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Iryna Tsunovska and Nataliia Kohutyuk from Ukraine are taking home many new insights on how they can contribute to the protection of human rights in their professional roles. They have just completed a training course at Lund University for young policymakers, public servants and civil society workers from selected countries in the Baltic Sea Region/EU Eastern Partnership. Almost two weeks packed

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/young-ukrainian-civil-servants-explore-human-rights-lund - 2026-07-13

There are currently a large number of newcomers in Sweden from countries such as Syria, Iraq and the Ukraine that hold highly interesting academic degrees. To benefit from their expertise, Lund University in cooperation with Folkuniversitetet are offering the programme Korta vägen (“The shortcut”) – a project funded by the Swedish Public Employment Service. On 8 September, some 80 academic newcome

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/shortcut-academics-international-degree - 2026-07-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Artisanal interpretation of ceramics from the Bronze Age shows that a nine-year-old child could be a highly skilled artisan. This was one of the discoveries presented in a new thesis from Lund University. The thesis explores how an artisanal perspective can contribute to archaeology by providing new insights into arch

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-archaeological-method-finds-children-were-skilled-ceramists-during-bronze-age - 2026-07-13

Three researchers from Lund University in Sweden have been awarded grants by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation totalling SEK 87 million for research on the semiconductors for the future, our immunological memory and next-generation immunotherapies. The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation has awarded SEK 835 million in grants to 30 projects in medicine, the natural sciences and engineering

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/three-lund-researchers-awarded-knut-and-alice-wallenberg-foundation-grants - 2026-07-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Advocate General Sylvaine Laulom, Cour de Cassation, France, Professor Anne Ruth Mackor, University of Groningen, and Assistant Professor Anders Nordgaard, Linköping University, have been appointed honorary doctors at the Faculty of Law at Lund University. Sylvaine LaulomSylvaine Laulom (born 1967) is Advocate General

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-honorary-doctors-law-lund-university - 2026-07-13

Mikael Akke, Göran Jönsson, Sara Linse and Mathieu Gisselbrecht of Lund University in Sweden have been awarded considerable grants from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. Over a five-year period, they will conduct major projects on allosteric signalling, more effective immunotherapy, secretive helper proteins and quantum entanglement. Mikael Akke, professor of biophysical chemistry, receive

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/four-lund-researchers-receive-sek-120-million-wallenberg-foundation - 2026-07-13

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/honorary-doctors-named-faculty-medicine - 2026-07-13

We need new ways of understanding how people depend on nature in our efforts to protect biodiversity. A new thesis from Lund University in Sweden suggests that we rarely take into account people’s place-based, varied and often emotional relationships with nature. “Up to now, a common approach has been based on cost-benefit analysis, where, for example, a company can compensate for a factory built

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-include-human-connection-nature-biodiversity-goals - 2026-07-13

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-ranked-top-100 - 2026-07-13

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lu-swedens-top-ranked-university-qs-world-university-rankings-2020 - 2026-07-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Lund University has strengthened its position as a world top 100 university, with a 67th place ranking in the 2013 QS World University Rankings, released today. Lund’s four-notch improvement places it safely in the global top 100 for the 6th year running, retaining the spot as Sweden’s top university.The QS World Univ

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-improves-top-100-position - 2026-07-13

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/top-100-rank-20-lund-university-subjects-new-qs-subject-ranking - 2026-07-13

In the past, it has been common practice to perform analyses of archaeological sites after excavations have been completed and covered again with soil. But with the revolutionary development of digital technologies, we can now identify archaeological information that was previously invisible to the naked eye. “As I dig, I am also destroying. Archaeologists must document it before. But with 3D docu

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/past-comes-alive-3d - 2026-07-13

When young people who have turned their lives around talk about their criminal past, they are trying both to explain their actions and to forge a new identity. A new study from Lund University in Sweden shows how stories about honour among thieves, responsibility and coming of age play a key role in helping people move away from a life of crime. A person who has committed crimes but wants to turn

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-study-stories-young-people-leaving-life-crime - 2026-07-15

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/high-rates-opioid-prescriptions-osteoarthritis - 2026-07-13

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lu-student-named-global-swede-2019 - 2026-07-13

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/glasgow-climate-summit-what-it-about-and-why-does-it-matter - 2026-07-13

Virtual reality might be the closest we can get to a time machine. For instance, it can be used to experience historical communities – such as the Iron Age city of Uppåkra in southern Sweden, according to LU researcher Mattias Wallergård. Mattias Wallergård has done research on virtual reality and its applications for the past 20 years. He works at the Virtual Reality Lab at Lund University, and b

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/vr-helps-us-experience-historical-places - 2026-07-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The question of how small, dwarf galaxies have sustained the formation of new stars over the course of the Universe has long confounded the world’s astronomers. An international research team led by Lund University in Sweden has found that dormant small galaxies can slowly accumulate gas over many billions of years. W

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-stars-form-smallest-galaxies - 2026-07-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In the past 50 years, the amount of water in the open ocean without oxygen has gone up more than four-fold. In coastal water bodies, including estuaries and seas, low-oxygen sites have increased more than 10-fold since 1950. “Sufficient oxygen in bottom waters is necessary for a well-functioning healthy ecosystem,” sa

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/oxygen-worlds-oceans-declining-scientists-reveal-dangers-and-solutions - 2026-07-13