The Lund University Network for International Development Activities, for example, has medical scientists, technologists, economists, and humanists working together. In most cases the researchers remain in their own departments and are connected via an office. The idea of establishing such centres is to initiate, promote, and coordinate research and education in a certain area. They also function as contact bodies in relation to external parties. At Lund University there are centres for such areas as work science, biomolecular structures and dynamics, Danish studies, European studies, handicap and rehabilitation, North American studies, scientific and technical computing, youth research, caring sciences, East and Southeast Asian studies, physical education, lasers, women's studies, geographical information systems, and physical planning.
Researchers also collaborate in other forms across discipline and faculty boundaries.
An example is the Network for Eastern European Studies, which involves scholars in the social sciences and liberal arts. Another project which has attracted considerable attention deals with genetics, gene technology, and everyday ethics. Here ethnologists are cooperating with researchers in science and medicine to illuminate the consequences of new technology and people's attitudes to it.