CICE Conference 2026

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. The conference will take place at Utvandrarnas Hus in Växjö and for those who cannot participate on site, you can instead follow the conference online.

This year's theme: Bridging Care: Shared Responsibility in Mental Health Crises.

Live broadcast starts on 22 October at 9AM

The CICE conference 2026 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 people in different clinicians, teachers and researchers each year and is marketed via 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.

Conference committee

CICE is the operational group, steering group and scientific council.

Carina Elmqvist, professor, Scientific Director CICE, Head of Research FoUU Region Kronoberg

Anders Svensson, Associate Professor, Deputy Scientific Director CICE, Department of Health and Caring Sciences, Linnaeus University

Ann-Therese Hedqvist,PhD, Linnaeus University and Region Kalmar County

Hillewi Carnesten, Senior Lecturer, Mälardalen University.

Sofia Almerud Österberg, Associate Professor, Clinical Senior Lecturer, Region Kronoberg

Emelie Lantz, expert in civil protection at AFRY and affiliated researcher at Linnaeus University.

Ingrid Gustafsson, Senior Lecturer, University of Borås

Sebastian Stjärna, Development Manager, Public Health and Social Sustainability, Region Kronoberg

Joel Martinsson, Assistant Professor, Linnaeus University

Find out more about CICE

CICE is a national and international role model by creating simpler and better solutions for complex problems as well as new arenas for consensus, joint use and collaboration, to the benefit of people in acute care in both rural and sparsely populated areas. Consensus means a willingness to use common resources, so-called joint use, to create a common platform for an effective collaboration between professions with similar tasks, responsibilities and functions to assist and benefit people in need of emergency care. Emergency care involves life-saving measures involving an existential responsibility carried out by professions with a common mission to care for the person seeking help with a professional approach.

The first response is given by a number of different people, in addition to private individuals, professional people with varying levels of positions within different organizations such as emergency services, police authorities and health care. In addition, there are alarm operators who handle all calls to 112 and ensure that the right skills arrive at the scene. The care is then optimized by various specialists in hospitals. Complex societal challenges that require different skills and collaboration across both faculty and organizational boundaries. Collaboration across subject or disciplinary boundaries and with social actors makes the university's educations more attractive, high-quality and relevant.

A sustainable event

This 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.