Published 10 June 2014 The Swedish Innovation Agency, VINNOVA, has granted 100 MSEK to the Strategic Innovation Programme, SIO Chronic Diseases, with the overall aim to create better health and increased growth in Sweden. If Sweden is to remain competitive on the global life science stage, the opportunities for turning research results into innovations providing growth and benefit for patients nee

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/100-millions-strengthen-swedish-life-science-sector - 2025-02-09

Published 6 October 2014 By studying identical twins, researchers from Lund University in Sweden have identified mechanisms that could be behind the development of type 2 diabetes. This may explain cases where one identical twin develops type 2 diabetes. The study involved 14 pairs of identical twins in Sweden and Denmark. One twin had type 2 diabetes and the other was healthy.“Twins are a good mo

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/study-identical-twins-reveal-type-2-diabetes-clues - 2025-02-09

Published 21 January 2015 Antidiabetics that also provide cardiovascular benefit is a key unmet need in diabetes treatment. ApoA-l is a protein shown to have both glucose lowering and cholesterol-lowering effects and has been investigated by Jens Lagerstedt and Karin Stenkula for its therapeutic potential. They have now received 2,5 million Danish kroner from the Novo Seeds for taking innvoation a

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/lagerstedt-and-stenkula-receive-novo-seed-grant - 2025-02-09

Published 31 March 2016 Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have found a new type of biomarker that can predict the risk of type 2 diabetes, by detecting epigenetic changes in specific genes through a simple blood test. “This could motivate a person at risk to change their lifestyle”, says Karl Bacos, researcher in epigenetics at Lund University. The results are published today in Nature Comm

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/new-method-measures-risk-type-2-diabetes-blood - 2025-02-09

Published 17 August 2017 We are very happy to announce that Lund University have been granted a new Project within Climate-KIC. The project is called "An Insurance-based climate adaptation tool for potato farming". Potato Late blight (Phytophthora infestans) is a devastating potato disease which occurs earlier and earlier in the potato growing season over the last decades. Compared to other crops,

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/new-climate-kic-project-awarded-lund-university - 2025-02-09

Published 25 August 2017 Ullrika Sahlin, risk specialist at Lund University, was awarded 15 000 Euros for her project "gaming for better decisions under uncertanty"at the Climate-KIC Ideation Day II this Tuesday. Ullrikas project aims at developing a fun and educational game for decision makers where they can develop skills in making decisions on climate related issues with consideration of risk a

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/ullrika-sahlin-awarded-project-money-climate-kic-ideation-day - 2025-02-09

Published 29 August 2017 Decition Metrics and Finance The flagship Climate Risk Information (CRI) is looking for exciting early stage innovation project proposals to complement existing project suites. Proposals should address one of the following priorities: - Demonstrate the use of climate risk models and data for concrete end-user applications: Projects should have strong involvement from inves

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/new-call-climate-kic-climate-risk-information - 2025-02-09

Published 27 September 2017 Climathon is a global 24-hour hackathon focusing on climate solutions that is run simultaneously in over 230 cities around the world on the 27th of October. This is the first time a Climathon is held in Lund. We face a number of significant climate challenges and need to work together, across traditional boundaries, to find new innovative solutions. Lund Climathon will

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/climathon-lund-2710 - 2025-02-09

Published 17 October 2017 Are you an entrepreneur within the circular economy or do you simply have a brilliant idea? Enter our Urban Challenge and bring your idea to life in the Circular Economy Hub South Harbour! In collaboration with Climate-KIC, The Integrated Urban Renewal Initiative of the South Harbour (the Municipality of Copenhagen) now invites citizens, students, entrepreneurs, local org

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/urban-challenge-circular-economy-hub-south-harbour - 2025-02-09

Published 17 October 2017 Climate-KIC’s Climate Innovation Summit is Europe’s leading event connecting city representatives, policymakers, businesses, entrepreneurs, scientists and academics and more to share best practice and create the opportunities to scale-up the solutions that accelerate climate action. This year’s summit is endorsed by the Fijian COP23 Presidency, and will take place under t

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/climate-innovation-summit-2017-milan - 2025-02-09

Published 7 November 2017 Climathon is an annual 24 hour hackathon for climate solutions. The format was launched by Climate-KIC 2015 and has spread rapidly across the globe. In 2017, 104 cities participated in 6 continents, all at the same time 27 October, 10:00 to 10:00 the following day. Lund University organized Climathon in Lund 2017 together with Lund Municipality and Kraftringen. This was t

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/climathon-lund-2017 - 2025-02-09

Published 14 November 2017 Greenhouse is Climate-KICs pre-incubation program for early stage entrepenurship projects. please read more about the program in the attached flyer. Please read more about the program in this flyer.

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Published 16 November 2017 Here is a video recording from the panel debate on Health, food and water – The need for innovations and new strategies in a changing climate that we organised in connection to the IPCC meeting in Malmö 23-27/10 2017.

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/climate-kic-sparks-lecture-health-food-and-water-need-innovations-and-new-strategies-changing - 2025-02-09

Published 28 November 2017 We had a photographer, Martin Olson, present at Climathon in Lund 2017. We wanted to share some of the pictures from this event with you.You can see them At Flickr web site it is also possible to see the pictures from the other 6 Climathons that were held in the Nordics this yearFlickr web site 

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/great-pictures-climathon-lund - 2025-02-09

Published 9 January 2018 Climate-KIC has released a number of important documents going forward 2018. There will be a common call for a number of different innovation and education projects at the 2 of March. Climate-KIC has released uppdated thematic priorities for 2018. Digging in to Climate-KIC theory it may be of interest to read the new Theory of Change document that has just been released.Al

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/climate-kic-documents-2018 - 2025-02-09

Published 10 January 2018 All calls for proposals in Climate-KIC will be gathered to three dates during 2018. One of the news for 2018 is that all calls (innovation and education) will be gathered at three specific dates during the year. This is great in itself because it makes things much easier. What is more important however is that there will also be dates (2 months in advance) when the call d

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/common-dates-calls-proposal-climate-kic-during-2018 - 2025-02-09

Published 14 February 2018 The Greenhouse Project has now restarted with four new exciting Projects. The four projects are:SOLEA Azotea Gardener that introduce a clever, efficient and easy vegetable growing method combined with the cultural richness of traditional handicraft and kitchen gardening. It is a simple hydroponioc technique that gives high yield of high quality products with minimum effo

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/four-new-greenhouse-projects-lund-accepted - 2025-02-09

Published 19 February 2018 Enjay is a rising star among the Climate-KIC Startup Accelerator companies. Read more about the latest developments. Enjay is developing a heat pump that can reuse the heat in exhaust air from restaurant kitchens. Up until now, this heat has been wasted. Reuse has not been possible due to the large amounts of fat and soot that comes with the airflow. Regular Heat pumps q

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/things-are-going-well-enjay - 2025-02-09

Published 19 February 2018 Things are going well for Climate-KIC startup Vultus. Sydsvenskan published a good article about the Company Read about Vultus at Sydsvenskan web pageGreat reading about a very interesting company.

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/sydsvenskan-article-about-vultus - 2025-02-09

Published 23 February 2018 How can we adapt farming to an uncertain future? Could the answer be Climate Smart Agriculture? Find out with this free online course developed by University iof Reading with support from Climate-KIC. Climate-KIC supports different online education modules with content provided from the partners. In this case the University of Reading has been responsible for the content

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/future-farming-exploring-climate-smart-agriculture-online-education - 2025-02-09