Vinnova, Formas and the Swedish Energy Agency say yes to funding for SustainGov, where Samhällsnytta at Karlstad University is one of the partners.
The decision means that SustainGov is granted around SEK 11 million in government funding per year for running the programme, which is intended to help the public sector do the right things.
– It is important for Karlstad University that we get to be a part of this long-term and strategic initiative, says Johan Quist, Managin
2024-10-15
Swedish pupils need support to fully understand what they read online. They often have great knowledge and abilities, but must be given tools to interpret texts in a digital environment. These are the findings of new research at Karlstad University.
"Reading a printed text and reading a text online entail different types of challenges, and pupils must be able to work with both text types.
Kombinerad ECHA och igMCG konferens 16-18 juni 2025
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Forskning
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Our co-financier is the European Union, Erasmus + via the University and Higher Education Council (UHR)
Erasmus + is the European Union's education, youth and sport program for the years 2014 to 2020.
Through the program, preschools, schools, universities, vocational and adult education, municipalities, recreation centers and non-profit organizations in Sweden can apply for funds to carry out collaborations and exchanges with organizations in other countries.
At the end of the spring term, Karlstad Student Union took the opportunity to surprise some members of the teaching staff that students wished to pay special tribute to. "Celebrate a teacher" was the name of the campaign running during the spring semester and on 19 June the result was announced on the student union Instagram.
Individual students as well as societies had been invited to nominate candidates via videos published on the student union Instagram.
2018-04-09
For the second year runnig, Karlstad hosted the Bioeconomy Day on March 21-22. Leading industry and organisations, key stakeholders and policy makers from Sweden and Norway gathered. Researchers from CRS, Karlstad University, were also among the participants.
This year's Bioeconomy Day contained a mix of seminars, discussions and conversations between expertise from industry and politicians at all levels.
At Karlstad University the subject English can be studied at all university levels, and can be the main field of study for a Bachelor’s degree, a Master’ degree (60 or 120 ECTS credits) and a Doctor’s degree.
English is also included or can be included in all the current teacher degrees.
On 13–14 June, Karlstad University hosts Framtidens Lärande Väst (Future Learning West). The event is fully booked, which means that more than 2,000 people will be attending. Note: We recommend that you bring your own lunch box and that you bear in mind that the parking area might be busy. Two rows of the parking area north of the library are reserved for the 2-day event.
How can municipalities, schools and teachers create successful school development in a digital age?
Impact and the utilisation of research (4.5 credits) is a doctoral course that deals with how knowledge from your research can be useful for society, business and academia.
The findings, experiences, and ideas that emerge from research have traditionally been utilised through academic publication and teaching programmes. However, academic impact alone is no longer enough for a successful research career.
Student
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Digital examinations are a part of a number of courses at Karlstad University. You will receive more information from teaching staff if your courses are examined digitally. Students complete digital exams on their own computers, or on computers borrowed for this purpose.
As a student, you are responsible for preparing for writing a digital exam.
For a short period, we will have 2 different systems in which we will do digital exams.
Schools and preschools in Sweden are culturally diverse arenas, with more than a quarter of children in Sweden having immigrant backgrounds (Statistiska Centralbyrån, 2017). The Swedish preschool curriculum acknowledges the importance of responsivity to culturally and linguistically diverse children and families. Thus, graduate teachers need to be equipped to work children and families from ethnically and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
Karlstad University is the only Swedish university participating in a new large European research and innovation project under Horizon 2020. The aim of the project is to enhance cybersecurity skills in Europe.
“We have a high profile in security and integrity protection techniques.
E-MigrAgeing: Sustainable Ageing of Migrant Populations in Sweden and Japan and their Transnational families in the Framework of Digital Technologies was the title for this two-day online workshop. The aim was to discuss topics of migration, ageing, and digital technologies in Sweden and Japan.
Musikhögskolan Ingesund
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The entrance test for the Music Production Programme consists of two parts. You have to pass Part 1 to be invited to Part 2, and both parts must be passed to fulfil the specific entrance requirements for the programme.
The entrance test for the Music Production Programme consists of two parts. You have to pass Part 1 to be invited to Part 2.
In a globalized world that is rapidly changing innovations are needed in a faster pace. A recently published thesis describes how collaboration through open innovation processes in networks can be an alternative that makes the journey from idea to commercialization shorter.
Constant development of new technologies shortens product lifecycles.
Bibliotek
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Who can borrow talking books?
As a student with a reading disability, you can borrow your course literature in the form of a talking book from MTM - Swedish Agency for Accessible Media.
More information about MTM's service for students
How can I get access to talking books?
You get access to talking books by contacting the library's contact persons. They will give you an account to MTM's catalogue Legimus and also teach you how to download and read talking books.
Bibliotek
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StavaRex and SpellRight is available for PC and Mac and all students can download to their private computer
StavaRex - spell check software for Swedish writing (PC & Mac)
Stava Rex is a spell checker for people writing in Swedish, developed mainly for dyslexic user.
StavaRex and SpellRight is available for PC and Mac and all students can download to their private computer
StavaRex - spell check software for Swedish writing (PC & Mac)
Stava Rex is a spell checker for people writing in Swedish, developed mainly for dyslexic user.
Fakulteten för hälsa, natur- och teknikvetenskap
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The Department of Health Sciences comprises the disciplines Public Health Science, Nursing, and Oral Health.
Objectives
The Department of Health Sciences conducts high quality education and research in a health promoting working environment for students as well as staff.
Företagsekonomi
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Accounting is about documenting and communicating financial and non-financial information. It is applied by both private and public organizations. Accounting can be divided into financial accounting and management accounting.
Financial accounting is statutory and provides information on results and financial position, as well as corporate social responsibility and sustainability to external stakeholders.
Bibliotek
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» För dig med funktionsvariation
» Riktat pedagogiskt stöd
Students with special needs have the right to study support to help complete their studies. Karlstad University offers help with note-taking, alternative examination formats and a special resource room, among other things.
Students with special needs who are enrolled at Karlstad University should contact the coordinators of disability study support by their common e-mail studentstod@kau.se.
Geomedia
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» Geomedia Speaker Series
Feminist Geographies – Space, Gender and Activist Repertoires
The talk will revisit the spatial turn through the lenses of feminist theory and postcolonial theory, and explore and show how feminist geography, media geography and theories on intersectionality might enrich our understanding of historical and present examples of gender activism and housing activism.
The talk will concretize its theoretical mappings, by discussing results and experiences from the research project “Gender Blender:
Touch, swipe, och adjustments in the user interface for shell builders and wizards - these are things that some students presently are helping the Ozlab group with.
The web-based Ozlab is now in the process of being further developed to match the needs and requirements arising from the use of mobile units, e.g. swiping functionality and other finger gestures on touch screens.
2016-11-08
Rasmus Dahlberg, a computer engineering student at Karlstad University, had a summer job at the university a few months ago. This has now led to his participation in an international conference on secure IT systems.
During the summer of 2016, Rasmus worked as assistant in HITS, High Quality Networked Services in a Mobile World, a project conducted by Computer Science at Karlstad University.
2017-03-20
From 1 January 2017, Reine Lundin has been the new Dean of the Faculty of Health, Science and Technology at Karlstad University, and has subsequently also taken the role as chairperson of the management group for the research profile HITS (high-quality network services in a mobile world).
Together with five Swedish industrial companies and funded by the Knowledge Foundation Computer Science at Karlstad University continues developing the HITS research profile.
