While time is certainly a diffuse concept, its ten years as a full university makes Mid Sweden University a young university by Swedish standards. Even though…

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.…

– One cannot sufficiently emphasize the importance of education and research, not least to economic growth. An increasing number of people will need higher education and…

During its first ten years, more than 2 million books have been borrowed from the library. Since 2008, the physical loans have decreased and the share…

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…

The success of the Swedish national team in cross-country skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver made curious gazes turn to Östersund. What was it…

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…

Mid Sweden University has much to gain from maintaining a good contact with its former students. That is why Miun Almuni was started a couple of…

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…

For many years, social work students at Mid Sweden University have been able to go to India for field located education. The 15-20 weeks that they…

The Golden Shovel is a highly prestigious award in Swedish journalism – and at the Investigative Seminar in March of 2014, no fewer than two of…

“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?

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…

There is a hot debate in the daily newspapers. Should Mid Sweden University move to Frösö Strand or should it remain in town? “The University’s New…

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…

In connection with the Bologna University’s 900th anniversary in 1999, a group of European Ministers for Education gathered. They began discussing how a common system for…

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,…

In order to get the researchers’ ideas out of their desk drawers – and to ensure that the research results would be of actual benefit –…

Härnösand and Mid Sweden University have a long educational heritage, which goes as far back as 1842. In the beginning, the teacher education lasted for one…

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…

But what is happening? One by one, the people at Campus Östersund fall victim to a stomach illness. And soon it turns out that the whole…

“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…

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…

In the autumn of 2012, exciting things were happening at Sports Technology, the Department of Technology and Sustainable Development. In collaboration with the company Exmet AB,…

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…

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 2009, Mid Sweden University is again entrusted by the Swedish National Agency for Higher Education to continue to lead the Swedish PISA study.

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…

– It began with a crate of office materials. Former chemical engineer Göte Högbom clearly remembers the starting point for the University College of Sundsvall.

Pick-up service, Cinnamon Bun’s Day and “one way in” for all questions. These were some of the efforts that made Mid Sweden University number one in…

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…

Forest, forest, forest. In Mid Sweden University region, there are plenty of forests. Therefore, it is logical that the hub of forest industrial research, FSCN, is…

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…

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…

In May of 2014, a hard-to-beat record was set at the Furniture Making and Building Crafts Programme at the Wood Academy in Kramfors. No fewer than…

In 2013, around 50 international experts assessed 28 research subjects and seven research centres at Mid Sweden University. When ARC13 (Assessment of Research and Coproduction) was…

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…

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…

On page 2 of Mid Sweden University’s Research Strategy for 2012-2016, it states, among other things, that “the research at Mid Sweden University should be of…

At 07.02 a.m. on 11 April, Thomas Fuchs telephone starts ringing. He is at home in his bathroom. “The roof is blowing off the library,” says…

Suddenly, there is a snorting and the sound of hoofs echoing between the walls of the houses. It is the North Swedish Horses Hägg and Ejmer,…

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…

“Mid Sweden University admits more summer students than any other Swedish university and provides a good and serious range of courses.” In 2014, Mid Sweden University…

For the autumn term in 2005, the number of applicants to the other Swedish universities increased by one per cent. For Mid Sweden University, the number…

In the same year that the teacher seminar started in Härnösand that a nautical school was also opened. It was closed down as recently as in…

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…

2009 was the year when Mid Sweden University got two new, exciting programmes: the Criminology Programme and the Risk and Crisis Management Programme.

What places, situations and objects do children and young people regard as the most perilous ones? That is what the Research Friday mass experiment in 2012…

Finally! After a two-year qualification process, Mid Sweden University has been selected to be a Knowledge Foundation environment. Mid Sweden University is one of three higher…

If you want to be the best at cooperating with working life, it is not enough to send students on work placements. And if you want…

– It’s like an amazing fairy tale that I never could have dreamed would come true when I first started the Ski University. Anders Edholm was…

“Bringing excellence together” is the motto of Mid Sweden University’s Risk and Crisis Research Centre (RCR). At the opening in 2010, national and international contacts in…

In the beginning, the Summer University was a faculty project within the education strategy, but the result was such a success that it soon became a…

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…

“Talking” paper with embedded digital information – that you need only touch for sound to flow out of printed speakers. The information technology of the future…

Which posts do we share the most on Facebook? Which strategy is the most effective one during an election campaign? And how is an economic crisis…

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…

“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…

Through the reform of higher education in 1977, both the University College of Sundsvall/Härnösand and the University College of Östersund were founded, as well as ten…

The teachers at NMT had been busy all day, baking 200 buns, whipping cream and mashing almond paste. They were going to offer their students “semlor”…

In 2009, Mid Sweden University put extra focus on increasing the number of international students. It was a joint drive by both our faculties and the…

Who said research results are just reports that end up on a shelf, collecting dust? Here at Mid Sweden University this is not the case, anyway.…

Exciting, fun and incredibly important – this is how Harriet Wallberg described her view on her mission as University Chancellor when she took on the position…

Karin Mattsson Weijber is, apart from her role as a Chairsperson of the Swedish Sports Confederation, also a Chair member of the Mid Sweden University Board…

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…

On 10 February, the official and ceremonial opening of Mid Sweden University was held in Härnösand Cathedral. Among the 300 specially invited guests were the Mid…

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…

In 2003, the Swedish National Agency for Higher Education approved Mid Sweden University’s application for the right to award Master’s Degrees in all fields of study,…

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…

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…

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…

When the University College of Sundsvall/Härnösand was established in 1977, there was no unified solution for premises in Sundsvall. For twenty years, the activities were conducted…

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…

During 1999-2007 Örnsköldsvik received the status of campus and Mid Sweden University was described as having four campuses. Aside from the nursing college activities, a work unit…

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…

The discussions concerning a deeper collaboration between the University College of Sundsvall/Härnösand and the University College of Östersund picked up momentum in the autumn of 1990…

How can the earth’s resources be saved by more things being connected to the Internet? That is an issue Professor Mattias O’Nils and his colleagues at…

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…

As early as in the year 1667, membership in what was then known as the students’ nations was made mandatory, to make it possible to keep…

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…

– 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…

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.…

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…

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…

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.

Statistics can be interpreted in many different ways. For example, in 2005, we could see that the number of students who had graduated from Mid Sweden…

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…

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. The…

Environmental politics, leadership, games programming, economics, mathematics… And why not runology or mountain ecology? In the summer of 2010, Mid Sweden University was the largest provider…

Eat, sleep and breathe svenska (Swedish).” This describes the very essence of the intensive course in Swedish that was held at Mid Sweden University for several…

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…