On April 1st, the Vice Mayor of Sports Karin Ernlund (C) and her colleague Alice Vestin visited SSE and the Center for Sports and Business. This was a follow-up meeting after the visit at the City Hall on March 8th with President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic.

Former Swedish ambassador to Moscow and the OSCE Veronika Bard declares the OSCE project dead, calls for a Swedish-Russia strategy and warns against underestimating the Kremlin's political leadership.

The Key Account Managers in the Retail Clubs were invited for a "fika" and workshop on the future of retail at HUI.

Read the 2021 Misum Annual Report to learn about some ongoing research and engagement collaborations at Misum. We turn our focus this year on exciting partnerships with actors from the corporate and public sectors, the finance industry, and academia.

Marvin Liljegren, Head of UX & Design at ICA, held an inspirational theme lecture on ICA's Self-Leadership model.

Misum researcher Anders Anderson together with colleagues from Misum and the Swedish House of Finance have been granted three-year funding for the project “En enkätundersökning om hållbarhet och privatekonomi” (A survey on sustainability and personal finances). The grant is offered by Vinnova as part of the call "Research on financial markets 2022-2024".

Rön tyder på att stiftelser och andra privata initiativ blir alltmer betydelsefulla i samhället och inom forskningen. Privata forsknings­stiftelser har, till skillnad från traditionell social välgörenhet, länge varit en accepterad form av filantropi i Sverige.

At SSE research center SITE, the war in Ukraine has not just hit close to home for research assistant Hanna Anisimova. It is literally devastating her hometown of Donetsk and threatening the lives of friends and family. But also creating rifts between them.

Between 25th and 26th March, the pre-eminent annual, international sports business conference Scorecard 2022 - Priorities and Potential for a New World of Sport took place in India. The Center for Sports and Business, represented by Martin Carlsson-Wall (Center Director) and Nick Andersson (Director Internationalisation), participated in this summit.

This week, SSE had the pleasure of welcoming Nicolai Tangen to the school. He is the CEO of Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), more commonly known as the Norwegian Oil Fund. Along with other guests such as the Ambassador of Norway, Aud Kolberg, faculty and staff from SSE discussed what Sweden and Norway could learn from each other regarding education, entrepreneurship, and business.