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• 2024-08-30

  Ten million awarded to the Sweden-Japan collaboration MIRAI 3.0

  STINT, the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education, has granted SEK 10 million to the university collaboration MIRAI 3.0. Researchers from 17 universities in Sweden and Japan are going to work in interdisciplinary teams to contribute to the four selected Global Challenges defined within MIRAI 3.0.

  – It means a lot that we can now establish an even stronger collaboration within MIRAI 3.0 to engage young researchers who are working to address the global challenges in both countries, says Jorge Solis, Docent in Electrical Engineering and project leader for MIRAI at Karlstad University.

  The collaboration within MIRAI 3.0 aims to strengthen internationalisation of education and develop research to contribute to four Global Challenges: 

• 2024-08-29

  "Boyish" play at age 7 linked to behavioral problems and autistic traits

  New research at Karlstad University shows that "boyish" play behavior at the age of 7 can be linked to both behavioral problems and autistic traits.

  In a study that includes 718 children, researchers from Karlstad University and Uppsala University have identified clear connections between gender-role-related play and the development of behavioral challenges. The results showed that children who played more with toys traditionally considered to be for boys had more autistic traits and behavioral problems.

• 2024-08-28

  International Conference on Privacy and Cybersecurity

  Karlstad University, together with the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) and the European Data Protection Supervisor is hosting the hybrid conferences Annual Privacy Forum and IPEN 2024, September 3-5.

  With over 400 participants, the conferences are expected to bring together privacy experts, engineers, lawyers, researchers, and policymakers from both the private and public sectors.

• 2024-08-27

  Sven-Göran "Svennis" Eriksson has passed away

  International football legend Sven-Göran "Svennis" Eriksson passed away on Monday. Earlier this year he received the sports leadership scholarship Karlstad Grand Prix Award, established by Karlstad University and the Karlstad Municipality.

  After 40 years as a professional coach with the entire world as his workplace, Svennis returned to Värmland in 2022. He received Karlstad Grand Prix Award in May for maintaining a humanistic approach to leadership throughout his career, in a world often characterized by a more authoritarian leadership. 

• 2024-08-26

  International workshop on how companies can work effectively with sustainability issues

  – The SASUF funded workshop was highly appreciated and offered valuable insights for the participants, says Katharina Rahnert, Senior Lecturer in Business Administration at Karlstad Business School and one of the initiators.

  Katharina Rahnert, what was the purpose of the workshop?

  – We wanted to raise awareness among the participants about the importance of corporate sustainability. The idea was to help them become more responsible corporate professionals in their future careers. Another goal we had was to raise awareness about cultural differences, which we hoped would give them useful insights as they enter an internationalised work environment. 

• 2024-08-22

  Research for greener manufacturing and increased recycling

  Researchers at Karlstad University have started a 3-year project focusing on greener manufacturing and increased recycling of forest-based materials. They already have extensive knowledge about the chemical processes involved in providing product properties that determine the possibility of recycling. The new project is about transferring that knowledge to an industrial scale.

  – In previous research projects, we have looked at the chemical processes during dewatering and drying that affect the recycling of cellulose-based materials, says Björn Sjöstrand, docent in Chemical Engineering. It is about temperature and water content through the manufacturing process and we have carried out studies on a laboratory scale. Through a research grant from ÅForsk, we now have the opportunity to continue our studies and see how we can transfer the methods from our laboratories to an industrial scale.