Linnaeus environments allocated in 2008

In June 2008, 20 research environments were allocated SEK 5-10 million annually for a maximum of ten years in the second call for so-called Linnaeus grants. The environments represent all research domains — medicine, natural and engineering sciences, and humanities and social sciences. Read more about the environments below.

For information about the first evaluation about the Linnaeus environments 2008 — see link to the right.

Concise descriptions of the 20 environments

Chalmers University of Technology
SUPRA — A LinnaeusCentrefor Bioinspired Supramolecular Function and Design at Chalmers

Karolinska Institute
Linné Centre for Prevention of Breast and Prostate cancer: CrisP
CERIC — a Linné Center for research on Inflammation and Cardiovascular Disease
The Human Regenerative Map

Linköping University
The Linnaeus Center for Control, Autonomy, and Decision-making in Complex Systems (CADICS)
Linnaeus Centre for Research on Hearing and Deafness (HEAD): Excellence in the field of Cognitive Hearing Science

Lund University
Bagadilico – a joint initiative for the development of novel therapies for basal ganglia disorders
Centre for Animal Movement Research (CAnMove)
Thinking in Time: Cognition, Communication and learning
LUCID – Lund University Centre of Excellence for integration of social and natural dimensions of sustainability
Lund Centre for studies of Carbon Cycle and Climate Interaction (LUCC)
Lund Center for Control of Complex Engineering Systems (LCCC)

Royal Institute of Technology
ADOPT — the Linnaeus centerforAdvanced Optics and Photonics

Stockholm University
The Linnaeus Center for Social Policy and Family Dynamics in Europe (SPaDE)
The Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmo Particle Physics, OKC

Umeå University
Umeå Centre for Microbial Research, UCMR

University of Gothenburg
Linnaeus Centre for Marine Evolutionary Biology (CeMEB)

Uppsala University
UPMARC – Uppsala Programming for Multicore Architectures Research Center
The Genomics of Phenotypic Diversity in Natural Populations
The Impact of Religion: Challenges for Society, Law and Democracy