Impact

The Center for Security and Resilience drives impact through the SSE FREE Collaborative Wheel. The wheel is a holistic 360° model where we integrate all aspects of SSE as an institution and, together with our partners, co-create individual, organizational, and societal impact.

How we drive impact

A modern security approach needs to be competitive, economic, organizational, technological, and societal. CfSR is the neutral, interdisciplinary hub that brings together academia, business, government, and civil society to transform risks into opportunities and strengthen long-term competitiveness as the driver of resilience.

With increasing geopolitical tension, disrupted supply chains, cyber threats, and other vulnerabilities, our modern society faces multiple challenges - but with them lies the opportunity to strengthen our economies in peace, and by doing so, better prepare them for war. CfSR is designed to actively shape those new realities we face.

We do this through our mission: Strengthening local, regional, national &  Nordic competitiveness through transformational processes.

This logic directly reinforces SSE's mission: “To strengthen Sweden's competitiveness through scientific knowledge and science-based education” - making the school the right place to lead this work.

Operationally this is done by five integrated processes:

Challenges

  • What are the strategic challenges facing your organization?
  • How are they shared with others?
  • What are the bottlenecks and chokepoints in addressing them today?

Here we work with structured Preparedness Dialogues, Advisory Boards, and Roundtable Dinners to clarify the strategic challenges facing us.

Relationships

  • We create a neutral arena for interacting with key stakeholders.
  • Curating the right people in the right rooms.
  • Enabling strategic communication to multiple stakeholders.

Here we work with multiple strategic forums, all with their own purpose and design. We have Congresses (300+ participants), Summits (80+ participants), Dialogue Sessions (20+ participants), Small-Group Dinners (10+ participants), Strategic Communications, and Advisory Boards.

Models

  • We provide research and fact-based insights into how to develop your operational model.

We do this through interdisciplinary research involving four SSE departments, as well as Campus Totalförsvar and Cybercampus Sverige.

Capabilities

  • We ensure that critical knowledge and skills are transmitted throughout your organization, providing the necessary tools to address your strategic challenges.

This is done through our degree programs: Nordic Defense MBA, MSc in Public Policy, as well as our Executive Education offerings.

Capacity

  • We provide your organization with best practices, knowledge sharing, and information to act upon your strategic challenges.

Here we organize and facilitate Academic Insights seminars, student projects, student fairs, relationships with SSE Business Lab, participation in partners’ innovation activities, and 12-week Lab Sprints.