Projects

Projekt

• International Youth Think Tank – Read more

  The project was launched in 2018 and has been part of Lindholmen Science Park and Medier & demokrati since January 2021. Its goal is to promote the development of a democracy movement among young people in Europe aged between 18 and 24. The initiative will be funded until 2023 by the Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Foundation. 
  One cornerstone of the project is the International Youth Conferences (IYC). Two conferences have so far been organised in 2019 and 2020. The second was hosted by Lindholmen Science Park, which also functioned as a hub for the event. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, this conference took place entirely online and was attended by 24 young people who had been selected from among 218 applicants in 38 countries. Their task was to identify the challenges faced by an open democratic society and to work together to produce specific proposals for overcoming these challenges. After the conference, the proposals were fine-tuned and finalised and then presented during open seminars and on the project website. 
  The conference was also attended by decision-makers and academics who acted as inspirational speakers and commentators. The next conference is planned for 13-16 September 2021.
  Over the next three years, the intention is for the project to develop other activities and initiatives for spreading ideas and providing training in entrepreneurship for the target group with a focus on the development of democracy and democratic values.
  The International Youth Think Tank was founded by Cecilia Malmström, former EU Commissioner, and Urban Strandberg, Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Gothenburg. The project is managed by Urban Strandberg.

• Kb Mosaik: A Journalistically Driven Integration and Democracy Project – Read more

  The dominant news source in Kristianstad – Kristianstadsbladet – determined that the city was growing but a considerable portion of the new residents lack the conditions to follow and learn about the society as consumers of Kristianstadsbladet. This made it difficult for the newspaper to play a role in local democracy. 

• Media citizens not exposed to traditional news media

  In recent decades, research has indicated that more media users rarely or never take part of social journalism. A trend that can have an impact on community participation and on the media as a pillar of democracy. In the project "Media citizens not exposed to traditional news media", Ulrika Andersson, media researcher at the University of Gothenburg and research adviser in Media & democracy, deepens the knowledge of how rare users aged 20-35 are exposed to social journalism. The fact that 20-35 year olds are in the eye is because that group in previous studies has proven to be most likely for low exposure to media.

• Mosaik – Read more

  Gota Media also owns and operates VXO Media with headquarters in Växjö. In April 2018 VXO Media established a tangential approach to the affiliate Kb Mosaik (see above). The initiative is called Mosaik and, in addition to VXO Media, is operated by the Swedish Employment Office, Linné University, the Kronoborg County Council and municipality of Växjö. Financing comes mainly from the Swedish Employment Office.

• Swedish Linguistic Data Lab – Read more

  The AI project Swedish Linguistic Data Lab, which is headed by AI Innovation of Sweden at Lindholmen Science Park includes three media companies: Gota Media, Hall Media and Ifrågasätt.