As we have informed you recently, there are some changes of responsibilities in the CEC Management. As from the 1st of April 2023, the responsibilities of the CEC Management are allocated as followed:
Chair of the Board - Henrik Smith
Director - Per Persson
Deputy Director, Assistant Director PhD Education, Director of Studies (studierektor) for PhD studies - Katarina Hedlund
Assistant Director Undergraduate Education - Johanna Alkan Olsson
Director of Studies (studierektor) for Undergraduate and graduate studies - Yvonne Persson
Assistant Director Research - Yann Clough
Assistant Director Computational Biology and Biological Physics - Anders Irbäck
Assistant Director Infrastructure - Natascha Kljun
Acting Administrative Manager - Anna Ekberg
Communications Manager - Anna Maria Erling
The Director, Assistant Directors and Acting Administrative Manager are also Line managers with staff responsibilities. During spring, there will be some adjustments of responsibilities, and some of you will get a new Line manager. We will inform those of you who are affected further on. Members of the Management group - (cec.lu.se)
Welcome to Marwa and Felix A warm welcome to Marwa, who is a second-year PhD student from the University of Carthage in Tunisia. Her thesis is about “Ecology of breeding birds in the oases of southern Tunisia: Implications for management and conservation”. Her host is Hakim Abdi and she will be visiting CEC for 3 months until the middle of June, working with Hakim on the remote sensing part of the thesis. She can be found in the flex-office. A warm welcome also to Felix Olofsson, new HR administrator at CEC! Felix has this week been working his way through some, but not all, parts of the HR routines at CEC and the faculty and will continue to get to know us and the needs of support better. CEC BBQ: Save the date Thursday, 1 June for the yearly CEC BBQ! Save the date to your calendar
The future of LU Land The collaboration platform LU Land – Land-use for a sustainable future, has been running since 2019, funded by a thematic collaboration initiatives grant from Lund University. Recently, Lund University has taken the decision to (for the time being) not open calls for new collaboration initiatives or to prolong existing ones. However, LU Land is alive and kicking, and we are working on a long-term financial solution. Until then, we will focus on our well-attended monthly breakfast seminars. Other activities will also be arranged, but the extent will depend on available funding. For more information, please contact juliana.danhardt@cec.lu.se
What's up? Johan Kjellberg Jensen from CECis one of two honorary laureates at this year's Lund University Agenda 2030 award ceremony and will be giving a presentation at the event on Friday, 21 April 2023. Award Ceremony – Lund University Agenda 2023 award (cec.lu.se) Lund University Sustainability Week Early estimates show that 1000 participants have visited Sustainability Week thus far, with reports that som even travelled all the way from Turkey to participate in the events. You still have time to catch some of the events that are on offer. See the whole programme (in Swedish)
Photo by Kenneth Rouna showing a tour around the Botanical Garden in Lund.
Photo by Kenneth Rouna at a concert held at the Pufindorf Institute; Music for the Climate performed by the Malmö Academy of Music Big Band.
Opportunities
Funding opportunities Open calls and funding opportunities, together with links to LU internal funding and grants and other useful links are posted on the CEC webpage: Funding opportunities - cec.lu.se marianne.hall@cec.lu.se
CEC management information and Friday fika on Friday, 21 April - Cecilia Palmér from SLU will present Guidelines for effective communication with garden owners on invasive alien species. Breakfast starts at 9:45 for those in the office. Management information and Teams broadcast starts at 10:15. Save the date to your calendar (cec.lu.se)
CEC management information and Friday fika on Friday, 28 April - CEC Bake Off; Bring a national speciality, regional treats or just personal favourites, sweet or savoury to share with colleagues. Breakfast starts at 9:45 for those in the office. Management information and Teams broadcast starts at 10:15 Save the date and more information (cec.lu.se)
Joint PhD seminar: From niche to norm – enablers and barriers to circularity in the building and construction sector - 25 April at the Pufendorf Institute at 14:30. This is part of the joint PhD seminar series on environmental challenges at Lund University and is open to all current PhD and advanced master-level students. Registration closes tomorrow, 21 April 2023! Joint PhD seminars on environmental challenges
Save the dates! 22 May and 24 May BECC and LU Land are planning a 2-step event in connection with the EU conference on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in Malmö (hosted by the Swedish Ministry of Rural Affairs and Infrastructure and the Swedish CAP Network). The event will gather researchers, national decision-makers and experts/key actors in society working with agriculture and CAP-related issues. How can we work together for an evidence-based CAP? Part 1 | BECC (lu.se) How can we work together for an evidence-based CAP? Part 2 | BECC (lu.se) Mandatory safety course (for all lab- and field work) - Monday, 24 April @ 14:30 in Museet. You’ll need it if: 1)You plan to work in the laboratory or in the field. 2) If you have students/PhD’s that plan to work in the laboratory or do fieldwork. Contact: helene.bracht_jorgensen@biol.lu.se
Synthesis Synthesis report on ecological compensation Helena Hanson and Johanna Alkan Olsson are two of the authors of a synthesis report from the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency on ecological compensation. The report can be found here: Ekologisk kompensation som verktyg i miljömålsarbetet (naturvardsverket.se)
The CEC newsletter is sent to employees and those that are associated with CEC. The newsletter is sent on Thursdays every second week. If you have anything you would like to add to the newsletter, please send your information to Camilla King camilla.king@cec.lu.se no later than Monday of the same week.
