The Knowledge Foundation of Sweden and Karlstad University are proud to announce the fourth annual conference for promoting research and advanced education in topics of IT at Sweden's new universities and university colleges. The conference will take place at Karlstad University in Sweden, May 5-7, 2004.

The conference is in the Foundation's programme for promoting research and advanced education in topics of IT at Sweden's new universities and university colleges. Almost 200 MSEK (about 22 MEUR) has been allocated, for a period of five years, in order to increase the number of IT-teachers with a Ph.D. degree at Sweden's new universities and university colleges.

Since the start of the programme in year 2000, almost one hundred persons are actively pursuing their graduate studies and research at these new universities and colleges. These are the persons that now present their progress at this conference.