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Mimer has since the founding 1990, been one of the central institutes for research on popular education in Sweden and Scandinavia.

How have folk high school programs reflected societal change? By digitizing historical records, this project explores 150 years of transformation in Nordic folk high schools

Teachers working in municipal adult education (MAE) have a variety of laws and steering documents to relate to in their work. This research project investigates how teachers interpret and apply them in their planning and teaching.

The division is one of the world’s most prominent university settings in the area of adult learning and hosts Sweden’s only Folk High School Teacher Training. Our research focuses on adult education as well as on vocational education.

When simulation training with a high fidelity simulator is used as teaching method in vocational education, what are teachers’ intention. how do they organize it? How do students learn professional knowledge and skills working with a simulator?

What effect do different kinds of educational interventions aimed at learning the Swedish language have for migrants' inclusion in the Swedish labour market and society more widely? What do the migrants themselves have to say about this?

What is the function of Swedish higher vocational education? How, and by who is it shaped? Whose knowledge counts and what values shape the educational communication?

The project studies internal education in the Swedish parliamentary parties. "Education" here includes all forms of organized practices that are staged in order to contribute to the learning processes of the participants.

Why should vocational students learn mathematics, what do they learn and how can maths education be organized on vocational programs? The study aims to investigate mathematics education in vocational education, and its relation to the working life.

NAEL is a research conference that circulates between the five Nordic countries ever two years. NAEL is arranged by a loosely organized Nordic network of researchers with interests in adult education and learning. Next time will be in Finland 2026.