CICE Conference 2025
Centre for Interprofessional Collaboration within Emergency care (CICE) was established in 2017 at the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences (FHL) located at the Department of Health and Care Sciences, Linnaeus University.
CICE conference 2025
This year's theme: Civil preparedness
The CICE conference 2025 is organized by the Center for Interprofessional Collaboration and Collaboration in Acute Care (CICE), located at Linnaeus University. The purpose of the conference is to develop consensus, collaboration and cooperation between different professions and organizations involved in the acute care chain, in education, and community-based research in relation to acute care. The goal is to be an international role model for how to create a common platform for effective collaboration between professions with similar missions, responsibilities and functions, to assist and benefit people in need of emergency care.
Each year, the conference has a different theme and attracts approximately 500 clinicians, teachers and researchers each year and is marketed via the magazine Samverkan112 where CICE is co-editor, CICE Newsletter, Linkedin, Twitter, Facebook, Lnu communications department, CICE conference website, CICE website etc. The conference is planned and carried out via the CICE operational group, steering group, scientific council and Lnu communication department.
Keynote
Opening Keynote Speaker
Linus Vandrevik, Head of Security at Region Kronoberg.
Speakers
Andreas Jahrehorn Önnerfors
Project Manager at FOJO Media Institute
Lecture: Conspiracy theories in major events and crises.
Associate Professor and promoted full professor in intellectual history at Linnaeus University. Based on the cultural history of the 18th century, since 2010 his research has evolved to address contemporary issues such as radicalization and conspiracy theories. His media research profile spans from press history to synthetic media and the creating of meaning.
He currently serves as the project leader for the Fact Checking Board at Fojo Media Institute, where he educates Swedish journalists on malign influence operations and disinformation.
Emelie Lantz
Senior risk consultant, AFRY and affiliated researcher at Linnaeus University
Lecture: The Role of On-Call Firefighters in Building Local Resilience
Emelie Lantz is a senior risk consultant at AFRY and an affiliated researcher at Linnaeus University, where she obtained her PhD in 2024 from the Department of Health and Care Sciences with her thesis Sharing is Caring: Early response for community safety in rural areas with a focus on exploring part-time firefighters' work situation and family support. Today, Emelie conducts research on security of supply and total defence. Her work focuses, among other things, on how to strengthen the ability of local actors to manage crises. In addition, she is active in the CICE operational group and coordinates an EU Horizon application together with CICE.
Samuel Palmblad
1st antiquarian at Småland Museum and Adjunct teacher, Linnaeus University in Växjö
Lecture: Total war needs total defense
The lecture will focus on the structure and tasks of the Total Defence during the latter part of the 20th century with a focus on Småland. The societal investments in our preparedness organisations were enormous. Today, society is of course different, but are there lessons to be learnt from this time?
Steve Sadler
Founder and Managing Director re-enkindle Ltd
Lecture: The Role of On-Call Firefighters in Building Local Resilience
Dr Steve Sadler is an experienced, and serving, On-call firefighter and interdisciplinary researcher who has served in four UK Fire and Rescue Services, and completed research projects with several others. While working on-call, he witnessed the persistent challenge of fire engine unavailability across the UK and recognised the complex factors behind it — from recruitment and retention to workforce planning.
During his time as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Keele University, Steve then developed the UK’s first research-led model of good practice to improve On-call fire engine availability. Today, through his consultancy re-enkindle, he helps FRSs use research, data, and insight to build more resilient and available On-call systems. Steve is trusted across the sector for turning complexity into clarity and helping services take meaningful, evidence-based action.
Åke Sivertun
Ph.D. Senior Professor at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden
Lecture: We can start to prevent from disasters that we know!
Åke Sivertun is PhLic in Thematic research from Tema Water at Linköping University with a thesis on Man as hydrological factor and later PhD in Geography at Umeå University with a thesis about ”How to use Geographical Information Systems (GIS) as a tool for Analysis and communication of Multidimensional Data” with focus on environmental threats and crises.
Åke worked at Linnaeus University in Kalmar and later at department of Computer and Information Science at Linköpings Universitet in development of GIS based Command and Control systems for inspections and early detection of vulnerable areas and fighting forest fires and flood. We also worked with GeoHealth issues as with analysis of natural and man-made conditions with big health impact as Radon, metals and other determinants causing malignities. In the 1990s with Unmanned Aeral vehicles for forest inspections and relief work. After that a position at Swedish Defence University in Stockholm with dual-use systems and methods for civil protection and military defence.
From 2017 at the governmental owned Swedish Research Institutes (RISE) with establishment of the geographical UAS zoon in Västervik, SE Sweden. In this 40 x 60 km wide are we have run research projects on use and development of unmanned vehicles on the ground, in the air and at/under sea for forestry, agriculture, inspections of infrastructure and rescue operations. Together with the huge Wallenberg Autonomous Systems/software Program we study how autonomous vehicles can be used for Blue light forces but also voluntary organisations as the Swedish Sea Rescue organisation (SSRS). In Västervik and surrounding UAVs are developed, tested and built for all duties where autonomous vehicles can make a difference and save lives, environment, property, and important activities. Command, control, computation and communication are developed through the ground based mobile communication networks. This has been made through the research projects like Positioning – Navigation – Communication for a future Unmanned Traffic Management system (UTM).
A sustainable event
CICE Conference is a sustainability-assured meeting in accordance with Linnaeus University’s guidelines for sustainable events. These guidelines are linked to the 17 global goals in Agenda 2030 and comprise the three dimensions of sustainable development: the economic, the social, and the environmental.
Learn more about Linnaeus University´s sustainable events here.