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On October 8 the IIIEE organized the event City Futures Summit, an online webinar with keynote speakers from Australia, Chile and Sweden around sustainable urban transformation and the missions approach. On October 8 the IIIEE organized the event "City Futures Summit", an online webinar with keynote speakers from Australia, Chile and Sweden around sustainable urban transformation and the missions
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/city-futures-summit - 2025-12-07
Yuliya Voytenko Palgan together with the support from the Urban Sharing team at the IIIEE, Lund University, has developed a blog; The World of Urban Sharing. Yuliya Voytenko Palgan together with the support from the Urban Sharing team at the IIIEE, Lund University, has developed a blog; The World of Urban Sharing . In this blog, the researchers have summarised academic publications as well as outp
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/world-urban-sharing-blog-urban-sharing-team - 2025-12-07
In autumn 2020, a new digital course will be launched for teachers at Lund University. It is about how to link your teaching to Agenda 2030 and the global goals - regardless of subject. In autumn 2020, a new digital course will be launched for teachers at Lund University. It is about how to link your teaching to Agenda 2030 and the global goals - regardless of subject.- We all focus on our own sub
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-collaborates-lucsus-create-agenda-2030-online-course-teachers-lund-university - 2025-12-07
In this month’s episode, we discuss the missions-oriented approach for innovation and governance, and provide highlights from the City Futures Summit. In this month’s episode, we discuss the missions-oriented approach for innovation and governance, and provide highlights from the City Futures Summit on the same topic, hosted in October 2020 by the IIIEE. We talk about missions and the challenges t
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/welcome-third-season-our-podcast-advancing-sustainable-solutions - 2025-12-07
In October 2020, Associate Professor Kes McCormick at the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) passed a milestone of 200,000 downloads of his publications in Lund University Publications – which is the institutional repository for scholarly publications from Lund University. In October 2020, Associate Professor Kes McCormick at the International Institute for Indu
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/associate-professor-kes-mccormick-achieves-200000-downloads - 2025-12-07
Naoko Tojo, Associate Professor at the IIIEE, comments in Swedish TV why textile recycling is important With a sorting capacity of 24,000 tonnes of textiles per year, the new plant at Sysav in Malmö will revolutionize Swedish textile recycling and create new markets for textile waste. An average Swede throws 8 kilos of textile in the waste bin every year, almost 200 tons of textile a day. It's a h
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/worlds-first-large-scale-plant-automatic-textile-sorting-put-operation-malmo - 2025-12-07
Governing the sharing economy: Towards a comprehensive analytical framework of municipal governance Sharing and the City researcher Associate Professor Yuliya Voytenko Palgan and Principal investigator of Urban Sharing project Professor Oksana Mont, together with the IIIEE aluma Simo Sulkakoski, have recently published an article in the international peer reviewed journal Cities. In their new arti
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-article-yuliya-voytenko-palgan-and-oksana-mont - 2025-12-07
Batch 26, the final-year students in the IIIEE Master in Environmental Management and Policy, have showed that they are capable of delivering value in a professional setting. Our capstone consulting course challenged the teams, this year with seven clients: Ikea, Axis, Oatly, Volvo Penta, Diab, Elkretsen and the Swedish Ministry of Environment. The projects covered a broad range of corporate and p
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/driving-sustainability-change-times-restriction - 2025-12-07
Black Friday är ett utmärkt tillfälle att reflektera över våra konsumtionsmönster. Varför inte rabattera endast miljömärkta, cirkulära och socialt ansvarstagande produkter för att stötta producenterna i deras ansträngningar att utveckla mer hållbara alternativ? frågar Oksana Mont och Carl Dalhammar vid IIIEE samt Alexandra Davidsson från föreningen Medveten Konsumtion. Läs debattartikeln som publi
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/fran-black-friday-till-cirkular-mandag-och-ett-hallbart-ar - 2025-12-07
20 subject area and region-specific events - meet staff and students and get all your questions answered! Sign up via unibuddy.com Welcome to the Virtual Application Week event for Lund University, a world top 100 university! From December 7th-11th, 2020 you will be able to join several live stream events with both faculty advisors from each subject area and recruitment staff who work directly wit
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/join-virtual-application-week-7-11-december - 2025-12-07
NEWCOMERS (New Clean Energy Communities in a Changing European Energy System), an EU Horizon 2020 project, has launched Our Energy, an online platform for education, awareness-raising, and networking, focusing on new clean energy communities, energy transitions and related topics. Our Energy offers short, interactive, multimedia presentations to educate, advise and inspire its users about energy a
In December 2020, Sharing Cities Sweden published a report on sharing cities and the sustainable development goals. Back in October 2019, over 200 people from around the world gathered at the Sharing Cities Summit in Sweden for a conference in Lund and an exhibition and workshops in Malmö. This public event was followed up by further analysis on this topic leading to the publication of this report
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/cities-and-consumption-report-sustainable-development-goals - 2025-12-07
MISTRA Electric Transition is a 4-year research project by a Consortium of universities, research institutes and industries that develops a strategy for achieving Sweden’s climate neutrality by 2050. On behalf of the IIIEE, Professor Aleh Cherp will co-lead a sub-project that focuses on evaluating socio-economic and political feasibility of proposed technical solutions such as nuclear power, hydro
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/electric-transition-research-project-receives-funding-mistra - 2025-12-07
We use energy in almost every aspect of our lives. Yet, often, we do not know the source of electricity that powers our homes or heats our food. In this episode, we explore energy communities as a form of decentralised and democratic energy production. Community energy sees people coming together to take control of their energy needs, by finding alternative ways to organise and govern the energy s
At the end of November, an report was released by the UK’s environmental audit committee related to the topic of circular economy in electronic waste. IIIEE research from the CREACE project was cited several times in the report, which highlighted premature obsolescence and many legal barriers to reuse and repair of electronics. The report included many recommendations to remove barriers to increas
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/report-circular-economy-electronic-waste - 2025-12-07
Lisa graduated from the Master's programme in Environmental Management and Policy this summer. Now she's a PhD student at the IIIEE, doing research on circular business model innovation and its implementation in the Swedish manufacturing industry. Hej Lisa! Tell us something about yourself and what you’re working with! I graduated from the EMP programme this summer. Originally I’m from Germany and
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-our-new-phd-student-lisa-heldt - 2025-12-07
On 14 September, the IIIEE is launching the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC): Greening the Economy - Lessons from Scandinavia on the course platform Coursera.How can we live a good life on one planet with over seven billion people? This Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) will explore greening the economy on four levels – individual, business, city, and nation. We will look at the relationships bet
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-mooc-launch-14-september - 2025-12-07
Johanna Lissinger Peitz is working as Chief negotiator for the Swedish delegation to the climate negotiations in Paris 2015. Home country: Sweden Current work position: Deputy Director, Division for Climate, Ministry of the Environment and Energy Graduation year from the IIIEE: 2000 Describe your job and the most exciting aspects of it:I am currently working as the Deputy Chief negotiator for the
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/deputy-director-division-climate-ministry-environment-and-energy-career-iiiee-alumna - 2025-12-07
Professor Jenny Palm and PhD student Frans Libertson state that the debate about Sweden's energy systems means a risk to overlook better and cheaper solutions to handle the lack of electricity. Sweden’s electricity production and consumption have become a hot topic this cold winter of 2021. Increasing prices and a lack of electricity has led to a discussion among politicians in Swedish media. In a
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/decentralized-energy-systems-give-advantages - 2025-12-07
The report Circular Economy Outlook 2021, published by Cradlenet, aims to provide insights on the state of the circular economy in Sweden today, and what we should expect going forward. While examining some of the main issues of the circular economy, this report focuses on the industry and business sectors. The report is based on qualitative interviews with circular economy experts, researchers, a
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-report-insights-circular-economy-cradlenet - 2025-12-07
