LUSEM awards and prizes
A listing of awards and prizes delivered by, or in close association with, Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM).
- LUSEM annual award for best doctoral theses
- The SSCEN Sustainability Prize for Master’s Theses
- European Entrepreneurship Education Award (EEEA)
- The Pontus Roos Memorial Foundation research grant
- KEFU annual essay award
- The Jan Söderberg Family Prize in Economics and Management
LUSEM annual award for best doctoral theses
The Research Education Council at LUSEM annually awards the best doctoral thesis of the year written by a student at the faculty. The award includes honour, praise and a prize sum.
LUSEM Awards for best doctoral theses through the years
The SSCEN Sustainability Prize for Master’s Theses
Sparbanken Skånes Center for Sustainable Enterprising (SSCEN) at Lund University together with Sparbanksstiftelsen Finn award an annual thesis prize to encourage business and engineering students to contribute with valuable knowledge on how to achieve a sustainability transformation. Eligible to apply for the prize are Lund Univeristy students in business studiesadministration orand engineering studies who have written a master’s thesis with a focus on sustainability.
SSCEN Sustainability Prize for Master’s Theses 2024
The nomination period for the SSCEN Sustainability Prize for Master´s Theses 2024 is now closed.
The SSCEN Sustainability Prize for Master’s Theses 2024, full details and assessment criteria
The Pontus Roos Memorial Foundation research grant
The Pontus Roos Memorial Foundation annually award a stipend to a PhD student or a young researcher in economics at Lund University. He/she should be writing his/her thesis, or be doing research, in the applied microeconomics.
Application time yearly May 1- May 31. Decision is taken in June and the stipend will be awarded at the start of the Autumn semester.
KEFU annual essay award
The research network KEFU annually awards an essay written by students at the Universities in Lund, Malmö or Kristianstad within the fields of social sciences or economics and management. It should focus on development work of municipalities or regions concerning management, organisation and economy. Founders, sponsors and members of KEFU and the essay award are Lund University, Region Skåne (i.e. the County Council) and the local governments of Skåne.
KEFU annual essay award (in Swedish) – ehl.lu.se
European Entrepreneurship Education Award (EEEA)
The Sten K. Johnson Centre for Entrepreneurship at LUSEM annually awards the European Entrepreneurship Education Award (EEEA) to individuals or organisations that have made outstanding contributions to the improvement of entrepreneurship education in academia across Europe. The EEEA is comprised of the honour and a diploma, as well as a prize sum.
The European Entrepreneurship Education Award (EEEA)
The Jan Söderberg Family Prize in Economics and Management
An annual prize, awarded through the years of 2019–2022, worth SEK 1 million for outstanding and ground-breaking research, and a full day dedicated to popular science and interdisciplinary lectures in economics and management. The price was a result of a generous donation from the Jan and Åsa Söderberg family to Lund University School of Economics and Management.
The Jan Söderberg Family Prize in Economics and Management
