interdisciplinary research in the fields of health, climate and the environment. This type of project requires a commitment to the research problems with a focus on the end result, that you familiarize yourself with experiments and data together

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/computational-science-hub-sharpen-research-environment-and-health - 2025-10-24

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 of books in the conduc

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/international-interest-also-extends-swedish-phenomena - 2025-10-24

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 among the top finishers.A

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-did-your-colleagues-fare-years-lundaloppet - 2025-10-24

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 Lund Cathedral, the doctoral students who completed their doctoral studies in the past year and

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/record-number-conferees-doctoral-degree-conferment-ceremony-31-may - 2025-10-24

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 applications. Please note that your case needs to be completed in Primula by 30 November. You th

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-deadline-health-promotion-reimbursement-applications - 2025-10-24

A COIL involves two different courses at two universities in different countries where students collaborate digitally during a part of the course. Each course follows its own syllabus, and the teachers grade their respective students. Virtual exchanges are a way to provide many students with international experience, as highlighted by Erik Renström in a recent blog post For several years, Lund Uni

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/do-you-want-take-opportunity-develop-coil - 2025-10-24

The faculties’ honorary doctors for 2024 have been announced. They will be honoured at the doctoral degree conferment ceremony on 31 May 2024. You can hear the talking between 29-30 May. Lund University School of Economics and Management30 May 13:00 to 14:15 | Open lecture with professor Martha Bailey and the Swedish Riksbank’s first deputy governor Anna BremanMartha Bailey, professor in Economy a

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/see-open-lectures-faculties-honorary-doctors - 2025-10-24

On 26 May, a large number of emails were sent to University employees regarding a meeting between demonstrators and the University Management. This was not an IT security breach, but legitimate way of reaching many recipients since all staff email addresses are listed on the University’s website.Our freedom of speech provides space for large numbers of different opinions to be expressed and dissem

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/emails-over-weekend-about-demonstrations - 2025-10-24

Several faculties have merged different departments or are about to do so. The Faculty of Engineering (LTH) merged two departments at the turn of the year, the Facult of Social Sciences has decided on one merger and is on the way to a second, while the Faculty of Science will make a decision after the summer. In a policy decision last year, the Faculty of Social Sciences decided that within a few

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/concern-when-departments-are-merged - 2025-10-24