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"Several had not seen a battery-powered radio"

2023-10-23
During Preparedness Week, Blekinge Läns Tidning and the Swedish Women's Voluntary Defence Organization (Lottakåren) set out to engage with high school students to discuss preparedness. This successful...
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Record Number of Applicants for IYTT's Youth Conference

2023-09-05
The International Youth Think Tank (IYTT) is celebrating its fifth anniversary with an achievement. A total of 540 young individuals from 68 countries have applied to participate in this year's...

Record Interest in Global Media Conference at Lindholmen

2023-09-04
In September, the world's largest conference on investigative journalism will be held in Gothenburg. It is now clear that there is record interest in the pre-conference of the first day, organized by...
Två män och en kvinna i studio under livesändning. Kameraljus riktade in i kameran lens vilket ger ett dramatiskt uttryck av bilden och sändningen.

Save the date to Audiovisual Days 2023

2023-08-16
Audiovisual Days are back at Lindholmen Science Park 8-10 November 2023. There will be three days of lectures, panel discussions and workshops on sound-based and visual storytelling - and Media &...
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The M&D podcast is now available on Spotify

2023-08-16
Now we are making the Media & Democracy podcast more accessible. Follow the podcast on Spotify so you don't miss new episodes about current media innovation and democracy-related social research.
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"It has never felt so relevant to talk about technology development and democracy"

2023-06-12
29-30 May, the third Future of Democracy Summit was held. 150 leaders gathered at Lindholmen Science Park to discuss modernization, new technology and democracy. Here are project manager Karin...
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Application open for IYTT's fifth youth conference

2023-06-07
In November, the International Youth Think Tank (IYTT) organized its fifth youth conference. The previous four have been held in Gothenburg, but starting this year the conference will be held in...
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"Committed participants who are passionate about democracy"

2023-05-31
The project Strengthened local journalism in crisis situations is underway at newsrooms in Blekinge and Värmland. Linus Carle, editor-in-chief at Arvika news, shares what their collaboration with...
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This is how Aftonbladet and Sveriges Radio work with AI

2023-05-25
In a short time, AI has gone from present to burning in the news media. In the Medier & demokrati podcast episode 16, Martin Schori, Aftonbladet, and Olle Zachrison, Sveriges Radio, talk about what...
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”Journalists rarely meet young people”

2023-05-25
Patricia Svensson had an eye-opener in the project Local democracy in a digital world. It was the meeting with a handful of young people who told about their visions for Falköping, a meeting that...
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Successful combination strengthens democracy

2023-05-22
There is a great need for physical places for meetings and conversations, as a counterweight to our increasingly digitized society. Here, the libraries are an unused arena - it shows a unique...

Open registration: IYTT's fourth youth conference

2022-05-16

In November, the International Youth Think Tank (IYTT) organizes the fourth edition of the International Youth Conference. Participants are 18-24-year-olds who want to take on real societal challenges...

Nominate the 2022 collaborator of the year

2022-04-29

Who do you think has created conditions for successful partnerships during the past year in an open and committed way? Now is the time for nominations! The collaborator of the year will be awarded...

Application for project funding is now open

2022-04-19

Application for Lindholmen Science Park’s next project funding of film and television projects is now open. The deadline for applications is May 18 at 5 pm CET.

Lindholmen Democracy Talks reports results from democracy talks in 17 cities

2022-04-13

Media & Democracy has previously reported on the European democracy campaign that the International Youth Think Tank (IYTT) carried out from 1 to 3 April. The results will be presented at IYTT's lunch...

Campaign weekend for the democracy

2022-03-28

When the International Youth Think Tank (IYTT) visited the cradle of democracy in Athens last autumn, a simple and concrete method was born, Open Chair Democracy Talks. It gives voice to citizens and...

IYC's final report will be launched on the event: Demokratin 100 år – en framtidsdag

2022-03-09

For the past two years, the government has initiated a gathering of forces for democracy in Sweden under the name "Democracy 100 years". On March 15, a final future conference will be held in...

World leading democracy research on Lindholmen Democracy Talks

2022-02-07

The lunch event Lindholmen Democracy Talks continues. On February 23, the International Youth Think Tank (IYTT) invites Xavier Romero Vidal, a researcher at Cambridge's Center for the Future of...

Next application for project funding opens

2022-01-03

Application for Lindholmen Science Park’s next project funding of film and television projects opens on January 3 and closes on February 3 at 5 pm CET.

Youth Fellows at the Nobel Week Dialogue

2021-12-01

Two Youth Fellows from the International Youth Think Tank participate in the Nobel Week Dialogue. The theme is "City of the Future" and Lisa Mastiaux and Daniel Hakan Urquijo will also have the...

Unknown ideas to be presented at Lindholmen Democracy Talks

2021-11-18

No one knows what ideas will be presented at Lindholmen Democracy Talks on 25 November. The reason: the ideas will be just newly hatched.

Open Call: Göteborg Konst söker konstkonsulter för enprocentregeln

2021-11-10

Är du utövande professionell konstnär, curator eller konstvetare med erfarenhet av offentlig konst? Göteborg Konst söker nu konstkonsulter och du är välkommen att skicka in din intresseanmälan till...

Robert Olsson new chairman of the Media & Democracy steering group

2021-09-07

There are currently three changes in the Media & Democracy steering group. Robert Olsson will be the new chairman and, as previously reported, Anna Careborg, CEO and editor-in-chief of Svenska...

Lindholmen Democracy Talks starts in September

2021-06-23

In September, there will be a premiere for a new form of lunch event at Lindholmen Science Park. It's the Media & democracy project International Youth Think Tank that initiates the Lindholmen...