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• 2024-12-02

  Quality enhancing efforts continue in the budget for 2025

  The university board approved the budget for 2025 at the board meeting 27 November. The forward-looking investments in Eunice, doctoral students and associate senior lecturers, which are financed through the university’s agency capital, will continue. The rest of the budget is planned to be balanced.

  The university’s finances are affected by various factors in society, the external environment and sometimes also by challenges within the organisation. In terms of electricity prices, inflation and the consumer price index, the situation is somewhat less concerning than a year ago. At the same time, the government’s budget proposal earlier this autumn did not include any new, major investments in the higher education sector. 

• 2024-12-02

  Words from our senior management: Why do we need an IT council?

  As of this year, the university’s former IT purchase council (”it-beställarrådet”, IT-BR) has moved towards a broader and more strategic mission under a new name, the IT Council. The council is a key part of the university’s work in planning and prioritising IT-related investments, from development projects to long-term system administration.

  The following is within the purview of the IT Council:

• 2024-11-28

  Researcher releases a new Curriculum at COP29

  The devastating impacts of climate change are unfolding in both infrastructural loses and rising eco-anxiety among young people. KAU climate scientist Avit Bhowmik released a new curriculum with the Long Game team at COP29 in Ajerbaijan to trigger rapid action and also lessen eco-anxiety at schools.

  The devastating impacts of climate change are unfolding, not only in physical and infrastructural losses and damages, but also in increasing eco-anxiety and trauma, particularly in young people. A majority of young people in the world are suffering from eco-anxiety and think that their feelings about climate change are ignored and often dismissed. 

• 2024-11-26

  Study flexibly and securely with new M365 services

  We are now expanding the range of services within Microsoft 365, including OneDrive and the online versions of Word, Excel and Powerpoint. This allows for easy creation, saving and sharing of content in the cloud, as well as real-time collaboration on documents with others – regardless of the device!

  With the services in Microsoft 365, you do not have to install anything – you can use Word, Excel and PowerPoint directly in the browser, and with OneDrive you also get access to secure cloud storage to access, manage and back up your files. It gives you the freedom to work from anywhere and edit your documents regardless of the device you are using. In addition, several people can work together in real time and edit the same document, making things like group assignments smoother and more efficient.

• 2024-11-26

  Practice-oriented education research receives funding

  The Swedish Institute for Educational Research has granted funding to three projects at Karlstad University focusing on practice-oriented education research. The university also has a co-applicant involved in another project. The objective of the projects is improved teaching within the Swedish school system.

  The researchers at Karlstad University who have been granted funding all have a particular interest in subject-specific education. The research focus is on what happens in the classroom and the interaction between teachers and pupils in the learning process. The researchers want to know more about how pupils can learn about different subjects in a more effective way, and to find answers, they work closely with both teachers and pupils.

• 2024-11-22

  Research project on collaborative robots makes IVA’s 100 List

  The research project on society-centred industry 5.0 – headed by Jorge Solis – has been selected for the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences’ (IVA) 100 List of 2024. The theme of this year’s list is innovation through interdisciplinary research.

  – I feel very honoured that our research is on this year’s 100 List, says Jorge Solis, associate professor in electrical engineering at Karlstad University. I’m also very pleased to represent Karlstad University’s research in this context, which can provide opportunities for new projects and contacts.