On Tuesday 15th January 2013, SASNET held a lunch brain storming meeting where all interested researchers and other staff at Lund University working with South Asia related projects in any field were invited to discuss possible interdisciplinary South Asia related projects to launch, visions and future collaborations.
SASNET's Director Anna Lindberg gave a brief presentation of the history of SASNET and informed about the future purpose and role of SASNET now that Lund University has announced that it will allocate resources in support of SASNET for the period 2013–2015. Gunilla Carlecrantz, Director of Strategic Partnerships and Networks at the Division of External Relations at Lund University, talked about the division's work towards the South Asian region, emphasizing the importance of the region for Lund University and also of the contribution that SASNET provides regarding this work. Maria Lindblad from the International Marketing and Recruitment at Lund University, informed about jont efforts by Lund University, Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg and Linköping University to attract Indian students to Sweden. More information about the brainstorming meeting.
SASNET tries to keep track of all South Asia related research at the Swedish universities, and in our database we have information about approximately 300 departments where some kind of South Asia related research and/or educational collaboration projects with institutions in the eight South Asian nations is going on. 
On December 13, 2012, Lund University announced it would allocate resources in support of the Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET) for the period 2013–2015. This decision will allow SASNET to maintain its activities and add an assistant webmaster to help in its widening network outreach. The decision comes as a relief after a couple of years of uncertainty after SASNET’s annual subsidy from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) expired at the conclusion of a ten year commitment by that agency in December 2009. Since then SASNET has existed under insecure and provisional circumstances. The SASNET staff is grateful to Lund University for resolving several years of uncertainly and enabling our work to proceed into the future. 
SASNET has published an information folder specifically meant for students at Lund University on what we can do for them. The advises concern everything from assistance with all kinds of academic issues related to South Asia, such as project planning and information about funding possibilities; to providing useful contacts with universities, research institutions, and non-governmental organizations in all South Asian countries; facilitating contacts with other Nordic and European students and researchers with similar interests in South Asia; and supplying practical advice about visa applications, appropriate dress, and cultural differences before travelling to South Asia. 
The eminent Kolkata writer and journalist Ajit Roy, well-known to a whole generation of Swedes interested in the development in the Indian political arena, passed away in June 2011. For more than 25 years he wrote well-informed and analytical texts from a leftist perspective in the Swedish-language magazine SYDASIEN, edited by Lars Eklund – now SASNET’s deputy director.
During the period 20 October till 30 November 2012, SASNET deputy director Lars Eklund was away from the SASNET office at Lund University. Lars set up a small SASNET office at his Sardar Sankar Rd residence in Kolkata, and interacted with SASNET networking partners at the prime universities in Kolkata – Calcutta University, Jadavpur University, and Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta.
SASNET, together with The Swedish Committee for Afghanistan (SCA) in Lund, and Sensus studieförbund, organised a lecture on "Afghanistan: The current situation and the future beyond 2014", with one of Sweden's foremost experts on Afghanistan, Anders Fänge, on Thursday, November 29, at 18:00. It took place at Lunds stadsbibliotek (Lund City Library), in the Atriumgården. 
Fänge, a journalist and long-standing manager of the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan, is among Sweden's foremost experts on Afghanistan. He was one of the first journalists who reported from that country after the Soviet invasion in 1979 and has since been involved in humanitarian activities in Afghanistan and has reported on the often very severe living conditions of the Afghan people. 
Former Swedish Ambassador to Pakistan and Afghanistan, Ann Wilkens, held a well attended lecture on "Women, Peace, and Security in Afghanistan" at Domkyrkoforum in Lund on 14 November 2012. The seminar was organised by SASNET in collaboration with the Lund Afghanistan Committee and Sensus Studieförbund.
