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How do you apply for a job at the European Commission and what skills are in demand? And what is it like to work for the Commission? In March 2022, Helena Larsson Haug, Senior Expert at the European Commission’s Directorate-General Competition (DG COMP), visited Lund and shared her experiences and thoughts on these questions with students envisaging the option of an EU-career. With more than 20 ye

https://www.cfe.lu.se/en/article/working-european-commission - 2026-05-19

The Director General of the National Board of Trade (‘Kommerskollegium’), Anders Ahnlid, visited Lund on 30 March 2022. At a seminar organized by the Centre for European Studies, he presented an overview of how the global trading system came into being, evolved during and after the Cold War, and might develop in light of the challenges imposed upon it by the current war in Ukraine. Anders, who has

https://www.cfe.lu.se/en/article/global-trading-system-war-war - 2026-05-19

On November 27, Monica Porzionato received the Lund University Academy of Sciences’ prize for the best dissertation in the fields of humanities and social sciences. The award is presented annually to recognize outstanding research contributions and has a long-standing tradition at the university. Monica’s dissertation, Feeling the Changing Climate: An affective approach to the strategic communicat

https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/monica-porzionato-awarded-best-dissertation-prize-lund-university - 2026-05-19

NordForsk has awarded 12.2 million NOK to fund the project “The Double Edge of Social Media Influencing: Participatory Antagonism and Communicative Resilience in the Nordics (INFLU-NORD)”for a three-year period (2026–2029). The project addresses the question of how social media influencing shape democratic trust and societal security in the Nordic region? It has two main objectives:Advance underst

https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/new-research-project-explores-participatory-antagonism-and-communicative-resilience - 2026-05-19

Lund University is now launching a six-year research project to investigate what the reactors of the future will mean for the environment, safety, and society. With SEK 27 million in funding from the Swedish Research Council, researchers will have the opportunity to build a completely new interdisciplinary research environment. After a period of phasing out, nuclear power has once again become a h

https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/new-research-initiative-nuclear-energy-and-communication - 2026-05-19

At the end of April, the Faculty Board decided that a new department, the Department of Communication, will be created. The establishment of the new department is part of the faculty's development towards fewer units, but the merger has also been motivated by additional reasons. The new department will be established on 1 January 2025 and the following units will be included: Department of Strateg

https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/new-department-communication-january-2025 - 2026-05-19

A new year is approaching and when the Faculty enters 2025, it will be with nine departments instead of the current eleven. The Faculty of Social Sciences will gradually develop towards fewer units over the next six years, according to a policy decision from 2023. After initial preparatory work, it is now time for the first changes to take place at the end of the year:The Department of Communicati

https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/eleven-departments-nine-turn-year - 2026-05-19

Master students from Lund University School of Industrial Design exhibit at Milan Design Week 2026. This year the School of Industrial Design at Lund University is exhibiting under the theme: 'Under Pressure'. The exhibition, located underground in central Milan, showcases a selection of Master student projects addressing how resilience can be applied within design through a range of forms and app

https://www.industridesign.lth.se/en/article/milan-design-week-2026 - 2026-05-19

Welcome to the Degree Show of 2026! Join us as we celebrate and show the work of the graduating classes at both the bachelor and master levels.The doors open at 17:00 on Thursday the 4th of June and the ceremony starts at 17:30. Drinks will be available. If you do not have the opportunity to participate on the opening day, the exhibition is open from 10:00 to 18:00 until the 7th of June.Opening of

https://www.industridesign.lth.se/en/article/bama-degree-show-2026-june-4 - 2026-05-19

Lund Faculty of Engineering (LTH) has established a new professorship in artistic didactics to strengthen research and pedagogical development in the artistically oriented programmes at the faculty. The position has been taken up by Ylva Hofvander Trulsson, who most recently comes from Stockholm University of the Arts. The new professorship in artistic didactics will contribute to more knowledge i

https://www.industridesign.lth.se/en/article/when-art-meets-technology-lth-invests-didactic-renewal - 2026-05-19

Bling is associated with expensive, ostentatious accessories and “bad taste”. This contrasts with the prevailing aesthetic values of the design world. But what happens when bling and design are brought together? A new thesis in industrial design from the Faculty of Engineering (LTH), Lund University in Sweden, shows that provocations – such as breaking convention with the help of the bling subcult

https://www.industridesign.lth.se/en/article/challenging-design-conventions-key-more-vibrant-design - 2026-05-19

See the exhibition showcasing the results of first-year students’ creative work. On the third floor of IKDC, an exhibition is currently underway featuring projects created by first-year students in the Bachelor’s program in Industrial Design. Through the course “Industrial Design Project A”, they have worked on designing wall-mounted storage units.Course coordinator Olof Kolte explains:The student

https://www.industridesign.lth.se/en/article/industrial-design-students-create-steel-wire-and-maximum-three-screws - 2026-05-19

Two alumni from the School of Industrial Design at Lund University have been honored as Ung Svensk Form announces its 2025 scholarship recipients. Former students Clara Storsten and Anna Maria Nilsson are among twenty-five young designers awarded scholarships. Clara Storsten and Anna Maria Nilsson are recognized for their educational tool Klura. The tool consists of wooden and felt tiles along wit

https://www.industridesign.lth.se/en/article/industrial-design-students-awarded-educational-tool-preschool-children - 2026-05-19

Furniture for a submarine, a cooling vest for athletes, or a liquor bottle with perfume? Sydsvenskan writes about the School of Industrial Design’s annual graduation exhibition, highlighting some of the students’ projects. Some of the projects featured by Sydsvenskan include:The bike rack “Fast”, which can be used for different types of bicycles and gives cyclists enough space to lock and unlock t

https://www.industridesign.lth.se/en/article/buffalo-bike-sydsvenskan - 2026-05-19

Obesity is commonly diagnosed using BMI, but this approach has several limitations. Researchers at Lund University and AstraZeneca show that integrating measurements such as body fat percentage and waist circumference captures disease risks missed by BMI alone.   In recent years, research has shown that there are several limitations with BMI alone when it comes to assessing adiposity quantity, dis

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-study-bmi-alone-does-not-fully-capture-health-risks-linked-obesity - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Today, in a ceremony at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, a Lund University Master’s student has been named a ‘Global Swede’ by the Swedish Minister for Trade. The distinction ’Global Swede’ is awarded to international students who are considered ‘good ambassadors for their University and for Sweden’, and have shown ’

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lu-student-selected-global-swede-2014 - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Certain cows’ milk is excellent for cheesemaking, whereas others’ is considerably less suitable. This has been shown in a new thesis from Lund University in Sweden, as part of a Swedish-Danish milk genomics initiative. The findings could possibly lead to certain cows’ milk being used entirely for cheese, and others’ m

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/moo-ve-over-findings-pave-way-cheese-cows - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The fluorine that is found in products such as toothpaste was likely formed billions of years ago in now dead stars of the same type as our sun. This has been shown by astronomers at Lund University in Sweden, together with colleagues from Ireland and the USA. Fluorine can be found in everyday products such as toothpa

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/toothpaste-fluorine-formed-stars - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A new study from Lund University in Sweden has, for the first time, reconstructed solar activity during the last ice age. The study shows that the regional climate is influenced by the sun and offers opportunities to better predict future climate conditions in certain regions. For the first time, a research team has b

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/suns-activity-influences-natural-climate-change - 2026-05-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Ordinary table salt can be used to measure radiation from radioactive substances, provided that it is stored in the dark. This has been shown in a new thesis from Lund University in Sweden, where the method has been enhanced and tested on fallout from the nuclear disasters in Fukushima and Chernobyl. “Salt is readily

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/table-salt-measures-radiation-fukushima - 2026-05-19