Dear colleagues,
Hope your holidays were good and restful, so that you are starting the year of 2020 full of energy.
Sustainability week will, for the 4th consecutive year, take place this spring on 20-24 April. Events of all kinds and sizes are being planned, and the organizers would love your participation and/or input! If you have an idea, please contact Ludwig Bengtsson Sonesson. This year there is a special focus on four themes: The road to (net)zero emissions, Can we afford the future? Living in the sustainable city and Sustainable land use.
Please note that RQ20 plans for Lund University site visits during the time period 4-8 May 2020. It is advisable not to book other activities during this period.
The CEC is recruiting! Read more about the open positions at the CEC web page.
Best wishes,
Cerina, Yann and Lina
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- Podcast: IIIEE - Advancing Sustainable Solutions: Policies for a Circular Economy: Part 3.
- Seminar: Minh Nguyen - Waste and Wealth: Gendered Labor, Value, and Morality in a Vietnamese Recycling Economy, 16 Jan (today).
- Seminar: Sensing Nature from Within: Should nature be granted legal rights? 16 Jan, Malmö. The event is now fully booked, upcoming events can be found here. The seminar will be filmed and shared afterwards here.
- Seminar (CAST): Amanda Lea-Langton - Particulate Emissions from Domestic Biomass Combustion, 16 Jan.
- Dissertation: Ville Malmborg - Renewable fuels, varying combustion and changing soot properties: are health and climate affected? 17 Jan.
- Seminar (LUCSUS): Erik Gomez Baggethun, Berta Martin Lopez, Henrik Thoren and Mine Islar - Beyond numbers? Debates on plural valuation of biodiversity, 23 Jan.
- Seminar: Daniel Brandell - Li-ion batteries - our rescue, or a future environmental and resource problem? 29 Jan.
- Seminar: Craig Smeaton - Understanding the Role and Significance of Fjord Sediments in the Global Carbon Cycle, 29 Jan.
- Seminar (Food Faculty): The future of food trade and consumption, 31 Jan, Helsingborg.
- Lund University's annual celebration, 31 Jan.
- Workshop: LU Food Faculty & EIT Food KIC, 12 Feb at 13.15-16, KC:I & H Kemicentrum, Lund. Tentative program: (1) Information from LU Food Faculty, (2) EIT Food KIC - What is this, and how can researchers at LU benefit? (3) Information about current Swedish research calls (Formas, Vinnova etc.), (4) Two parallell workshops: A. Research network (find your proposal partners), B. Food Faculty Activity Agenda 2020. Register here before 31 Jan.
- Seminar (EKH): Hana Nielsen & Josef Taalbi - What killed the electric car? Price, petroleum and power infrastructure in the US automotive industry, 1895-1942, 12 Feb.
- Future Week at Lund University, 12-18 Oct 2020. Theme: Forces in Motion. In mid-January, the project team will release more information about, and an invitation to, a start-up meeting for Future Week 2020. Save-the-date
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Successful applications:
Congratulations Christina Isaxon (EAT) who received funding from VR for the project Towards putting Africa on the air pollution map: together for cleaner air in Ethiopia
Congratulations Emma Johansson (LUCSUS) who received funding from VR for the project Visualizing the future: charting pathways for a sustainable future with participatory art and scenario thinking
Opportunities
Conferences and popular science event
- Podcast: Vinnova - Three transitions for a fossil-free Sweden- focus on three green changes in industries and areas that today account for major emissions. (Swedish only)
- Podcast: Why? - Sustainable Real Estate. The important role of real estate companies in the development of sustainable and smart cities and, not least, society at large. (Swedish only)
- Podcast: Biophilia (SRC) - A conversation with Henrik Österblom. In this podcast series, researchers reflect on their reasons for working with sustainability science, their visions on the future and the role music plays in their lives. In this episode, Henrik Österblom, science director at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, shares his thought on his rise from a young marine biologist and hot dog salesperson (!) to the driving force behind Seafood Business for Ocean Stewardship.
- 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)
- Lunch Talk: JPI Urban Europe - Urban Lunch Talk #10: From Project Fraction to Synthesis Action, 24 Jan. (Join the talk live using chat, Q&As and polls.)
- Seminar: Eolus Vinds annual environmental and wind power seminar 2020, 25 Jan, Hässleholm.
- Seminar: Swedish Board of Agriculture, Västra götalandsregionen & RISE - Biodiversity in the cultivation landscape, 4 Feb, Naturbruksskolan Sötåsen.
- Seminar: KSLA - Can cereals contribute to sustainable health? 5 Feb, Stockholm. (Swedish only)
- Information meeting: About COST - European Cooperation in Science and Technology - a funding organisation for research and innovation networks. 13 Feb, Malmö University. Save-the-date
- Conference: The National Centre of Excellence Investments Conference, 4 March, Stockholm. Register before 19 Feb.
- Conference: New on Environmental Law, 5 March, Stockholm. (Swedish only)
- Conference: National Aquaculture Conference, 10-11 March 2020, Åhus. Registration deadline 1 Feb. (Swedish only)
- Conference: NOSA 2020, 18-20 March, Denmark. Deadline for abstract submission 23 Jan.
- Symposium: Baltic University Programme - Research and Innovation for a Sustainable Baltic Sea Region, 24-28 August 2020, Gotland. Submission of abstracts deadline 31 Jan.
- Conference: TRACE 2020 - Tree 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 - Researcher in Environmental Science - The role of microbes in physical soil carbon stabilziation, deadline 22 Jan.
- Postdoctoral fellow in Environmental Science, BECC - Eco-evolutionary models of plant-pollinator communities – community response to landscape structure, deadline 16 Feb.
- Postdoctoral fellow in Environmental Science, BECC - Exploring synergies between wild pollinators and climate-smart protein production – a mixed methods approach, deadline 16 Feb.
- Postdoctoral fellow in Environmental Science, BECC - How will seasonal clocks in wild and agricultural plants adapt to climate change? deadline 16 Feb.
- Postdoctoral fellow in Environmental Science, BECC - Forest management practices for climate targets and environmental objectives – adaptive strategies based on novel combinations of ecosystem modelling, policy analysis and visualisation, deadline 16 Feb.
- Postdoctoral fellow in Environmental Science, BECC - Impacts of extreme drought on ecosystems in Eurasia and Sweden – the role of deep water reserves, deadline 16 Feb.
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- VR: From 2020, VR ask you who are applying for grants to explain if gender and gender perspectives are relevant in your research, and if so, in what way you will use such perspectives or why you choose not to. It is about including both social and biological aspects of gender and gender identity in research methods, analyzes and results - when relevant. This is true of most of our calls. Full instructions can be found in the advertisement texts. More information about the Swedish Research Council's calls for 2020.
- Swedish EPA: Swedish consumption causes large emissions abroad (Swedish only)
- IVL: Lithium-Ion Vehicle Battery Production – status 2019 on Energy Use, CO2 Emissions, Use of Metals, Products Environmental Footprint, and Recycling (Report)
- EGU: One-third of recent global methane increase comes from tropical Africa
- Swedish Chemicals Agency: EU countries stop the use of plant protection products with chlorpyrifos (Swedish only)
- UNESCO: Platåbergen in Västergötland has submitted an application to become Sweden's first UNESCO named global geopark! The plateau mountains are a unique landscape that spans nine municipalities and tells of thousands of years of Swedish history. (Swedish only)
- Government Offices of Sweden:
- The Lancet: Planetary health research digest. Read the Editor´s choice on Amazon Development, Labelling sustainability, Drivers of heatwaves, and Climate attitudes.
- WHO: New report on global tobacco use trends. Number of males using tobacco globally on the decline, showing that government-led control efforts work to save lives, protect health, beat tobacco. Report
- County Administrative Board: Regional annual follow-up 2019 for the Swedish Environmental Objectives. Nationally, only a few environmental targets are estimated to be reached by 2020, however the development trend in the environment is positive for several objectives in the regional assessments. (Swedish only)
- European Environment Agency: The European environment — state and outlook 2020: knowledge for transition to a sustainable Europe. Full Report.
- Swedish Environmental Protection Agency:
Modest reduction in Sweden's climate-impacting emissions (Swedish only)
- European Union: EU efforts to protect the world's forests - the Council adopts conclusions (Swedish only)
- European Commission: The European Green Deal sets out how to make Europe the first climate-neutral continent by 2050, boosting the economy, improving people's health and quality of life, caring for nature, and leaving no one behind
- Vinnova shall support the implementation of the government's cooperation program (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.- SIDA: Call for innovative ideas for the implementation of capacity development programs. Lund University Commissioned Education (LUCE) will coordinate LU's proposals for Sida. If you plan to apply, please contact or need more information, contact Maria Flores. Deadline to LUCE 14 Feb. Deadline to SIDA 28 Feb.
- SOLSTICE: Enabling Societal Transformation in the Face of Climate Change. SOLSTICE is a joint transnational call for proposals, inviting the Social Sciences and Humanities to take the lead and submit proposals that address the societal impact of climate change. The rationale for this call is outlined in the JPI Climate's 2019 White paper. Deadline 3 Feb 2020.
- NOSA: Call for nominees to the NOSA Early Career Scientists’ (ECS) aerosologist award for outstanding PhD dissertations in order to recognize and encourage high quality research by ECS. Candidates that have successfully obtained their PhD degree at a Nordic university in 2019 will be considered, and the topic should be related to aerosol research. Nominations by supervisors or by self-nomination. Send the nomination to Risto Makkonen. Deadline 19 Feb.
- Princess of Asturias Awards: Lund University is invited to nominate candidates for the Princess of Asturias Awards for for remarkable contributions in Social Sciences, Communication and Humanities, Technical and Scientific Research among others. Deadline 5 March.
- Formas: Communication Call 2020. The projects must be related to one of the areas: environment, agricultural sciences and spatial planning. And contribute to achieving the sustainable development goals (SDGs) in Agenda 2030. The projects can run for up to three years, maximum funding for a three-year project is 1.8 million kronor. Deadline 6 Feb.
- ERA-Net ICT Agri (via Formas): Call for transnational, collaborative, inter-/transdisciplinary research projects on ICT-enabled agri-food systems. Deadline 3 March 2020.
- Energy Agency (Swedish only):
- Vinnova: Circular and biobased economy - From theory to practice. Funding for projects that investigates policy and behavioral issues that accelerate the transition to a bio-based and / or circular economy. Deadline 27 Feb.
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