Published 25 March 2024 The first mobile research lab on food sharing as part of the EU project CULTIVATE is now concluded. The mobile research lab provided for a fruitful space for reflection, discussion, and exchange within the transdisciplinary team. On 18-23 March 2024, the IIIEE research team Yuliya Voytenko Palgan, Vera Sadovska, Oksana Mont and Andrius Plepys participated in the first mobil

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Published 26 March 2024 Today, 12 researchers at Lund University have been appointed Wallenberg Scholars, and one of them is Oksana Mont at the IIIEE. The program is funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation supporting high class research in medicine, technology and natural sciences. Today, the Wallenberg Scholars grants for the applications submitted in spring 2023 have been announced. I

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-got-its-first-wallenberg-scholar - 2025-07-11

Published 21 January 2016 IIIEE researcher Alvar Palm Local inspiration behind increases in solar powerInstalling a solar power plant is increasingly popular among Swedish homeowners. Despite nationally applied policies and subsidies, however, PV systems are much more common on house roofs in some municipalities than in others. When IIIEE researcher Alvar Palm tried to find an explanation for this

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-iiiee-researcher-alvar-palm - 2025-07-11

Published 21 January 2016 IIIEE researcher Luis Mundaca Photo: Sara Bernstrup Nilsson Green economy depends on high national ambitionsSustainable growth, supporting a resource efficient and low-carbon economy, is a high priority for most governments today. But which way is the most effective for the transition towards a green economy? IIIEE researchers Luis Mundaca and Lena Neij are soon wrapping

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-researcher-luis-mundaca - 2025-07-11

Published 3 April 2024 The IIIEE is a partner in the newly started ERASMUS+ project CLARITY that aims to help reduce climate anxiety in youth by equipping educators with tools to address the emotional and mental stress related to climate anxiety. Climate change education in schools and universities tends to focus on environmental facts, whilst little room is given to inner dimensions of change and

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-research-project-adress-climate-anxiety-among-youth - 2025-07-11

Published 8 April 2024 Today it is exactly one year until SCORAI Europe Conference 2025 in Lund! April 8-10 next year, 400+ researchers and practitioners in sustainable consumption will gather in Lund to discuss how to mainstream sustainable consumption. The conference is hybrid, so even full conference participation online is possible.Make sure to keep up to date by signing up to the conference n

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Published 8 April 2024 This week 8-13 is the Sustainability Week 2024, an annual event in Lund organized in by Lund University and Lund Municipality. In this year's program you will find lectures, workshops, guided tours, exhibitions, and more. The IIIEE is contributing with expert input in several seminars and activities.Below in the program the circled events denote those that are run with input

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Published 9 April 2024 Photo by Riccardo Annandale on Unsplash The latest IIIEE Energy blog introduces guest researcher's Senja Laakso’s work on Sustainable Practices and Energy Transitions. In January and February 2024, Senja Laakso from the Centre for Consumer Society Research, University of Helsinki, and Tampere University visited us at the IIIEE for six weeks. The latest Energy Blog is the fir

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Published 15 April 2024 In an event organised by the Skåne County Administrative Board as part of the Sustainability Week in Lund, IIIEE researchers Oksana Mont and Andrius Plepys presented results from the ongoing EU project 1.5°C lifestyles. About 200 decision-makers participated in the event. On Friday, 12 April nearly 200 decision-makers participated in the event organised as part of the Lund

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Published 24 February 2017 Almost 0.5 billion people have diabetes globally, many of whom are unaware of their condition; within the next two decades, this number is expected to double, largely owing to a growing, ageing, and increasingly industrialized global population. Lund University receives 100 million SEK from The Swedish Foundation of Strategic Research to help stop this development. “This

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/100-million-sek-personalized-medicine-diabetes - 2025-07-11

Published 24 February 2017 Throughout our lives, our genes are affected by the way we live. Diet, exercise, age and diseases create imprints that are stored in something called methylome. Now, for the first time, researchers at the Lund University Diabetes Centre in Sweden have been able to map the entire methylome in the pancreatic islets which produce insulin, and the researchers have made sever

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/unique-mapping-methylome-insulin-producing-islets - 2025-07-11

Published 21 April 2017 Six researchers from Lund University Diabetes Centre have recieved prestigous grants from the European Research Council (ERC). In order to celebrate the success we invited the public to an open seminar. Some of the talks can be reviewed here (in Swedish). Forskning för bättre folkhälsa:Framsteg inom typ 2-diabetes, fetma och hjärtsjukdomar   Föredrag av professor Olle Melan

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/successful-research-funded-european-research-council - 2025-07-11

Published 24 May 2017 They govern everything we think and do, they give us the ability to feel pain and to secrete insulin: they are the ion channels that are present in every one of our cells and that control the electrical impulses in our nerve and muscle cells. “For me, they are the very spark of life”, says Dame Frances Ashcroft, professor at the University of Oxford, who is also now to be an

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/injections-pills-research-neonatal-diabetes - 2025-07-11

Published 29 May 2017 Four researchers have been awarded grants from The Bo and Kerstin Hjelt Diabetes Foundation. The grant consists of Euro 50 000 each and are aiming towards better treatments and prevention of type 2-diabetes. Improved life expectancy and quality of people with diabetesDiabetes affects millions of patients around the world. The two main types of the disease, type 1 and type 2,

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/200000-euro-diabetes-research - 2025-07-11

Published 15 June 2017 There has been no known link between diabetes and vitamin A -- until now. A new study suggests that the vitamin improves the insulin producing β-cell´s function.The researchers initially discovered that insulin-producing beta-cells contain a large quantity of a cell surface receptor for vitamin A. "There are no unnecessary surface receptors in human cells. They all serve a p

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/role-vitamin-diabetes - 2025-07-11

Published 3 July 2017 Research from King’s College in London, UK, and Lund University in Sweden could explain why diabetes drugs which have worked in animal experiments are not equally successful in humans. The researchers discovered differences – but also unknown similarities – in the function of insulin-producing beta cells. The team have mapped a category of receptors, known as G protein-couple

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/new-research-describes-differences-between-mice-and-humans - 2025-07-11

By sara [dot] liedholm [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Liedholm) - published 14 September 2017 Taking advantage of a novel sub-classification of diabetes LUDC-IRC, a newly launched collaboration between academia, the health care system and industry, aims at delivering precision medicine in diabetes. LUDC-IRC consolidation meeting  - We have set the bar high. We very specifically aim at making a d

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Published 17 November 2017 Can insulin taken as an infant in small doses together with food render the immune system used to insulin and thus prevent type 1 diabetes? Can a gluten-free diet and probiotics prevent celiac disease (so called gluten intolerance)? These questions will be asked by two separate studies that are being planned at Lund University in Sweden. A new comprehensive screening of

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/newborn-babies-be-screened-studies-type-1-diabetes-and-celiac-disease-gluten-intolerance - 2025-07-11

Published 17 November 2017 Food researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered that consuming small amounts of chromium mixed with certain amino acids before eating is healthy. Why? Well, this mixture diluted in water suppresses the blood sugar spike that occurs when we eat. Now, they are hoping that the drink – which tastes like ordinary mineral water – will be able to compete with soft

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/new-drink-keeps-blood-sugar-check - 2025-07-11

Published 17 November 2017 There has been a fear that the swine flu vaccine, Pandemrix, would increase the risk of autoimmune diseases other than narcolepsy. However, a new study of children from Sweden and Finland shows that the vaccine increased neither the risk of developing autoantibodies against insulin-producing beta cells nor the occurrence of type 1 diabetes. Helena Elding Larsson “On the

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/risk-type-1-diabetes-not-increased-swine-flu-vaccine-pandemrix - 2025-07-11