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
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- Podcast: IIIEE, Advancing Sustainable Solutions - Circular Resource Flows in Cities - Part 2.
- Podcast: The Swedish National Committee for Biology at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences - the biologists (and CEC Fellows) Ola Olsson and Emma Kritzberg have been interviewed by Emil V. Nilsson about what biodiversity is.
- Seminar: LUBIRC Breakfast Seminar, with Nils Hannerz, 6 Dec.
- Seminar (docentföreläsning): The Ecology of Floral Scent, with Magne Friberg, 6 Dec.
- Seminar: Risk & safety - Towards a code of conduct for post-disaster research, with JC Gaillard, 6 Dec.
- Seminar: LTH - Climate change research at the Faculty of Engineering, with LTH’s honorary doctor, Professor Tord Kjellström, 9 Dec.
- Seminar (docentföreläsning): The carbon budget as a tool for climate change policy-making, with Anders Ahlström, 9 Dec.
- Seminar: Mötesplats Rydberg - Functional stupidity, the powers and pitfalls of refraining from independent thinking, with Mats Alvesson, 10 Dec.
- Seminar: CAST - Seminar by guest professor Andrew Grieshop from North Carolina State University, 11 Dec.
- Seminar: The Holocene history of Wijdefjorden and Femmilsjøen – an integrated fjord-lake study in northern Svalbard, with Lis Allaart, UiT/UNIS, 11 Dec.
- Seminar: Hannah Ruth Parker - Storyline as a powerful way of linking physical with human aspects of climate change, 12 Dec.
- Dissertation: Urban resilience to climate change shocks and stresses in Mbale municipality in Uganda, with George Oriangi, 13 Dec.
- Dissertation: Dynamically predicted shelf life, with Malin Göransson, 13 Dec.
- Workshop: Narrating Climate Futures - The Rough Guide to Zero-Carbon Europe 2045, 13 Dec.
- Brown bag seminar: How to break silos with standards and fiber optical networks in the real estate industry, with Jonas Birgersson, 17 Dec.
- Dissertation: Investigating Spatial Data Infrastructure Planning in Tanzania using System Modelling and Social Concepts, with Alex Lubida, 17 Dec.
- Seminar: Academic housekeeping, with Sara Kalm, 18 Dec.
- Symposium: Incorporating arctic grazers to Earth-System models. 24-25 Feb. Save-the-date
And even more things going on – check the CEC calendar |
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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 services, Maria 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 waters, Emma 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
- Podcast: Swedish Smartgrid Forum - In the Smart grid pod they talk about the development of the Swedish electricity system as we move towards an increasingly electrified society and a goal of 100 percent renewable electricity. (Swedish only)
- Forum meeting: Protein rich foods from the sea, 11 Dec, Fiskebäckskil.
- Conference: Skånes Vindkraftsakademi- Does wind power have a future in a densely populated Skåne? 11 Dec, Malmö. (Swedish only)
- Seminar: Vinnova - How do we shape a research policy for a knowledge-dependent world? 12 Dec, Stockholm. (Swedish only)
- Webinar: The Lancet - Join Heather Van Epps, Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet Rheumatology, to learn about techniques and strategies for preparing your paper to submit to high-impact journals, 12 Dec.
- Event: Un/making Studio - Appetizers for Un/Made Futures! Engage in the un/making of a thin future where pollinators go extinct, 16 Dec, Malmö. Register before 13 Dec.
- Symposium: Sea & Society Day 2019 - the UN Deace of Ocean Science, 17 Dec, Gothenburg.
- Seminar: Formas - Research in collaboration - doctoral students between academia and internship, 21 Jan 2020, Stockholm. (Swedish only)
- Seminar: SLU & KSLA - How are the animals doing in organic production? - an overview of animal health and animal welfare in organic production, 22 Jan, Stockholm. (Swedish only)
- Seminar: Swedish Board of Agriculture, Västra götalandsregionen & RISE - Biodiversity in the cultivation landscape, 4 Feb, Naturbruksskolan Sötåsen. (Swedish only)
- Conference: Swedish Chemicals Agency - Forum for Non-toxic Environment 2020, 26 March 2020.
- Symposium: Baltic University Programme - Research and Innovation for a Sustainable Baltic Sea Region, 24-28 August 2020, Gotland. Submission of abstracts deadline 15 Jan. Save-the-date
- Conference: TRACE 2020 - ree rings in Archaeology, Climatology and Ecology, 12-15 May, Lund. Save-the-date
- Conference: VR - DevRes 2020 - Advancing Sustainable Transformation, 24-26 Aug 2020, Umeå. Save-the-date
Open positions at the CEC please spread the word, https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/om-cec/jobba-hos-oss
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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. |
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