• Education
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• Gender equality
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The student survey: a vital part of our work to promote equal opportunities and prevent discrimination

Posted by Ole Petter Ottersen

As I have stated many times before, and also on this blog, Karolinska Institutet maintains absolute and unconditional zero tolerance towards discrimination, intimidation, sexual harassment, reprisals, and victimisation. This does […]

2022-10-10

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• Debatt
• English
• Health care
• Pandemi
• Research
• Research policy
• Society
• Svenska

Let us not forget the lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic

Posted by Ole Petter Ottersen

In previous blog posts I have highlighted how the pandemic and the importance of science to combat future health crises seem to have vanished from public debate in Sweden, even […]

2022-09-06

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• Academic Freedom
• Collaboration
• English
• International

Time to reflect on our international collaborations

Posted by Ole Petter Ottersen

This is an English version of a blog post previously published in Swedish (March 3, 2022) A few days ago, the Swedish government – via Minister for Education Anna Ekström […]

2022-03-05

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• Collaboration
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• Forskning
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• Strategy
• Student

Tack för 2019!

Posted by Ole Petter Ottersen

English version below Karolinska Institutet kan lägga ännu ett intensivt år bakom sig. Den omfattande flyttprocessen som till största delen genomfördes under föregående år, är nu slutförd. En ny organisation […]

2019-12-19

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• Conference
• Education

New fellowship program in medical education

Posted by Ole Petter Ottersen

One of the overarching objectives in our new strategy – Strategy 2030 – says that KI should be a university “characterized by pedagogical creativity and innovation”. We also promise to […]

2019-11-29

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• Hållbarhet
• International
• Research
• Sustainability
• Utbildning

WHO:s generaldirektör besöker Karolinska Institutet

Posted by Ole Petter Ottersen

English version below Tisdagen den 9 april har jag den stora äran att välkomna Världshälsoorganisationens generaldirektör, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, hit till Karolinska Institutet. Dr. Tedros är på ett kort besök […]

2019-03-29

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• Infrastructure

Biomedicum: Benchmarking with the best

Posted by Ole Petter Ottersen

This post is partly based on my speech at the inaguration ceremony today, Friday Today is a historic day at Karolinska Institutet. On this very day we inaugurate Biomedicum – […]

2018-11-30

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• Collaboration
• Forskningspolitik
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• Research policy
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• Utbildning

”Hur vet du det?”

Posted by Ole Petter Ottersen

In English below Lördagen den 14 april inleddes kampanjen ”Hur vet du det?” med manifestationer i Lund, Luleå och Stockholm. Ett 70-tal organisationer står bakom kampanjen (däribland Karolinska Institutet), som […]

2018-04-20

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