Published: 20-10-2026 19:00 | Updated: 20-10-2026 19:00

Students explore neuroscience at Flemingsberg and AlbaNova

People sitting around a table, seen from above.
Upper secondary school students learnt about neuroprosthetics and tested how one person's brain signals can control another person's arm, at Forskarfredag 2026. Photo: Elisabet Bergknut

In September, lower and upper secondary students took part in two outreach events at Flemingsberg Campus (September 18th) and AlbaNova (September 25th). Participants learned about brain research conducted at Karolinska Institutet, while explored interactive stations.

Life science day at Flemingsberg

On 18 September, the Life Science Cluster Flemingsberg held an open day at the Novum research park for around 200 students in grades 6 to 9 from Huddinge and Botkyrka. StratNeuro and NeurotechEU ran a neuroscience station with interactive and hands-on activities where students learned how neurons communicate, looked at neurons under the microscope and used electrical signals from their own muscles to move a mechanical claw or control a partner’s movements.

SVT reported on this initiative and spoke with some participants. Watch the video report here (in Swedish).

A student looking through a microscope.
Volunteers explain how the activity works to students.
A volunteer places electrodes on a participant to control the claw.
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Life science day demos and hands-on activities at our joint station.

Researchers’ Friday (Forskarfredag) at AlbaNova

On 25 September, Researchers’ Friday (ForskarFredag) celebrated its 20th anniversary at AlbaNova University Centre and at other locations across Sweden. Under the theme “The Future Mission”, around 2,000 upper secondary school students took part in hands-on activities and met researchers. 

StratNeuro, NeurotechEU and StratRegen ran a joint science station with interactive activities and science demonstrations. Students could test their precision and speed in a pipetting competition, use electrical signals from their own muscles to move a mechanical claw or control a partner’s movements, or look at neurons under the microscope

Researchers’ Friday is part of the EU’s Researchers’ Night, which takes place across Europe during the last week of September.

Researchers explain to high school students how neural signals control movement, at tables with many participants.
A researcher explains the activity to students who are out of frame.
Two women holding electrodes from the backyard kit.
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Researchers' Friday demos and hands-on activities at our joint station.

A huge thank you to all the volunteers who participated in these outreach events, we would have not made it without you! 

  • Flemingsberg Life Science Day - Mariline Mendes Silva, Emma Hägg, Maria Olsson, Rita Nkiru Ajirenike, Surim Son, Emma Nimco Wiechmann, Ana Rita Costa, Theresa Werneke, Carole Salis.
  • Researchers’ Friday - Mariline Mendes Silva, Daniel Höll, Mia Bjerke, Mattia Zaghi, Zeynep Okur, Rita Nkiru Ajirenike, Thibault Merkelijn, Laura Ferrario, Iacob Mihailescu.