Per Kristensson, professor and director of CTF, shares some reflections from the international research conference QUIS18 which was held at VinUniversity in Hanoi Vietnam, June 20-23.
The 18th International Research symposium on service excellence in management (QUIS18) was organized by VinUniversity in Hanoi Vietnam, June 20-23. The main theme of the conference was “Re-imagining service to enhance human life and society”.
2024-09-23
This year, a commission led by Peter Honeth – former state secretary at the Ministry of Education and Research – has been working on behalf of the government to develop a series of proposals to improve teacher education.
Despite the huge success of cellular networks and the Long Term Evolution (LTE), there are challenges ahead. The performance requirements of LTE yield massive signaling traffic, imposing further demands on already strained networks [36]. In an effort to manage the growing volume of data in cellular networks, there has been an increasing interest in deploying relays, distributed antennas, and smallcell access points (e.g., pico- and femtocells) in residential areas, subways and offices.
The Public Health Agency’s general guidelines concerning our shared responsibility in preventing the spread of infection is removed on 29 September. This means longer opening hours on campus and that all rooms on the premises can be used as before.
2024-01-25
After the recent hacker attacks in which the university's IT supplier Tietoevry, amongst others, was affected, it becomes clear how quickly organizations can become target of such actions. Meiko Jensen, lecturer in cybersecurity at computer science, helps us clarify the areas of hacking and cybersecurity.
Hi Meiko Jensen.
2025-02-05
How should AI be used in schools? The SmartStart Teacher Academy project aims to establish an international teacher education program that trains teachers and student teachers to critically integrate AI-based tools into teaching.
2023-10-26
Service Research Center (CTF) welcomes Elina Jaakkola, professor of marketing at Turku School of Economics. She is one of five visiting professors at CTF with support from the Ander Foundation.
Elina Jaakkola is a professor of marketing at Turku School of Economics, University of Turku in Finland.
2017-05-02
On 20-21 April, doctoral students at Karlstad University participated in an international student cyber security challenge, organised by the Atlantic Council.
2015-10-22
Hello Teea Palo, Lecturer at the Department of Marketing, Lancaster University Management School, UK. You will be visiting us during the end of this week. What brings you to CTF, and what kind of research are you working on right now?
- I am extremely interested in the work CTF is doing in service research, and the possibility to visit the center was just too good to pass!
2013-09-05
Child and adolescent mental health was the focus of the two-day advisory board meeting when researchers from Australia, England, Canada, Germany and Sweden gathered at Karlstad University at the end of August.
The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the research programme on the impacts of changed living conditions on child and adolescent mental health that was granted long-term funding from the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare, FORTE (prev
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The “SCTP SmartSwitch” project aimed at extending the SCTP transport protocol with smart session management to support fast switchover for delay-sensitive applications, such as signaling and video conferencing, as well as smooth recovery from long session disruptions for delay tolerant applications, such as various messaging and bulk transfer applications.
The Academic Celebration is one of the biggest events of the year at Karlstad University and a long-standing tradition. On 20 October it is time again and this year we celebrate passion for research – we present and inauguarate our new Vice-Chancellor Jerker Moodysson during this year's celebration. With great pomp and ceremony we will promote our new doctors, award honorary doctorates and inaugurate our new professors.
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The 31st International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, CBMS 2018, will be hosted by Karlstad University, Sweden. The symposium will take place from June 18 to 21st, 2018.
CBMS 2018 will provide an international forum to discuss the latest developments in the field of computational medicine, biomedical informatics and related fields.
Academic Celebration 2023 will be celebrated on 20 October in Aula Magna at Karlstad University. All professors and honorary doctors are presented at Karlstad CCC in the morning and installed and promoted at the ceremony in the afternoon.
Angela Caridà, research fellow at University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy, will be visiting CTF during the next three months.
Angela Caridà have a Ph D in Economic and Management of Healthcare.
Her main areas of interest are service innovation, interactive marketing and co-creation.
Months of preparation went in to the first week of CRE8 Europe hosted in Karlstad. A sunny but chilly September morning greeted the students. It turned out to be a week full of meetings, new friendships, challenging tasks and new cultural experiences.
The students (except for the Karlstad students) where all booked at Karlstad City Hostel. A small hotel/hostel with lounge/dining room for the students to meet and hang out during off hours of the program.
The Magna Charta Universitatum is an international charter on the academic freedom and institutional autonomy of universities. Karlstad University has now signed the new, updated version.
– Signing the charter shows that Karlstad University supports the key principles of, among other things, academic freedom, autonomy and equality. We value the importance of freedom in research and education, and international mobility.
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- The masterprogram in computer science enables students to think outside the box and apply their ideas practically in the projects which they are working on, says Furqan Nadeem who is studying at Karlstad University as a scholarship student.
The master’s program in computer science at Karlstad University focuses on computer security and networking field so this degree serves as a platform to prepare students to excel in the job market.
- My experience of my first year
With support from the Ander Foundation, the Service Research Center (CTF) is happy to welcome Cristina Mele, professor of Service Innovation at the University of Naples Federico II, as visiting professor.
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EUNICE, European University for Customised Education, is an alliance between universities from different European countries that work together across disciplines to solve social and economic challenges.
Between June 18 and 21 Karlstad university will be hosting the 31st International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, IEEE CBMS 2018. And there is a great interest – more than 200 contributions have been submitted. Selecting amongst the papers is hard work for the international committee of the conference.
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The list below shows which researchers are or may become active in each area of Mirai 3.0:
Challenge 1: Health and an aging population
Satu Heikkinen
Tara Mehrabi
Ann Jose Eklund
Anna Pechurina
Cecilia Olsson
Carina Bååth
Johanna Gustavsson
Sana Rouis Skandrani
Magnus Lestelius
Jorge Solis
Challenge 2: Climate adaptation, disaster and risk management, and prevention
Avit Kumar Bhowmik (GCT medlem)
Mikael Granberg
Adrian Muntean
Johan Watz
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Spaces and Mobilities in Mediatized Worlds. International conference in Karlstad, 5-8 May 2015.
Geomedia 2015 provides a genuinely interdisciplinary arena for research carried out at the crossroads of Geography, Media and Film Studies.
