Published 24 October 2018 Sustainable city futures need experimentation and innovation developed through collaboration between academia and social actors.On Thursday 11 October 2018, the IIIEE organized a City Futures Conference series in Lund, Sweden. The aim was to bring together academia, municipalities and regional actors within business and industry to discuss how to strengthen the collaborat

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Published 25 October 2018 IIIEE researcher Luis Mundaca Photo: Sara Bernstrup Nilsson Efforts to combat climate change tend to focus on supply-side changes, such as shifting to renewable or cleaner energy. In a Special Issue in the Energy Efficiency Journal that follows the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 ˚C, researchers argue that demand-side approaches can play a crucial role given

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Published 12 November 2018 Focusing on Circular Economy 12 November 2018 MOOCWe are proud to present a new MOOC in the Greening the Economy series:Circular Economy - Sustainable Materials Management!This free, on-line course looks at where important materials in products we use every day come from and how these materials can be used more efficiently, longer, and in closed loops.The MOOC involves e

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Published 15 November 2018 On 14 November, the winners of the yearly award "Årets framtidsbyggare" was announced during a ceremony at Skissernas museum. The yearly award "Årets framtidsbyggare" is a prize (1.2 million SEK) with three categories: 1) "Årets innovatör" (The innovator of the year, 750 000 SEK), 2) "Årets opinionsbildare" (The opinion-former of the year), 3) "Årets talang" (The talent

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Published 19 November 2018 Kes McCormick, Lucie Zvolska and Yuliya Voytenko Palgan Yuliya Voytenko, Lucie Zvolska and Kes McCormick are in Barcelona attending the Smart City Expo World Congress, SCEWC, (where some 20,000 people are gathering to talk about smart cities of the future) and the Sharing Cities Summit, which is the leading event for the sharing economy in cities. Sharing Cities Sweden,

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Published 26 November 2018 Photo: Shutterstock "Sweden needs to deal with the effects of consumption" Professor Oksana Mont at the IIIEE, along with several other experts, recently co-authored an opinion piece on the effects of consumption in Svenska Dagbladet.The article especially highlights the need for powerful politics to limit consumption and its effects on our climate.    Link to full artic

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Published 26 November 2018 Photo: Maarit Kytöharju During the period of 2019-2021. Per Mickwitz will be the new Director of the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE), during the period of 2019-2021. Per Mickwitz is currently the Research Director of the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), where he is also a research professor.  As of 1 January 2019, he will be Di

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Published 29 November 2018 Photo: Håkan Röjder We stand with Central European University, CEU!We have had 15 years of fruitful collaboration with CEU, notably on our joint MESPOM master programme where we have had a steady flow of creative talent from all over the world.CEU is important. In so many ways, and to so many people.We will continue to support CEU.And look forward to do more great things

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Published 29 November 2018 Organizations can innovate to address environmental and social problems — but they need to build the right culture. Professor Nancy Bocken at the IIIEE, has co-authored an article on Driving Sustainability-Oriented Innovation, published in MIT Sloan Management Review.In the article, the authors take a closer look at what a Sustainability-Oriented Innovation Culture looks

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Published 3 December 2018 Johanna Lissinger Peitz Foto: Roger Turesson With climate change realities affecting us all we are extra keen to follow the work of our alumna Johanna Lissinger Peitz, Sweden's cheif negotiator and one of three climate negotiators representing the EU in the upcoming Katowice COP24 meeting.The Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter wrote an article about Johanna Lissinger Peitz,

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Published 12 December 2018 In a time of growing inequality, this special issue explores justice, policy and sustainability aspects related to low-carbon energy systems. Prof. Luis Mundaca together with colleagues from LUCSUS, University of St. Andrews, University of Sussex, University of Dundee, and Stellenbosch University have concluded the special issue on Low Carbon Energy Systems and Energy Ju

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Published 13 December 2018 With a growing interest in the Circular Economy, where new business models are needed, the role of the consumer needs to be explored and this study contributes to this need with an expert study. A team of researchers from Lund University (Nancy Bocken) and TU Delft (Vivian Tunn, Ellis van den Hende, Jan Schoormans), led by PhD researcher Vivian Tunn have conducted an exp

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Published 17 December 2018 The Belgian national science funding association FWO’s 90 year anniversary spotlighted the future national research agenda, focusing on collaboration to solve complex societal questions such as climate change. The Belgian national science funding association FWO’s 90 year anniversary spotlighted the future national research agenda, focusing on collaboration to solve comp

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Published 18 December 2018 IIIEE staff, board members, former board members, students and alumni. After nine years, I have decided to leave my assignment as Director at the IIIEE. Together with you I have had the privilege to further develop the Institute in being an innovative and creative arena for interdisciplinary education and research within Lund University. It has been a time of engagement

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Published 14 January 2019 Weine Wiqvist Lund University has appointed Weine Wiqvist, CEO of Avfall Sverige ­– the Swedish Waste Management Association – as an adjunct member of the IIIEE faculty in the subject "Circular Economy Policies” at the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE), which is a specialised centre of the University.Weine Wiqvist will work on a part-t

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Published 24 January 2019 CIRCUSOL consortium meeting in Antwerp, Belgium, followed by co-creation session at Cohousing Waasland to discuss circular solar business model options. On 23-26 January the CIRCUSOL project consortium is coming together to discuss progress on the circular solar business model demonstrators and next steps to explore second-life use of solar PV and batteries.Demonstrator-l

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Published 30 January 2019 IIIEE is a partner in the EIT Raw Materials project which is organizing community electronics repair events across Europe in 2019 to educate about critical raw materials. Raw materials are crucial for maintaining a quality of life and for the transition to a low carbon economy, but many critical materials face potential supply disruptions in the near future. Many of these

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Published 5 February 2019 Prof. Nancy Bocken talking at the first Open Innovation Seminar of the year at UC Berkeley, Haas Business School, organised by Prof. Henry Chesbrough. Circular Economy is one of the concepts that can help us address pressing challenges such as climate change.  As engaged researchers, we need to find new ways of doing research to address these pressing challenges. This tal

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Published 22 February 2019 Steven Curtis & Matthias Lehner publish open access journal article that proposes a logically-consistent definition of the sharing economy that prioritises sustainability. The sharing economy is largely promoted to facilitate access over ownership, which proponents of the sharing economy suggest leads to reduced resource consumption. However, the purported sustainability

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Published 25 February 2019 New book on Innovation for Sustainability Nancy Bocken, Professor in Sustainable Business at the IIIEE, has co-edited a new book: Innovation for Sustainability: Business Transformations Towards a Better World, available hereThe aim of the book:The aim of this edited book is to provide a comprehensive overview of the opportunities and challenges related to innovation for

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