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SWEDINT / NCGM

INVITATIONS

Courses at SWEDINT 2018 and how to apply

Information to admitted students

Seminar & Workshop registration

Commanding Officers Seminar

Contact SWEDINT

Nordic Centre for Gender in Military Operations

Route directions

SWEDINT is located on a 30-minute drive north of the capital of Stockholm and within the same distance from the International Airport, Stockholm/Arlanda. We offer you tailor made facilities which include a school building of 4 700 square metres and a hotel with 110 rooms. Approximately 50 UN and NATO/PfP-courses will be organised during 2017 and we expect roughly 1300 participants from more than 60 countries to take part in our activities.

If you arrive at Arlanda Airport from abroad

For international students and instructors arriving by plane at the Arlanda Airport there will be transportation arranged to The Swedish Armed Forces Life Guards/SWEDINT (if ordered in the Transport Request, see precourse papers).

If you arrive by car from Stockholm

Take highway E18 N towards Enköping/Oslo. Leave the highway at the exit marked ”Livgardet” and follow the signs to Livgardet (approximately 5 minutes drive from the highway).

If you arrive by car from Enköping

Take highway E18 S towards Stockholm. Leave the highway at the exit marked ”Livgardet” and follow the signs to Livgardet (approximately 5 minutes drive from the highway).

If you arrive by train from Stockholm

At Stockholm Central Station take the commuter train towards ”Bålsta” or “Kungsängen”. At ”Kungsängen” (approximately 20 minutes trip from Stockholm) take bus 559 towards ”Livgardet”. The bus will stop just outside the main entrance of the garrison (approximately 15 minutes from Kungsängen).