Almedalen Week live online or for later viewing
Uppsala University is organising around 50 seminars at Almedalen in 2024. Eleven of them will be streamed live and available to view later. Photo: Elin Nysten/Region Gotland.
In summer 2024, Uppsala University is organising around 50 seminars during Almedalen Week in Visby. If you can’t be there, you can follow some of the University’s events live online or view them later.
Almedalen Week runs for four days in 2024, from 25 June to 28 June. In all, the programme at Almedalen consists of some 1,750 items. Uppsala University, whose Campus Gotland is located right beside Almedalen, is organising around 50 seminars.
Apart from the seminars organised by the University, scholars from Uppsala are participating in a further 30 or so seminars arranged by others.
Even if you can’t be there, you can follow parts of the programme via live webcasts or later. In the seminars, researchers will give their perspectives on various topical social issues.
Several of the University’s seminars will be streamed live online and will also be available to view later. (Not available in English.)
World-leading research
The University’s Vice-Chancellor Anders Hagfeldt is hosting the seminar “Good, better, Sweden: how we can become world research leaders”. Is Swedish research good enough and if not, what is required for Sweden to become a world-leading research nation?
The seminar is on Wednesday 26 June at 13:00–14:00 and will be webcast live. (Not available in English.)
Social issues in focus
The seminars that will be webcast live and available to view later cover a wide range of fields, from extreme climate events to children and young people at risk.
Uppsala University seminars that will be webcast live from Almedalen (Not available in English.)
- Social challenges associated with children and young people at risk: how can we jointly take responsibility?
- Artificial Intelligence: values, identity and human dignity
- Higher education: for whose sake?
- Extreme climate events: what kind of climate change leadership is required in research and politics?
- Family member perspectives in digital health care: challenges and opportunities of new medical technology
- Universities and business in partnership: how increased collaboration can strengthen Sweden as a research nation
- Wither democracy in the global super election year 2024? How is polarisation influencing developments?
- From words to action? Skills supply in health care at a crossroads.
- Making sustainable tourism possible: ways ahead for the tourist industry
- Should we pay more for medication for people with more serious illnesses?
Anders Berndt
Almedalen Week
Almedalen Week is a meeting and discussion event for the public, private and non-profit sectors held in Visby every summer. It is one of the world’s largest open forums for discussing social issues.
The core of the programme consists of speeches by the political parties from the stage in Almedalen, supplemented by seminars and other meetings organised by a wide range of actors. Region Gotland is the host and local representatives of the parties currently represented in the Swedish Parliament (the Riksdag) are responsible for preserving and promoting Almedalen Week as a democratic and political arena.