Participating universities and departments
BECC encompasses about 250 senior researchers and 80 PhD students from 20 departments at Lund University and the University of Gothenburg.
The partner universities
Lund University is a world‑leading research university with around 46,000 students and 8,500 employees. It is consistently ranked among the world’s top universities and was ranked number one globally for sustainability in the QS World University Rankings in 2025. Lund University collaborates with 600 partner universities in over 70 countries and hosts MAX IV Laboratory, one of the world’s most advanced synchrotron radiation facilities.
The University of Gothenburg is one of Sweden’s largest and most comprehensive universities, with approximately 58,000 students and 6,700 employees. Strong research environments and attractive study programmes draw researchers and students from around the world. The university is environmentally certified and works actively for sustainable development.
About BECC Lund at portal.research.lu.se
- Department of Biology, empirical and theoretical research covering the taxonomic breadth and organisational hierarchy of ecology.
www.biology.lu.se - Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, fundamental and applied questions concerning the Earth’s past, present and future climate and environment, including people’s interactions with the natural world and the consequences for human wellbeing.
www.mgeo.lu.se - Department of Political Science, internationally recognised for its research on democratisation, globalisation, peace and conflict studies and environmental politics.
www.svet.lu.se - Department of Human Geography, human responses to ecosystem and climate changes using agent-based modelling (ABM) techniques.
www.keg.lu.se - Centre for Mathematical Statistics contributes statistical methodology with major application areas are spatial-temporal reconstruction in remote sensing, trends in vegetation index and other climate data.
www.maths.lu.se - Department of Technology and Society, LTH, studies issues of energy and environment in a national and global long-term perspective.
www.miljo.lth.se - Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS), addresses social and environmental sustainability within five main research areas: Climate Change & Resilience, Land Use, Governance and Development, Urban Governance and Transformation, Energy Justice and Sustainability of Energy Systems, and Biodiversity.
www.lucsus.lu.se - Division of History of Ideas and Sciences, focus on environmental history and forest history.
www.kultur.lu.se - Department of Philosophy, scientific integration and interdisciplinarity and values in science and science in policy making.
www.fil.lu.se - Department of Physics, monitoring of biological targets with lidar.
www.fysik.lu.se - Department of Experimental Medical Science, artificial analysis for text mining, image analysis and integration of "big data".
www.medicine.lu.se/faculty-medicine-lund-university/departments/department-experimental-medical-science - Department of Architecture and Built Environment, human-environment transactions, the individual’s role in sustainable development, and public perception of biodiversity, biodiversity management and conservation.
www.abm.lth.se
About BECC Gothenburg at gu.se/research
- Department of Economics contributes experimental and valuation studies in the environmental and resource economics of climate, transport, industry and natural resource management.
www.gu.se/economics - Department of Earth Sciences, Regional Climate examines spatial patterns of regional climate changes from the past to the present by using instrumental and proxy data such as tree rings and its association with other factors in the global climate system.
www.gu.se/earth-sciences - Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences harbours laboratory, field and modelling research on growth, development and gas exchange, plant ecology and biodiversity in forest, agricultural and alpine ecosystems, partly in a climate change perspective.
www.gu.se/biological-environmental-sciences - Department of Marine Sciences brings together research focuses within oceanography, geology, chemistry, biology and conservation. This research is carried out both within individual subjects and in larger multidisciplinary projects.
www.gu.se/marina-vetenskaper - Department of Pedagogical, Curricular and Professional Studies, Faculty of Education
www.gu.se/en/pedagogical-curricular-professional-studies - Environment for Development, School of Business, Economics and Law
www.gu.se/environment-for-development