By developing and implementing sustainable practices in our labs, we can lead the way for future scientists to adopt a more environmentally friendly approach. In this effort, the Sustainability Committee at Lund Stem Cell Center is assisting our members in participating in the global initiative, My Green Labs, and implementing ‘green’ changes to our labs, core facilities and infrastructure.My Gree

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/sustainable_development/sustainable-lab-practices - 2025-04-29

January 9th 2020 January 23rd 2020 February 6th 2020 February 19th 2020 March 5th 2020 March 19th 2020 April 3rd 2020 April 20th 2020 April 30th 2020 May 14th 2020 May 28th 2020 June 11th 2020 August 20th 2020 September 3rd 2020 September 17th 2020 October 1st 2020 October 15th 2020 October 29th 2020 November 12th 2020 November 27th 2020 December 10th 2020  

https://www.cec.lu.se/staff-pages/staff-newsletters/cec-newsletters-2020 - 2025-04-29

From the Management Welcome back to a new year at CEC, where we start 2021 with a new name, a new Director, and a new leadership organisation. Yet, CEC will continue its work with research, education and collaboration, across subject boundaries, to promote sustainable development. The new organisation with a separate Director, Per Persson, and Chair of the Board, Henrik Smith, will strengthen CEC.

https://www.cec.lu.se/staff-pages/staff-newsletters/january-14th-2021 - 2025-04-29

Understanding how pollinator communities are shaped by urban form and habitat distribution. Pollinating insects such as wild bees and hoverflies are in global decline, both in numbers and diversity, and the main cause is land-use intensification. This is worrying, because most wild plants and many crops need pollinators to set seeds and form fruits. Researchers have noted that pollinating insects

https://www.cec.lu.se/research/ongoing-research-projects/saved-by-the-city - 2025-04-29

From the Management An idea brought up during the staff days is the need of a CEC Research Seminar series. This is now being planned and will be launched during spring! More information, including how you can participate in what will be the CEC meeting place to present, discover and discuss research in environmental sciences, is coming your way soon. The CEC Plan of Operations 2021 has been transl

https://www.cec.lu.se/staff-pages/staff-newsletters/january-28th-2021 - 2025-04-29

CEC Newsletter 11 February 2021   From the Management We warmly welcome professor Öivind Andersson, Department of Combustion Engines at LTH, as the new Director of Climate-KIC@LU. Johanna Alkan Olsson continues as the Deputy Director, and Olof Blomqvist and Lina Röjnert still constitutes the administrative office. This semester we will have two CEC Staff days. In mid-April (date to be announced) w

https://www.cec.lu.se/february-11th-2021 - 2025-04-29

People We warmly welcome Helena Gonzales Lindberg and Izabella Rosengren to CEC. Helena will be Ylva’s substitute during her parental leave and be supporting the PhD education in Environmental Science and the research schools ClimBEco and Agenda 2030. Izabella will work part time with communication for CEC and Sustainability Forum.  We are also happy to announce that Camilla King will stay at CEC

https://www.cec.lu.se/staff-pages/staff-newsletters/25-february-2021 - 2025-04-29

To make the process effective and easy for both researchers and administrators, and to make sure you don´t miss any important parts, please use the checklist below. Get an approval from the head of the department before deadline All applications where CEC is taking part have to be approved by the head of the department Per Persson. This is the case if (1) a researcher at CEC is main or co-applican

https://www.cec.lu.se/checklist-applying-funding - 2025-04-29

From the management Congratulations to Julia Kelly who successfully defended her thesis yesterday and is now a Doctor in Environmental Science. About Julia Kelly on CEC Staff Pages Be on time when applying for funding Are you planning to apply for funding this spring? Please note that all applications must be approved by the CEC director beforehand. This applies to all applications where a researc

https://www.cec.lu.se/11-march-2021 - 2025-04-29

Valuing ecosystem services in agriculture – a way towards efficient decision making Currently farmers or other agricultural decision makers do not, in a systematic way, incorporate the value of ecosystem services to support their decisions to develop a sustainable food and bioenergy production system. The goal of the project is to develop multi level decision support tools, able to visualise the e

https://www.cec.lu.se/research/finished-research-projects/vesa - 2025-04-29

From the management Survey The week after Easter, an organisational and social work environment survey will be sent out. At CEC we have decided to send the survey to you who are employed at CEC, but also to you who are a teacher in the CEC kollegium or a PhD student employed at another department. This as we regard you all to be important parts of our work environment. It is designed in a way that

https://www.cec.lu.se/staff-pages/staff-newsletters/25-march-2021 - 2025-04-29

From the management Two weeks ago, the Dean of the Science Faculty gave all departments an assignment to investigate how we can strengthen coordination within and between the departments as well as between the departments and the Faculty. This assignment has been initiated by the transversal RQ20 panel reports and their recommendations to our Faculty regarding organization, infrastructure and recr

https://www.cec.lu.se/staff-pages/staff-newsletters/8-april-2021 - 2025-04-29

From the Management This week the management group discussed the Research Quality Evaluation Project 2020 reports and prepared for the dialogues with the faculty in the autumn. Also discussed was the reporting on the assignment from the Dean of the Science Faculty, to further develop cooperation between the Faculty’s departments, and it will be presented to all staff in June. Well done everyone wh

https://www.cec.lu.se/staff-pages/staff-newsletters/22-april-2021 - 2025-04-29

From the Management The work with the assignment from the Faculty to investigate possibilities to strengthen cooperation and coordination between CEC and the Departments of Geology and Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science is currently on-going. We are in an analysis phase probing specifically the current interactions within research, education, and administration. The result from this analysis

https://www.cec.lu.se/staff-pages/staff-newsletters/6-may-2021 - 2025-04-29

From the Management This week the management group continued the work regarding the assignment from the Faculty, that will be presented on the Friday Fika on 11 June. There were also preparations for the yearly dialogues with the Faculty, that are due in September. Covid-19 update The vice-chancellor of Lund University has taken a new decision on Covid regulations. In short, the same regulations c

https://www.cec.lu.se/staff-pages/staff-newsletters/20-may-2021 - 2025-04-29

From the Management Corona-update – Although the Swedish government has announced that restrictions have eased, including advice that distance education for student is no longer mandatory, we can confirm that the vice-chancellor’s decision from 12 of May is still valid. The vice-chancellor’s information (read his blogpost from 1 of June below) means that there is no need to plan for any changes to

https://www.cec.lu.se/staff-pages/staff-newsletters/3-june-2021 - 2025-04-29

Our two PhD students Melanie Karlsson (CEC) and Rafaelle Reumaux (SLU) are investigating factors that affect the possibility of expanding organic crop production in Sweden. Here, Melanie and Rafaelle summarise their ongoing research. Field studies In the spring and summer of 2020 we carried out observations on farms in Västergötland, Skåne and Halland to identify constraints on organic cereal yiel

https://www.cec.lu.se/research/ongoing-research-projects/constraints-organic-farming/subprojects - 2025-04-29

Conserving biodiversity and ecosystem services as insurance against the risks of increasing weather variability (2018 - 2020) Climate change has been heralded as presenting Swedish agriculture with opportunities, particularly: a longer growing season, new crops and higher yields. However, the risks associated with crop production will increase if the weather (for example daily rainfall and tempera

https://www.cec.lu.se/research/finished-research-projects/bioinsure - 2025-04-29

Alphabetical list of ClimBEco PhD courses from 2015 to present This is a list of all previous ClimBEco PhD courses since 2015, sorted according to the title of the course. Below you also find information about where and what year(s) a course was given. For a more detailed list, please contact the research administrator of ClimBEco. Advancing the Transition to Bioeconomy – A Systems ApproachLund Un

https://www.cec.lu.se/climbeco/phd-courses/previous-climbeco-phd-courses - 2025-04-29

Summer greetings from the Director Summer is here and we will soon leave behind a semester marked by physical distancing and days filled with digital meetings. Tomorrow we will meet for the last Friday Fika of the season and I hope that you will join and take the opportunity to see your CEC colleagues before the summer holidays. Tomorrow I will also tell you about the results from our work with th

https://www.cec.lu.se/staff-pages/staff-newsletters/17-june-2021 - 2025-04-29