Published 25 January 2015 Today, Monday 26 January, the new report "Klimatsäkrat Skåne" will be launched. The report is a knowledge review and analysis of Skåne's climate work including opportunities and challenges. The launch event focuses on three panel discussions on how we should make our society less vulnerable to climate change, how we use ecosystem services and the implications of climate c

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/new-report-about-regional-climate-challenges-and-adaptation-skane - 2025-02-21

Published 5 March 2015 Arctic View, CC Photo: UN, Mark Garten The role of biogeophysical feedbacks and their impacts in the arctic and boreal climate system is the name of Wenxing Zhangs thesis, which he defended on February 6 2015. On February 6th Wenxin Zhang defended his thesis The role of biogeophysical feedbacks and their impacts in the arctic and boreal climate system. Opponent was Laxmi Sus

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/role-biogeophysical-feedbacks-and-their-impacts-arctic-and-boreal-climate-system - 2025-02-21

Published 9 March 2015 ClimBEco is a two-year graduate research school that promotes young scientists to engage in interdisciplinary research on climate, earth system and society in a changing world. Application to ClimBEco is open right now until the 14th of April. The Research School is open to students who are already enrolled as PhD students. Priority will be given to PhD students enrolled at

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/apply-climbeco-graduate-research-school-2015-2017 - 2025-02-21

Published 16 March 2015 DataGURU is a tool for researchers to disseminate and find climate, land use, biodiversity and related data. The tool can also be of value as open data strategy in future applications for research funding. This work has been commissioned by the strategic research areas MERGE and BECC. The team, led by researcher Veiko Lehsten, developed a tool for the dissemination of the r

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/dataguru-new-tool-disseminating-and-finding-spatial-temporal-data - 2025-02-21

Published 30 April 2015 The Strategic Research Area initiative for research funding was launched by the Swedish Government in the research and innovation bill of 2008. 43 Swedish strategic research areas (SRA’s) was funded by the Swedish government from 2010-2014. MERGE is one of the SRA’s that now have been evaluated. Today the evaluation, together with recommendations for the future, was publish

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/positive-evaluation-merge - 2025-02-21

Published 28 May 2015 Photo: Luciana Porfirio Tropical rainforests have long been considered the Earth’s lungs, sequestering large amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and thereby slowing down the increasing greenhouse effect and associated human-made climate change. Scientists in a global research project now show that the vast extensions of semi-arid landscapes occupying the transition

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/new-article-science-shows-savannahs-slows-climate-change - 2025-02-21

Published 15 June 2015 On May 11-13 an international LUsTT/BECC/MERGE workshop was organized in Landskrona, with around 60 leading researchers within the field of dynamic vegetation modelling. Report from the LUsTT/BECC/MERGE Workshop: “Dynamic global vegetation modelling: towards a third generation”.LPJ-GUESS is a Dynamical Global Vegetation model (DGVM) maintained and further developed at the De

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/report-dynamic-global-vegetation-modelling-towards-third-generation - 2025-02-21

Published 2 April 2015 On February 24th and 25th, the kick-off meeting for the NordicESM project took place in Oslo. The aim of NordicESM is to enhance the collaboration on the field of Earth System modelling within the Nordic Countries. The project therefore involves all Nordic research groups working with the Earth System models NorESM and EC-Earth. Amongst other institutes in Europe, Lund Unive

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/nordicesm-meeting - 2025-02-21

By pia [dot] berntsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Pia Berntsson) - published 23 March 2021 Photo of Sophia Zackrisson by André de Loisted A new LUCC Coordinator has been appointed by the Dean of Faculty of Medicine at Lund University. Professor Sophia Zackrisson has been appointed as the new LUCC coordinator for a 3-year period and she will replace Kristian Pietras as coordinator from March 1st 2

https://www.lucc.lu.se/internal/article/new-lucc-coordinator - 2025-02-21

Published 7 September 2021 New board members: Jesper Petersson and Stefan Jovinge Jesper Petersson, R & D Director Region Skåne will replace Hannie Lundgren (from April 2021) and Stefan Jovinge will replace Ingemar Petersson as representative Region Skåne (Head of Research at Skåne University Hospital) from Autumn 2021.

https://www.lucc.lu.se/internal/article/new-board-members-lucc - 2025-02-21

Published 16 September 2021 New board member: Gottfrid Sjödahl Gottfrid Sjödahl will replace Helena Persson as representative for Future Faculty with starting date 14 September 2021.

https://www.lucc.lu.se/internal/article/new-board-member-lucc-0 - 2025-02-21

Published 7 October 2021 New PhD student representative: Axel Bengtsson Axel Bengtsson will replace Gjendine Voss as PhD student representative in the LUCC board for the academic year 2021/2022.

https://www.lucc.lu.se/internal/article/new-phd-student-representative-lucc-board - 2025-02-21

Published 18 March 2022 New board member: Catarina Lundin Catarina Lundin has replaced Bodil Ivarsson as representative for Region skåne with starting date 8 December 2021.

https://www.lucc.lu.se/internal/article/new-board-member-lucc-1 - 2025-02-21

Published 11 May 2022 Several calls within LUCC have been open during Spring 2022 in different areas - innovation, nursing & rehabilitation and pancreatic cancer (private donation). The awardées were presented during the LUCC retreat which took place on 5 May 2022 in the Skåne University Hospital Lecture Hall in Lund. Charlène Estrada, Postdoctor, with the project "Study of cancer-associated fibro

https://www.lucc.lu.se/internal/article/grants-researchers-private-donation-and-lucc-strategic-funding - 2025-02-21

Published 15 May 2022 Skåne University Hospital Cancer Centre (SUHCC) has been accredited as Comprehensive Cancer Centre (CCC) by the Organisation of European Cancer Institutes (OECI). The accreditation as Comprehensive Cancer Centre means that an organisation has been approved according to the highly set quality criteria of the Organisation of European Cancer Institutes (OECI). Skåne University H

https://www.lucc.lu.se/internal/article/skane-university-hospital-cancer-centre-accredited-comprehensive-cancer-centre - 2025-02-21

Published 13 June 2022 Mef Nilbert will replace Lisa Rydén as representative for Skåne University Hospital in the LUCC Executive Group, starting 1 July 2022. Vinay Swaminathan will replace Håkan Axelson as representative for education in the LUCC Executive Group, starting 1 January 2023.

https://www.lucc.lu.se/internal/article/new-representatives-lucc-executive-group - 2025-02-21

Published 6 September 2022  The LUCC Executive group met at the Old Bishop's house to discuss the future strategy for LUCC on 29 August 2022. There were fruitful discussions about funding, activities and the future Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) since the plan is to establish a common SAB with Skåne University Hospital Comprehensive Cancer Centre (SUHCCC). Photo by Sophia Zackrisson and Pia Bernt

https://www.lucc.lu.se/internal/article/lucc-strategy-day-29-august-2022 - 2025-02-21

Published 24 January 2023 Welcome Jana Hagman! Jana Hagman will start 1 March 2023 (20%) to support LUCC with communication in English and support to bigger events for the strategic translational networks. Jana is also Research Coordinator for the EU-funded CanFaster programmes hosted by Immunotechnology at Faculty of Engineering, Lund university. Welcome and we are looking forward to work with yo

https://www.lucc.lu.se/internal/article/new-administrative-support - 2025-02-21

By Pia [dot] Berntsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Pia Berntsson) - published 12 February 2020 Lund University Cancer Centre was officially opened on the World Cancer Day 4 February 2020. The event was opened by the Dean of Faculty of Medicine, Erik Renström, who is the Chair of the Board of LUCC. The LUCC organisation and its strategic plan for 2020-2024 was presented by the LUCC Coordinator, Kri

https://www.lucc.lu.se/internal/article/inauguration-lund-university-cancer-centre-4-february-2020 - 2025-02-21

Published 24 October 2023 Mats Jerkeman will take over as LUCC coordinator next year (1 March 2024) when Sophia Zackrisson's 3-year term of office as coordinator ends. It is the Dean of Faculty of Medicine that decide about the LUCC coordinator within LUCC after an internal nomination procedure.

https://www.lucc.lu.se/internal/article/new-lucc-coordinator-start-1-march-2024 - 2025-02-21