September 2011

Yesterday, State Secretary Peter Honeth presented the budget bill. We were already aware of a lot of the coming changes and we have written about them on the blog, including the investment of SEK 400 million in humanities, theology, social sciences and law and the cut of SEK 440 million for students who achieve no credits. One piece of news … Continue reading →

EAIE (the European Association for International Education) is holding its annual conference and fair in Copenhagen this week with between 3 000 and 4 000 delegates. As we have written before, we have had many visitors to Lund University this week in connection with the conference. The U21 partners were here on Sunday, then we had a Partner Day on Monday and … Continue reading →

A network conference on education sciences research is currently taking place at Campus Helsingborg. Many people are here and almost all faculties are represented. Eva welcomed participants and gave a short account of the journey to the joint teacher training programme with Kristianstad University and the ideas for a teaching KIC (Knowledge and Innovation Community). Sven Strömqvist is working on … Continue reading →

A budget breakfast with State Secretary Peter Honeth will be held on 20 September 7:45–8:30 in Pelarsalen, Universitetshuset. Come along to listen and ask questions! We know already that the teacher training programme is being expanded “where the quality is good”, as the Ministry of Education puts it. This is a consequence of the review of the entitlement to award … Continue reading →

The new external website is beginning to take shape and on Tuesday a presentation was held with a proposal for what it could look like and how it could function. If you weren’t there, you can still follow how the work is progressing on the project blog: http://externwebb.blogg.lu.se/

Universitetsplatsen is currently occupied by the Innovation in Mind conference, and this evening, 15 September at 20:00, it will be followed by Debatt i Lund (café opens half an hour before start). The marquee will also be used for events during Kulturnatten (Culture Night) on Saturday, 17 September, with a presentation of Ideon Medicon Village 13:00–14:00 and Science Slam 16:00–18:00 (in … Continue reading →

Tobias Krantz, former Minister for Higher Education and Research, is now head of research and innovation at the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise. He visited Per recently and we primarily discussed issues ahead of the research and innovation bill in 2012. We also discussed the role of the higher education property company Akademiska Hus and how we ensure that the need … Continue reading →

LTH is 50 this year and the celebrations are culminating in the autumn with loads of activities, including ‘spex’ theatre, an exhibition, shows, seminars, guided tours and a jubilee book. The new School of Architecture will be opened and on 23 September alumni will invade LTH’s campus. It is especially pleasing that 1 700 alumni have registered for the event, which … Continue reading →

Congratulations to Professor Anders Björklund, who has been awarded the Fernström Foundation’s Nordic Prize, with prize money of SEK 1 million. MAX-lab chief designer Mikael Eriksson has also recently been awarded SEK 1 million as the recipient of KTH’s Great Prize. More information about Anders Björklund (in Swedish) More information about Mikael Eriksson (in Swedish)

Many of our partners in Universitas 21 are visiting Lund University today. After a welcome and presentation of LU by Eva, Kjell Nilsson presented examples of how U21 works. During the afternoon we had group discussions on the following topics: * Staff and student mobility * Raising awareness of U21 on your campus * Joint PhDs * Teaching and learning … Continue reading →