News archive for "Student"

2025-02-11
You are currently at UC Berkeley in California. What are you doing there? – Thanks to Fulbright, an exchange program funded by the U.S. Department of State, the Jane and Dan Olsson foundation and the Sixten Gemzeus foundation, I have the opportunity to spend a year here and collaborate with researchers at the Department of Linguistics. I arrived in the autumn of 2024 and will stay until July 2025.
2025-02-10

Hello there Natalia Seco

News » 2025-02-10
You are a PhD student at the University of Santiago de Compostela and a teacher at the University of Vigo in Spain. You have been teaching law at Karlstad Business School as a part of the Erasmus+ program. – I was invited by the coordinator of the Law Program at Karlstad University to teach in the course International and European Union Law as part of the Erasmus+ program, says Natalia Seco.
2025-02-10
There will be a national minute of silence on Tuesday 11 February in honour of the victims of the tragedy in Örebro. Karlstad University will participate. The initiative of a national minute of silence was declared by the Swedish government, who also urge that flags be flown at half-mast from 09.00 until the moment of silence has ended. – 4 February will forever mark a dark day in Swedish history.
2025-02-05
Following the tragic events in Örebro on Tuesday, Karlstad University is flying its flags at half-mast. We are profoundly saddened by what has happened and extend our deepest sympathy to all those affected.
2025-01-14
Master's student Ida Wadenbrandt worked during the holidays, touring with Robert Wells and Rhapsody in Rock from December 27 to January 6 in China. Intense days that have sparked a desire for more projects abroad and more work in China. You have done several concerts with Robert Wells with Ingesund's string ensemble before, and as I understand it, you were also the concertmaster then.
2024-12-12
On December 4, high school students, university students, doctoral candidates, senior researchers, and company representatives gathered at Karlstad University to work together in teams on current mathematical challenges presented by businesses during the The Mathematics Meets Industry Day (MiMM Day). Rottneros, Tesa, Blue Ocean Closures, and Region Värmland presented real-world problems, seeking sustainable solutions with the participants' help.
2024-12-09
Students Sara Spets and Vivien Szabo from the Human Resource Management programme at Karlstad Business School (KBS) visited our new student exchange partner, the International University of Monaco. – It's all about networking, networking, networking, says Sara Spets. Sara and Vivien, tell us about the purpose of the study visit  – The collaboration between Karlstad Business School and the International University of Monaco (IUM) is relatively new, and we went to exp
2024-12-09
In the morning of Friday 13 December, the Executive Office invites everyone to the traditional Lucia celebration in Aula Magna with choral singing and a reading of the poem “Tomten”. The choirs Söt Likör and Sällskapet CMB, conducted by Mats Backlund, will be singing traditional Lucia songs, and Vice-Chancellor Jerker Moodysson and Student Union Vice Chair Jonathan Strömberg will together read Viktor Rydberg’s classic poem “Tomten”. The event starts at 07.30 and the door
2024-12-05
Ho, ho, ho Carl Utbult, songwriter and producer, as well as a teacher at Ingesund. It's that time of the year again; you have been the supervisor for the first-year students in the music production program as they wrote and produced this year's Christmas song together in the regular songwriting course.
2024-12-03

Kau Science Week on Instagram

News » 2024-12-03
Kauresearch is the university’s Instagram account dedicated to research information. For the second year in a row, the themed week Kau Science Week is held at the same time as the Nobel Week. Kau Science Week is mainly featured on the Kauresearch account. A post will be published every day throughout the week, drawing attention to researchers and research at Karlstad University. The posts will be accompanied by stories and hashtags for further reading or listening.
2024-11-13
Karlstad University wants to attract more students from outside Europe. "We believe that having students from different countries will lead to higher quality education and better dynamics both on campus and in the classroom," says Pro-Vice-Chancellor Patrik Larsson. The international students at Kau are mainly exchange students.
2024-10-14
Candida MacKenzie, international coordinator at Karlstad Business School, tell us about the conference - The Business School and Karlstad University's international office participated in the conference together with 7,300 representatives from universities around the world. - This year's theme was "En Route". From Sweden, nine other universities from all over the country participated to market Sweden as a study destination.
2024-10-09
Why are so many people fascinated by video games? How did it all begin and how has storytelling in video games evolved over time? A new course at Karlstad University explores the history of narratives in video games, with the help of a one-of-a-kind historic video games archive. Video games are more and more prevalent in popular culture, and the games industry keeps growing each year.
2024-10-07
As the leaves on the trees begin to change colour, it’s time for the Academic Ceremony, one of the biggest events of the year at Karlstad University and a long-standing tradition. In troubled times, it is important to protect unity, cooperation, and team spirit and what we can achieve together, not least in research. On October 18th, we will together confer new doctors, honorary doctors as well as install our new professors.