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Erik Fichtelius honorary doctor at Mid Sweden University since 2010 and CEO of the Education Radio tells here about the future opportunities that open up with distance education and e-learning, als...
Exciting, fun and incredibly important - then Harriet Wallberg described how she looked at her assignment as university chancellor when she took office on June 1, 2014.
Kim Anderzon was - and still is - one of the country's most popular actresses. At the 2012 anniversary, she was appointed honorary doctor at Mid Sweden University. Other doctorate hats that year...
The university’s premises on Rådhusgatan in Östersund were too small even in the 1980s, which led to the rental of additional premises in town and on Frösön. Staff and student longed for the...
Proud as a peacock. It is easy to feel that way when you think about all the Olympic medals that the Swedish cross-country skiers won in Sochi. And at Mid Sweden University, we preen ourselves a...
When Anders Edholm started the Ski University in 1987, it was really only intended for girls. In those days, boys could get in through the sports platoon, but girls were not allowed to do the...
Anna Ottosson had decided to retire from skiing within the next couple of years. She knew that the Olympic Games in Turin would be her last chance to win a championship medal. Still, she chose to...
Can a nice-looking package make Japanese people buy meatballs? In 2007, Kristina Brink and some of her colleagues went on a study visit to Tokyo. It became the starting point of a collaboration tha...
“Shadow a Student” was one of many highly appreciated activities during the Konkurrenslyftet project, which was intended to encourage more upper secondary school students to continue their studies ...
When Lena Ivarsson received the e-mail informing her that she had been awarded the scholarship “Excellence in Teaching”, she had to read it several times. She could not believe that it was true.
– It began with a crate of office materials. Former chemical engineer Göte Högbom clearly remembers the starting point for the University College of Sundsvall.
A year after she had been awarded her degree from the Risk and Crisis Management Programme, Malin Burman received an award called “Young Entrepreneur of the Year” at Guldgalan (the Gold Gala) in...
“Jesus said to them: ‘My wife…’” The text on an antique papyrus fragment has caused a great stir all over the world. Was the man married?
“Here, we will be able to conduct complete tests that are very close to reality!” says an ecstatic Mikael Bäckström. He is a professor and centre leader at Mid Sweden University’s newest research...
Every day, hundreds and sometimes thousands of people pilgrimage to two small American communities, Forks and La Push. These people are inveterate Twilight fans. They photograph the local school,...
In 2009, Mid Sweden University is again entrusted by the Swedish National Agency for Higher Education to continue to lead the Swedish PISA study.
In 1997, Mid Sweden University College started the first Scandinavian tourism research institute, ETOUR. Here, outgoing research at a high level is carried out – which will be of use for both socie...
2 golds. 5 silvers. 4 bronzes. The cross-country skiers’ success at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics was historic. And it was at the Swedish Winter Sports Research Centre (SWSRC) in Östersund that th...
Mid Sweden University’s activities to create a profile for itself in outdoor recreation have been successful. Over the years, we have collaborated with the strongest outdoor industry trademarks in...
How many people can, in just four minutes, describe their research in a way that is both entertaining and easy to understand – standing on the stage of a rock club? Well, there is at least one...
With fanfares, singing, music and a gun salute from the Jämtland Field Artillery, Mid Sweden University’s new doctors, professors and honorary degree recipients were celebrated at the annual...
When the Washington Post phoned Mats Tinnsten, he was truly surprised. – I never would have guessed that our research on the Stradivarius violin would have such an impact!
On 22 September 2006, Mid Sweden University arranged its first Annual Celebration. Twelve new professors and five new doctors were celebrated with great splendour. Bengt Saltin and Bodil Malmsten...
At the Annual Celebration in 2008, a six-time world champion in biathlon and a research-focused graduate engineer were awarded honorary doctoral degrees by Mid Sweden University.
While time is certainly a diffuse concept, its ten years as a full university makes Mid Sweden University a young university by Swedish standards.
A new Vice-Chancellor with clear priorities and a number of attractive programmes meant that Mid Sweden University got a higher share of applicants than any other university for the autumn of 2009.
Mid Sweden University has evolved well during its years a full university. That is the opinion of Pia Sandvik, who was the Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the university between 2002 and 2005, and who later...
In September of 1905, the County council decided to start a course to educate nurses in Östersund. The issue had been brought up ten years earlier, but the education could not begin until the...
In February each year, the RUN Parliament is held. It is a highly appreciated initiative by Mid Sweden University. It brings chief education officers, school politicians and teacher trainers from o...
Teacher salaries seem to have been as hot a topic 150 years ago as it is today. An enterprising teacher was reprimanded for having baked bread on the side in order to supplement his salary as a...
2009 was the year when Mid Sweden University got two new, exciting programmes: the Criminology Programme and the Risk and Crisis Management Programme.
When Mats Tinnsten travelled to Italy to sign the Magna Charta, it was an important statement – it demonstrated that Mid Sweden University will always work to promote the freedom in research.
In 1970, the Government authorities decided to expand the School of Social Studies in Sweden. In May of the following year, it was decided that a new School of Social Studies would be located in...
In 1997, Mid Sweden University took over the forest technician programme that had been held at the Northern Forest Institute since the end of the 19th century, with the Swedish University of...
The integration process between the University College of Sundsvall/Härnösand and the University College of Östersund did not just involve those two university colleges, but also the nursing colleg...
After a two-and-a-half year long process, Mid Sweden University finally got its own Psychology programme, which was a source of relief and happiness to everyone involved. The following year, the...
In order to strengthen Mid Sweden University’s profile in the fields of tourism, winter sports and outdoor life, Skarp Åre was started. The one-year education was popular and it was offered by the...
A large number of Mid Sweden University’s students are distance students and we are one of the largest providers of distance education in the country.
A computerized, lifelike model of a human – one that can imitate our behaviour and our reactions. It sounds like science fiction, but it became very much a reality at Mid Sweden University’s nursin...
Aside from being the President of the Swedish Sports Confederation, Karin Mattsson Weijber has also been a member of the Mid Sweden University Board since 2007. This means that she has been on the...
Kristina Persson is a former member of the Mid Sweden University Board and the former County Governor of Jämtland, and she was involved in the work to achieve full university status. Today, she is ...
Anders Söderholm has been the Vice-Chancellor of Mid Sweden University since 2008 – that is seven out of the first ten years. Here, he talks about his view on the future development of the universi...
Around the turn of the century, Mid Sweden University made some important investments in additional professors, doctoral students and doctoral studies. The third application for full university...
– Not all ideas result in a company. It is just as important that the researchers and students develop as entrepreneurs, and that they learn to let loose their drive and creativity, says Juliana...
In October of 2014, Mid Sweden University received the happy news that we would be one of six universities with the right to offer the National School Leadership Training Programme.
The film summarizes a part of all that has happened during our ten years as a university. It begins with a message from biathlete and honorary doctor Magdalena Forsberg, who sends us a greeting fro...
The nursing education in the County council of Västernorrland had a modest beginning. In 1894, the County council decided to admit one nursing student to the hospital in Härnösand every six months,...
How could Prince Daniel let the pregnant Victoria climb a steep ladder – in high heels? A royal visit to Mid Sweden University provoked strong reactions in the German tabloids.
On 10 February, the official and ceremonial opening of Mid Sweden University was held in Härnösand Cathedral.
At Campus Östersund, we are spoilt when it comes to seeing the world elite of cross-country skiing. They study for exams, have a coffee, go roller skating, study some more… It is all work and no...
When Anders Söderholm accepted to become Mid Sweden University's principal, a young business was waiting for him. Now it has matured somewhat, but Anders wants to stick to the young.
From the moment it was founded, it was the ambition of Mid Sweden University to achieve full university status. In 1997, the first application was submitted to the government with the request to...
A complementary application for full university status was submitted to the government in December of 1999, after the measures suggested by the panel from the Swedish National Agency for Higher...
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