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CTF is one of the participants in the project IndBygg, which is run by Paper Province. The project aims to promote a green transition within the construction industry and, through collaboration, bring industrial wood construction to new heights.
To achieve the goals for sustainable development and create a fossil-free society, we need to develop the forest-based bioeconomy and use more wood as a construction material.
On June 12-15 researchers from CTF, Service Research Center at Karlstad University, Sweden, gathered in Porto for the QUIS15 symposium. The symposium is held every other year and attracts around 250 leading researchers and executives from all over the world.
CTF researchers Per Skålén, Carolina Camén and Bo Edvardsson participated in a workshop on Transformative service research.
2020-04-07
Innovating the meaning of services means dealing with the vague and intangible nature of meanings: companies risk not being able to transfer them from the strategic to the operational level.
HypheNation: A study of the Bildungsroman in six American minority novels from the 1990s (Zdravka Katinic) Internal funding 2020-
The project explores six American minority novels published in the "post-era" of the 1990s USA: Danzy Senna's Caucasia (1998), Gish Jen's Mona in the Promised Land (1996), Sapphire's Push (1996), Bapsi Sidhwa's An American Brat (1995), Linda Hogan's Solar Storms (1994), and Julia Alvarez's How The Gar
CRS
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» People and Networks Matter - Enabling Sustainable Bioeconomy Transition 27-28 mars 2019
The conference is a co-production between Nordregio, CRS - Centre for Regional Studies at Karlstad University, UIO TIK – Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture at University of Oslo, LUKE – Natural Resources Institute Finland, NIBIO – Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research, Region Värmland, Paper Province, Nordic Forest Research (SNS), Nordic Agri Research (NKJ) and Ingoskog – Innovation for green transition in the forest.
Geomedia
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» Geomedia Speaker Series
16 December 2022
10:00-12:00 local time (Sweden)
In today’s globalized, transnational, and digitalized media environment, popular culture plays a significant role in the establishment and (re)negotiation of place identities and the ways in which people relate to physical locations. Traveling to film locations, participating in fan re-enactments, or visiting theme parks are some of the varied and multifaceted ways in which the ties be
Bo Edvardsson, professor in Business Administration and founder of CTF, share some stories and reflects on CTF's 35 years of service research at Karlstad University.
It is almost inconceivable that it is 35 years since CTF started. Time goes really fast when you have a fun and a meaningful job.
Next seminars: *****************************Friday, 12.December 2025, 13:15-14, room TBATitle: TBASpeaker: Dargie Deribew, LinköpingAbstract: TBA*****************************COLLOQUIUMWednesday, 17.December 2025, 15:30-16:30, Eva-Eriksson-salenTitle: The Quest for Unification: Mathematics, Physics and AISpeaker: Daniel Persson, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, SwedenAbstract: Geometric deep learning is an emerging field that includes several directions
Last week CTF, Service Research Center at Karlstad University, together with Experio Lab, hosted a consortium meeting in Karlstad within the European research training network SDIN.
In addition to supervision of the doctoral candidates associated with SDIN, and a board meeting, a public conference was arranged with the intention to disseminate some of the research conducted within the project.
2023-12-13
It's time to look back on 2023 – the second year for the Center for Geomedia Studies. First and foremost, I want to thank you for all the valuable contributions and efforts that collectively build our shared research environment!
The examples below, taken from our news feed, provide a glimpse of what we were up to during 2023. But much more also took place.
New externally funded projects started – others continued. A new Geomedia Phd, Henrik Bergius, joined us.
Statsvetenskapliga förbundets årsmöte 2017
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The different parts of the conference such as workshops, keynote and lunch takes place at the university in fairly close proximity from each other. Nevertheless, it is probably useful for you to be able to navigate around the university.
Finding your way at the university
The university campus hosts several different buildings and these are the basic units for navigating to a particular room, corridor or lecture hall.
Research on justice in connection with disasters and sustainable development is becoming increasingly important in a world where climate change and social inequalities create new challenges.
We work within the paradigm of a circular forest based bioeconomy using a system analysis perspective.
The research group Water-Energy Nexus at Karlstad University contribute to a circular forest based bioeconomy by upgrading low-value sidestreams to raw materials, which are then used for production of useful materials and energy carriers.
Our vision
We research biomaterials using a systems perspective to enable resource efficiency.
Our mission
Research utilization
IETF, the Internet Engineering Task Force, arranged its first meeting of the year on 4–9 April 2016 in Buenos Aires. Computer Science at Karlstad University participated in several activities contributing to the development and maintenance of the Internet.
IETF is an independent international organisation concerned with the development and maintenance of the Internet. The organisation creates and maintains Internet standardisation processes.
2016-10-27
E-Vote-ID is an international and annual meeting for electronic voting specialists from all over the world. This years conference was a great success with two keynotes and over 100 participants, included from as far as Fiji, Ecuador and Australia.
Melanie Volkamer, Professor in Computer Science at Karlstad university was part of arranging this years conference which was arranged 18–21 October 2016 in Bregenz, Austria.
2019-10-15
We are happy to welcome Hugo Guyader to CTF. He will be working with professors Margareta Friman and Lars E Olsson in a research project on shared mobility, and will develop a survey for users of a Swedish ride sharing platform.
"My position at CTF involves research on shared mobility, particularly about ride sharing.
2015-10-26
We welcome Helena Alves, Assistant Professor from University of Beira Interior, Portugal, who will be visiting us until next year. What brings you to CTF and what kind of research are you working on?
- Knowing that CTF is a very well renowned research center, what brought me here was the possibility of exchanging research ideas with CTF researchers.
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.
RegistrationPlease register for the conference here (registration is closed)Last day for registration: 25 August 2025.Cancellations after August 31 will be fully charged.Participation fees (excl.
Jasper, you are a senior lecturer in Information Systems at Karlstad Business School and the Service Research Center, CTF. What did you do before you came to Karlstad University?
- I was a senior lecturer in user-centred design at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.
2023-04-05
In this blog article, CERS director and CTF’s advisory board member Kristina Heinonen shares some reflections of what is “hot” in service research and how research centers like CTF and CERS are making a difference in today’s society.
The fast pace of political, economic, and social change is reshaping the global landscape. Are researchers and business professionals keeping up and exploring solutions to society’s most pressing issues?
2025-11-17
Vulnerable children who may never have had a real chance—especially in school—are a heartfelt concern for Christel Sundqvist, newly appointed Professor of Special Education at Karlstad University.
2023-06-29
