Dear colleagues,
The third concept seminar on Scenarios with interesting presentations gathered researchers from many different departments - thank you for attending! A fourth concept seminar on Capacity building is coming up at the 29th of November, more information will be provided in the next newsletter.
Welcome to a CEC Fellows seminar on Understanding Media at the 20th of November. Anna Maria Erling, communication officer at CEC, will give insights into to world of Media and how it works.
The CEC is recruiting! Read more about the open positions at the CEC web page.
We wish you a great autumn,
Cerina, Yann and Lina
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- Exhibition: Carbon Ruins - An Exhibition of the Fossil Age, October.
- Symposium: LINXS -Integrative Structural Biology, 9-11 Oct.
- LUCSUS Seminar: Lennart Olsson & Henrik Thorén - Inductive Risk Considerations in Detection and Attribution Studies, 10 Oct.
- Information meeting: How to apply for Theme and Advanced Study Group at the Pufendorf Institute, 14 Oct.
- Future Week at Lund University, 14-20 Oct. The popular science Future Week will be an annual event, this year´s theme is Transitions. What are the transitions we have to make? What are the ones we want to make? By selection:
- Opening ceremony, 14 Oct.
- A vision for a Sustainable Lund University by 2030, 14 Oct.
- Who will dominate in the future? - On global power shifts, 14 Oct.
- Och en osäker framtid är vår, 15 Oct.
- Fantastic Fossil Free Futures, 15 Oct.
- Talkshow: Helsingborg Live, 15 Oct.
- Skördetid i Botan – men hur blir skörden 2050? 16 Oct.
- Framtidsföreställningar om fossilfrithet i det politiska rummet, 16 Oct.
- Det porösa universitetet - improvisationer över framtidens lärande, 17 Oct.
- Antibiotikaresistensen och framtiden, 17 Oct.
- Biobaserade byggnadsmaterial förr och nu, 17 Oct.
- Are negative emissions part of a sustainable transition? 17 Oct.
- Historiska omställningar, 18 Oct.
- Rethinking agriculture: From annual monocultures to perennial polycultures, 18 Oct.
- Workshop: AI, Social Science and Research in EU, 16 Oct. Register before 14 Oct.
- Seminar: Joint PhD seminars on environmental challenges - Nature-based solutions to societal problems, what are the complexities from different stakeholder perspectives? 17 Oct.
- LUCSUS Seminar: Wim Carton - Are negative emissions part of a sustainable transition, 17 Oct.
- Seminar: Johanna Alkan Olsson - Docent lecture on the topic of "Research and farmers", 17 Oct.
- Seminar: Quan Jin - Occupant- centric indoor environmental quality study in sustainable office building, 17 Oct.
- Doctoral dissertation in Environmental Science: Terese Thoni - Making Blue Carbon - Coastal Ecosystems at the Science-Policy Interface, 18 Oct.
- Professorinstallation, 18 Oct.
- Conference: BECC - Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate, 22-23 Oct, Halmstad.
- LU Africa Research Day 2019, 23 Oct. Info & registration.
- LUCSUS Seminar: Max Ritts and Mike Simpson - Smart Marine Spaces and Modalities of State Power, 24 Oct.
- Doctoral dissertation: Salar Haghighatafshar - Blue-green stormwater systems for citywide flood mitigation - Monitoring, conceptualization, modeling, and evaluation, 25 Oct.
- LUCSUS Conference: Loss & Damage 2019, 30 Oct – 1 Nov, Lund. Register here.
- Seminar: HF:Talk - Collaboration for sustainability – challenges and knowledge presented by researchers and stakeholders, 6 Nov.
- Symposium: DRI-MEE - Drying and rewetting, integrating modelling and empirical environments, 7-8 Nov. Participate in an initial survey before the workshop and register before 1 Nov.
- Symposium: Language technology in Medicine and Life Sciences, 8 Nov.
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LU vice-chancellor, Torbjörn Von Schantz, has signed the long-term strategy for sustainable development for Lund University (in Swedish). The work on developing the strategy has been led by the Sustainability Forum, which has gathered knowledge, experiences and views from faculties, university-wide committees and activities and Lund University's student union, LUS.
Lund University and the Municipality of Simrishamn are creating a joint research environment at the Marine Center in Simrishamn to meet the challenges of the Baltic Sea. More information is found here (Swedish only), or you may contact the coordinator Maria Hansson.
Opportunities
- Open call for a new Director at LINXS, deadline 1 Dec.
- PhD course in Aerosol Technology (7.5 ects): PhD students and postdocs are welcome to sign up for the course which will give you an understanding of the physics and chemistry of airborne particles – including natural particles, air pollution, and engineered nanoparticles, how they can be measured, effects on our health, the environment and the climate. Apply before 4 Nov, by sending a mail to the course coordinator Axel Eriksson. Course start: 4 Nov.
- European Commission: Have your say on the next generation of ambitious research and innovation partnerships. The Commission invites anyone with an interest in future research and innovation partnerships to participate in the survey, deadline 6 Nov.
Conferences and popular science event
- Podcast: Amerikaanalys.se - New podcast from Uppsala University provides depth and understanding of society and politics in the United States.
- Podcast: Vinnova - Can innovation solve the climate challenge? Listen to Svante Axelsson (Fossilfritt Sverige), Malin Ljung Eiborn (Billerud Korsnäs), Anders Wijkman (author and debater) and Darja Isaksson (Vinnova) on how we can slow down climate change. The conversation is led by Liselott Bergman (Vinnova). (Swedish only)
- Seminar: How Swedish agriculture meets the climate goals, 16 Oct, Stockholm. (Swedish only)
- Seminar: Latest on the energy market! 21 Oct, Malmö. Register before 10 Oct. (Swedish only)
- Seminar: Diversifying the Farming Landscape: What will drive change?22 Oct, Stockholm. Register before 15 Oct.
- Conference: RISE - Wind 2019, 23-24 Oct, Stockholm. (Swedish only)
- Seminar: Truth and consequence - about cattle, biodiversity and climate, 24 Oct, Stockholm. Register before 10 Oct. (Swedish only)
- Installation of the 2019 holder of Olof Palme Visiting Professorship: Carol Cohn - Why We Need a Feminist Roadmap for Sustainable Peace and a Sustainable Planet, 21 Oct, Stockholm.
- Seminar: How a new water paradigm is changing our cities, 24 Oct. Presentations of the speakers both from academia and practice. Register before 18 Oct.
- Conference: Women in innovation and sustainability, 28 Oct, Stockholm. (Swedish only)
- Seminar: Soil preparation - an important step on the road to sustainable rejuvenation, 5 Nov, Stockholm.
- Conference: UHR - Internationalization Days 2019, 5-6 Nov, Gothenburg. (Swedish only)
- Conference: VR - Register research 2019, 6 Nov, Stockholm. Register before 11 oct. (Swedish only)
- Conference: Nordic Food Industry - Innovation days, 5-6 Nov, Gothenburg.
- Hackathon: CodeRefinery hackathon– Building a Nordic community of research software engineers, 6-7 Nov, Stockholm.
- Seminar: Do we solve the climate crisis by handing out condoms? 12 Nov, Copenhagen, Denmark. (Danish only)
- Conference: Sustainable business - A sustainable Swedish business community, 13 Nov, Stockholm. (Swedish only)
Open positions at the CEC
please spread the word, https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/om-cec/jobba-hos-oss
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- IPCC: Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate
- AgriFood:
- Lantmännen and Yara invest in fossil-free food chain. Together, Lantmännen and Yara launch a new pilot project with the goal of creating the world's first fossil-free food chain. The goal of the new collaboration is to reduce the climate impact and be able to offer more sustainable food. (Swedish only)
- 2020 Biodiversity Conference Theme to Focus on Ecological Civilization. The Government of the People’s Republic of China and the Executive Secretary of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) have announced the theme for 2020 Biodiversity Conference: Ecological Civilization: Building a Shared Future for All Life on Earth.
- UN-Water Launches SDG 6 Data Portal.
- Global Commission Calls for Urgent Action on Climate Adaptation, Cites Economic Returns on Investment
- The Swedish Courts have a new user-friendly website. Here are some tips of
indicative decisions, the individual courts new addresses according to the model, the Court of Justice, where you can find statistics and the Judiciary's statutory collections, and the Swedish-English glossary. (Swedish only)
- The Energy Agency: 100 percent renewable electricity. Scenarios, choices and challenges. Report, part 2. (Swedish only)
- VR: I want to, but I don´t have time! - Scientist's view of communication and open science. Report (Swedish only)
- Westander: The PR Guide contains 270 practical tips on how to communicate other than through purchased advertising space. Many actors want to influence the public debate, but far from everyone can afford to hire a public relations agency.
- Bolin Centre, Stockholm University: New datasets
- LRF: National guidelines for organic production - the industry's interpretation of EU legislation on organic production. (Swedish only)
- LERU: Equality, diversity and inclusion at universities: the power of a systemic approach. Report
- The Population Reference Bureau has released the 2019 World Population Data Sheet, which provides demographic trends for over 200 countries and territories.
- SCB: Follow-up of Agenda 2030. Statistics Sweden (SCB) is tasked with coordinating the statistical analysis of how Sweden lives up to the 17 goals and 169 sub-goals in Agenda 2030. The analysis is based on over 200 indicators linked to the sub-goals. (Swedish only)
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Under this heading we are collecting calls with short deadlines, larger/collaboration calls, and nominations for prizes etc. Please check Plandisc below for a collection of all calls we have found for the upcoming year.- ERC: Public Engagement with Research Award 2020 is designed to recognize and celebrate ERC grantees who have demonstrated excellence in public engagement and outreach. Categories: (1) Public outreach, (2) Press and media relations, and (3) Online and social media. Deadline 10 Jan 2020.
- IVA: Nominate sustainable competitiveness research into IVA's 100 list, deadline 28 Oct.
- Novo Nordisk foundation: Challenge Programme 2020 - Life Science Research Promoting Sustainability, with the themes: (1) Biodiveristy and productivity of managed ecosystems and (2) the microbial secretome and the plant cell wall. Support is given to excellent scientists from 2-4 research groups, main applicant and host institution must be anchored in Denmark. Each application can request funding for up to DKK 10 million per year for 6 years, for a total budget of DKK 30-60 million. Two stage application process, deadline 12 Dec 2019.
- Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies: The call for Themes and Advanced Study Group applications 2020-2021 is now open. Deadline 7 Jan 2020.
- FORMAS pre-announcement:
- Realising the global sustainable development goals.
Research projects with high relevance for the UN Global Sustainability Objectives in Agenda 2030. Maximum four years and SEK 20 million per project.To be announced 11 Oct 2019, deadline 6 Feb 2020. (Swedish only)
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