Supported by the Swedish Knowledge Foundation, we foster collaboration between industry partners and academic researchers.
EXACT combines knowledge in process technology and systems analysis with expertise in digitalization.The goal is sustainable manufacturing with energy efficient and digitalized production processes and high-quality biobased products.The vision is to aid circular transition and future-proofing of Swedish process industry, via needs-driven, collaborati
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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)
Stefan Olsson, Professor of Financial Law at Karlstad Business School, has recently received two prestigious appointments in the field of tax law – a new three-year term as deputy member of the Tax Law Council and the role of Chair of the TOR/Skattenytt Foundation.
2020-09-29
September 29, is the first International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste. The day is instituted by the UN to take an international approach to the consequences of food waste and possible solutions to reach the goal in Agenda 2030.
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Academic Celebration 2023 will be celebrated on October 20 in Aula Magna at Karlstad University. We present and inauguarate our new Vice-Chancellor Jerker Moodysson during this year's celebration.
Karlstad University has been granted funds from the Knowledge Foundation, for conducting research on energy-efficient tissue manufacturing, in collaboration with the paper industry.
2017-01-30
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).
2025-10-30
Crispin Thurlow, Professor of Language and Communication at the University of Bern, Switzerland, is the new Ander Visiting Professor at Centre for Geomedia Studies.
Crispin, tell us about your background
– In addition to my main professorship at Bern, I’m affiliate professor in our Centre for the Study of Language and Society (CSLS) and in the Centre for Diversity Studies at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa.
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.
2024-05-14
The book “Integrative Approaches in Urban Sustainability” represents an international collaboration project including about forty academic institutions worldwide. The book examines the increasing rate of urbanisation and the consequences for social structures.
- This publication aims to redefine the way we think and plan for urban environments of the future, says Asaad Almssad, Docent in Construction Engineering and one of the editors of the book.
2025-04-02
Karlstad University’s vice-chancellor, Jerker Moodysson, has been appointed as a board member of the Swedish Council for Higher Education (UHR) for the next three years.
– I’m looking forward to working on development issues related to higher education in a new context for me, says Jerker Moodysson.
– Among other things, UHR is responsible for coordinating admissions, internationalisation and digital services. They also work with information and analyses.
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.
Today, the Internet underpins almost every aspect of our daily lives and it needs to provide efficient support for an increasing number of diverse applications.
The Hotspot job fair, the Snits networking group for students, mentoring and a summer course. This proved a successful combination for IT student Raymond Berglind, who is currently completing the final year of the computer engineering programme at Karlstad University and who has now developed an app for Evry, an industry partner in Snits.
“It all started when I went to Hotspot and got a good feeling about Evry.
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Karlstad University offers support of different kinds to students with documented special needs. This is a list of the most common sorts of support.
Note-taking
You can recruit a classmate to take notes and copy them for you. The university will compensate the classmate for this service.
Mentor
A mentor can be a classmate or another person who provides coaching or supports you in, for example, structuring your studies.
The QUIS symposium is held every other year and attracts around 250 leading researchers and executives from all over the world. In 2019, QUIS will return to where it all started back in 1988 when the first QUIS symposium took place. Welcome to the city of sun, Karlstad, Sweden!
Since 1988, the QUIS symposium brings together the best interdisciplinary academic research and management practice in a forum to advance the study of service as a field.
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")
In general, all students wishing to study at Karlstad University must apply online, using the national application database www.universityadmissions.se. However, if you are an exchange student the application process is different.
Karlstad University will only process applications received by the application deadline.
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During week 33 CSR were visited by a delegation of researchers from Bangladesh. The visit was part of an ongoing project, consequences to human health in Bangladesh by Climate Change, which aims at developing a strong research network in the field of Climate change and health.
Photo: Researchers from Khulna University, Centre for injury prevention and Research Bangladesh, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University and the Centre for Societal Risk Research.
Next week we welcome Janet R. McColl-Kennedy, Professor of Marketing, from The University of Queensland, Brisbane in Australia. She will be staying at CTF for two weeks. During her visit she will participate in a Advisory Board Meeting within the research profile SISB, Service Innovation for Sustainable Business, and to present at QUIS13.
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The award is given for 'long term and significant contributions to the service research field and to the development of CTF'.
International Fellows of CTF appointed at CTF 30th Anniversary 2016:
Javier Reynoso, Professor, EGADE Business School, Mexico
Ruth Bolton, Professor, Arizona State University, US
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I would like to start by saying thank you for the warm welcome I have received during my first weeks at Karlstad University. I have already met several of you and I look forward to more meetings in the day-to-day operations.
I enjoy meetings, both planned and spontaneous. It might come as a surprise that someone from management would utter such a thing, given the number of meetings I have attended over the years and the likelihood of a very busy schedule ahead.
