Lund University2013 | 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

MalmöArt AcademyAcademy of MusicTheatre AcademySkåne University Hospital

HelsingborgCampus Helsingborg

LjungbyhedSchool 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 285

Free-standing 2 200courses

Education – PhD

Research students

Active 3 100

Admitted in 2012 515

Doctoral degrees 320

Sweden’s most international university

• Exchange students (individuals)outgoing 1 100incoming 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

• Risk and safety management

• Synchrotron radiation research

• Laser spectroscopy

• Climate and environment

• Quaternary geology

• Biodiversity

• Animal migration patterns

• Materials science and nanotechnology

• Automatic control

• E-science

• Manufacturing engineering

• IT and mobile communications

• Food

• Transport and logistics

Strong research areas

• Cancer

• Epidemiology

• Neuroscience andneurodegenerative diseases

• Stem cells

• Health and ageing

• Bioimaging

• Cognitive science

• Linguistics

• Music education

• Economic history

• Economic demography

• Innovation and entrepreneurship

• Middle Eastern studies

• Diabetes

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