AktuelLTH is the internal newsletter at the Faculty of Engineering LTH. If you have news, suggestions or ideas you would like to share with your colleagues, let us know by emailing AktuelLTH@kansli.lth.se. If possible, please submit content in both Swedish and English.

At last year's Culture Night event we rolled out the red carpet outside Studiecentrum and received 1,000 visitors! We are doing it all over again this year.

Are you employed at LTH and would like to get involved, or just find out more about the event? Contact project leader Hanna Nilvall via email (hanna.nilvall@kansli.lth.se) or phone (046-222 33 08).

The Lund Culture Night takes place each year on the third Saturday of September. When it first launched in 1985 it was the only event of its kind, but has since been replicated by many other cities - both in Sweden and abroad.

During the NMT Days (NMT = Natur, Medicin och Teknikdagar/ Nature, Science and Engineering Days) we open up Lund University’s northern campus area, and offer upper secondary school students the opportunity to attend popular science lectures in science, technology and health care. The event is very popular and is attended by an average of 6,000 pupils from over 80 schools.

Read more about the NMT Days

Please note that Thursday 15th of March, the round of sixteen and the quarterfinals of the contest "Teknikåttan" will take place in Annexet. LTH will then be visited by 16 classes of eighth grade students who will be shown around by LTH students.

The Exploratory Pre-seed Program is a stimulus fund established to accelerate commercialization of biomedical research findings and development of novel technologies within the life sciences. The program seeks to support application-oriented research and to test new ideas that may lead to the development of new medical treatments, disease prevention, devices and diagnostic methods as well as new industrial biotechnology in the life science area.

The applicants can be faculty members, researchers and students based at universities, hospitals and other knowledge institutions in the Nordic countries. Projects from incubator development programs are also eligible.

Deadline to apply: 5 April 2017 at 4 pm.
Contact: Christina Maria Hald, Administrative Coordinator, cnmh@novo.dk, (+45) 35 27 66 15

More information and how to apply

Enterprise Ireland invites applicants to its new Marie Skłodowska-Curie cofunded trans-national programme that offers an opportunity for experienced researchers to develop their careers in market focused applied research in Ireland’s Technology Centres, with an enterprise secondment (of 6-12 months in an Enterprise Ireland client company) during the Fellowship (of 36 months).

Application deadline: 31 March 2017

More information and application 

The Marie Sklodowska Curie Individual Fellowships call for proposal 2017 will be launched on 11 April with deadline on 14 September 2017. Research Services will offer two training activities in preparation for the call. You may register for either or both:

• An on-line training course aimed at proposals with Lund University as host institution. The training course is aimed at both supervisor and fellow. It is the supervisor who registers participation.
  Deadline for registration is March 22. Limited number of places available. Supervisors who have a named eligible fellow at the registration deadline will be prioritized.
  More information and registration 
  For questions, please contact Teresia Rindefjäll: teresia.rindefjall@fs.lu.se
• A short information session aimed at all interested researchers at LU, fellows as well as supervisors.
  Register by 25 April.
  When: 4 May, 13.00-15.00
  Where: Hörsalen, Pufendorfinstitutet, Biskopsgatan 3, Lund

 The MSCA Individual Fellowships offer opportunities to:

• Recruit an experienced researcher from abroad
• Extend a post-doc period for a fellow already at LU for a period of 12-24 months.

Note that a mobility rule applies for the fellowships, i.e. at the deadline for the submission of applications, the fellow can have resided or carried out her main activity in the country of the host organisation for no more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the deadline.

More information on the MSCA Individual Fellowships.

You are welcome to meet some of the ERC teams working at Lund University, in various branches of science. The event is dedicated to students, researchers and anyone interested.

When: 15 March 2017, drop in between 16:00-17:00

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World Water Day is an annual event celebrated on March 22. The day focuses attention on the importance of fresh water and advocates for the sustainable management of freshwater resources.

During 2017, in connection with the Lund University 350-year anniversary, we pay extra attention to World Water Day by organizing an exciting day with inspirational lectures and exhibitions for high school students and teachers.

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WINGS, Women in Great Sciences, are happy to invite you on a lunch seminar with Charlotte Sjödell. Charlotte Sjödell is an industrial designer educated in the US. Charlotte used to be the Chief Designer of the European Colour and Materials Department at Ford Motor Company located in Germany. In 2003 she was listed as one of the most powerful people under 40 by the magazine Affärs Världen. Today she works as Assistant Professor and Assistant Director of the Programmes in Industrial Design at Lund University, Sweden, where she has taught since 2004.
Within WINGS Lunch Seminar, Charlotte will speak about her experience working in a male dominated industry and share her strategies on leadership.

When: March 24, 12.00-13.00
Where: BMC I:I1345
Kontakt: wings@wings.lu.se or tania.ramos_moreno@med.lu.se

Sign up 

Researchers, companies, and everybody interested in research-based innovation within Food and Health is welcome to take part to the seminar Food Innovation for a Health Future.

More information

When: March 28, 2017, 9.00-12.30
Where: Nedre Inspira, Medicon Village, byggnad 303, Scheelevägen 2, Lund
Register: Register by March 20 via email: maria.johansson@food-health-science.lu.se

All teachers, researchers and PhD-students who take active part in teaching are welcome to LUCA and LU Case Day 2017!

LUCA –Lund University Case Academy was formed as a network across faculties in February 2012 to promote case-based student active learning. It was started by a group of teachers from the Faculty of Engineering LTH, School of Economics and Management (LUSEM) and the Faculty of Medicine, who share an interest in case-based methods. These include the Harvard case method, today used at LUSEM and the Faculty of Medicine, project-based learning, often used in LTH, and problem-based learning used in the Faculty of Medicine1. LUCA is interested in widening the participation in the network to more teachers and faculties at Lund University. LUCA organizes since 2014 a local conference each year, LU Case Day, to share experiences and contribute to development of teaching and learning practices.

When: April 26-27, 2017
Where: Health Sciences Centre, Baravägen 3, Lund, room C315.
Register to participate 
Register your abstract for presentation 

Deadline for registration and abstract: March 17, 2017

The 9th International Cold Climate Conference Sustainable new and renovated buildings in cold climates invite submissions from academia, industry and municipalities presenting novel research results in all aspects of technologies and processes to achieve sustainable buildings and districts with a good indoor environmental quality and a minimum use of resources and energy. The conference covers technical, economic and social aspects of buildings and HVAC systems in new and renovated buildings and will have both theoretical and practical tracks.  

When: March 12-15, 2018
Where: Kiruna, Sweden

Submit your abstract before May 1, 2017

Abstract instructions and submission

At Lund University, we have excellent research infrastructure to support research in medicine, biology and biomedicine. Every month we highlight one special infrastructure, to increase the awareness of the available platforms. 

The infrastructure of March is MESO QuickPlex at MultiPark Platform

• Do you need sensitive protein detection?
• Do you need biomarker analysis?
• Do you want to save time and sample on your immunoassays?

The New MESO QuickPlex instrument allows:

• Multiple biomarker analysis in the same well
• A variety of sample types and small amounts of cell supernatant, serum, plasma, whole blood
• High throughput, outstanding sensitivity

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SASNET (Swedish South Asian Studies Network) is an interdisciplinary network for the promotion of research, education, and information about South Asia at Lund University. 

SASNET announces a call for one month position to prepare research application at Lund University
Read more and apply 

SASNET can also help you invite researchers from South Asia. For more information contact Elina-Maria Vidarsson: elina-maria.vidarsson@sasnet.lu.se

Industrial Design and Architecture students are welcome to join Arkipelago a one-day fair where representatives from companies and businesses come meet students interested in life after school who want to start networking, meet possible future employers (or employees) and talk to inspiring people that are already out there, working in your field.

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Congratulations to Ebrahim Parhamifar, Senior lecturer at Transport and Roads, has been awarded the pedagogical prize by The Nordic Road Associaton for his outstanding work within the road, road traffic and road transport sector.

Ebrahim Parhamifar will receive the prize in Stockholm during The Nordic Roas Association's annual meeting on March 15th.