Collaboration
The Department of Child and Youth Studies (BUV) collaborates both within the university and with external actors, both nationally and internationally.
At Stockholm University, BUV has close collaboration with several departments, especially within teacher education, and our researchers collaborate and collaborate with researchers at other universities nationally and internationally. We also have exchange agreements with several higher education institutions in Europe and the rest of the world that enable student exchanges.
Commissioned training
The Department of Child and Adolescent Studies has the opportunity to offer a wide range of commissioned training courses for various employers. The department can also conduct seminars, lectures, evaluations and research assignments. Of course, courses can be tailored to the needs of the client. Read more via the link below about which commissioned training courses we currently have and how you can get in touch with the person responsible for them.
Collaboration with the surrounding community
The employees of the department collaborate with the region's municipalities and schools in areas such as work-based education (VFU) and teacher development.
Our researchers and teachers also collaborate both within preschool and school, at municipal, regional and national levels.
Preschool didactic rooms
Preschool Didactic Rooms (formerly Pedagogical and Theoretical Rooms) is a collaboration and a meeting place where active preschool teachers and preschool managers in the Stockholm region meet researchers, teacher educators and students at Stockholm University.
The purpose of Preschool Didactic Rooms is to develop the content of preschool didactics in the long term by highlighting and making visible ongoing work on this in preschool and in preschool teacher education, and by extension, to create common research questions in these areas.
Seminar in progress:
Being in the world - we open the door to Preschool Didactic Rooms.
Currently running preschool didactic rooms are:
- Preschool didactic rooms with a focus on natural sciences and sustainable development
- Preschool didactic rooms for language and neuroscience.
The preschool summit
The Preschool Summit is a recurring event that connects preschool and research. The event is organized by the City of Stockholm in collaboration with Stockholm University.
Preschool Summit 2025
BUV will hold the next Preschool Summit together with Södertörn University and the City of Stockholm, probably in Aula Magna. There is a preliminary date for the next event: November 28, 2025.
Collaboration for the best school
Collaboration in short version
The Swedish National Agency for Education offers support to principals whose schools have low knowledge results and who are assessed to have difficult conditions to improve students' results on their own.
The Swedish National Agency for Education also offers support to preschools with difficult conditions.
Their mission is to use targeted efforts to strengthen the preschool, the school and the principal (the municipality or the preschool/school board if it is an independent preschool/school) in the work of planning, following up and developing the education according to their specific goals and needs.
Contact at BUV:
Eva Kane, senior lecturer, eva.kane@buv.su.se
Emelie Westberg-Bernemyr, lecturer, emelie.bernemyr@buv.su.se
Stockholm Teaching & Learning Studies (STLS)
Collaboration takes place through Stockholm Teaching & Learning Studies (STLS), which is a platform for teaching development research in subject didactics. STLS serves as a meeting place for researching teachers in different subjects.
Petra Petersen, PhD in pedagogy and lecturer at BUV, is network leader in STLS. E-mail: petra.petersen@buv.su.se
Collaboration and societal development at SU
Several of BUV's researchers and teachers participates in the press and radio and can appear in various juries and expert panels.
In various research projects, researchers can collaborate with other researchers at external colleges/universities or other legal entities to study specific issues.
We also participate in Stockholm University's collaboration with:
- Stockholm County Council
- Illinois-Sweden Program for Educational and Research Exchange (INSPIRE)
- Strategic partnerships at Stockholm University.
Collaboration and Societal Development at SU
Through cooperation with other universities and collaborations with cultural, business and public institutions, Stockholm University contributes to the development of society. Collaboration also fosters new ideas in education and research.
More about Collaboration and Societal Development at SU
Collaboration with the scientific community
Read more about the networks that are currently active and those we have collaborated with.
Network for Research on Young Children and Public Space
The research network has an interdisciplinary and international focus on exploring the relationships between young children and surrounding public spaces. It includes researchers from childhood and youth studies, preschool didactics, pedagogy, educational science, environmental psychology, landscape architecture, and cultural geography.
Network for Research on Young Children and Public Space
National Research hub Digitalization in preschool
National research hub digitalization in preschool was founded on the initiative of Susanne Kjällander (Associate Professor in Preschool Education) in February 2020. All PhD researchers who study digital tools in preschool at Swedish higher education institutions are welcome to participate.
The purpose of the hub is to discuss texts (published and work-in-progress) on digital tools in preschool, to write scientific publications together, to search research funding together, act as a body for proposals (from, for example, the Swedish National Agency for Education) linked to the research area and reach out nationally to all Swedish preschools via the so called “third task”.
The National Network for Preschool Teacher Education, FuNN.
The country's program managers for Preschool Teacher Education from universities and colleges will participate to discuss current issues, make contacts and draw attention to current development areas.
The network meets every spring from lunch to lunch plus a digital half-day meeting in the autumn. During the most recent meetings, discussions have included the reduced application pressure, how to reduce the number of students who fail their examinations or their work-based education, VFU, and how to increase participation in mandatory components.
The meetings also involve monitoring the world around them as participants hear how other universities and colleges work and what issues they are currently working on.
Contact in BUV: Mie Josefson
The European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI)
The European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI) is an international, scientific community with the primary goal to support an active research culture in the field of learning and instruction.
SIG 19 - Religions and Worldviews in Education
In 2021, SU organized an EARLI SIG conference. The contact persons were Professor Arniika Kuusisto (BUV) and Professor Jenny Berglund (HSD).
Potential partner universities
The Department of Child and Youth Studies is always interested to explore new possibilities for student exchange.
Before signing a new exchange agreement, it is important to investigate in detail that there are possibilities for an active and mutual exchange between the universities.
For that reason we would like a potential partner university to fill in a form with facts regarding semester dates, courses and service offered for incoming students etc.
Please contact the international coordinator to request this form.
The international coordinator will also send you a fact sheet with corresponding information about what the Department of Child and Youth Studies can offer.
Contact
Telephone and e-mail
+46-8-16 20 00 (exchange)
Email: info@buv.su.se
Email address for all staff at the Department: first name.surname@buv.su.se
Visiting address
Svante Arrhenius väg 21 A, Frescati, Stockholms University.
Address
Department of Child and Youth Studies
Stockholm University
SE-106 91 STOCKHOLM
Billing address
Stockholm University
Postal box 50741
SE-202 70 Malmö
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Organsation number
202100-3062
(Stockholm University)
- Visiting address
Room 419, 4th floor.
Svante Arrhenius väg 21A.
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Room 418, 4th floor.
Svante Arrhenius väg 21A.
Head of Administration and financial manager
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Room 359, 3rd floor.
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Frescati backe,
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January 1, 2026
Last updated: September 5, 2025
Source: Department of Child and Youth Studies