Jenny Wilson is an internationally known Swedish indie musician, artist, and not least, producer. Her music is electro-influenced and energetic, and her lyrics are confrontational, often critical of society. At the same time, she does not shy away from being very vulnerable and personal, which is a significant part of her expression.
2024-04-26
As part of the university’s systematic quality assurance efforts, eight third-cycle subject areas (doctoral-level disciplines) have been reviewed by an external assessment group. All of them are rated as meeting a high standard in the report by the assessment group.
The discipline of nursing received a positive assessment of their doctoral education.
2021-10-01
We receive district heating and electricity from cogeneration plants (also known as combined heat and power plants). In the future they might also produce bio-oil, which can be used as biofuel or replace fossil oil in the chemicals industry.
Karlstad has enjoyed the reputation of being a friendly and hospitable city for a long time. With the proverbial sun and an expanding and innovative university, Karlstad now ranks as one of the best student cities in Sweden.
Every tenth person in Karlstad is a university student. You can tell. In a short time Karlstad has transformed from an ordinary city into a student city offering a wide range of culture, entertainment, sports and shopping.
Academic Celebration 2023 is celebrated on October 20 in Aula Magna at Karlstad University. All professors and honorary doctors are presented at Karlstad CCC in the morning and inaugurated and promoted at the ceremony in the afternoon. During the ceremony, an inauguration of our new Vice-Chancellor at Karlstad University will also take place.
Professors 2023
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Applicants to main instrument or vocals in the jazz genre are required to partake in the local entrance test (L-test) by submitting videos according to the instructions below.
The genre specialisation jazz at Ingesund School of Music includes traditional and modern jazz, but the musical content is often gathered from other related music genres such as blues, Latin, funk, pop, rock and soul.
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
Do you want to learn more about Microsoft Copilot and how you can use it in your studies? Welcome to the Learning Lab on floor 3 in the University Library. We have drop-in sessions with with librarians on site to answer your questions and give you tips and support every Thursday kl. 12:30-13:00.Contact: marie-louise.eriksson@kau.se(Image created in Copilot, "A self-portrait of Copilot")
2025-06-17
On 3–6 June, over 275 conference participants gathered in Rome to attend QUIS19 – The 19th International Research Symposium on Service Excellence in Management. This international conference, now considered the foremost in service research, has its roots in Karlstad – and began as an idea at the Service Research Center (CTF).
“QUIS was born at a time when services were gaining importance but still remained a relatively unexplored research field,” says Per Kristensson.
2016-08-19
On December 3, Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation, and the Tore Browaldh's Foundation announced 20 new recipients of the Wallander Scholarship for outstanding doctoral dissertations. One of the recipients is PhD Kaisa Koskela-Huotari at CTF, Service Research Center at Karlstad University.
Congratulations to the Wallander Scholarship!
"Thank you! I am extremely happy and honored to be awarded the prestigious Wallander Scholarship.
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Karlstad University collaborate with the universities below:
Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences (INN)
Instituto Politécnico de Santarém (IPSantarém)
Instituto de Tecnologica Química e Bioloógica António Xavier (ITQB NOVA)
Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU)
STINT, the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education, has granted SEK 10 million to the university collaboration MIRAI 3.0.
The subject Spanish collaborates with the Karlstad University International Office (IK) to offer exchanges with different universities in Spain and Latin America.
If you choose to drop out of your studies, it is important that you notify the university. You also have the right to apply for leave from studies.
EARLY NON-COMPLETION – COURSE
If you choose to terminate your studies within three weeks after the course has started it counts as early non-completion.
By playing the role of national cyber security experts, doctoral students from Karlstad University won Cyber Challenge 2017, organised by the Centre for Asymmetric Threat Studies at the Swedish Defence University and the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB).
2023-11-23
Samhällsnytta turns service research into practical activity. The idea is to help the government and Swedish authorities tackle major societal challenges.
Samhällsnytta AB was founded in 2021 and has developed into a national meeting place for actors at various levels in community building.
- What was once just an idea has become a reality, says Johan Quist, CEO of Samhällsnytta, researcher and deputy director of the Center for Service Research (CTF).
2022-01-20
Per-Ola Wiklander, Senior Lecturer in Public Law and Programme Director at Karlstad Business School, is pleased with the development of the law programme. And the students find jobs right away.
- I have been involved from the start as a teacher and I took on the role of programme director 2.5 years ago. It has been quite a bit of development work, as a degree in law is very comprehensive. Our students have been both ambitious and capable, however.
2017-09-01
You work mostly within the research profile HITS (High Quality Networked Services in a Mobile World). What is your part within the research profile?
“The overall goal for the HITS, High Quality Networked Services in a Mobile World, research profile is to contribute to the development of high quality networked services for a mobile world through world-class research and industrial collaboration.
2014-10-08
Good things always happen when influential open-minded and intelligent people meet; this is the simple underlying idea of forming an international network of service researchers.
The inaugural meeting was hosted in September by CTF.
The target audience for the event was mainly leading researchers from the different research centers around the globe and in the end there were 35 attendees from 13 countries.
- We feel that there are strength in numbers; if we are able to st
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Here you can learn more about how to apply to one of our programmes at Karlstad University. There are many important aspects to consider, so please read the information carefully. We recommend that students start the application process as early as possible to allow enough time to gather all the necessary documents.
The academic year starts every year in August. The process of applying starts almost a year in advance.
Vice Chancellor Johan Sterte, recently appointed the new board for CRS as the mandate period had run out on May 31. Some members of the board are new, while some guarantee a continutiy to the development of CRS.
