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CEC Newsletter | 15 June 2023

Information from Management Summer is here and regardless of whether you primarily think of it as a time for fieldwork, holiday or something else, we wish you a nice time and hope that you are able to enjoy, relax and find new energy before the autumn semester starts! We will keep you up to date as the CIG process develops and kindly also ask you to look for new information from the faculty via their internal website. Have a wonderful summer! Work on the coordination of a joint department – environment and climate, geology and physical geography | Internal Faculty of Science (lu.se) Welcome to Ann Åkerman A warm welcome to Ann Åkerman who has joined the Sustainability Forum office in the capacity of coordinator! Ann can be found in the office about two days per week and she will be the primary link between the strategic discussions in the steering committee and all the work carried out by our colleagues at CEC. Reduced administrative support during summer Please find all details on the CEC Staff pages, Contacts during summer - (cec.lu.se) Café Le Mani Café Le Mani will close for the summer, the last day open will be Friday, 16 June. It will open again on Monday, 28 August.  What's up? Easier to book rail travel in Europe It will now be easier to take the train in Europe for your business travel needs. This means that we can further reduce the climate impact of our business travel. As of 1 June 2023, you are to book all rail travel in Europe via the Danish rail travel agency, Togrejse. Read more on the Staff Pages about booking rail travel abroad. How to book a trip | Staff Pages (lu.se) Sustainable Travel Stories Need some inspiration for your next business trip? Sustainability Forum has published a new blog with sustainable travel stories from Lund University employees who have reduced the carbon footprint of their business travel in some way. Want to share your travel story in the blog? Email your text and photos to jenny.hansson@cec.lu.se LU Sustainable Travel Stories 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 Open positions at CEC Post-doctoral fellow in Environmental Science (varbi.com) Last application date: 31 August 2023 Post-doctoral fellow in Environmental Science: Modelling biodiversity in relation to forest management PA20231893 (lu.varbi.com) Last application date: 16 June 2023 Post-doctoral fellow in Environmental Science: Nature-based solutions at the climate-biodiversity-health nexus PA2023/1834  (lu.varbi.com) Last application date:16 June 2023 Doctoral student in theoretical physics with specialization in computational biology (lu.varbi.com) Last application date:16 June 2023 Dates CEC management information and Friday fika on Friday, 16 June - Final Friday fika before the summer break Save this event to your calendar. CEC management information and Friday fika, Friday 18 August - First Fika of the autumn term. Save this event to your calendar The 3rd PhD Conference on Sustainable Development - Acceleration of progress 29 September 2023 09:00 to 17:00 at the Department of Political Science, Eden, Allhelgona kyrkogata 14, Lund Save the event to your calendar - (cec.lu.se) Welcome to the 3rd Knowledge for Sustainable Development Research Conference Organised by the Research Board in collaboration with the Sustainability Forum at Lund University, this year’s conference will highlight sustainability research at Lund University and different ways to go from research to impact. The conference will take place on November 7, at Stadshallen in Lund. A call for abstracts is now open and the deadline for submitting abstracts is 8 September. To learn more about the conference and how to register, visit: Knowledge for Sustainable Development 2023 | Sustainability Forum (lu.se) Save the dates! 21-22 November  The ICOS Nordic 2023 conference - the changing carbon cycle and how we manage it The University of Bergen, 21-22 November 2023 ICOS Nordic 2023 – Conference in Bergen 21-22 November (uib.no) Media and Publications New field laboratory at the Marine Centre Lund University is strengthening its marine biology profile with a new, modern field laboratory at the Marine Centre in Simrishamn. The field lab was inaugurated on Tuesday and the news of the field lab was highlighted by Ystads Allehanda, Sveriges Radio, Lund University's magazine and in a press release where Maria Hansson was quoted. Starkare marin profil med nytt fältlabb i Simrishamn – cec.lu.se  Nytt labb ska förbättra möjligheterna till forskning – sr.se ”Gullig” drönare i fokus när Marint centrum visade labbet – ystadsallehanda.se   Hyltemossa in a TV report on drought and carbon dioxide uptake SVT has visited ICOS research infrastructure Hyltemossa in northern Skåne regarding the impact of drought on the forest's carbon dioxide uptake. Anders Lindroth and Tobias Biermann participate in the programme. Torkan minskar skogens koldioxidupptag – forskare följer utvecklingen i Hyltemossa – svt.se Severe consequences of dam collapse Johanna Alkan Olsson has been asked in an article for TT about the dam collapse in Ukraine and the possible consequences for animals and nature. Expert: Katastrof för ekosystemoch människor – (TT News Agency) svd.se CEC subscribes to these newspapers: Dagens Nyheter - www.dn.se Sydsvenskan - www.sydsvenskan.se ATL - www.atl.nu  Aktuell Hållbarhet - www.aktuellhallbarhet.se All CEC staff can use the online versions. Contact Lena Söderberg lena.soderberg@cec.lu.se or any other admin to get the log in information. GDPR  If you do not wish to appear in photos, videos etc. please notify Communications Manager Anna Maria Erling anna_maria.erling@cec.lu.se Information about data protection at Lund University – lu.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.