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NAC week 2025
The ambition for the NAC week 6th to 8th October 2024 is to gather Lund University researchers and PhD students that are affiliated to the profile area, but also researchers, teachers, PhD students and other employees at Lund university that are interested in the domain or want to be an active part of the profile area of Natural and Artificial Cognition.
The NAC week 2025 consists of four separate but connected events:
- 6 October at 9.00 to 13.00 in Lund City Hall, Dance Hall: NAC Member meeting
Signup-form for Lund University employees - 6 October at 12.00-15.00 in in Lund City Hall, Dance Hall: NAC Advisory Meeting
- 7 October at 9.00 to 16.00 in Lund City Hall, Anfin: Public fika to fika workshop Natural and Artificial Cognition IV
Programme | Signup-form for Lund University employees - 7 and/or 8 October at 9.00 to 16.00 (max) in Stadshallen: NAC PhD Student and young researcher WS
Signup-form for Lund University employees
Registration to the event and call for contribution for NAC related PhD Student and young researchers at or affiliated to Lund University will open in August.
Call for proposals: Responsible use of Artificial Intelligence
Call Deadline: 13 May 2025, 13:00 (CEST/Oslo Time)
Available Nordic budget: up to 196 million NOK Available Estonian budget: 300 000 EUR Available Latvian budget: 600 000 EUR Available Lithuanian budget: 300 000 EUR Maximum amount of Nordic funding that may be sought: 16.3 million NOK. The research consortium must include research performing organisations in at least four Nordic or Baltic ...
www.nordforsk.org
Girls Just Want To Have Sc(AI)ence
An initiative funded as a NAC opportunity in form of a workshop serie aming at creating a research network to foster woman's participation in technoscience.
Read more and join: ai.lu.se/girlscAIence
Lund University profile area Natural and Artificial Cognition for Lund University staff.
Calls and contributions
- NAC Opportunities (15 September 2025)
- Call for proposals: Responsible use of Artificial Intelligence (13 May)
- Girls just want to have Sc(AI)ence
Organisation, policy and routines
NAC Organisation
Lund University profile area Natural and Artificial Cognition for Lund University staff.
Calls and contributions
- NAC Opportunities (15 September 2025)
- Call for proposals: Responsible use of Artificial Intelligence (13 May)
- Girls just want to have Sc(AI)ence
Organisation, policy and routines
Roles
NAC Members
NAC Core
During the years 2023 and 2024, the NAC Core will be seen at a retreat for team building and to discuss strategic issues. The retreat is followed up with a 2–3 hour meeting in the fall.
NAC Management Group
The management team consists of people with formal roles in the profile area or with direct funding. All or parts of the management team discuss ongoing and long-term issues at online meetings on Tuesdays at 8.15-9.15.
NAC Core working groups
Within NAC Core group exist the following working groups for the annual circle April 2025 to April 2026.
- NAC Internationalisation and NAC Fellows
First meeting: 12 May 9-10
Invitation:melvyn_b [dot] davies [at] math [dot] lu [dot] se
annika [dot] wallin [at] lucs [dot] lu [dot] se
johan [dot] martensson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se
marcus [dot] stensmyr [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se
stanley [dot] heinze [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se
eric [dot] warrant [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se
ingar [dot] brinck [at] fil [dot] lu [dot] se
- Research ideas and grants
Kick-off: 15 May 10.15-11.30 - Physical
Invitatation: karl [dot] astrom [at] math [dot] lth [dot] se
erik [dot] wengstrom [at] nek [dot] lu [dot] se
hanna [dot] back [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se
karl-erik [dot] arzen [at] control [dot] lth [dot] se
michael [dot] bossetta [at] iko [dot] lu [dot] se
mikael [dot] nilsson [at] math [dot] lth [dot] se (mikael[dot]nilsson[at]math[dot]lth[dot]se)
- NAC Outreach & and events
Kick-off : 28 April 10.00 - M-building, LTH
Invitation:jonas [dot] wisbrant [at] control [dot] lth [dot] se
erik [dot] wengstrom [at] nek [dot] lu [dot] se
hanna [dot] back [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se
ines [dot] bramao [at] psy [dot] lu [dot] se
panos [dot] athanasopoulos [at] englund [dot] lu [dot] se
ellen [dot] albertsdottir [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (ellen[dot]albertsdottir[at]fsi[dot]lu[dot]se)
- NAC Joint Teaching
Kick-off: 22 April 9.00 - Hybrid
Invitation: magnus [dot] oskarsson [at] math [dot] lth [dot] se
annika [dot] wallin [at] lucs [dot] lu [dot] se
bo [dot] bernhardsson [at] control [dot] lth [dot] se
ines [dot] bramao [at] psy [dot] lu [dot] se
johan [dot] martensson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se
marcus [dot] stensmyr [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se
marie [dot] dacke [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se
panos [dot] athanasopoulos [at] englund [dot] lu [dot] se
stanley [dot] heinze [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se
valentina [dot] fantasia [at] lucs [dot] lu [dot] se
- NAC opportunities
KIck-of (25 April 9.30)
Invitation:melvyn_b [dot] davies [at] math [dot] lu [dot] se
karl [dot] astrom [at] math [dot] lth [dot] se
maria [dot] kihl [at] eit [dot] lth [dot] se
markus [dot] tullberg [at] mhm [dot] lu [dot] se
panos [dot] athanasopoulos [at] englund [dot] lu [dot] se (panos[dot]athanasopoulos[at]englund[dot]lu[dot]se)
- LUCRIS Cycle 2025
Kick-off (September)
Invitation: karl [dot] astrom [at] math [dot] lth [dot] se
ines [dot] bramao [at] psy [dot] lu [dot] se
karl-erik [dot] arzen [at] control [dot] lth [dot] se
per [dot] petersson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se
Apply for NAC membership
Any researcher, PhD student or other employee at Lund University can apply for membership via a webform. The recruitment committee takes decisions on short notice but we report new members to LUCAT twice a year.
Benefits, obligations, and routines for different NAC groups (PDF, 95kb)
NAC Opportunities
NAC Opportunities is way for NAC Core members to on short notice and with little bureaucracy seek funding for projects or other initiatives in the cost range 20-100 KKR. Decisions are taken four times per year.
Examples of things which could be funded include:
- visitors
- PhD courses
- workshops
- support for research projects
NAC Core members are free to come up with other ideas too.
To apply for funding, submit a one-page proposal as a PDF via the webform at ai.lu.se/nac/internal/opportunity-application by noon, on the day for the deadline.
The proposal should include:
- a description of what you propose to do
- an explanation of how it will benefit a broad section of the NAC community. We prioritise ideas which will benefit many NAC members. Concretely, we are expecting to see the direct involvement of at least two distinct research groups within NAC.
- a simple budget with an explanation of the expected costs
If you are proposing a visitor, then please also include a two-page CV of the proposed visitor as well as the one-page proposal.
Upcoming deadlines:
- 15 September 2025 at 12.00 CET
- 15 November 2025 at 12.00 CET
Contact by mail
- Kalle Åström
- Melvyn Davies
Archive
NAC Spring School in Cognitive Robotics 8-10 April
NAC will offer a spring school for cognitive robotics. Goal of the spring school is to learn the basics about robotics that are relevant for Natural and Artificial Cognition. PhD students will be able to learn the basics of how to use robots as a tool for their PhD work. For more details, see the slides:
Date: April 8-10 2024
Location: E:A, Ole Römers väg 1 Lund
Duration: 3 days
With
- international guests
- FiKA for discussions
Organisers
- Volker Krueger (volker [dot] krueger [at] cs [dot] lth [dot] se)
- Christian Balkenius (christian [dot] balkenius [at] lucs [dot] lu [dot] se)
- Elin Topp (elin_a [dot] topp [at] cs [dot] lth [dot] se)
Call for submissions to SweCog25 in Lund
Deadline: 1 April
This SweCog 2025 edition will be hosted by Lund University and held on October 8-9. The conference is organised in conjunction with the NAC - Natural and Artificial Cognition profile area at Lund University.
Our program this year is rich of different opportunities, pre-conference events (workshops, a SweCog-NAC poster session) on October 7, regular poster sessions and oralpresentations, keynote talks, and a brand-new mentoring activity dedicated to researchers at any level of stage (speed mentoring). Participation is free and we particularly encourage students and young scholars to join in!
Read more on https://konferens.ht.lu.se/swecog-2025/swecog-2025/
Submit an abstract on https://konferens.ht.lu.se/swecog-2025/registration-submission/
The third NAC workshop for PhD students and young researchers
With the purpose of cross-learning and networking between researchers and doctoral students in the field of Natural and Artificial Cognition at Lund University we invite doctoral students and young researchers to present and discuss their research:
- in the form of posters at a public fika to fika workshop on October 7
- in the form of posters and/or short oral presentations on October 7 and/or 8 at 9-16 (max)
Target group
- NAC member PhD students
- PhD students to NAC members
- other PhD students and young researchers at Lund University that are active or interested in the NAC domain.
But every one in the NAC Community is welcom to participate.
Preliminary programme October 7 and/or 8 at 9-15 (max) - lunch included
- PhD and young researcher presentations and Q&A based on contributed posters 22/10
- Other contributions
Programme Committee
Call for contribution
Examples of contributions could be an presentation an/or a poster that you have recently given, or are planning to give. But you can also produce a simple poster that describes what you want to research about...
Criteria for contributing
- you are a doctoral student or young researcher at LU/LTH.
- you research in the field of Natural and/or Artificial Cognition in the broad sense.
Submit a titel
There will be no pre-review of your presentation or poster. We need a preliminary title to put in the programmes for the 22th and/or 24th October. So please try to submit a titel for your contribution before 15 October.
You register for participation and submit a title for your contribution in the same form at https://www.ai.lu.se/nac/internal/nac-week-2024/
The second annual NAC Member meeting
When: 23 October at 10.00 to 12.00 + lunch
Location: M:Teknodromen, M-building LTH
Target group: NAC Members and member candidates
Programme
10:00 Fika
10:15 NAC Member meeting
- Natural and Artificial Cognition 2022-2024
- Natural and Artificial Cognition 2025-2027
- Budget and plan for action
- NAC structure
- NAC work groups
- Discussion on how to work in the future
12:00 Enkel lunch
Programme Committee
- Karl Åström
- Melvyn B Davies
Registration: https://www.ai.lu.se/nac/internal/nac-week-2024/