Coming from a region where music plays a big role in our lives – think about ABBA, Roxette, and Avicii – it seems inevitable that we became intrigued by the swift pace of innovation within the music industry. In a couple of decades, music production and consumption have moved from LPs to cassettes and CDs, to music piracy and digital files, and most recently to streaming services.
Midway between Stockholm, Gothenburg and Oslo, on the northern shore of Lake Vänern - you'll find Karlstad. Here you will find a mixture of a vibrant nightlife, food from all corners of the world and a wide range of cultural activities. It's close to most things and within easy walking distance you'll find everything you need.
Sun, water and the hospitality of Värmland - where Sweden's longest river meets Europe's third largest lake you will find Karlstad.
Businesses and public organizations continuously work on developing new services or products in order to be innovative. One important part in this work is to know how ideas for new services and products are evaluated, since the idea screening determine whether an idea is considered good, and whether it will continue its development as an innovation project.
2022-04-14
Georgia Aitaki has analysed financial crises, striving for international attention and broken hearts in countries far from home.
With her doctoral thesis ”The Private life of a nation in crisis - A study on the politics in/of Greek television fiction”, Georgia Aitaki, senior lecturer in Media and Communication Studies at Karlstad University, examined the Greek TV industry and the mechanisms involving its producers, screenwriters and filmmakers.
Kombinerad ECHA och igMCG konferens 16-18 juni 2025
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15th of JuneSunday afternoon2:00 PMVisit at the Lars Lerin exhibit at Sandgrund Museum. Lars Lerin is a famous local artist whose paintings are displayed at a museum in central Karlstad. The permanent exhibition at Sandgrund shows different themes from Lars Lerin's 30 years as an artist; watercolor paintings, oil paintings, graphic art, collages and photographs from many places in the world.We will meet outside the museum at 2:00 PM.
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.
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UPDATE (230508)
Below you can find the schedule for the TEPE-conference. Two updated files can be downloaded in which you can find more detailed information regarding specific presentations: Book of Abstracts and the Program Parallel Sessions.
As main field of study, Cultural Studies includes a broad selection of courses as part of the Culture, Policy and Management Programme, but also as independent courses for non-programme students.
Three semesters of the programme are focused on the cultural sector and content is based on key issues and addresses current questions in the field.
CTF
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2024Brodén, K. , Westman Trischler, J., Wästlund, E. Liu, X. (2024) Rapport Smart and Safe, Karlstads univeristet. DOI:10.13140/RG.2.2.25515.76320Westman Trischler, J. (2024) Från bilist till förmånscyklist - Beteendevetenskapliga strategier för ökad cykelpendling i Sverige. Huvudförfattare, Gabriella Stuart, Nordic Behaviour Group.
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There is a lack of knowledge among professionals in most government agencies that handle and are responsible for honor-based violence in Sweden.
The project 6G-PATH (6G-Pilots and Trials Through Europe), in which the departments of computer science and nursing at Karlstad University participate, has been included on this year’s IVA 100 List.
2025-03-20
Mission 0 House, a collaboration between industry and academia with the goal of eliminating greenhouse gas emissions from manufacturing processes, has secured its first long-term research funding. Several leading companies, together with the Knowledge Foundation (KK-stiftelsen), have jointly guaranteed nearly 100 million SEK for the next five years.
Mission 0 House, led by Polestar and Lindholmen Science Park, started as a pilot project in 2024.
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As a young university, we aim to preserve an academic tradition with roots dating back to the Middle Ages while also considering our own history and identity. In Karlstad, we have chosen to shape our academic ceremony to reflect our culture while connecting to national and international university traditions.
Originally, our mission was to educate professionals in the most knowledge-demanding fields of law, medicine, and theology.
The article “How experts screen ideas: The complex interplay of intuition, analysis and sensemaking” have received Albert L. Page award.
Tell us about the article - How experts screen ideas: The complex interplay of intuition, analysis and sensemaking
- Our article reveals how experts from technological companies screen ideas for innovations, says co-author, Alexandre Sukhov at Karlstad Business School and CTF.
2022-06-16
Johan Netz is senior lecturer in Business Administration and an active researcher and teacher. On 1 July, he will take over as head of department at Karlstad Business School.
– It will be an exciting, fun and interesting challenge, says Johan Netz. Karlstad Business School is a good organisation full of expertise and opportunities.
Johan Netz is currently the programme director for the Industrial Engineering and Management programme at Karlstad Business School.
2021-11-16
A systematic approach to improvement, development, learning, collaboration and feedback to society are important tasks at a modern, ambitious business school.
2022-03-25
We have an increasing awareness regarding our environment. According to the United Nations panel for assessing the science related to climate change (IPCC), global warming needs to be reduced by 1.5 degrees, which requires substantial changes of organisational and individual behaviour. Currently, 1.3 billion tons of food – the equivalent of 30 percent of the world’s agricultural production – is thrown away.
2023-09-19
In the study ”Managing the Complexity of Green Innovation” authors Andrey Abadzhiev, Alexandre Sukhov, Antti Sihvonen and Mikael Johnson have examined how this complexity can be managed by analyzing how individual companies combine different innovation activities to develop green innovation, and how companies along the value chain align to implement these innovations.
Green innovation can promote both environmental sustainability and economic growth.
2024-09-02 - 2025-02-11 (english) Register here no later than August 26.Course descriptionTarget groupTeachers at Karlstad University who supervises or intends to supervise students at doctoral level. Completed DHU course is also a requirement for you who intend to apply for an associate professor.Extent200 hours, with a maximum of 80 scheduled hours.Learning outcomes and contentSupervision is the most important pedagogical instrument in doctoral-level education.
2017-06-14
All over the world, digital tools are increasingly being used to improve and streamline healthcare services. This does not only lead to positive results, but also creates opportunities for new types of threats regarding information security and privacy.
Information security and protection of privacy are some of the most important factors in the development of high-quality tools in the healthcare sector.
2018-11-26
Two years ago, the course “Service Management and IT: Electronic Business” was made available in English. Today, it appeals to both Swedish-speaking and International students.
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2023
January 18
15.15 – 16.45
Room: 4A301A (on Campus)
Josephine Baird
”Playing with Gender: Exploring, Expressing and Embodying (Trans) Gender in Games”
In the cutesy life-simulator game, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, you get to create your own character, who you can dress up and style any way you want, and can wander around an idyllic little island, which you can also invite your online friends to.
