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When climate risk hits home, people listen: Study reveals key to engagement
08 December 2025
A subtle change in how climate risk is communicated—mentioning a person’s local area—can significantly increase attention to disaster preparedness messages, according to a new study by researchers at the Stockholm School of Economics and Harvard University, published in Nature Human Behaviour. The findings offer a practical, low-cost strategy for governments, insurers and local authorities seeking to boost climate resilience in vulnerable communities.
How Can Systembolaget Ensure Sustainability Throughout Its Value Chain?
03 December 2025
Retail Management students in Systembolaget Retail Club were invited to a workshop focused on exploring sustainability challenges across beverage value chains using ESG criteria.
SSE ranked among Europe’s top 20 business schools by Financial Times
01 December 2025
The Financial Times has ranked the Stockholm School of Economics among Europe’s top 20 business schools in 2025. SSE is the highest-ranked institution in the Scandinavian region and the only Nordic school to make the top 20.
Building public sector capacity: From fragmentation to system shift
26 November 2025
Sweden's public sector is under growing pressure to tackle complex challenges - from climate adaptation to social inclusion. But does it have the capacity to deliver? A new SSE-led study suggests not yet. On 24 November, the Stockholm School of Economics hosted a symposium to explore how system innovation could help close that gap.
Meet SSE's two new CIVICA Ambassadors, Estrid and Simon
21 November 2025
As CIVICA Ambassadors, Estrid Kaarme and Simon Warne aim to create engagement among students for current European civic issues: "AI and its impact on democracies is a particularly important matter right now."
Scaling sustainability with Sustain by Oscar Jacobson
05 November 2025
Retail Management students in Circular Impact Retail Club got to experience an inspiring workshop together with Sustain by Oscar Jacobson.
When missions miss the local mark: How innovation arenas overlook regional solutions
21 October 2025
Mission-driven innovation projects are meant to solve society's biggest challenges. But new research from the Stockholm School of Economics shows that the way these projects are organised risks directing attention away from local and regional needs - limiting their potential for real-world impact.
How public and private sectors build big ideas - and how you could too
16 October 2025
What do new hospitals, universities, and transport networks have in common? They often exist thanks to partnerships between the public and private sectors. At GaPP's Lunch & Learn on October 8, students got a behind-the-scenes look at how these collaborations, and the people behind them, make large-scale public projects happen.
Balancing green regulation and competition in Europe
06 October 2025
On October 3, the House of Governance and Public Policy (GaPP) and the Swedish House of Finance (SHoF) co-hosted a seminar on Europe's green industrial transformation.
CIVICA European Week 2025
02 October 2025
Earlier this summer, undergraduate students from across the CIVICA alliance of European universities gathered at SNSPA in Bucharest for European Week 2025.