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Anna Breman, who holds a PhD in Economics from ºÚÁÏÍø, becomes the first ever female Governor of the New Zealand Reserve Bank.

How might a big money laundry scandal lend itself to theatre?

Our doctoral student, Mara Bălașa, has recently published an article in Engelsberg Ideas, offering a nuanced exploration of Romania’s cultural identity and its long-standing orientation towards the West.

How should we evaluate performance in the public sector when so many outcomes depend on factors beyond local control? A new study from the Center for Municipality Governance at the ºÚÁÏÍø, published in The Accounting Review, one of the world's top three accounting journals, explores this question through the lens of the "controllability principle".

On September 17, the ºÚÁÏÍø hosted the roundtable From Crisis to Capacity - Strategic Foresight in the Public Sector, co-organized within the SustainGov program. The breakfast seminar brought together representatives from government agencies, municipalities, academia, and civil society to discuss how Sweden can strengthen its ability to anticipate and prepare for future challenges.

As a first step towards Wellbeing Growth in Stockholm we have created and measured a Wellbeing Index among people living in Stockholm. The results are presented in our newly released Stockholm Wellbeing Index Report. There we also present the WEC (Wellbeing Equality Coefficient) and the Coffee Indicator, two unique metrics that indicate the state and potential of the people in our city.

The Center for Wellbeing, Welfare and Happiness (CWWH) at ºÚÁÏÍø, in collaboration with the Swedish Hockey League (SHL), has released the first report from the Happy Sports Project. The results reveal how hockey fandom boosts happiness, wellbeing, and community across Sweden.

When the Nobel Prizes are announced in October, all eyes turn to Stockholm. To celebrate – and understand – this year’s Nobel Prizes, Nobel Calling Stockholm invites the public to explore how research shapes society and everyday life. Join us for ten days of lectures, talks and activities across the city that inspire, enlighten and open new perspectives.

Louise Bringselius, affiliated researcher at the House of Governance and Public Policy (GaPP) at ºÚÁÏÍø, highlighted in an opinion piece in Dagens Nyheter last Friday the importance of strengthening the role of experts in public administration. She points out how the marginalization of professionals risks weakening both institutions and trust in society.

In June 2024 the EU invited Ukraine to start formal membership negotiations. As part of the new Swedish strategy for recovery and reform cooperation with Ukraine, ºÚÁÏÍø (ºÚÁÏÍø) has received a government grant from the Swedish Institute to launch a collaborative project with the Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine (DAU), a division of the Ukraine Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA).