From regional development to region building and now social change. The Centre for Region Building (CRS) changes name to Centre for Research on Sustainable Societal Transformation and celebrates the ten-year anniversary of its graduate school. Research fields change with social change. CRS has developed a new research programme and a name change was called for.
”The former name – Centre for Region Building – was no longer relevant.
2019-02-22
From this autumn, Karlstad University is offering a new three-year study programme in computer science for those who like IT and programming, but who are not interested in studying physics, electronics or a lot of mathematics.
“The programme is tailor-made for those who completed upper-secondary school programmes in Science and Technology,” says Tobias Pulls, coordinator of the new programme.
2016-06-10
Welcome to Karlstad University! You newly started your employment here as a postdoc in computer science. What and where have you studied before you started here in May?
In the spring I earned my doctor’s degree in computer science with a specialization in distributed systems at the University in Bamberg, Germany, where I also earned my Bachelor and Master degrees. But this is not my first time in Sweden.
2024-11-28
The pro-Palestinian protests that are taking place at universities and university colleges around the world have now also reached Karlstad.
On the night of Thursday 16 May, a group of protesters set up tents in the park next to the main entrance of Karlstad University.
2024-11-26
Utbildning
» Om utlandsstudier
» Praktik/vfu/fältstudier
An Erasmus+ traineeship is normally offered within Europe. There is limited funding to support Erasmus+ traineeships outside Europe. This means that you can apply for an Erasmus+ scholarship, which will be approximately 510 - 615 Euros a month. You can carry out your practical placement at a company, organisation, or research and development centre in any country that is included in the Erasmus+ programme.
TELL-ability is a research project funded by the Swedish Research Council (dnr 2022-02920) conducted at Karlstad University by Erica Sandlund, Birgitta Ljung Egeland, Silivia Kunitz and Christina Olin-Scheller during 2023-2025.
The telling and sharing of stories have long been viewed as central to human experience, memory, and imagination.
Changing career direction, updating knowledge and specialising in a field.
Anyone with an academic degree has the opportunity to move on to the second degree- level, for instance, with a view to changing from one career to another or to specialising in a profession. At Master’s level courses can combine into a one-year or a two-year Master’s degree (60/120 ECTS credits).
Bibliotek
» Lärarstöd
» Bibliotekets stöd till lärare
» Öppna lärresurser
On this page you can find open educational resources created by Karlstad University Library. We have gathered our open course materials and links to our available resources, for example guides and manuals.
The library's open Canvas coursesAt the University Library, we create our own Canvas courses aimed at students at Karlstad University. These are available in English.
Materialforskning
» Forskningsområden
» Solenergimaterial
» Nya material för lösningsbaserade solceller - polymera och perovskit-baserade aktiva material
SENIOR STAFF RESEARCHERS:
Moyses Araujo
Cleber Marchiori
Ellen Moons
Andrea Muntean
Patricia Saenz-Mendez
Jan van Stam
POSTDOCTORS:
Leandro Franco
Ishita Jalan
Saurabh Pareek
DOCTORAL STUDENTS:
Leticia Christopholi
André Johansson
Suraj Prasad
Asirin Pandiyalakkal Musthafa
RESEARCH ENGINEERS:
Mikael Andersén
Leif Ericsson
Community dance involves the art of dancing, participation and social sustainability through interacting with a local place and local people. In Community Dance the amateurs are experts on their own story and by collaborating with a professional artist they are supported in narrating and communicating it.
In this way Community Dance can function as a tool for social, human as well as artistic development. Community Dance involves embodied understanding.
All Master's programmes are presented here, grouped in areas of interest. At this level, we offer one-year and two-year Master’s programmes as well as professional degree program.
Students who have earned a Bachelor’s or a professional degree of at least 180 ECTS cr. are eligible for admission to master’s-level study.
Graduate School of HealthThe Graduate School of Health has the ambition to offer a strong and creative doctoral education environment in a larger context than what each individual subject can offer. Activities within the Graduate School will strengthen the quality and content of supervision and education and be seen as resources for our doctoral students and also include study social activities.
Bibliotek
» Om biblioteket
» För dig som är ny student
» 15 fakta om biblioteket
You can participate in various activities, mini-seminars and workshops in the Learning Lab om floor 3. All activities are announced in the calendar and on the Library's information screens.
Some activities are available on Zoom.
Meet a researcher - open seminars
Meet a researcher are open seminars where you can listen to interesting researchers at Karlstad University.
Printed maps
The university library has a collection of printed maps like economic and topographic maps, maps of Värmland and some geological maps.
Digital maps
Students and research can access digital map services like GET -Geodata Extraction Tool, through the library. The links can be found in the subject guide.
Subject guide for maps (in Swedish).
Loredana Sundberg Cerrato from Dublin gave an intriguing seminar on February 10, 2016.
Loredana, who also presented the ADAPT centre in Dublin this day (see post on the web pages of Information Systems), gave an in-depth view on research on dialogue supporting machine translation between languages for the HCI group and Master students.
Her presentation is uploaded as an pdf file on this web page.
A picture of the presenter from her power point slide (see pdf).
In this course we work together to produce a stage performance. We add costumes, make up, voice and props to dance and movement and set up an exciting stage performance. Students develop an understanding of the various parts of a production, choreography, role analysis and reflections on artistic perspectives.
See the study programme an eligibility requirements for the course Dance and Stage production 1, ETCS 7,5 credits
Interventions increase the chances of succeeding in changing and maintaining a new behavior in the long run. This is shown in a recently published study from CTF, Service Research Center at Karlstad University.
"Interventions are about promoting a behavioral change with targeted programs or services," says Frida Skarin, Doctoral Student in Psychology and main author of the article.
2024-05-08
The next board meeting is coming up soon. As usual, we compile a report for the board with the latest updates. One thing hits me.
Since the last meeting, we have had three ministers visiting our university or planning to visit us, we have welcomed an astronaut, 2,500 upper-secondary school pupils, met with the Ministry of Education and Research, organised one of Sweden’s largest job fairs and, of course, many other exciting activities as well.
Within Rose, research is conducted within a number of different projects where the starting point is that questions about social, economic and environmentally sustainable societal development need to be posed in relation to teaching and learning. ROSE has a clear socially relevant focus in its research with a focus on exploring areas from a comparative subject didactic perspective.
On Saturday 16 August, it will be exactly one hundred years since our beloved city park, Mariebergsskogen, was inaugurated. Anna Lööf Falkman, CEO and Alumnus of the Year 2015, invites everyone to a festive celebration lasting all day!
It’s a busy time for Anna Lööf Falkman.
2025-03-06
What shapes us and gives us our culture and subculture? With scientific backing on culture, interculturality, and internationalization, Eunice offers a digital course that concludes with a week of full-time studies.
Anna Jansson jumped in at the deep end. She has lived in Germany and Ireland, and for the last four years she has called San Francisco home. She started by taking freestanding courses at Karlstad University and today she is brand marketing manager at Google.
WHAT DID YOU STUDY AT KARLSTAD?
I studied at Karlstad University from 2002 to 2006.
