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• 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.

• 2025-02-26

  Words from our senior management: Review to create long-term sustainable education

  The strategic review of the university’s degree programmes continues. Among other things, it will be a standing item on the agenda at this year’s four dialogues where the management teams of the teacher education board and the faculties meet with the vice-chancellor.

  The vice-chancellor has approved a planned continuation of the education review that was initiated in the spring of 2023. An important starting point in the first phase was that we have to have a sufficient number of attractive degree programmes to ensure a sufficient number of new programme students – it is important that we do not to stagnate as a university. The review resulted in new degree programmes and revisions of existing ones.

• 2025-02-20

  Hanna Enefalk – New Representative for Karlstad University in Humtank

  Hello there, Hanna Enefalk, Associate Professor of History and the new representative for Karlstad University in Humtank. Tell us more!

  "Humtank is a think tank for research and education in the humanities, with representatives from fourteen Swedish universities and colleges. It has existed for over ten years and is funded by nearly all Swedish universities engaged in humanities research. Its purpose is to highlight the humanities and their perspectives. Both the general public and politicians sometimes forget that science is more than just men in white lab coats. Humtank plays an important role in reminding people that historians, literary scholars, cultural researchers, and other humanities academics also exist."

• 2025-02-18

  Leather substitutes made of fungal biomass can become your new handbag or steering wheel cover

  Imagine a handbag or a steering wheel upholstered in leather – but made of artificial leather made from fungi grown from food waste. In a new research project the goal is to develop just that in collaboration with industry.

  The project aims to meet societal challenges such as food waste and the production of natural leather that is ethically and environmentally questioned due to unsustainable production methods.

  There are already various alternatives to artificial leather. These often contain fossil-based plastics to meet the desired properties. The substitutes also often do not meet the desired quality characteristics and environmental requirements, which makes it interesting to work closely with industry in the project.

• 2025-02-10

  Minute of silence at 12.00 on Tuesday 11 February

  There will be a national minute of silence on Tuesday 11 February in honour of the victims of the tragedy in Örebro. Karlstad University will participate.

  The initiative of a national minute of silence was declared by the Swedish government, who also urge that flags be flown at half-mast from 09.00 until the moment of silence has ended.

  – 4 February will forever mark a dark day in Swedish history. To honour the victims who never came home to their loved ones, I want to invite everyone across our nation to gather in a minute of silence, says Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson in a press relase.