Previous Scholarships

The aim is to strengthen artistic citizenship in Skåne through musical collaboration between musicians from Skåne and Ukraine, combined with public discussions on the role of culture in democracy and social engagement. The project seeks to use music as a meeting place for empathy, dialogue and community in a time marked by war and polarization.

The aim is to enable the further development of a new applicator concept for silicone stents that addresses the clinical limitations of current technology. The project will improve the conditions for safer and more reliable treatment of patients with severe airway stenosis, whilst laying the foundations for intellectual property protection and future commercialisation.

This project aims to model femoral strength from ages 7–18 in all 496 POP (Pediatric Osteoporosis, a unique cohort with yearly follow-up of children from Malmö region) participants using finite element simulations. It will assess how physical activity shapes strength by comparing high and lowactivity groups. The work will yield the first detailed trajectories of mechanical bone adaptation in youth, showing how early-life loading builds long-term bone strength.

The overall aim of the project is to evaluate the efficacy, safety and usability of ThirstCooler for the relief of severe, prolonged thirst in patients with prescribed fluid restriction. The aim of the study is to clinically evaluate the efficacy, safety and usability of the ThirstCooler in patients, as well as to investigate its health economic value. Should the results be positive, we intend to launch our product on the market.

The aim of the ALBA Chamber Music Festival is to experiment with new ideas and concepts that we believe will meet young people’s need for a new form of chamber music experience. We shift the focus from details to the whole by incorporating the entire venue and everything happening within it into a unified whole. The idea is that the festival at Lokstallarna is just the beginning of the journey towards raising the status of classical music in society. By being held in Malmö, the festival will be easily accessible to audiences from across the region.

I see myself as a creative person, and my passion has always been to develop things and generate new insights. I have also had a keen interest in different types of shoes, and my wife thinks I have too many pairs. Combine these traits with my medical expertise, and you have the foundation for this innovation. What drives me now is that I see we can create value with VPECS and that we have the chance to build a strong Lund-based company around the idea.

The objective of the project is to further develop the BioAcoustic Index Tool as a cost-effective, easy-to-deploy tool that can be used to track the status of ecosystems in Skåne. This can, for example, help to monitor populations of the endangered European Green Toad, track movement patterns of migratory birds, or assess levels of biodiversity in Skånes beech forests. Reliable, real-time data will help us respond better and this project aims to make collecting that data easier.

The development of a migraine biosensor will, for the first time, enable diagnosis based on molecular facts. A real-time biosensor that predicts attacks before symptom onset could transform care by enabling early intervention and precision medicine, where treatments match an individual’s molecular profile. This would reduce attack frequency and intensity, prevent disease progression, improve quality of life, and significantly reduce the personal, economic, and societal burden of migraine.

We aim to create a musical experience that touches the audience deeply, whilst exploring how themes of belonging and a sense of home can be expressed artistically and musically. With a brand-new composition, we also aim to help spark curiosity about contemporary art music in rural Skåne, through concerts in the areas we both regard as ‘home’, albeit in different ways. Finally, we hope our concerts will help strengthen the accordion’s status within classical music.

The aim is to develop and test a new entrepreneurial model in which humanities skills are used for idea development and problem-solving in collaboration with the business sector and societal stakeholders. The project aims to strengthen students’ capacity for innovation, create cross-disciplinary collaborations and validate a structure that can serve as a long-term platform for innovation in humanities skills.

The global AI infrastructure is becoming dependent on limited computing technologies (such as GPUs and TPUs) that are manufactured in only a few countries. We suggest an alternative computing approach which, in the long term, might provide technological diversification. By placing our work at the frontier of physics-inspired computing, we envision this project as an early step toward building expertise, a patent portfolio, and launching a DeepTech Optical AI company in Sweden.

The aim of the project is to evaluate whether the participation of adolescents in sleep groups can improve or affect individual sleep duration and sleep quality, as well as to evaluate whether participation in sleep groups affected school performance and mental health.

Diagnosing diseases in the hidden lymph nodes of the chest – known as the mediastinum – is one of the greatest challenges in modern medicine. For patients suspected of having lymphoma (cancer of the immune system) or sarcoidosis (an inflammatory systemic disease), current standard methods using fine needles are often insufficient. As these diseases alter the entire structure and architecture of the tissue, a small needle biopsy is like trying to identify an entire building by looking at a single brick; it simply provides too little information for a reliable diagnosis.

There is currently a lack of in-depth perspectives on women’s experiences of emergency caesarean sections. We want to help healthcare professionals receive further training on women’s experiences of emergency caesarean sections and, in doing so, improve post-operative care for women who have recently undergone the procedure. If you do not understand a patient’s experience, it is also difficult to improve the situation. Having worked on our book, we know that patients who have undergone emergency caesarean sections are somewhat overlooked today, and we want to change that.

We aim to develop a performance that can be staged in both secondary schools and at other musical events. The goal is to create a genre-bending performance, both musically and artistically. We intend to use humour, finesse and musical rigour to modernise and create new music in the spirit of Berlin cabaret.

The story of the comic-book city will be made in the form of a comic-book. Using an autoethnographic/autobiographical method, the project will 1) collect and combine my own recollections and combine these with archival material 2) portray different aspects of how the comic-book city was created in the form of a cartoon 3) make this available to a wide audience in the form of a comic-book that can 4) form the basis for an extended application to explore the comic-book city.

Plant disease management is often reactive because diagnosis is slow, forcing growers to spray preventively. This project aims to enable rapid, on-site pathogen detection so actions can be timely and targeted, reducing unnecessary chemical inputs and yield losses across Skåne’s crop systems. The immediate usefulness is a validated prototype and field data that de-risk a larger scale-up and funding pathway.

We aim to publish a book featuring the voices of both pupils and teachers. The book will also include a section on the latest research into DLD and other language difficulties, as well as provide practical tools for the writing process. We have also produced writing templates for text generation that can be used by pupils in lower secondary and upper secondary schools. The writing templates are based on long-term support work carried out with pupils with language difficulties. These writing templates will be included in the book and will be reproducible.

To ensure more patients receive better pain relief by reintroducing Hand-on-syringe regional anaesthesia and freeing up nurses’ time. This is achieved by distributing 3D-printed LundGrips. From colleagues to whom I have introduced the technology, I know that this can improve care within highly specialized healthcare, in A&E, but also within the armed forces and in resource-poor environments such as A&E departments in South Africa.

The aim is to create a Swedish national platform and a network for sepsis research and future clinical trials for new sepsis treatments. Sweden has a unique opportunity to take a leading position in this field but must coalesce and collaborate. As our research group is a world leader in this field, it is only fitting that Lund and Skåne should be the initiators of this project.