December 2011

Today, 16 December, I (Per) have signed an agreement to rent premises at Medicon Village. The contract is for three years. Lund University will gain access to the premises during 2012. In spring 2011, an inventory of premises and research groups at the University was carried out. We saw then that there was both the space and the opportunity to … Continue reading →

Thank you and goodbye! When one chapter closes and another opens, many thoughts and memories are awakened, especially at this time of year. Now that I (Eva) am moving on to Uppsala, I can safely say that I have had a fantastic time and almost 16 wonderful years at Lund University. I have had the opportunity to work as a … Continue reading →

Per attended a seminar on 30 November at the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and listened to a presentation of Anders Flodström’s inquiry by Max Kesselberg on how research funding could be allocated on the basis of quality. It was very interesting. According to the inquiry, peer review is not a viable means of deciding on resource allocation. On the … Continue reading →

Per attended a Futures Forum last week (25 November) at Campus Helsingborg, where representatives of higher education, Folkuniversitetet, the business sector and municipalities met for panel discussions and discussions with the audience on what can be done to increase the level of education in north-western Skåne. In several municipalities in the region, the level of education is below the national … Continue reading →

LTH, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary, held a very enjoyable party on 17 November with a good programme and a present from the business sector in the form of the financing of a Jubilee Chair in Industrial Economics. This chair is an excellent example of fundraising and we will keep this method of working in mind ahead of the … Continue reading →

The Sustainable Lund Challenge aims to show how the University and the Municipality cooperate for sustainable development. The project also aims to facilitate and develop more collaborations for a sustainable Lund. As a step in this, the University and the Municipality are holding a joint knowledge and experience day on the role of lighting on 15 December in Stadshallen in … Continue reading →

The fourth AKKA (Akademiska kollegors ansvar) programme had a final meeting on 22–23 November in Båstad, which Per attended. Thirty lecturers and researchers with PhDs, half men and half women, have for the past year undertaken a management training programme with an integrated gender perspective. At the meeting, the participants presented their projects. “Is there a gender perspective in the … Continue reading →

At the LERU Rectors’ Assembly in Amsterdam on 18–19 November, views on the EU’s upcoming framework programme Horizon 2020 were discussed. LERU has without doubt succeeded in influencing and monitoring the development of the programme. Various international strategies were discussed and presented. In addition, political developments for universities in Europe were discussed – an increasing number of countries are going … Continue reading →