Distinctions and financial funding

Karin Ljung receives Roséns Linnaeus Prize in Botany

Last Saturday, Karin Ljung was presented the Roséns Linnaeus Prize in Botany from the Royal Physiographic Society of Lund. She is awarded for her research efforts investigating root development and

New seed funding call within critical Living Labs

SLU Urban Futures issues seed funding grants to initiate and develop research connected to critical Living Labs. The call closes on the 12th of January 2024. The funding is offered to support

New European project: Naturescapes

Professor Kes McCormick and the Department of People and Society are part of a new project on nature-based solutions and transformative change that adopts a landscape perspective. Nature-based

More marine research from the Svea with support from the Swedish Research Council and the EU

Now it will be easier for more people to utilize R/V Svea and other research vessels. A Swedish network, which includes six research ships, receives funding from the Swedish Research Council so that

Four researchers from SLU among the most cited

Four researchers from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences are on the 2023 list of highly cited researchers presented by Clarivate, the company behind Web of Science. In the list, nearly

Charles Melnyk receives a consolidator grant from the ERC

Charles Melnyk, a plant biology researcher and grafting expert at SLU, has been awarded one of the most prestigious research grants in Europe, a consolidator grant from the European Research Council

New research on the forests unknown nitrogen fixers

SLU research project gets funding to fill knowledge gap about one of the boreal forest's most crucial nutrients. Forests rely on nitrogen for growth. However, in the cold, boreal forests, the

SLU researcher's thesis receives Finnish-Swedish scholarship

Ostrobothnian SLU researcher Betty Ehnvall awarded 50,000 SEK for her thesis on mire development in the wake of glacial rebound along the Bothnian bay coastline. The scholarship is awarded by the

SLU attractive employer

SLU is the best in class among all educational institutions when Randstad ranks Sweden's most attractive employers. The survey, Randstad Employer Brand Research , is conducted annually and has over

William Lidberg wins Västerbottens SKAPA-award 2023

Through the Geographic Intelligence tool, SLU researcher William Lidberg has been able to leverage decades of geodata and create a product with significant potential. This is the assertion of the

Stipender forskning Ukraina

The Faculty of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences (NJ) announces a program providing scholarships for researchers in agricultural sciences employed at universities or research institutes in

Doctoral award ceremony 2023

On Saturday 7 October it was time for the Doctoral award ceremony at SLU. During the ceremony 64 new doctors, 13 jubilee doctors and 6 honorary doctors received their degrees. The receivers of the