Information from Management Welcome back to the autumn semester! Hope you all have had the possibility to enjoy the good things that come with summer! Katarina Hedlund will become the CEC head of department during 2024, as Per Persson is taking on the responsibility as dean of our faculty from January 2024. During the rest of 2023 they will keep their areas of responsibility. Henrik Smith will continue as chairman of the CEC board in 2024.
Tomorrow Friday, you will get the possibility to ask questions about the co-localization/organization to Karin Hall and Carina Jarl who will join us for the Friday fika.
We are happy to welcome the following people to CEC: Louise Berglund has joined the admin team as CEC's new finance officer. New postdoc at BECC is Rhiannon Mondav whowill work with Torbern Tagesson (INES). New postocs at CEC are Zheng Zhou with Ullrika Sahlin, Margarida Soares with Natascha Kljun and Crislaine Bertoldi with Martijn van Praagh.
Friday Fika - in-person meetings only After a period of online and then hybrid meetings on Fridays, we are now switching to meeting in person only at Friday Fikas. Attending on Teams will no longer be an option. We hope that as many people as possible can attend. The information from the management that comes up at the Friday Fikas will as usual be available in CEC's internal newsletter, which is published every two weeks.
What's up! Congratulations to the colleagues who received money! Johanna Alkan Olsson for Ruling for Sustainability: Exploring new ideas of collaboration for an improved knowledge basis in the environmental courts together with Beatrice Hedelin (main applicant) Karlstad Universitet. Total budget: 11,5 milj SEK. The project aims for more effective decisions in the Swedish Land and Environment Courts related to climate, water and biodiversity by improving the knowledge basis used in the courts. The project consists of three researchers and one PhD student and is a 4 + (4 year project). Mattias Ohlson for the Horizon Europe proposal TARGET (Health virtual twins for the personalised management of stroke related to atrial fibrillation). TARGET consists of 19 partners and will run over 5 years with a total budget of 10 million euros. CEC is one of the partners (total of 540 000 euros) with participating researchers Mattias Ohlsson, Carsten Peterson, Anders Björkelund and a to-be-recruited PostDoc. Our scientific contribution within TARGET focuses on developing machine learning models to be used in the (personalized) management of stroke patients. Deniz Koca for two different projects: 1) Fostering European Cellular Agriculture for Sustainable Transition Solutions (FEASTS ), financed by Horizon Europe with a Total project budget of 7 Million EUR and a duration of 3 years. The project consists of 36 partners from 15 European and 2 non-European countries. FEASTS will provide an unprecedented, unbiased and robust knowledge base for the assessment of the sustainability aspects of the cultured meat (CM) and cultured seafood (CSF) industry sector. 2) Pan-European Food Systems Science Network (FoSSNet), financed by Horizon Europe with a total project budget of 6 Million EUR and a duration of 4 years. The project consists of 15 partners from 12 European countries. The aim of FoSSNet is twofold, on one hand to establish a permanent pan-European network for Food System Science and on the other hand to advance inter- and transdisciplinary Food System Science and education.
Have you also received money? Get in touch so that we can share the good news!
New Tools CEC has access to BioRender – an easy-to-use, web-based tool for creating scientific illustrations and figures. Perfect for reports, applications, and so on. Have a look at the link below, and if it looks interesting please contact Marianne Hall for info on how to get access. Link to biorender.com
New project proposals for our students
We are currently looking for new project proposals for our students in environmental science, environmental and health protection and applied climate strategy who will complete their diploma thesis this coming autumn 2023 and the coming spring 2024. As we all know, it is essential that the research and researchers at CEC are visible and also contribute to undergraduate education, not the least by proposing suitable topics for degree projects and also by contributing to the supervision and examination of our students. A short project description (about 200 words) in Swedish or English, preferably including an inspiring picture and contact details of the teacher/researcher an interested student can turn to for more information is therefore highly appreciated. The proposals should preferably be close to the research carried out at CEC, in collaborations across disciplines, departmental and faculty boundaries and/or in collaboration with authorities, organizations or companies. Students who have not yet been admitted to one of our diploma thesis courses have access to our open Canvas portal: https://canvas.education.lu.se/courses/18940. This portal includes project ideas, and of course many of these originate from researchers and teachers with connections to CEC. Any project that a student will pick up will be supervised by a LU researcher/teacher and the student and the LU teacher will define the final scope of the thesis in interaction with you. Please do not hesitate to contact Nina Reistad (nina.reistad@fysik.lth.se) with ideas and suggestions!
Opportunities FORMAS will postpone next years annual open call for research projects until autumn 2024. Both calls aimed at early-career researchers, including the mobility grant that usually opens in fall, will open in spring 2024 in a new format. Read more and stay up-to-date on the Formas webpage: Formas.se News will also be published on CEC's website. Funding opportunities | Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC) (lu.se)
Interesting open call Fysiografen if you are planning for a new research program and want to use “unorthodox and unconventional approaches”: The Horisont grant offers seed money for the development of and preparations for new research programs that usually cannot find a place in the usual research funding systems, or to serve as a basis for research proposals for larger and long-term projects. SEK up to 1 million over up to 24 months. The deadline is 15 September. List of stipends and grants - HORISONT ("Horizon") | Fysiografen
CEC management information and Friday fika on Friday, 25 August - Karin Hall, project manager and Carina Jarl, project coordinator will visit to give us the latest updates about the CIG process and answer your questions. Save this event to your calendar.
CEC management information and Friday fika, Friday 18 August - Nailing of doctorial dissertation in Environmental Science - Johan Kjelleberg Jensen Save this event to your calendar
Course on GDPR and implications for your work 7 September - 13:00 – 15:00 at Stora Konferensrummet. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is an EU regulation that regulates the use and handling of personal data. But what does it mean for us and our work, and how can we make sure to avoid common pitfalls? Whether you are a researcher or T/A-staff, this 2-hours quick course (in Swedish) held by a data protection coordinator and a legal expert at Lund University, will give you the answers and tools needed to get the GDPR-stuff right! Welcome to contact Juliana.danhardt@cec.lu.se if you are interested in joining the course!
PhD course on Risk, Uncertainty and Decision Making (7.5 credits). Physical meeting 2 and 3 of October, Hybrid meeting 6 and 7 November, and individual paper. More info and link to application on canvas. Risk, Uncertainty and Decision Making - canvas.education.lu.se
Present your research at the 3rd Knowledge for Sustainable Development Research Conference The conference is aimed at all researchers at Lund University who want to increase their knowledge about the challenges that lie ahead, learn how their research can contribute to change, and strengthen their contacts with researchers from other disciplines. This year’s conference will highlight sustainability research at Lund University and different ways to go from research to impact. The deadline for submitting your abstract for this year’s conference is 8 September.
Allotments are important for biodiversity Anna Persson was interviewed about the importance of allotments for biodiversity. Persson says that they add a lot of variety and allow different species to find their niche. Kolonilotter oas för människor - och pollinatörer - sydsvenskan.se
No adequate solution after G20 meeting on climate change Professor Markku Rummukainen comments in Svenska Dagbladet on a G20 climate meeting where the word carbon is not included in the final document. Trots klimatkris: G20 nämner inte ordet "kol" - svd.se Commenting on this summer's extreme heat Markku Rummukainen comments in Svenska Dagbladet on the ongoing extreme heat and the continued increase in global emissions. Experter om extremvärmen: Kommer bli värre - svd.se
Climate chat with Expressen's readers Why is there record heat in southern Europe and what happens when the polar ice melts? Markku Rummukainen answered a wide range of questions on climate and weather from Express readers. Chatta med väderexperten - expressen.se
Record heat – what will happen in Sweden? Record heat, forest fires and floods are now affecting millions of people around the world. Already two years ago it was almost 50 degrees in Canada. Aktuell Hållbarhet asked Markku Rummukainen about the risk of such heat in Sweden. Jorden svettas – men kan det bli 50 grader i Sverige? – aktuellhallbarhet.se
Swedish forests store less carbon than before Markku Rummukainen has been interviewed in an article about the lack of policy directives to maintain or increase forest carbon storage. "After several decades of stable figures, the Swedish carbon storage curves have turned downwards. As in Finland, we are seeing a decline in growth, while industrial demand for raw materials has led to an increase in felling. It's a big question mark as to where we are heading now,' says Mr Rummukainen in an interview in the magazine Land Lantbruk.
Native trees are better for urban small birds Johan Kjellberg Jensen has been interviewed because Swedish cities are planting more heat- and drought-resistant trees from more southern parts of the world. In the long term, this may mean fewer small birds in the cities as, for example, barnacles and blue tits prefer to nest in native trees. Ny forskning: Färre häckande småfåglar i klimatanpassade städer – svt.se
How to favour pollinating insects in your garden Anna Persson, researcher at the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science, has been interviewed about how to promote bees and other pollinating insects in your garden. Persson's tips include removing part of the lawn and sowing wildflowers. The article is published in Allers Trädgård (published in a printed version).
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