This autumn, the City Planning Committee of Stockholm decided that the stairs between Saltmätargatan and Holländargatan will be named after Gisèle Asplund, who was the first female Doctor of Philosophy at SSE. The naming ceremony took place this afternoon.

Europe faces challenging times - from the COVID-19 pandemic to climate change to economic recovery – and 130 master's students across the CIVICA alliance have just spent three months analyzing the EU’s policy responses to these challenges in the first Europeanship multicampus course "The Future of Europe".

The Assar Lindbeck Medal 2021 is awarded to professors Robert Östling and Erik Lindqvist, active at the Stockholm School of Economics respectively the Institute for Social Research at Stockholm University. The award, in honor of Assar Lindbeck's diverse and pioneering economic research efforts, is awarded every two years to researchers under the age of 45 who are active in Sweden, which have contributed significantly to economic thinking and economic knowledge.

Associate Professor Abhijeet Singh has been awarded the SSE Corporate Partners’ Research Award 2021 for his empirical studies of education polices. The award, which amounts to 100,000 SEK, was presented by SSE President Lars Strannegård.

This year's Corporate Partners' Pedagogical Award goes to Emma Stenström for her long-standing passion for pedagogical innovation and her deep commitment to the development of responsible citizens and leaders. SSE President Lars Strannegård presented the award, which amounts to 100,000 SEK.

The SSE MBA Corporate Partner Scholarship is awarded to Carl Kindborg, Head of Human Resources Nordic Region at Citi.

The Stockholm School of Economics is launching a new center for research in Statecraft – the capacity for governing a country. The center will form part of a unique collaboration with three world-leading institutes in international relations and history. The initiative broadens the School’s offering in the social sciences and humanities for students and researchers.

Laurence Romani has been appointed professor of management at the Department of Management and Organization at the Stockholm School of Economics. Laurence Romani’s research investigates the social responsibilities of organizations, in particular, in their management and inclusion of diversity.

The Esploro solution will help the school showcase the complete breadth of its scholars’ research; facilitate the discovery of publications on SwePub, Sweden’s scientific publishing network and provide the library and research office with in-depth analytics and reports.

CIVICA - A growing number of students and (post)doctoral researchers across the alliance are benefitting from the newly launched programmes and offers.