Kes McCormick, the programme coordinator for Sharing Cities Sweden, has presented the national programme at two Australian Universities in June 2019 – the Centre for Urban Transitions at Swinburne University of Technology and the Monash Sustainable Development Institute at Monash University.The presentations focused on the ambitions of Sharing Cities Sweden, the emerging findings on the sharing ec

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-presentations-australian-universities - 2025-09-07

IIIEE researchers Yuliya Voytenko and Kes McCormick have joined a group of international researchers to act as guest editors for a Special Issue on smart and sustainable cities in the Local Environment journal. The special issues brings together a diverse collection of papers that explore the relationship between urban sustainability and smart city development. Read more on the Local Environment,

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-researchers-guest-editors-special-issue-smart-and-sustainable-cities - 2025-09-07

Research group at the IIIEE Photo: Håkan Röjder The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research has granted SEK 47 million for four years to Mistra REES. The aim of the programme is to facilitate the transition by Swedish manufacturing industry to a circular economy. Business and academia collaborate to facilitate the transition by Swedish manufacturing industry to more resource-effici

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/mistra-continue-funding-research-circular-economy-transition - 2025-09-07

Jonas Sonnenschein Photo: Blaž Samec New research implies that green growth climate mitigation policies are not sufficient for reaching the ambitious targets of the Paris Agreement, to limit global warming to well below 2°C by the end of the century.Green growth policies dominate the climate change mitigation discourse but how much can they contribute to rapid decarbonisation? Jonas Sonnenschein a

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/current-green-growth-policies-are-not-enough-reach-paris-agreement-climate-targets - 2025-09-07

A paper in Nature Climate Change, co-authored by an IIIEE researcher, alumna and student, shows that pledges to phase out coal are so far largely limited to older plants in richer countries. Reaching climate targets requires phasing out coal power without carbon capture and storage, as pledged by the members of Powering Past Coal Alliance (PPCA). Prof. Aleh Cherp and his co-authors show that these

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/pledges-phase-out-coal-power-are-insufficient-reach-climate-target - 2025-09-07

Kes McCormick was interviewed by Neal Gorenflo at Shareable about the fast-approaching Sharing Cities Summit. Shareable is an award-winning non-profit news, action and connection hub for the sharing transformation.The interview covered both the background and ambitions of Sharing Cities Sweden and the planning for the Sharing Cities Summit with a focus on connecting the sustainable development goa

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/building-sharing-cities-summit - 2025-09-07

IIIEE researchers have partaken in the development of an interdisciplinary approach for evaluation of policy instruments and research initiatives, focusing on capturing transformative change. The guidance was developed within the research project Transition Governance, which engaged researchers at Lund University and the Finnish Environment Institute between 2016-2019.The report combines interdisc

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-report-guidance-evaluation-transformative-focus - 2025-09-07

As part of the EIT Raw Materials funded REFER project, IIIEE will be co-hosting an event to raise awareness about critical raw materials in electronics and repair in Lund on International Repair Day. International Repair Day occurs annually on the 3rd Saturday of October to promote the  value and importance of repairing.As part of the REFER project, IIIEE is hosting an event with Repair Café Lund,

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-will-raise-awareness-about-critical-raw-materials-international-repair-day-19th-october - 2025-09-07

Batch 26 of the Master's programme in Environmental Management and Policy 27 students from 15 countries! On 22 August, 27 students from 15 countries arrived at the IIIEE!They are the 26th batch of our Master's programme in Environmental Management and Policy.Welcome to the IIIEE!

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/welcome-batch-26-our-masters-programme-environmental-management-and-policy - 2025-09-07

Följande utlysningar från Vetenskapsrådet är nu öppna Projektbidrag inom humaniora och samhällsvetenskap  Projektbidrag inom medicin och hälsaProjektbidrag för digitalisering och tillgängliggörande av kulturarvssamlingarProjektbidrag för utveckling av metoder för ersättning, begränsning och förfining av djurförsök (3R)Tidskriftsbidrag inom humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (Söks av organisation)Bidr

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/nya-utlysningar-fran-vr - 2025-09-07

Följande utlysningar från Vetenskapsrådet är nu öppna Exploratory workshops inom utbildningsvetenskapProjektbidrag inom naturvetenskap och teknikvetenskapProjektbidrag inom utbildningsvetenskapNätverksbidrag inom utbildningsvetenskapProjektbidrag inom utvecklingsforskningNätverksbidrag Swedish Research LinksInternationell postdok inom utvecklingsforskningEtableringsbidrag inom naturvetenskap och t

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/nya-utlysningar-fran-vr-0 - 2025-09-07

Följande utlysningar från Vetenskapsrådet är nu öppna Gästforskarprogram inom klimat och miljö (Söks av organisation)Forskningstid för kliniker inom infektionsområdet: antibiotika och antibiotikaresistens  

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/nya-utlysningar-fran-vr-1 - 2025-09-07

Följande utlysningar från Vetenskapsrådet är nu öppna Projektbidrag för planering av klinisk behandlingsforskningNätverksbidrag för samverkan inom klinisk forskning  

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/nya-utlysningar-fran-vr-2 - 2025-09-07

The Chinese National Twin Registry (CNTR) currently includes data from 61 566 twin pair from 11 provinces or cities in China. Of these, 31 705, 15 060 and 13 531 pairs are monozygotic, same‐sex dizygotic and opposite‐sex dizygotic pairs, respectively, determined by opposite sex or intrapair similarity. Read more here.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/chinese-national-twin-registry-gold-mine-scientific-research - 2025-09-07

Application to epidemiological record data in a large-scale biobank (Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Japan) shows that a combination of kurPCA and RAMP effectively detects known errors or inconsistent patterns. Read more here.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/outlier-detection-questionnaire-data-biobanks - 2025-09-07

Socioeconomic status has a negative impact on swimming ability in Swedish children, a new BlueHealth study has found. Read more here.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/new-study-highlights-disparity-swimming-skills - 2025-09-07

A pan-European enterprise to provide a catalogue (https://bio.tools) of tools and databases that can be used in these workflows. bio.tools not only lists where to find resources, but also provides a wide variety of practical information. Read more here.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/biotools-registry-software-tools-and-data-resources-life-sciences - 2025-09-07

This Glossary, rooted primarily in the Canadian context but drawing on lessons from elsewhere, describes environmental public health regulatory practice in relation to health equity, including approaches that practitioners can use to contribute to addressing the social determinants of health. Read more here.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/glossary-health-equity-context-environmental-public-health-practice - 2025-09-07

Mediation analysis is a powerful tool for understanding mechanisms, but conclusions about direct and indirect effects will be invalid if there is unmeasured confounding of the mediator–outcome relationship. Read more here.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/approximate-sensitivity-analysis-unmeasured-mediator-outcome-confounding - 2025-09-07

Over the past decade, several large registries of patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) have been established. These registries are collecting a wealth of longitudinal data on thousands of patients with this rare disease. The data collected in these registries will be complementary to data collected in clinical trials because the patient populations studied in registries have a broader

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/patient-registries-idiopathic-pulmonary-fibrosis - 2025-09-07