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Newsletter from CEC Fellows | December 2019
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CEC Fellows December 2019 newsletter
Dear colleagues,


Thanks to all of you who attended the CEC Fellows seminar on Understanding Media at the 20th of November, and the concept seminar on Capacity building at the 29th of November. The interesting presentations facilitated fruitful discussion and networking among the participants. The first seminar in 2020 will bring up the concept of Resilience, more information will be provided in the coming newsletter. 

The CEC is recruiting! Read more about the open positions at the CEC web page.

We wish you a great winter holiday,
 
Cerina, Yann and Lina

Upcoming events



And even more things going on – check the CEC calendar
Information – Opportunities, conferences, news from our community
New transformative agreement with Elsevier enables unlimited open access to Swedish research. Next year you will not only be able to read all Elsevier journals but also publish open access without paying.

Successful applications: Congratulations to all the CEC Fellows who received Formas funding for the projects:

  • ChemFreeGarden: Reducing chemicals in urban private gardens to promote biodiversity, health and ecosystem servicesMaria Hansson
  • FutureWalks: Developing new communicative tools to grasp and sense a climate changed world, Johannes Stripple
  • Wetland 2.0 – upgrading freshwater habitats for bees, Björn Klatt
  • Gemensamt utvecklande av vetenskapsbaserade processer och policyer för att kraftigt minska kommunala växthusgasutsläpp till 2030, Kimberly Nicholas
  • Flood hazard and climate adaptation – an integrated GIS and hydrological modelling tool for, and together with, public and commercial actors, Andreas Persson
  • Creating a repair society to advance the Circular Economy – policies, networks and people (CREACE), Carl Dalhammar
  • Agents of Change: Mind, Cognitive Bias and Decision-Making in a Context of Social and Climate Change (CCChange), Christine Wamlser
  • Creating a sustainable future for preparation of drinking water from slow sand filters, Catherine Paul
  • The insect crisis: mechanistic insights into the drivers of extinction in Lepidoptera (INSIGHT), Richard Walters
  • Impact of the extreme 2018 forest fires and post-fire management, Natascha Kljun
  • Mitigating negative effects of land-use intensity in small-scale land-sparing strategies for farmland biodiversity conservation, Johan Ekroos
  • Spatial conservation planning across scales, Ola Olsson
  • The role of afforestation to browning of surface watersEmma Kritzberg
  • Transition Visions: Coupling Society, Well-being and Energy Systems for Transitioning to a Fossil-free Society (TransVision), Christine Wamsler
  • The Rough Guide to Zero-Carbon Skåne: Making visions of post-fossil transitions meaningful through narrative prototyping, Johannes Stripple
  • FOREST VISIONS: envisioning forest management practices for a fossil free society in the face of goal conflicts and uncertainties, Anna Maria Jönsson
  • Quantifying reindeer impact on the carbon balance of subarctic wetlands – and the mechanisms behind, Henni Ylänne
  • Saved by the city? Understanding how urban pollinator communities are shaped by urban form and habitat distribution, Anna Persson
Successful applications: Congratulations to Johannes Edvardsson who received conference funding from VR for the project "TRACE 2020 - Tree Rings in Archaeology, Climatology and Ecology".

Opportunities


Conferences and popular science event


Open positions at the CEC
please spread the word, https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/om-cec/jobba-hos-oss  


News from stakeholders and funders 
Upcoming calls
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.
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Calls – A common calender

Some hints:

• Just click in the wheel on a call, and there is a box coming up with more information.
• The plan is continuously updated, and you can instantly see the updates.
• If you find a good call that you would like to add, just send me the link.

Calls 2019-2020-Sweden/Nordic: https://create.plandisc.com/zjHh42l

Calls 2019-2020 -travel and workshop: https://create.plandisc.com/rVsXXdZ

Calls EU Horizon, incl. ERC, ERA-NET, JPI etc:
https://create.plandisc.com/afPuqph

Calls post-doc and young research grants:
https://create.plandisc.com/mZ1Bzwf

Calls Awards
https://create.plandisc.com/mHtz2VT
About CEC Fellows
Centre for Environmental and Climate Research, CEC, invites all scientists, working at Lund University and active in the centre’s fields of research, to be part of the CEC Fellows. With the aim of promoting new interdisciplinary research endeavors and encouraging bottom-up influence and leadership, the network is created as a meeting place for collective expertise and as a forum for exchange of ideas amongst researchers. If you are not already a member and would like to join, if you have suggestions for the development of the fellowship, or any news to add to the Newsletter, please contact Cerina Wittbom.