On September 19, the Center for Educational Leadership and Excellence (CELE) hosted a seminar with Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen from Jyväskylä University. She presented the EDUCA Flagship: Identifying research-based solutions for challenges in education, a large-scale initiative funded by the Research Council of Finland.

On September 12, the Center for Educational Leadership and Excellence (CELE) hosted a seminar with Hanne Knudsen from Aarhus University. She presented her ongoing research “Playful transformation? Investigating public-private synergies in education with LEGO and Danish University Colleges as the case.”

What can Sweden learn from Ukraine’s wartime resilience - and when must we find our own answers? On September 26, the Center for Security and Resilience (CfSR) at the Stockholm School of Economics hosted its second Academic Insights Breakfast Seminar, focusing on crisis preparedness and the role of municipalities in civil defence.

How do organizations actually handle a large-scale cyber incident when the "internet is on fire"? A new study from the Center for Security and Resilience at the Stockholm School of Economics provides an inside look at how a major Swedish public sector organization responded to the Log4Shell vulnerability - one of the most critical cybersecurity threats of the past decade.

Our doctoral student, Mara Bălașa, has recently published an article in Engelsberg Ideas, offering a nuanced exploration of Romania’s cultural identity and its long-standing orientation towards the West.

We are delighted to welcome Assia Viachka as the new Executive Director of the House of Governance and Public Policy (GaPP). Assia joins us from the SSE Education Office, where she most recently served as Academic Controller.

How should we evaluate performance in the public sector when so many outcomes depend on factors beyond local control? A new study from the Center for Municipality Governance at the Stockholm School of Economics, published in The Accounting Review, one of the world's top three accounting journals, explores this question through the lens of the "controllability principle".

On September 17, the Stockholm School of Economics hosted the roundtable From Crisis to Capacity - Strategic Foresight in the Public Sector, co-organized within the SustainGov program. The breakfast seminar brought together representatives from government agencies, municipalities, academia, and civil society to discuss how Sweden can strengthen its ability to anticipate and prepare for future challenges.

On September 22, the Stockholm School of Economics had the pleasure of welcoming Sweden's Minister for Financial Markets, Niklas Wykman, for a lunch lecture hosted by the House of Governance and Public Policy (GaPP).

This week, the Stockholm School of Economics and the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) launched the new Utvecklingskommuner (Innovation Municipalities) initiative in Nykvarn, one of four municipalities selected as pilot partners.