We welcome Katriina Järvi, Ph D Student from Aalto University BIT Research Centre, who will be visiting us for 6 months.
Katrina JärviKatriina Järvi works as a project manager in IRIS research group at Aalto University BIT Research Centre. Her special interests are productisation of services, service innovation and involving customers in service development.
2023-04-28
The DRIVE sub-project 3 “Service optimization in federated edge platforms“ aims to design and develop artificial intelligence and machine learning based solutions to optimize the performance of augmented reality and virtual reality services on user-edge-cloud continuum platforms.
2018-10-02
Starting in January 2019, the online course "Idea Management" will give you a review of idea management practices, and teach you how to manage the generation, refinement, and assessment of ideas for both product and service innovations.
Idea Management (6 ECTS credits) is a web-based course at master’s level developed for professionals working with or having an interest in service, customer experiences and business development.
2013-05-24
How do we do when we search for information on the web, how do we navigate, and what catches our attention? Students from the IT-Design and Web and Multimedia programs are looking into these questions.
Contextual Behavioural Science (CBS) is a systematic and pragmatic approach to understanding behaviour, solving human problems, and promoting human growth and development. It uses functional principles and theories to analyse and influence actions through their context.
Recently, one of the world's prime conferences in service research, QUIS16, was arranged at Karlstad University. Several of the founders of the research field shared their stories on how it all started and valuable insights, and provided good advice for continued research and development.
2017-12-15
The Internet and our ever increasingly digital world hold many advantages, but these come at a price – our privacy. Through an international network of doctoral students, the Privacy&Us project aims at finding solutions to give citizens the benefits of digitalisation, while still protecting their privacy.
The projects involves thirteen creative, entrepreneurial and innovative doctoral students whose projects focus on online privacy and usability.
HHK
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Sustainable transformation beyond 2030.
Are you interested in circular economy and sustainable development? Are you concerned about how your consumption affects our planet and how you as a consumer or organization can contribute?
Forskarhandbok
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Omvärldsnämnden decides on grants for larger events. To be eligible for a grant, the arrangement must be of a national or international nature and be of such dignity that the board considers it to have clear marketing value or provide added value for Karlstad. Applications to Omvärldsnämnden should be signed by University Director at Karlstad University.
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Recently, one of the world's prime conferences in service research, QUIS16, was arranged at Karlstad University. In the program, several of the founders of the research field told us how it all started, shared valuable insights and provided good advice for continued research and development.
The Grants and Innovation Office (GIO) supports individual researchers and research groups at Karlstad University in developing external funding strategies, as well as working with the personal and professional development of research staff.
Support is offered through a range of competence development activities, for both individuals and groups, as well as in connection with external research funding applications to regional, national and international funders.
The GIO
Geomedia
» Konferenser och evenemang
» Geomedia International Conferences
The biannual Geomedia conference provides a genuinely interdisciplinary arena for research carried out at the crossroads of Geography, Media and Film Studies.
The aim of the conference is to explore the expanding terrain of media and communication geographical research, from historical as well as contemporary perspectives.
The conference has been held since 2015 and has contributed to an evolving international community of openminded geomedia scholars.
Find out more:
We welcome Andreas Zolnowski, Research Associate at the ISS International Business School of Service Management in Hamburg, Germany, who will be visiting CTF during March-April.
Andreas joined the ISS International Business School after receiving his diploma in Business Informatics from the University of Duisburg-Essen. Supported by his supervisor Prof. Dr.
2025-02-07
Karlstad University is one of the participants in DigiH4A (Digital Health for All), an EU-funded project that will address systemic healthcare challenges on an international scale.
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As of July 2018, Swedish universities have limited access to journals from Elsevier, one of the world’s largest scientific publishers. However, employees at Karlstad University can still access new articles through the interlibrary lending service, ”Get it now”.
Magazines published by Elsevier between January 1, 1995 and June 30, 2018 are still available through the usual channels.
This text is meant to provide support to students who process personal data as part of independent projects/degree projects/essays (called “independent projects” below), but all students will benefit from the information provided in Part 1.
Aim of the text
The European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and complementing Swedish legislation require that all work with personal data should be done transparently, correctly and securely.
The fifth edition of Karlstad programming contest is arranged at 8 October by Computer Science at Karlstad University. The contest is part of the Nordic championship, Nordic Collegiate Programming Contest.
The contest takes place in teams with up to 3 persons who shall solve a dozen tasks with programming in C, C++, C#, Go, Java, Objective-C or Python.
Sociologi
» Konferenser
» Konferens om Åldrande och migration i Sverige och Japan 11-12 maj 2022
Integration and Ageing of Marriage Migrants in Japan: The Role of Local and Transnational Networks
It has been two decades since the start of the large influx of female marriage migrants from former Soviet countries (mainly, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan) to Japan. Currently there are about 16,000 nationals of the abovementioned countries, with approximately 3,500-4,000 of them being female marriage migrants.
The first course round has now finished and the students Maria Oliva and Thibault Vainer are very pleased.
– I will definitely benefit from this course in my future career, says student Maria Oliva.
– We based the course on the idea that students need to practise their communication skills in a variety of situations that they will encounter in life, says John Johansson.
Media and Communication Studies arranges journalism seminars each term with funding from the Anne-Marie and Gustaf Ander foundation for media research.
We invite interesting guests to the journalism seminar to lecture on, debate, and discuss various topics and themes.
Applicants to main instrument or vocals in the classical music genre are required to partake in the local entrance test (L-test) by submitting videos of themselves playing/singing according to the instructions below.
TEST COMPONENTSBy Wednesday April 24th 2025 at 16.00 at the latest, applicants should submit two pieces of music of different characters (two separate videos), of which one is mandatory for most instruments.
The Håkan Frisinger Foundation for Transportation Research awarded its 2014 scholarship to Professor Margareta Friman at Karlstad University.
Margareta Friman will receive the scholarship of SEK 250,000 for
combining behavioral science with transportation research, and thus
has increased understanding of the factors that influence the decisions and choices of transport people make.
The scholarship will be awarded by the Håkan Frisinger Foundation
at a seminar held o
