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Strategic Research Areas

Strong Research Environments

Visiting address: Lunds Universitet

Strategic Research Areas' profile in Lund University Research portal

Description

In 2009, the government decided to invest in strategic research areas, as part of creating world-leading research, on the recommendation of the Swedish Research Council, Fas, Formas, Vinnova and the Swedish Energy Agency..

Lund University has 11 strategic research areas, the activities of which span virtually all faculties and are often interdisciplinary, for which LU annually receives about SEK 190 million in earmarked funds.

Organisations (parallel)

BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate
ELLIIT: the Linköping-Lund initiative on IT and mobile communication
EXODIAB: Excellence of Diabetes Research in Sweden
EpiHealth: Epidemiology for Health
MECW: The Middle East in the Contemporary World
MERGE: ModElling the Regional and Global Earth system
MultiPark: Multidisciplinary research focused on Parkinson´s disease
NanoLund: Center for Nanoscience
SPI: Sustainable Production Initiative
StemTherapy: National Initiative on Stem Cells for Regenerative Therapy
eSSENCE: The e-Science Collaboration