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A debate about the future of the universities

What will happen with the universities in the future? What does the student's learning and knowledge look like in 2050? This was the first theme for "KTH Debatt", a new meeting point with current and important societal issues in research and education.

2021-09-27

Henrik Ahlén, AI Change Agent Healthcare på AI Sweden

AI Sweden – information-driven healthcare

AI Sweden is Sweden's national center for applied AI. The business is non-profit and is supported by the Swedish government through Vinnova, as well as over 100 partners from the business community, the public sector, academia and research institutes throughout Sweden. The goal is to accelerate the use of AI to strengthen Sweden's welfare and competitiveness, to eventually improve the lives of everyone living in Sweden. Since April, Henrik Ahlén is AI Change Agent Healthcare at AI Sweden in Stockholm, and we had the opportunity to ask him some questions.

2021-09-14

Sciety – a leading investor within Swedish life science

Sciety started in 2016 with the goal of making it easier for life science investors and companies to connect. Today, Sciety offers an established financing route for unlisted life science companies and the Nordic region’s leading investment syndicate.

2021-09-01

EuroScience Policy Forum

On June 29-30 the 1st EuroScience Policy Forum took place. At the forum, important questions related to the changes in societal expectations on academic institutions and new pathways to a more sustainable academia were discussed.

2021-08-30

Apply for the Stockholm Innovation Scholarship!

The City of Stockholm wants to support creative people with innovative ideas. 100,000 SEK, free office space and innovation consulting could be yours. Are you ready to take your innovation to the next level? Application deadline 12 October, 2021.

2021-08-24

New report on liabilities in digital services

Jakob Dumky, founder of Noncomplicity, has worked with questions related to quality, usability and regulations in medical device industry for almost 20 years. Jakob is the author of the report Liabilities in digital services with or without health accounts (available in Swedish). The report describes how data can be shared from digital health services to, for example, care providers and who bears the liability for personal data in different situations. We had the opportunity to ask Jakob some questions about the report.

2021-06-10

Stockholm Life Science Conference 2021

On May 25, the Stockholm Life Science Conference took place. The conference was conducted digitally with only a few speakers on site in Flemingsberg. Karolinska Institutet (KI) was the main organizer in collaboration with Stockholm Region, KTH and Stockholm University. The aim was to discuss the future of life science after the pandemic.

2021-06-09

Webinar online: Sharing data with digital health tools

Digital services are generating increasing amounts of data about the user's health and lifestyle. This data can be of great benefit to the individual using the service, but also to caregivers. Similarly, data generated within healthcare can be useful for individuals. So how can this data be shared and who is responsible for the data? Below is a recording from the webinar that was held on June 8.

2021-06-08

The building of the university campus Albano is underway

Despite the limitations of the past year, the building of the new university campus at Albano has been able to continue. Just a stone’s throw from the city and close to Stockholm University and KTH Royal Institute of Technology, the construction of all the buildings at Albano is underway. After several years of focused work - followed by a time when it was barely possible to plan for more than one day at a time - Stockholm University has according to plan taken over Albano Houses 2 and 4. Now furniture and planning is underway for the businesses that moves in this summer.

2021-06-08

InfraLife – for increased use of Swedish research infrastructures

Infra Access for Life Science Sweden - InfraLife - is an initiative that aims to maximize the benefits and return of investment in Sweden's large-scale strategic research infrastructures SciLifeLab, MAXIV and ESS for the benefit of life science research in academia, industry and healthcare. Frida Lundmark, Life Science Special Advisor at the industry organization Lif, talks about what InfraLife can do for the pharmaceutical industry.

2021-06-03

Consensus, foresight, collaboration and co-creation

In a changing world, consensus, foresight, collaboration and co-creation between universities, business and society are required to consolidate and strengthen the power of innovation. In Uppsala, STUNS has worked with this approach for almost 40 years since the first plans were made for what would become Uppsala Science Park and which became the starting point for STUNS Life Science. Read more in a blog post by Björn Arvidsson.

2021-06-02

Webinar online: The Future of Health - the patient perspective in digitalisation

On June 1 we hosted an online panel discussion on how the digitalisation of healthcare can give patients tools for better health and how healthcare can use patients' knowledge as a resource in their development.

2021-06-01

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