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Lund University
2013 | EDUCATION, RESEARCH AND INNOVATION SINCE 1666
A world-class university
• Founded in 1666
• 47 000 students
• 7 200 employees
- 820 professors
- 4 030 lecturers/researchers
and doctoral students
• Turnover EUR 750 million – 1/3
education, 2/3 research
A comprehensive university – 8 faculties
• Medicine
• Engineering
• Science
• Social Sciences
• Humanities and Theology
• Economics and Management
• Law
• Fine and Performing Arts
(Music, Theatre, Fine Art)
One university – multiple campuses
Lund – main campus
Malmö
Art Academy
Academy of Music
Theatre Academy
Skåne University Hospital
Helsingborg
Campus Helsingborg
Ljungbyhed
School of Aviation
Strategic plan 2012–2016
Vision
• A world-class university that works to understand, explain
and improve our world and the human condition
Goal
• Highest quality in education, research, innovation
and interaction with society
Four strategies
• Cross-boundary collaboration
• Internationalisation
• Quality enhancement
• Leader, teacher and employee excellence
Education – undergraduate and Master’s
Students
Individuals – total
over year
47 000
Individuals –
autumn semester
33 000
Degrees awarded
4 800
Education
Study programmes
Free-standing
courses
285
2 200
Education – PhD
Research students
Active
3 100
Admitted in 2012
515
Doctoral degrees
320
Sweden’s most international university
• Exchange students (individuals)
outgoing
1 100
incoming
1 900
• Non-exchange international
students: 3 700
• Sweden’s most popular
university for Master’s degrees
• 680 partner universities
in 50 countries worldwide
Most popular student city in Sweden
StudentLund >20 000 members
• Nations, extra-curricular social activities
• Unions, monitoring of education to safeguard quality and
student influence through some 1 000 representatives on all
levels at LU, taking part in the leadership of the university
• Academic Society (AF), operates student activities such as
television, radio, ‘spex’ comedy theatre, drama, choirs and
orchestras
• Housed in the AF building – the physical hub of student
life in Lund
Strong research areas
• Materials science and
nanotechnology
• Risk and safety management
• Automatic control
• Synchrotron radiation
research
• E-science
• Laser spectroscopy
• Manufacturing
engineering
• Climate and environment
• IT and mobile
communications
• Biodiversity
• Food
• Transport and logistics
• Quaternary geology
• Animal migration patterns
Strong research areas
• Cognitive science
• Cancer
• Linguistics
• Epidemiology
• Music education
• Economic history
• Neuroscience and
neurodegenerative diseases
• Economic demography
• Stem cells
• Innovation and
entrepreneurship
• Health and ageing
• Middle Eastern studies
• Diabetes
• Bioimaging
LUIS – Lund University Innovation System
• By ensuring research from Lund University is utilised, LUIS
will contribute to increased growth in Sweden.
• Helping researchers with business development, financing,
patents, networking, legal issues, etc.
• Utilisation through:
– Patenting and licensing
– Formation of companies
– Knowledge services
Innovation outcomes 2012
New innovation ideas
104
Commercialisation projects 70
Patent applications
22
Companies formed
16
New portfolio companies
6
Innovation outcomes since 1999
• Investments in over 60 new
research companies
• Over 2 000 full-time
equivalent jobs
• Over SEK 600 million in tax
revenue
An entrepreneurial university
• Integration of entrepreneurial
perspectives into Master’s
programmes and graduate schools
• All faculties included
• IKS – joint innovation office
for all HE institutions in southern
Sweden
• Ideon Science Park – 290
companies, the majority of which
have their origins in research
from Lund University
The MAX IV Laboratory
• World-leading synchrotron
radiation laboratory
• Using synchrotron radiation
to study materials at the
atomic scale
• For scientific breakthroughs
within medicine,
engineering and science
• Expected to be completed
in 2015
ESS
• Based on the world's most
powerful neutron source
• Will be used to study the
structure and function of
materials such as plastics,
proteins and medicines
• Expected to be completed
in 2019
• Will be used by a number
of European countries
Medicon Village
• Research, innovation and
enterprise working together to
create value for human health
and wellbeing
• 80 000 m2 to let – approx.
30 000 m2 of laboratories
• 570 workspaces
• In the long term, more than
1 000 people expected to work
at the centre
• Opened 2012 in AstraZeneca’s
former premises
LERU – League of European
Research Universities
A network to promote European
research. Other member
universities include:
• Cambridge
• Oxford
• Helsinki
• Heidelberg
Universitas 21
International network
of 24 leading research-intensive
universities in 15 countries
Examples of other members:
• Fudan, Shanghai
• Hong Kong
• Amsterdam
• Edinburgh
The Öresund region: one of the world’s
strongest research regions
• A hub for ideas, science and
culture
• A large proportion of the
business sector has its origins
in research
• International airport
(Copenhagen)
Lärosäten Syd – higher education
institutions in southern Sweden
• Cooperation for greater national
and international competitiveness,
within education, research and
innovation
• Mobility – students and teaching
staff
• Student housing
• Infrastructure