Annica Löf, coordinator for Students with Disabilites.
The support system at the University of Skövde offers tailored educational assistance for students with disabilities. The webinar will provide an overview of how the support functions but also of the challenges at the university.
Ines Niksic, Lecturer in Swedish and Karin Jonegård, International Coordinator
Welcome to an exciting and interactive workshop on Inclusion and Intercultural competence! We will explore how culture and diversity might influence communication, collaboration, and our understanding of one another in a globalized world. By enhancing your awareness of diversity, improving cross-cultural communication, and fostering inclusive practices, you'll be better equipped to contribute to social sustainability in today's interconnected world.
Ingrid Christensson and Cecilia Vikenstrand, Study and Career Counsellors
Welcome to a session about group work and group dynamics and how to make them work more successful. Our Study and Career counsellors at the University of Skövde will guide you through all the challenges with group dynamics!
Johnson & Johnson Senior Director of Strategic Planning, Stacey Lallier and a lecturer in public health at Rutgers University will discuss the subject of leadership. Broadcast to WiSTEM2D university students across the globe.
Ines Niksic, Lecturer in Swedish and Karin Jonegård, International Coordinator
Welcome to an exciting and interactive workshop on Inclusion and Intercultural competence! Join us for a fun and engaging workshop where, through a combination of theory, reflective discussions and hands-on activities, you will gain valuable insights and tools that will guide you towards understanding and challenging norms in order to create more inclusive and equitable environments.
Note! The activity is cancelled!
Promoting Female Students in STEM fields
Delphine Roger, with inputs from several speakers, including Awardees of the Johnson & Johnson Awards 2024.
Bias in AI Robots, Ransoms, and Right and Wrong: Real-World AI Ethics in 2025
Oskar MacGregor, Senior Lecturer in Informatics at the University of Skövde
In this presentation, Oskar MacGregor will provide a brief overview of the current state of AI ethics, focusing on practical, real-world examples such as threats to personal privacy, algorithmic bias, deepfakes and other forms of AI-based deception, and the human and environmental costs of training and deploying largescale AI models. Many of these challenges – such as the environmental damage caused by training AI models – are ethically straightforward, but solutions to them remain elusive for technical reasons. Other challenges – such as (certain forms of) algorithmic bias – are not even in principle reducible to the sorts of optimized parameters that are required for technical deployment. That is, the ethical difficulties are, in these cases, sui generis: not of a kind that can be easily translated into practical engineering solutions, instead requiring a significantly deeper appreciation of the inconclusiveness of human values, and thus warning strongly against any simplistically reductive approach to bias in AI.
Where: On campus-event (Skövde) – more information soon
Crossover with BI4E Info Day on disabilities and Handicap
Contributors: Béatrice Patte Rouland, URN VP DEI, Pascal Hilber, Neuroscience Lecturer & Task Officer of Espace Handicap, and Handisup, a partner association of URN.
Time: 9.00-12.00
Responsible: Organised by the URN, led by Marine Le Mercier, BI4E Project Manager
Welcoming international students, presenting our orientation programme
Frida Lindgren, International Coordinator and Simon Wallin, Student Coordinator.
It is important for all students, and perhaps especially for international students, that they feel welcome to their new city and their new university. The aim of the introduction is to make the students feel welcome, at home and comfortable, both to the campus, to Skövde and to Sweden. The University, the Student Union and the Municipality work closely to create a welcoming environment for all students.
