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Website for researchers calendar/A RSS feed provided by Umeå Universityen-usFri, 01 May 2026 06:46:39 +0200/en/events/impact-innovation--mobilising-for-breakthrough-innovation_12170840/Impact Innovation – Mobilising for Breakthrough InnovationWelcome to a breakfast seminar where Impact Innovation will share early results and important lessons that show the way to groundbreaking innovation.Wed, 06 May 2026 08:30:00 +0200<h2>Impact Innovation mobilizes Sweden's innovative power</h2>Are you curious about how far Sweden's innovation initiative Impact Innovation has come? Welcome to a breakfast seminar on May 6th where we will share early results and important lessons that show the way to groundbreaking innovation, both relevant for Europe and globally.The seminar is aimed at those of you who are interested in how large-scale system change can contribute to better decision-making and policy development for a green transition and long-term competitiveness.During the seminar, representatives of the five Impact Innovation programs share early results and key lessons from initiatives from leading efforts to mobilise innovation for the green transformation, strengthening resilience and competitiveness in Sweden and Europe.   An expert from the OECD Mission Lab discuss the impact of mission‑driven initiatives, and a leading academic voice offers perspectives on why societal transitions are both necessary and difficult, and how they can be made real in practice.The seminar is arranged by Sweden Innovationx and is held in English.<a href="https://www.vinnova.se/en/events-calendar/2026/05/impact-innovation--mobilising-for-breakthrough-innovation/?utm_medium=email">Learn more and sign up</a><h2>What are Impact Innovation and Sweden Innovationx?</h2>Impact Innovation is Sweden's major innovation initiative that tackles the challenges of our time and the future with groundbreaking innovations - and shows the way to a continued sustainable and competitive Sweden, rich to live in for all. Impact Innovation is a joint effort between the Swedish Energy Agency, Formas and Vinnova. The initiative is based on Agenda 2030, the EU's mission and social policy objective.Sweden Innovationx is a platform that will connect the Swedish innovation system with the outside world. The goal is to strengthen international partnerships that promote sustainable growth and competitiveness through innovation. Sweden Innovationx is run by Vinnova and is part of Team Sweden.OnlineSeminar/en/events/impact-innovation--mobilising-for-breakthrough-innovation_12170840/2026-05-06T08:30:00+02:002026-05-06T09:30:00+02:00/en/events/icelab-lunch-pitch-kelly-swarts-morgan-jones-and-chinmay-dwibedi_12156660/IceLab Lunch Pitch: Kelly Swarts, Morgan Jones and Chinmay DwibediThe Integrated Science Lab invites you to meet, and explore collaboration opportunities with Kelly Swarts, Morgan Jones and Chinmay Dwibedi.Wed, 06 May 2026 12:00:00 +0200The Integrated Science Lab invites you to join the conversation at a Lunch Pitch. Kelly Swarts will talk about predicting missing growth in trees, Morgan Jones will discuss paleoclimate research opportunities in Svalbard, and Chinmay Dwibedi wants more representative genome coverage of the human gut microbiome.<h2>Join the conversation - everyone is welcome!</h2>To encourage cross pollination of ideas between researchers from different disciplines, IceLab hosts interdisciplinary research lunches with the vision of allowing ideas to meet and mate. During the Lunch Pitch Season, the creative lunches take place at KBC (Glasburen) on a Wednesday.<h3>Registration</h3>Register to come to the pitch and reserve your lunch by Monday, 4 May at 10am.<div class="epi-contentfragment">IceLab Lunch Pitch Register and Watch</div>IceLab Lunch Pitch registration will open two weeks before the event.  Note! The default lunch option is a vegetarian falafel sandwich. You can choose an alternative lunch in a separate form that will be emailed to you once you have registered.  <h2>Who is pitching about what?</h2><h3> Pitch 1: Kelly Swarts, Assistant professor and DDLS fellow at Umeå Plant Science Centre, SLU</h3>Predicting missing growth from tree increment coresUtilizing annual growth data from tree increment cores requires the correct assignment of year of growth to each observed ring so that it can be associated with environmental records such as weather station or satellite  data. However, sometimes trees do not grow because of unfavorable growing conditions, disease, etc., resulting in mis-categorized years for the rest of the series. Typically, identification of missing growth data, called “cross-dating”, is done by leveraging shared environmental responses between neighboring trees. Since missing rings are rarely shared by all trees for the same year, it is possible to identify missing rings through inference.Unfortunately, the state of the art is that this is done by “people who are good at it”, which is not really replicable and accuracy is nearly impossible to assess. Dani Muraja in my group has been working on a Fourier phase based approach to comparing series, which can identify series with likely missing data, but cannot identify the problematic year reliably, primarily due to noisy signal with variable power over time.We’ve been working on methods to scale the approach to populations using temporal (video) CNNs, but it’s not clear what the appropriate architecture is.<h3>Pitch 2: Morgan Jones, Associate professor at Department of Ecology, Environment and Geoscience</h3>SvalClime: Deep-time paleoclimate archive opportunities in and around SvalbardPaleoclimate is important to study as natural analogues to current and future change are only available in the geological record. Svalbard is an exceptional locality for deep-time paleoclimate research because 1) there is a sedimentary record somewhere on the archipelago that covers >80% of the last 600 million years; 2) it has modern transport links and logistics that allow for accessible field campaigns at 78 °N; and 3) it provides a rare high-latitude perspective on environmental change as existing records are dominated by lower-latitude localities. However, rock faces are often affected by the harsh climate conditions, which prevents high resolution study of past climate variability. The ideal study material is drill core, as this provides a near-continuous record that has been protected by the effects of surface weathering.A MagellanPlus workshop in 2022 set up the SvalClime collaboration, which seeks to apply for funding opportunities to drill key environmental events in the Phanerozoic. This includes transitions to Icehouse worlds in the Late Paleozoic (360–255 million years ago [Ma]) and Eocene-Oligocene (34 Ma), but also periods of extreme warming known as hyperthermals that interspersed the Mesozoic (252 – 66 Ma). These drilling initiatives offer exciting opportunities for other scientific fields, such as the taxonomic and metabolic diversity of microbial communities in the intraterrestrial deep biosphere.Opening the collaboration further expands the scientific potential of SvalClime, while also increasing the chances of success when applying for International Continental scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) funding.<h3>Pitch 3: Chinmay Dwibedi, Research Fellow at Department of Clinical Microbiology</h3>Reconstruction of Alpha genomes of human gut bacteriaIt is estimated that approximately 80% of human gut bacteria remain uncultured, leaving within-species diversity largely unexplored. Consequently, existing reference genomes do not adequately capture the full extent of global gene diversity. To address this limitation, we propose to construct gene-aware, graph-based reference genomes that better represent global microbial diversity and improve the mapping of gut metagenomic reads.Interested in: Method development for graph-based assemblies combining sparse genes.<h2>Where is it?</h2> KBC Glasburen, near the KBC café. Find your way to the venue (<a href="https://link.mazemap.com/9dsf42gT">mazemap link</a>)IceLab Lunch Pitches are made possible through funding from KBC for the venue and from Stress Response Modeling at IceLab for their coordination and lunches. KBC GlasburenSeminar/en/events/icelab-lunch-pitch-kelly-swarts-morgan-jones-and-chinmay-dwibedi_12156660/2026-05-06T12:00:00+02:002026-05-06T13:00:00+02:00/en/events/join-us-in-celebrating-europe-and-ec2u_12171582/Join us in celebrating Europe and EC2U!On 1 May 2025, Umeå University formally joined the European university alliance EC2U, and now it’s time to celebrate our first year together!Thu, 07 May 2026 12:00:00 +0200In early May 2025, Umeå University joined the European university alliance EC2U, and now it’s time to celebrate our first year together! On 7 May from 12:00 to 13:00, we invite you to join us for a celebration at Lindellhallen. As it is also the same week as Europe Day (which falls on Saturday the 9th), we will be taking the opportunity to highlight Europe and our European partners within EC2U.We’ll be serving coffee and cake, and you’ll have the chance to meet the EC2U team here at Umeå Universtiy. Ask questions, chat, and learn more about what EC2U is and what activities and opportunities are coming up. You might even discover something that is especially interesting for you.🎂☕ First come, first served! <a title="EC2U at Umeå University" href="/link/8478b4e6edc844c5815e0ff05ab131bd.aspx">Learn more about EC2U at Umeå University</a>LindellhallenOther/en/events/join-us-in-celebrating-europe-and-ec2u_12171582/2026-05-07T12:00:00+02:002026-05-07T13:00:00+02:00/en/events/think-tank-about-ai-and-teaching_12162411/Think Tank: About AI and teachingWelcome to the launch of the three year initiative AI for LearningTue, 12 May 2026 10:00:00 +0200Welcome to the launch of the three year initiative AI for Learning by Centre for Educational Development on May 12. We invite the entire university to a Think Tank on AI in Higher Education. <a href="/link/fff0d30c729246b699f8f3204eab84bc.aspx">Programme and registration</a>The day begins with parallel workshops and continues in the afternoon with an engaging programme featuring guest speakers and examples of AI use from across the university. The student unions will also share their perspectives on AI in higher education.Welcome! Language: Most of the programme will be conducted in Swedish. The second keynote of the day will be delivered in English. Aula BiologicaConference/en/events/think-tank-about-ai-and-teaching_12162411/2026-05-12T10:00:00+02:002026-05-12T16:30:00+02:00/en/events/ec2u-webinar-living-with-dementia-in-residential-care_12170061/EC2U webinar: Living with dementia in residential care“Living with dementia in residential care: what research tells us” will be held online on 14 May. Attendance is free, subject to prior registration.Thu, 14 May 2026 10:00:00 +0200On 14 May, at 9:00 am (Portugal time), the EC2U alliance will host the webinar “Living with dementia in residential care: what research tells us”. Organised by the Virtual Institute for Health and Well-being for All (GLADE) of the EC2U – European Campus of City-Universities alliance, the event will focus on presenting and discussing recent findings on the living conditions of people with dementia in long-term residential care settings.The webinar is free to attend and open to the communities of all EC2U member universities. Prior registration is required via this link: <a title="EC2U - Living with demential in residential care" href="https://ls.uc.pt/index.php/263245?lang=en">https://ls.uc.pt/index.php/263245?lang=en</a>The event is part of the alliance's knowledge transfer activities and will present findings from the research project SINDIA - Socio-spatial Inequalities in Dementia led by Miguel Padeiro, a professor at at the University of Coimbra’s Faculty of Arts and Humanities (FLUC) and researcher at the Centre of Studies in Geography and Spatial Planning (CEGOT). The project explores how institutional environments, organisational conditions, and territorial contexts shape the experience of people with dementia in residential settings.The webinar is aimed at researchers, teaching staff, students, healthcare and social care professionals, policymakers and members of the public with an interest in ageing and dementia.The 90-minute programme will begin with a presentation of the SINDIA project findings, followed by sessions on specific aspects of residential care — including territorial inequalities and institutional organisation — and conclude with an open discussion designed to encourage dialogue between science, practice, and society.The initiative aims not only to share scientific knowledge in an accessible way, but also to contribute to improving care practices and raising public awareness of dementia as a growing societal challenge.OnlineOther/en/events/ec2u-webinar-living-with-dementia-in-residential-care_12170061/2026-05-14T10:00:00+02:002026-05-14T11:30:00+02:00/en/events/writing-narratives-transformations_12163855/Writing narratives of transformationBring your own text and explore how the understanding of narratives can help shape and improve it. Mon, 18 May 2026 11:30:00 +0200How can narratives help shape how research on sustainable transformation is understood, communicated and explored within and across disciplines? This question will be addressed in a series of two workshops taking place this spring. The workshops are organised with the support of <a href="/link/6d3f2b829bd7423aa69ec33909f7e85e.aspx">Umeå Transformation Research Initiative, UTRI</a>.The workshops are open to researchers from all disciplines who are interested in engaging with narrative approaches in relation to their own research.In this workshop we build on perspectives introduced in Workshop 1: <a href="/link/59bd53894e80491b95dfdc555f4bed3e.aspx">Climate fiction and future narratives</a> but it is not a requirement to have participated in Workshop 1.For this workshop we ask participants to bring a text/example that you would like to work with. It could be an introduction to an article, a popular scientific text, a manuscript for a video/podcast, your presentation on UMU:s webpage, or something else. Recommended length of the text: 100-400 words (please bring 4 paper copies). Participants will in small groups read and work with these examplesThe workshop will be led by: Matilda Marshall, Maria Lindgren Leavenworth and Elena Lindholm.<h3>Program and registration</h3>11:30 Lunch12:00-13:00 WorkshopRegister for the workshop no later than 14 May: <a href="https://forms.office.com/e/q7kmz82jKE">Registration form</a>Sirius, GalaxenWorkshop/en/events/writing-narratives-transformations_12163855/2026-05-18T11:30:00+02:002026-05-18T13:00:00+02:00/en/events/aimday--organisations-in-transition_12145176/AIMday – Organisations in transitionMeet fellow researchers and external partners to discuss how organisations can navigate the need for constant change. Register by 29 April.Tue, 19 May 2026 08:30:00 +0200 Organisations today face constant pressure to adapt, driven by competition, technological advances, climate change, and skills shortages. How can we understand and respond to these challenges? Join us at AIMday to explore the answers together. Register as a participating researcher by 29 April. <h2>What is AIMday?</h2>AIMday is a meeting format where participants from diverse backgrounds come together to examine a question from multiple perspectives over the course of one hour. External organisations submit concrete questions they wish to discuss with researchers. This year’s theme is organisations in transition, and you can choose which discussions to contribute to, based on your expertise and research interests.<h2>Why attend?</h2>On 19 May, you will have the opportunity to meet fellow researchers and professionals from across sectors to discuss current organisational challenges, exhange knowledge, and lay the foundations for new collaborations.Focus areas for the day:<ul><li>Safe and secure working environments – physical and psychosocial</li><li>Digital and technological transformation</li><li>Environmental, economic, and social sustainability</li><li>Skills supply and lifelong learning</li><li>Resources and change management in the public sector</li></ul><h2>Register to participate as a researcher</h2>As a researcher, you choose which questions you would like to discuss based on your expertise.<ul><li><a href="https://www.aimday.se/umea/2026/organisationer-i-forandring/en/challenges">Review the list of submitted questions</a> between 30 March and 29 April.</li><li>Register which questions you would like to discuss based on your research interests.</li></ul>On AIMday, you will meet in small groups to discuss your perspectives on a topic of mutual interest. You are welcome to participate in selected parts of the day.<a href="https://www.aimday.se/umea/2026/organisationer-i-forandring/en/registration-for-researchers">Register to participate as a researcher on 29 April at the latest</a><a href="https://www.aimday.se/umea/2026/organisationer-i-forandring/en/registration-for-researchers">Learn more about AIMday – Organisations in transition</a>Vardagsrummet, the Humanities BuildingWorkshop/en/events/aimday--organisations-in-transition_12145176/2026-05-19T08:30:00+02:002026-05-19T15:30:00+02:00/en/events/icelab-lunch-pitch-verena-kohler-preeti-moar-and-par-bystrom_12167443/IceLab Lunch Pitch: Verena Kohler, Preeti Moar and Pär ByströmThe Integrated Science Lab invites you to meet, and explore collaboration opportunities with Verena Kohler, Preeti Moar and Pär Byström.Wed, 20 May 2026 12:00:00 +0200The Integrated Science Lab invites you to join the conversation at a Lunch Pitch. More information about what Verena Kohler, Preeti Moar and Pär Byström will pitch about will be available soon.  <h2>Join the conversation - everyone is welcome!</h2>To encourage cross pollination of ideas between researchers from different disciplines, IceLab hosts interdisciplinary research lunches with the vision of allowing ideas to meet and mate. During the Lunch Pitch Season, the creative lunches take place at KBC (Glasburen) on a Wednesday.<h3>Registration</h3>Register to come to the pitch and reserve your lunch by Monday, 18 May at 10am.IceLab Lunch Pitch registration will open two weeks before the event.  Note! The default lunch option is a vegetarian falafel sandwich. You can choose an alternative lunch in a separate form that will be emailed to you once you have registered.  <h2>Who is pitching about what?</h2><h3> Pitch 1: Verena Kohler, Assistant professor at Department of Molecular Biology</h3>Scaling Up Yeast Stress Biology: From Manual Annotation to AutomationWhat we do: We use yeast as a high‑throughput model to study how cells respond to stress during ageing. Using robotic screening and several fluorescently tagged libraries, we can monitor thousands of strains in parallel and follow protein behaviour across conditions. We have established pipelines to measure growth and have manually scored microscopy datasets, creating a curated, high-quality annotated resource from epifluorescence imaging (with confocal data coming soon).Where we want help: We now want to scale this further by systematically analysing protein localisation, aggregation, and changes in organelle shape under stress, where we expect to uncover new phenotypes and compare them to published data. To achieve this, we want to automate both image processing and phenotype scoring—and are looking for ideas and expertise to make this faster, more robust, and scalable.<h3>Pitch 2: Preeti Moar, Postdoc at Department of Clinical Microbiology</h3>Early life immune programming and infection riskFrequent infections in early childhood impose a substantial and largely preventable burden on children, families, and healthcare systems. Yet even in settings with relatively uniform healthcare access and high vaccination coverage, children show striking differences in how often they are sick. Why some get infections repeatedly while others remain resilient remains poorly understood. Leveraging the NorthPop birth cohort, we address this question by integrating early‑life immune data with detailed registry‑based information on prenatal, environmental, and socioeconomic exposures. The biological focus is on early immune programming, including immune factors transferred from the mother as well as the child’s developing mucosal immune system, which serves as the first line of defense against infections. The analytical focus is on modeling how these immune processes interact with environmental context over time and on identifying how divergent infection trajectories, together with vulnerability or resilience, emerge from these interacting systems in early life.Interested in: Collaborations around innovative analytical methods for complex data analysis.<h3>Pitch 3: Pär Byström, Professor, Department of Ecology, Environment and Geoscience</h3>Information about Pär's pitch is coming soon<h2>Where is it?</h2> KBC Glasburen, near the KBC café. Find your way to the venue (<a href="https://link.mazemap.com/9dsf42gT">mazemap link</a>) IceLab Lunch Pitches are made possible through funding from KBC for the venue and from Stress Response Modeling at IceLab for their coordination and lunches. KBC GlasburenSeminar/en/events/icelab-lunch-pitch-verena-kohler-preeti-moar-and-par-bystrom_12167443/2026-05-20T12:00:00+02:002026-05-20T13:00:00+02:00/en/events/aimday-within-south-africa---sweden-university-forum_12170123/AIMday within South Africa - Sweden University ForumTake part in an online AIMday, within the South Africa–Sweden University Forum. Register by 24 April. Tue, 26 May 2026 09:00:00 +0200On 26 May, a digital AIMday will be held as part of the South Africa–Sweden University Forum (SASUF+), in which researchers and organisations from both Sweden and South Africa are invited to participate. Please register by 24 April.The format involves one question per hour, with researchers and organisations coming together for structured discussions on societal challenges of mutual interest. AIMday within SASUF+ is specifically designed to initiate international collaborations, which may subsequently lead to joint projects and applications for seed funding. The themes for SASUF+ AIMday are:<ul><li>Sustainable Health</li><li>Green Transition</li><li>Migration and Urbanisation</li><li>Democracy, Social Justice and Indigenous Knowledge Systems.</li></ul><a href="https://www.aimday.se/virtual-event/2026/sasuf-a-virtual-dialogue-for-impact/challenges">Questions received for SASUF+ AIMday</a><a href="https://www.aimday.se/virtual-event/2026/sasuf-a-virtual-dialogue-for-impact/registration-for-researchers">Register your participation as a researcher in SASUF+ AIMday by 24 April</a><a href="https://www.aimday.se/virtual-event/2026/sasuf-a-virtual-dialogue-for-impact">Read more about SASUF+ AIMday</a>OnlineWorkshop/en/events/aimday-within-south-africa---sweden-university-forum_12170123/2026-05-26T09:00:00+02:002026-05-26T17:00:00+02:00/en/events/ec2u-summer-school-ai-in-health-and-medical-technology_12166943/EC2U Summer School: AI in Health and Medical TechnologyExplore advanced AI applications in health and medical technology at JKU Linz during 22-24 September. Register by 30 May.Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 +0200<h3>Please note: the EC2U Summer School takes place during 22-24 September</h3>AI is a rapidly evolving technology that has a particularly high impact in medical applications. This summer school will introduce participants to AI in various medical applications and medical technology and will also cover related topics, including sociological and legal aspects of AI applications in the health field. The EC2U Summer School on AI in Health and Medical Technology will expose participants to an emerging, high-impact field. Through bridging theory and practice, studentsmove frompassive learning to applied problem-solving. In addition, this interdisciplinary and international event will foster the ability to communicate across disciplines and enable systems-level thinking about healthcare challenges while strengthening soft skills and personal development. The event will also provide career orientation as well as international and cultural exchange, thus creating long-termmultiplier effects. <h3>Information </h3>Format: In-person only Location: <a title="JKU - Johannes Kepler University Linz " href="https://www.jku.at/en/"> Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU)</a>, Austria Dates: 22-24 September  Mobility grant: €1265 per attendee Registration:  <a title="Registration form: EC2U summer school in Linz 22-24 September" href="https://forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=-aZLWjH1Mk-UZzmPGead5Lyl9-_FNB1JhXOVWDnVyOZUME83RFY4M1MyMVQzRERYWDZCWkNURTdWVi4u&route=shorturl">Register here</a> by 30 May at the very latest<h3>Who can apply?</h3><ul><li>Bachelor students</li><li>Master students</li><li>PhD candidates</li><li>Scientific staff (Post Doc or higher) </li></ul><h3>Draft agenda </h3><ul><li>Day 1 – 21 September<ul><li>Travel day</li></ul></li><li>Day 2 – 22 September <ul><li>AI in Medicine</li><li>City tour of Linz </li></ul></li><li>Day 3 – 23 September <ul><li>Medical Devices</li><li>Biomaterial Sciences</li><li>Sports session and campus tour</li></ul></li><li>Day 4 – 24 September<ul><li>Healthy Society and Governance</li><li>Lab visits and Pöstlingberg excursion</li></ul></li><li>Day 5 – 25 September<ul><li>Travel day</li></ul></li></ul>The summer school is organised in connection with the <a href="https://ec2u.eu/work-packages/sdg-3-good-health-and-well-being">EC2U Virtual Institute for Good Health and Well-being (GLADE)</a> and will include participation from members of the EC2U Work Package board. Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU)Course/en/events/ec2u-summer-school-ai-in-health-and-medical-technology_12166943/2026-05-30T00:00:00+02:002026-05-30T23:59:00+02:00/en/events/icelab-lunch-pitch-disruptive-ventures-kemal-avican-christer-malm_12165707/IceLab Lunch Pitch: Disruptive Ventures, Kemal Avican and Christer MalmThe Integrated Science Lab invites you to meet, and explore collaboration opportunities with Disruptive Ventures, Kemal Avican and Christer Malm.Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0200The Integrated Science Lab invites you to join the conversation at a Lunch Pitch. More information about what Disruptive Ventures, Kemal Avican and Christer Malm will pitch about will be available soon.  <h2>Join the conversation - everyone is welcome!</h2>To encourage cross pollination of ideas between researchers from different disciplines, IceLab hosts interdisciplinary research lunches with the vision of allowing ideas to meet and mate. During the Lunch Pitch Season, the creative lunches take place at KBC (Glasburen) on a Wednesday.<h3>Registration</h3>Register to come to the pitch and reserve your lunch by Monday, 1 June at 10am.IceLab Lunch Pitch registration will open two weeks before the event.  Note! The default lunch option is a vegetarian falafel sandwich. You can choose an alternative lunch in a separate form that will be emailed to you once you have registered.  <h2>Who is pitching about what?</h2><h3> Pitch 1: Disruptive Ventures</h3>Information about the pitch from Disruptive Ventures is coming soon<h3>Pitch 2: Kemal Avican, Research fellow at Department of Molecular Ecology and IceLab</h3>Information about Kemal's pitch is coming soon<h3>Pitch 3: Christer Malm, Professor, Department of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation, Sports Medicine</h3>Information about Christer's pitch is coming soon<h2>Where is it?</h2> KBC Glasburen, near the KBC café. Find your way to the venue (<a href="https://link.mazemap.com/9dsf42gT">mazemap link</a>) IceLab Lunch Pitches are made possible through funding from KBC for the venue and from Stress Response Modeling at IceLab for their coordination and lunches. KBC GlasburenSeminar/en/events/icelab-lunch-pitch-disruptive-ventures-kemal-avican-christer-malm_12165707/2026-06-03T12:00:00+02:002026-06-03T13:00:00+02:00/en/events/publish-or-perish-publication-pressure-and-coauthorship-ethics_12160939/Publish or perish? Publication pressure and (co)authorship ethicsWho qualifies for authorship, in what order, and why? On norms, guidelines and difficult judgements in academic publishing.Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:00:00 +0200 Publishing is an integral part of academic life in all scientific fields – but the process often raises difficult and sensitive questions. Who qualifies for authorship? How is authorship order determined? And what do you do when formal guidelines clash with established traditions within your field?You are warmly invited to an ethics seminar hosted by the Council for the Promotion of Good Research Practice (REDA), focusing on publication pressure, academic merit, and the ethics of (co‑)authorship. The discussion will address how norms and expectations can differ between disciplines – and sometimes lead to misunderstandings or conflicts.Topics to be discussed include:<ul><li>Publication pressure and its impact on research environments</li><li>Common questions and areas of tension related to authorship</li><li>What is required to qualify for authorship, and how guidelines relate to established practices across different research fields</li><li>Pros and cons – and the responsibilities – of publishing</li></ul>The programme features a panel discussion with members of REDA and Vice-Chancellor Tora Holmberg. You will also have the opportunity to ask questions and share your own reflections.<h2>Would you like to attend?</h2><a href="https://forms.office.com/e/HjvVDH3V60">Please register for the ethics seminar</a> no later than 4 June at 15.00. The seminar is intended for researchers, doctoral students and teaching staff at Umeå University. Coffee will be served from 14.45. The event is held in English.   Vardagsrummet, the Humanities BuildingSeminar/en/events/publish-or-perish-publication-pressure-and-coauthorship-ethics_12160939/2026-06-08T15:00:00+02:002026-06-08T16:00:00+02:00/en/events/digital-presentation-of-the-research-data-register-for-researcherspis_12171446/Digital presentation of the research data register for researchers/PIsGet an introduction to the research data registry – a new service that helps you and your research group keep an overview of your research data.Thu, 01 Oct 2026 10:00:00 +0200Get an introduction to the research data registry – a new service that helps you and your research group keep an overview of your research data. The registry serves as a catalogue where you register your project and describe what data exist, how they have been collected and where they are stored.The presentation is aimed at researchers and is held in English. During the session, you will learn what the aims of the registry are and the basics on how to use it.<a href="https://umu.eduportal.se/kurser?categoryID=58874&categoryIds=58874,58875&locationIds=0&subjectIds=0&translationLanguageIds=0&selectionType=0&textSearch=&coursePageNumber=1">Sign up for the presentationen through EduAdmin to access a link</a><h2>Get started now</h2>The research data registry is found on the website for researchers. It is free of charge, but requires login using UMU ID and a VPN connection. Du can invite colleagues as co-authors and update the project at any time.<a href="/en/researcher/plan-and-implement/manage-research-data/retain-research-data/register-research-data/">Read more about and find the research data registry</a>TeamsSeminar/en/events/digital-presentation-of-the-research-data-register-for-researcherspis_12171446/2026-10-01T10:00:00+02:002026-10-01T11:00:00+02:00/en/events/crossing-disciplines_12157887/Crossing DisciplinesThe event welcomes researchers with an interest in gender issues from all faculties ! Wed, 14 Oct 2026 11:30:00 +0200This conference brings together researchers engaged in, or with an interest in, gender research to connect, share insights, and highlight the rich diversity of gender research conducted across Umeå University’s faculties. We will also celebrate two significant milestones: 50 years of feminist research and the 25th anniversary of the Gender Research School, both rooted in the Umeå Centre for Gender Studies (UCGS)HUM.F VardagsrummetConference/en/events/crossing-disciplines_12157887/2026-10-14T11:30:00+02:002026-10-15T12:00:00+02:00