CAnMove receive continued VR funding

Dear CAnMovians,

today the decision by VR was communicated that CAnMove and most other Linnaeus programs funded 2008 receive continued level of funding. It is time to celebrate and to continue our plans for the coming period! There were some limted changes, and interestingly enough there were both cut-downs and increased funding within our evaluation group in Natural Sciences. Increased funding by 10% were given to CeMEB  - The Linnaeus Centre for Marine Evolutionary Biology – University of Gothenburg, while both UCEG - Uppsala Centre of Evolution and Genomics – Uppsala University and SUPRA - Linnaeus Centre for Bio-inspired Supramolecular Function and Design –
Chalmers University of Technology received cut-downs by the same amount (10%). The complete report is available for down-loading at VR home page.

All in all the Linnaeus centres show well functioning organization and many produce world-leading research. CAnMove is certainly one of them, and we can be proud of our acheivements. The panel wrote: "CAnMove has undertaken excellent and innovative research, making use of modern technological developments to fundamentally advance the field." It was further high-lighted for our centre that we have excellent outreach performance, and have started several new infrastructure initiatives. The outreach activities is  continuing with the recently funded E-book project involving CAnMove PhD students. We further were adviced to look into recruiting modelling expertice, to approach the industry, and to re-allocate funding to stimulate research projects in focus areas involving graduate students. There are many possibilities and by recent developments and initiatives within the program, I foresee a bright future and hopefully a long establishment of the CAnMove centre and its reasearch at Lund University. It is time to explore all new infrastructures and new collaborative projects that we have initiated!

Thanks for all your support preparing the Midterm evaluation report!

Varm wishes,
Susanne