39th ECMI Modelling Week 

Welcome to Lund

This year's ECMI Modelling Week will take place from Sunday 21th to Saturday 27th of June, 2026, at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Lund University, Sweden.

ECMI has been running annual Modelling Weeks for students since 1988. Students come from all over Europe to spend a week working in small multi-national groups on projects which are based on real life problems. Each group is led by an ECMI instructor who, on the first day, introduces the problem – usually formulated in non-mathematical terms – and then guides the students towards a solution during the week. The students present their results to the other participants at a seminar on the last day of the Modelling Week and then write up their work as a report (see below). The main aim of the Modelling Weeks is to train students in mathematical modelling, and to stimulate their collaborative and communicational skills, in a multinational setting.

Attendance at a Modelling Week is an integral part of the ECMI certificate and of importance to many of the masters courses run at ECMI centres. However, all participating students may learn new skills by attending one of these very Modelling Weeks. 

A full list of previous ECMI Modelling Weeks can be found here.

Organizers

The Modelling Week 2026 is organized jointly by Lund University and Chalmers University of Technology and supported by the European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry (EMCI).