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Networks and cooperative efforts

The Swedish Defence University cooperates with several national and international higher education institutions, organisations and companies.

We also have several specialised centers that bring together expertise in specific areas and work with analysis, research, education and practice.

Research centres and institutes

Institute of Warfare

The Swedish Defence University Institute of Warfare is a collaborative arena for research, development, and education focused on modern warfare. Its activities are guided by the needs of military defence and are intended to strengthen Sweden’s defence capability by developing knowledge, methods, and military capabilities.

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Air and Space Centre

The Air and Space Centre at the Swedish Defence University is a collaborative knowledge environment for research, education and development focusing on the air and space domains. Its activit...

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Centre for Gender, Peace and Security

The Centre brings together the Swedish Defence University's research, education and collaboration within the field of gender, peace and security.

Centre for Land Warfare

The Centre for Land Warfare at the Swedish Defence University is a collaborative knowledge hub for research, education and development focusing on the land domain. Its activities are guided...

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Centre for Total Defence Logistics

The Swedish Defence University's Centre for Total Defence Logistics (CTL) is intended to strengthen knowledge and collaboration in logistics across both military and civilian defence.

Centre for Wargaming

The Swedish Defence University Centre for Wargaming coordinates and develops game-based education and research on wargaming at the SEDU.

Centre of Special Operations Research

The Centre of Special Operations Research is a virtual centre that acts as a link between the Swedish Defence University and the Swedish Armed Forces’ Special Operations Command.

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SEDU Centre for Capability Development and Innovation

The Swedish Defence University is establishing a new centre for capability development and innovation. The aim is to bring together expertise, strengthen collaboration, and contribute to the...

Networks and collaborations

The AI-WAR research network brings together researchers from different disciplines to examine the strategic, political, ethical and societal implications of AI in war and conflict.

AI-WAR

The Centre for Geopolitics at the University of Cambridge runs the Baltic Geopolitics Network programme with the aim to strengthen cooperation between universities and research institutes in the Baltic Sea region.

Baltic Geopolitics Network

The Centre for Cyber Defence and Information Security (CDIS) develops knowledge that will strengthen Sweden's cyber defence and information security.

Centre for Cyber Defence and Information Security (CDIS)

The Centre of Natural Hazards and Disaster Science, CNDS, is a national platform for research on the nexus between socio-technical vulnerability and extreme events. CNDS researchers are affiliated with the Swedish Defence University, Karlstad University and Uppsala University.

Centre of Natural Hazards and Disaster Science (CNDS)

The purpose of the network is to develop the rapidly growing field of research that links climate, crisis and security studies at the Swedish Defence University.

Climate, Crisis and Security Network

The East Asian Security and Strategy Programme at the Swedish Defence University conducts research related to China’s impact as a rising power in regional and global security. Strategies and security policies of other states in the region are also analysed from different perspectives.

East Asian Security and Strategy Programme

What happens to growth, trade and livelihoods when the world becomes increasingly insecure? This research network gathers researchers who are dedicated to economic security across the entire conflict spectrum, from competition for technologies and markets to economic warfare.

Economic Security and Geopolitical Rivalry

The European Societal Security Research Group brings together researchers from different disciplines focusing on the EU's expanded security role.

European Societal Security Research Group

The forum provides a platform for collaboration and outreach for researchers and teachers from different areas within the field of cyber security and/or cyber defence and operations at the Swedish Defence University.

Forum for Cyber Security and Cyber Operations

The network brings together scholars and practitioners working with the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda. Its objective is to pool existing resources and expertise to share best practices, exchange knowledge and data, co-create new avenues of collaboration, and provide tangible recommendations to a broad range of stakeholders in academia, government, national armed forces, civil society, as well as international organisations.

Global Feminist Societal Resilience Network

In January 2025, the Swedish Defence University entered into an agreement with the Swedish Armed Forces (the Military Intelligence and Security Service) to esatablish a platform for education, research and collaboration in the field of intelligence and security services. The platform is based at the Swedish Defence University, but the aim is to create a meeting place and collaborative arena for the entire Swedish intelligence community.

Intelligence and Security Service Platform

The aim of the Narrative Research Lab (NRL) is to create and disseminate scientific knowledge about how narratives and strategic communication – that is, stories about society and the world – affect political reality in a world that is increasingly digitalised.

Narrative Research Lab

The research group Organisation of security services and security protection explores how responsibilities, cooperation, and protective measures are structured within both public and private sectors engaged in nationally sensitive operations.

Organisation of Security Service and Security Protection

The Visual Politics Research Programme at the University of Queensland conducts research on how visual expressions affect how we perceive and relate to political issues and events. In 2026, the programme collaborates with the Swedish Defence University.

Visual Politics Research Program