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• 2025-03-31

  The Rights of Young Children and the Best Interests of the Child in Focus When Academia and Practice Meet

  Gisela Priebe, professor of psychology and director of the The Centre for Research on the Mental Health and Life Circumstances of Children and Youth (CBU), is one of the speakers at "Barnrättsdagarna" (the Children's Rights Days) held from 31 March to 2 April in Karlstad. This year's theme, "The Child as a Rights Holder and the Best Interests of the Child," is a constantly relevant topic for Gisela and CBU's research.

  Hello Gisela! What is your presentation about?

• 2025-03-31

  Ingesund Teacher Wins Grammy

  Singer and composer Lisa Östergren has been an active musician and vocal coach for many years. She is a vocal coach and jazz ensemble teacher at the Ingesund School of Music. As a composer, she is passionate about children's music, and this past weekend, she was awarded a Grammy for Best Children's Music.

  Lisa Östergren has extensive experience as a teacher, having worked at folk high schools, cultural schools, and privately. When she is not teaching at the Ingesund School of Music, she is either on tour with one of her children's music projects or composing music in her hometown of Upplands Väsby.

• 2025-03-20

  The university collaborates for sustainable manufacturing processes

  Mission 0 House, a collaboration between industry and academia with the goal of eliminating greenhouse gas emissions from manufacturing processes, has secured its first long-term research funding. Several leading companies, together with the Knowledge Foundation (KK-stiftelsen), have jointly guaranteed nearly 100 million SEK for the next five years.

  Mission 0 House, led by Polestar and Lindholmen Science Park, started as a pilot project in 2024. The initiative has allowed five Swedish universities to join Mission 0 House in Gothenburg: Karlstad University, University of Borås, University West, Jönköping University and Mid Sweden University. The institutions will contribute scientific expertise and hire a total of 10 new postdoctoral researchers. These researchers, along with senior scientists, will work together to develop future emission-free manufacturing methods.

• 2025-03-17

  Words from our senior management: Thoughts about academic freedom

  The university is involved in research, education and collaboration in a wide range of areas. In some, we are recognised as world leaders. In others, we receive less attention. Some areas are clearly aligned with the express needs of society. Others are more difficult to identify the immediate benefit of.

  The fact that the benefit is not obvious does not mean that there is none. Some things may take a hundred years to prove beneficial, and in other cases, nothing much ever comes of it. 

  Certain insights confirm what we already know, others call our understanding into question or upends it entirely. Out of context, much of what we do may come across as meaningless. In context, however, some of it could eventually turn out to be indispensable. 

• 2025-03-11

  Center for Research on Societal Risks Presents Research in Sendai, Japan

  Researchers from the Center for Research on Societal Risks (CSR) at Karlstad University, along with researchers from Örebro University, Gothenburg University, and Jönköping University, are in Japan to contribute to a long-term research collaboration between Sweden and Japan.

  Avit Bhowmik and Mikael Granberg, both from CSR, are currently in Sendai, Japan, meeting with researchers at the International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS) at Tohoku University, Sendai, as well as Hiroshima University and Nagoya University.

• 2025-03-06

  Eunice course provides a broad view of intercultural relations

  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. Jessica Ekberg and Hanna Räftegård, both lecturers in educational work, and Sylvie Vandermeuter, international coordinator at Karlstad University, participated.

  The course "Intercultural relations and intercomprehension in mobility and in higher education institutions" was given as a BIP course, blended intensive programme, as part of the Eunice collaboration. After one and a half months of digital education, the course concluded with a week of full-time studies at The Polytechnic Institute of Viseu, Portugal.