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• 2024-12-11

  Researcher grants for Collaborative Sustainability

  Collaboration with regional and municipal actors are crucial for triggering social innovation – says sustainability scientist Avit Bhowmik. He was awarded with two research grants from Vinnova and Swedish Energy Agency for collaboratively driving sustainability transformation in Värmland.

  Research has to break boundaries and engage in collboration with regional and local actors to make societal impacts, particularly for navigating sustainability transformation. Sustainability researcher Avit Bhowmik was awarded with two research grants for collaboratively driving sustainability transformation in the Värmland region during 2025-2027.  

• 2024-12-10

  Research Funds to Work for Children and Schools

  This autumn, the Swedish Research Council has awarded research funds in the field of educational work at Karlstad University. Both for projects where Karlstad is the main applicant and projects where researchers in Karlstad are co-applicants.

  Schooling, Development Paths, and School Experiences for Students with Neuropsychiatric Disabilities

  Main applicant Åsa Olsson, Associate Professor in Educational Work, co-applicants from Karlstad University, Evelina Landstedt, Professor in Social Work, Fanny Gyberg, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, and Birgitta Ljung Egeland, Senior Lecturer in Swedish Language.

• 2024-12-09

  Welcome to the university Lucia celebration!

  In the morning of Friday 13 December, the Executive Office invites everyone to the traditional Lucia celebration in Aula Magna with choral singing and a reading of the poem “Tomten”.

  The choirs Söt Likör and Sällskapet CMB, conducted by Mats Backlund, will be singing traditional Lucia songs, and Vice-Chancellor Jerker Moodysson and Student Union Chair Viktor Strömwall will together read Viktor Rydberg’s classic poem “Tomten”.

  The event starts at 07.30 and the doors of Aula Magna open at 07.00. It is a good idea to arrive early, as the Lucia celebration usually attracts a large audience.

  The programme in Aula Magna lasts about half an hour, followed by Lucia fika in the foyer.

• 2024-12-05

  This year's Chrismas song has a serious message

  Ho, ho, ho Carl Utbult, songwriter and producer, as well as a teacher at Ingesund. It's that time of the year again; you have been the supervisor for the first-year students in the music production program as they wrote and produced this year's Christmas song together in the regular songwriting course. This year, the students drew inspiration from Musikhjälpen and the theme that everyone should have the right to survive their pregnancy, which gives the production a serious message.

  What is the recipe for a really good Christmas song harmonically? Is it enough to just add some sleigh bells?

• 2024-12-05

  Providing Safe Sports Environments for Children and Youth Has Never Been More Important

  In the Swedish Sports Confederation's Guidelines for Children's and Youth Sports, it is stated that everyone in sports should work to create safe and inclusive sports environments for children and youth. In our contemporary society, these guidelines may have become even more important. Therefore, the theme for SVEBI's annual Sports Science Conference 2024, recently held at Karlstad University, was "Children and Youth in Safe Sports Environments."

  The guidelines are based on five main tracks: safety, participation, joy, versatility, and health. This is particularly relevant in the school subject of physical education and health, as it involves inspiring and motivating young people on their way into adulthood.

• 2024-12-03

  Karlstad University conducts pilot study on gaming in academia

  – Academia needs to contribute with both research and specialised education in this area, says John Sören Pettersson, professor of information systems at Karlstad Business School.

  Through regional development agreements with Region Värmland, Karlstad University has identified a number of so-called “smart specialisations”, among them video games. 

  – The challenge for the smart specialisation of video games and gamification in Värmland, which is the basis of the pilot study, is limited cooperation between industry and academia, says John Sören Pettersson. As a university, we need to contribute with artistic and scientific expertise in both research and specialised education.