Published 17 December 2014 The Inter Arts Centre (IAC) in Malmö provides a forum enabling all parts of the Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts to conduct research together and create joint projects. Its objective is to find new approaches and to achieve collective results which are greater than the sum of their parts. An example of the Centre’s work is one of the largest symposia ever to be held i

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/experimental-art-across-boundaries - 2025-03-01

Published 18 December 2014 Meet Per Ödling, Professor of Telecommunication at LTH, who recently gave a lecture for the Hjärntrusten network in Lund entitled “The new digital society is already here”. You expect to become redundant as a teacher within the foreseeable future? “Yes, that’s correct.” And whose fault is that? “It is mine and all those who have contributed to technical and digital devel

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-digital-society-already-here - 2025-03-01

Published 18 December 2014 Wandering among the amaryllises and other seasonal blooms of the “Christmas in the orangery” exhibition in Lund’s Botanical Garden is one very satisfied director. Bente Eriksen came from Gothenburg University to her new job in Lund a couple of months ago and has now learnt that the municipality of Lund will support the garden to the tune of SEK 2 million per year. The ne

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-director-botan-prepares-two-anniversaries - 2025-03-01

Published 18 December 2014 He is checking out at the same fighting weight as when he checked in, and does the same number of push-ups (40!) now as he did then. He has been through several tough rounds and had to fight to defend his convictions and his views on the University’s development. Per Eriksson summarises his time as vice-chancellor as “six years of incredibly great joy, development, press

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/eriksson-you-have-dare-take-risks-sometimes-if-you-want-make-things-happen - 2025-03-01

Published 6 February 2015 His ambition is to awaken our longing for a life which doesn’t revolve around wage labour. “If I had a citizen’s salary, I would do the same things I do now – read, write and have an occasional go with a scrubbing-brush, to make life more real. Others might play computer games, which would of course be perfectly OK”, says sociologist Roland Paulsen, who has become a bit o

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/igniting-debate-shorter-working-hours - 2025-03-01

Published 6 February 2015 Professor of Spanish Inger Enkvist has written a large number of books about education and teaching. She sees it as her obligation to take part in the debate on education, but she also participates in the public debate in other areas. Most recently, she wrote in Språktidningen about the Catalonian independence movement. Last year she was awarded the Instituto Cervantes in

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/obligation-participate-education-debate - 2025-03-01

Published 6 February 2015 Vinnova is investing SEK 500 million in collaboration on non-communicable diseases over the next ten years. A call for proposals for collaborative projects is currently open. “Researchers who collaborate with either the business sector or the health service, or both, have a chance of obtaining a grant”, says Peter Nordström, who is coordinating the national initiative fro

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/strategic-innovation-area-coordinated-lund - 2025-03-01

Published 6 February 2015 The University is now a member of Scholars at Risk (SAR), an international network that helps vulnerable and persecuted academics. Professor Shirin Zubair visited Lund University and spoke about her situation as a persecuted academic. “This is in line with our core values as a university, which include defending and supporting academic freedom”, says Pär Svensson at Exter

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lu-joins-network-help-scholars-risk - 2025-03-01

Published 20 December 2022 As the holiday season approaches, we would like to extend our warmest wishes to you all.    After last year’s restrictive situation we are so happy to have been able to meet in person during 2022. Even so there are lessons to be learned and we are therefore staying partly with digital formats that work well. Here are some highlights from the past year: AI related Degree

https://www.ai.lu.se/article/season-greetings-ai-lund - 2025-03-01

Published 18 January 2023 The first call for applications, Sustainable Idea Exploration, within the University’s Sustainability Fund opened during the autumn. The aim is to explore the innovative potential of sustainability-related research projects at an early stage. Four projects have now been granted funding. One of the projekts addresses text mining for environmental science and was applied fo

https://www.ai.lu.se/article/project-text-mining-environmental-science-gets-funding-universitys-sustainability-fund - 2025-03-01

Published 20 February 2023 Patients are often asked to rate their feelings using a rating scale, when talking to psychologists or doctors about their mental health. This is currently how depression and anxiety are diagnosed. However, a new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that allowing patients to describe their experience using their own words - is potentially viewed as more precise and

https://www.ai.lu.se/article/luse-ai-could-improve-mental-health-care - 2025-03-01

Publicerad 8 juni 2021 Fotograf Magnus Hjalmarsson digitaliserar tidskriften Idun. Med målet att digitalisera svenskt tryckt material från 1400-talet till nutid har ett samarbete inletts mellan Kungliga biblioteket och de fem universitetsbiblioteken i Lund, Göteborg, Stockholm, Uppsala och Umeå. Samarbetet lägger därmed grunden för ett långsiktigt arbete för svensk digitaliseringsverksamhet. Det m

https://www.ub.lu.se/artikel/nationellt-bibliotekssamarbete-digitaliserar-svenskt-tryck - 2025-03-01

Publicerad 31 mars 2022 Bara fem till tio procent av det svenska trycket är digitaliserat. Fotograf Johan Bävman. Bara fem till tio procent av det svenska tryckta kulturarvet är digitaliserat i dag. Det är dags för regeringen att, likt i andra länder, besluta om en storskalig satsning, skriver företrädare för Kungliga biblioteket och de stora universitetsbiblioteken i en debattartikel på kultursid

https://www.ub.lu.se/artikel/sverige-behover-storskalig-digitalisering-av-kulturarvet - 2025-03-01

Publicerad 1 juni 2022 Digitaliseringen har kommit igång inom det nationella samarbetet för digitalisering av det svenska trycket (DST). Ett tjugotal tidskrifter från mitten av artonhundratalet med titlar inom flera ämnen – allt ifrån litteratur, mode och politik till typografi och spiritism – är nu digitaliserade till nytta för forskare och allmänhet. Samarbetsprojektet mellan Kungliga biblioteke

https://www.ub.lu.se/artikel/det-nationella-bibliotekssamarbetet-digitaliserar-1800-talstidskrifter - 2025-03-01

Publicerad 7 oktober 2022 Panelsamtal på forskartorget på bokmässan. I samtalet medverkade Karin Byström, Nina Tahmasebi, Lars Ilshammar och Lars Burman. Fotograf Jessica Pamp. Det nationella bibliotekssamarbetet digitalisering av det svenska trycket (DST), bjöd in till panelsamtal under bokmässan i september. Forskaren Nina Tahmasebi var inbjuden för att belysa forskarnas behov av digitaliserat m

https://www.ub.lu.se/artikel/digitalisering-av-det-svenska-trycket-pa-bokmassan - 2025-03-01

Av christel [dot] holmberg [at] ub [dot] lu [dot] se (Christel Holmberg) - publicerad 25 april 2023 Marika Eserstam Kjellsson ordnar trycksaker i ny kapsel. Fotograf Emma Sandgren. Projektet Svenskt näringsliv 1914–2014 går snart i mål efter ett års genomgång av nästan två kilometer företagstryck. Företagstrycket är trycksaker, som företag gett ut. Och som tryckerier levererat till Universitetsbib

https://www.ub.lu.se/artikel/universitetsbiblioteket-gor-hundra-ar-av-foretagstryck-sokbart - 2025-03-01

Av christel [dot] holmberg [at] ub [dot] lu [dot] se (Christel Holmberg) - publicerad 21 september 2023 Karta ur Aleksej Nagaevs atlas Vsego Baltijs från år 1757. Kartan visar Finska viken med Karelska näset. Fotografi Kungliga biblioteket. Universitetsbiblioteket får två sällsynta och dyrbara sjöatlaser från sjuttonhundratalet i en generös donation. Gåvan är en del av en större donation av Östers

https://www.ub.lu.se/artikel/sallsynta-kartor-over-ostersjon-i-donation-till-universitetsbiblioteket - 2025-03-01

Av christel [dot] holmberg [at] ub [dot] lu [dot] se (Christel Holmberg) - publicerad 20 oktober 2023 Universitetsbibliotekets vackra fasad i höstskrud. Fotograf Gideon Horn. Vi renoverar husets insida nästa år och gör plats för fler och bättre studieplatser. År 2025 kommer du att möta en uppdaterad studiemiljö med funktionella och vackra platser för studier. Med start redan i år börjar Akademiska

https://www.ub.lu.se/artikel/en-mer-funktionell-och-vacker-studiemiljo-pa-universitetsbiblioteket - 2025-03-01

Av christel [dot] holmberg [at] ub [dot] lu [dot] se (Christel Holmberg) - publicerad 11 december 2023 Studier i Wallengrensalen. Fotograf Johan Bävman. Vet du om att vi renoverar och gör plats för fler och bättre studieplatser? Närmsta året kommer vara bullrigt med få studieplatser. Det blir besvärligt att studera på UB, men så mycket bättre när renoveringen är klar. Under julhelgerna stänger vi

https://www.ub.lu.se/artikel/forbered-dig-pa-ett-ar-med-fa-studieplatser - 2025-03-01

By jonas [dot] andersson [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Jonas Andersson) - published 23 May 2019 Artificiell intelligens och maskininlärning stod i fokus när konferensen AI Nordic Powwow för första gången arrangerades under torsdagen. Här samlades forskare, näringsliv och andra intressenter för att diskutera de möjligheter och utmaningar som samhället står inför. Läs mer på lu.se.

https://www.ai.lu.se/article/ai-i-fokus-pa-stor-konferens-i-lund - 2025-03-01