Karolinska Insitutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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Karolinska Institutet (Stockholm): A Medical University

Karolinska Institutet is one of Europe's largest medical universities. The mission is to improve the health of mankind through research, education and information, where the goal is to be Europe's leading medical university by 2010, the year for the bicentenary.

Research at Karolinska Institutet

Research at Karolinska Insitutet is of the highest international standard, and covers all of medicine, from public health and caring science to research into human genomics using advanced technological methods. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have in recent years achieved particular success in fundamental cell biology, including research into neural stem cells and the early development of the nervous system; diabetes research; research into several forms of cancer; asthma and allergy research; genomics; and medical epidemiology.

Karolinska Insitutet produced a number of Nobel Prize winners in recent years. Prof. Bengt Samuelsson has won the Nobel Prize for Phisiology or Medicine in 1982 together with Prof. Sune Bergström (Karolinska) and Prof. John Vane (UK) for their discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related biologically active substances.

Study at Karolinska Institutet

Karolinska Institutet offers study programmes at undergraduate level within different biomedical/medical disciplines and programmes of further education such as specialist programmes for nurses, postgraduate education and Masters degrees covering a wide range of subjects. Karolinska Institutet is the best known Swedish university internationally, and has a network for student and teacher exchange all over the world. Studying at Karolinska Institutet opens doors all over the world.

Swedish language courses

Karolinska Institutet is a Medical University and does not offer language courses itself. For students participating in the EuroScholars program, the following options are available:

• Karolinska Institutet can offer Swedish language courses in collaboration with private schools. These courses do not, however, give university credits. After completion of a course the student is awarded a certificate.

• Another option is the distance learning Swedish language course offered by the Royal Institute of Technology. This is a university course and university credits are awarded. For further information, please visit their website.
  
  
• You can also start learning Swedish before you come to Sweden by following a distance learning course on the Internet with teacher support.  The course gives basic spoken and written knowledge of the Swedish language as well as an insight into Swedish culture and society. More information on www.si.se.

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