SRA workshop series: The professional development workshop - Forming multidisciplinary collaborations and moving them forward

The aim of this workshop is to provide you with information from a selection of support organisations on how to develop your collaborations and applications to receive funding for your ideas. We will also listen to examples of fruitful multidisciplinary collaborations. The workshop offers a unique opportunity for networking to find new potential collaborators, and to work on a draft for a Pufendorf study group. Don’t miss the opportunity to learn more about your future possibilities at LU. 

The workshop is offered in English and in hybrid format, ending with a lunch mingle for those attending in-person (optional). The number of seats for the in-person alternative is limited to 45 people (applying "first-registered, first-served" principle). 

Register before 29 March for this workshop - docs.google.com

Preliminary program outline and guidelines for content

9.00 Welcome

9.05 Multidisciplinary collaborations for attaining the SDGs (Helen Avery)

Helen Avery, Researcher, Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies, and Project manager for the Workshop series on the Sustainable Development Goals

9.15 Pufendorf Institute

Stacey Ristinmaa Sörensen, Professor, Synchrotron Radiation Research, and Office director at Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies

9.30 Leg-strecher

9.35 LU Cooperation Office

Maria Johansson, Project manager, LU Cooperation Office

9.50 Coffe break

10.05 Group discussions

Discussions on obstacles to collaborations at LU.

10.30 Summarising group discussions

10.45 Short presentations of examples of multidisciplinary collaborations from the Strategic Research Areas

11.30 Horizon Europe and Vinnova 

Anna-Karin Wihlborg and Anneli Wiklander, Research Funding Advisors at LU Research Services

11.50 Matchmaking 

Draft a design for a Pufendorf study group. 

12.15 Summarising and take home

12.30 Lunch

Welcome to eat lunch, mingle and continue the discussions (optional). 

Target audience

Workshops will mainly target researchers, doctoral students, and research coordinators/administrators from the Strategic Research Areas (SRA's), but the workshops will be open to all staff within Lund University.

Goals

• To inspire and inform researchers about how to develop multidisciplinary collaborations and applications to receive funding for your ideas. 
• To support the formation of collaboration and innovation oriented towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's) within research proposals.
• To network between SRA's and strengthen sustainability knowledge, innovation capacity, and transdisciplinary potential. 

The workshop is arranged in collaboration with the Strategic Research Areas MultiPark, eSSENCE, EpiHealth and StemTherapy.

MultiPark - multipark.lu.se
eSSENCE - essenceofescience.se
EpiHealth - epihealth.lu.se
StemTherapy - stemcellcenter.se

Aim of the workshop series

As the climate and other planetary crises escalate, there is a need to develop the SRA’s to better meet the societal challenges and to find solutions to achieve a socially, environmentally and economically sustainable development worldwide. 

The aim of the workshops is to develop work processes of common interest, exchange experiences and strengthen sustainability collaboration between research areas, as well as to create a broader reflection on sustainability issues at Lund university and in society. The sustainable development goals can in this context function as a common language connecting academic activities with policy goals. 

Workshops will mainly target researchers, doctoral students and research coordinators/administrators from the Strategic Research Areas, but the workshops will be open to all staff within Lund University. 

Read more about the previous workshops at sustainability.lu.se