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 - 2025-07-19

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 - 2025-07-19

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 - 2025-07-19

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 - 2025-07-19

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 - 2025-07-19

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 - 2025-07-19

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 - 2025-07-19

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 - 2025-07-19

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 - 2025-07-19

Press contactPress contacts at Lund University during summer (in Swedish) - lu.seContact person and functionDuring the summer months (weeks 28-32), administrative support will be reduced. This includes finance support, HR support, student administration as well as research administration and collaboration (BECC, MERGE, LU Land, Sustainability Forum, ClimBeco and Agenda 2030 Graduate School). We as

https://www.cec.lu.se/staff-pages/summer-contact - 2025-07-19

Here you find News related to Horizon Europe; Updates and information on call drafts, links to open calls with emphasis on cluster 5 & 6, ERC and MSCA, links to support pages and planning grants, etc NEWSPolicy Updates and Alerts - Stay up to date with the latest policy development and legislation in the EU Green Deal related to climate, agriculture, forestry and sustainable land-use through our P

https://www.cec.lu.se/staff-pages/applying-funding/heu-news-and-funding - 2025-07-19

Information from Management Welcome back to a new semester! Hopefully you’ve had a good summer and some time for relaxing. We are now looking forward to continuing working together in education, research, cooperation and supporting tasks in the field of Environmental and climate science! Next week we warmly welcome Professor Nina Buchmann as a guest researcher at CEC, Natascha Kljun being her host

https://www.cec.lu.se/staff-pages/staff-newsletters/26-august-2021 - 2025-07-19

Information from Management A gentle reminder that from Thursday September 16, we start the gradual return to the workplace at CEC and LU. On Tuesday, the Government announced plans to lift several restrictions from 29 September. The Governments new announcement does not affect the decisions made previously by the Vice Chancellor and the plan for a gradual return still applies. However, details in

https://www.cec.lu.se/9-september-2021 - 2025-07-19

From the management The management group had a kickoff last Thursday (the first IRL meeting in almost a year!) where we discussed working forms and started the process with the Plan of Operations for 2022. To make space for more desks at CEC, some people have changed offices. Karin Hofvendahl will now be found in D351, next to Per Persson in D350. Karins former room will host Veronica Hederström a

https://www.cec.lu.se/23-september-2021 - 2025-07-19

Management information The government eased the Covid-19 restrictions last week, but some of them still apply. This means that we continue to stay home when we feel sick, wash our hands often and keep distance. Also, the vice-chancellor’s decision of a plan for a gradual and adapted return to campus still applies until 1 November.Specifically, the following applies during the gradual return at CEC

https://www.cec.lu.se/staff-pages/staff-newsletters/7-october-2021 - 2025-07-19

Management information Yesterday the Management group had a full day of planning and discussions on the plan of operations and budget for 2022, localities and our return to the office, recruitments and more. We would like to highlight two subjects for you. Fist we would like to give you an update on the continuation of the spring assignment from the Faculty to explore pre-conditions for closer col

https://www.cec.lu.se/staff-pages/staff-newsletters/21-october-2021 - 2025-07-19

Register for CEC's Christmas party 2021 When: Tuesday, 14 December at 18.00 Where: Moroten & Piskan, Lund Please register before 6 December Status message Sorry...This form is closed to new submissions. Leave this field blank

https://www.cec.lu.se/form/cec-christmas-party-2021 - 2025-07-19

It was wonderful to see so many CEC’ers at the IRL fika in the kitchen today! Now we can finally resume our tradition with live management info, good coffee, and good conversations. Since we no longer have any restrictions regarding number of persons in the kitchen (see more below), we will from now on have the management info with the fika in place in the kitchen, with hybrid opportunity for thos

https://www.cec.lu.se/staff-pages/staff-newsletters/29-october-2021 - 2025-07-19

Management information Last Friday we launched the hybrid version of the Friday Management information and talk, combined with breakfast served in the lunchroom of the 3rd floor. We are working on finding the best technical solution, so please have patience. Tomorrow we are looking forward to meeting you again. The Management info on Fridays is one of two central channels of internal communication

https://www.cec.lu.se/18-november-2021 - 2025-07-19

In 2009 the government decided to invest in strategic research areas as part of creating world-leading research. Lund University has 11 strategic research areas, the activities of which span virtually all faculties and are often interdisciplinary, CEC coordinates two national strategic research areas: BECC (Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in Changing Climate) MERGE (ModElling the Regional and

https://www.cec.lu.se/contact/strategic-research-areas - 2025-07-19