Växjö

The guide was updated: 2018-06-15

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Växjö is the very heart of southeast Sweden – in the middle of Småland, in the middle of southern
Sweden.

There is a lot to see, experience and do here – local handicraft, unique shops and world-class
restaurants. A thriving culture and art programme, an intimate café culture and several award-winning
culinary eating-houses. Seasonal markets provide a pulsating market square and flea market business
and if you would like to experience genuine Småland nature, take one of the many cycle and footpaths
straight out into the forests! A kingdom of crystal is just around the corner, as is the kingdom of furniture.
The whole of Växjö is just waiting to be experienced – so welcome!

Boot Camp Växjö

Boot Camp Växjö is a 250 meter long obstacle course with 15 obstacles. It is a though course inspired by
military courses and it is supposed to be physical challenging.
Fishing
Växjö really is the promised land for fishermen. Apart from the lakes Åsnen, Salen and Helgasjön there
are numerous smaller lakes, rivers, streams, brooks, ponds and game fish pools. You can even fish in the
central lakes of Växjö that lies only a stone´s throw from the city center. The more than 300 lakes and
waterways virtually ensure an exciting fishing adventure.
The Linneaus Garden
The garden participated in Chelsea Flower Show in London in May 2007 - Europe's most prestigious
garden show. It was awarded a gold medal and received a great deal of attention.The garden is
permanently displayed on the shore of the Trummen Lake Växjö.

The nearest major airport is Växjö-Smaland Airport (VXO / ESMX). This airport has
international and domestic flights and is 13 km from the center of Vaxjo, Sweden.
Another major airport is Ronneby Airport (RNB / ESDF), which has domestic flights
from Ronneby, Sweden and is 80 km from Vaxjo, Sweden.
 Nearest airport to Vaxjo, Sweden - Travelmath
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green city: Vaxjo

Renewable Energy - Biomass

Vaxjo, a small city of less than 100,000 residents, is on a quest to become carbon-
neutral by 2050, in part by exploring alternative fuel technologies, including
ethanol and biodiesel. The city has a small population with almost 3 people for
every car, so the transformation to a fossil-free society might be relatively simple.
Vaxjo, Sweden, makes use of its very unique geography, as over half of the city is
covered by forest, to produce renewable energy.  The municipality ensures that
forestry waste is transformed into biomass energy, which supplies about 40%
of the electricity

15 Best Things to Do in Växjö (Sweden):

 Swedish Glass Museum: Marie / Flickr
 Växjö Cathedral: Tommy Alven / Shutterstock.com
 Swedish Emigrant Institute: wikipedia
 Linnéparken: vaxjo-co
 Kronoberg Castle: Shutterstock
 Angaren Thor: commons.wikimedia
 Teleborg Water Tower: tripadvisor
 Dädesjö Gamla Kyrka: wikipedia
 Växjö Konsthallen: vaxjo
 Little Rock Lake Zipline: swedenzipline
 Granhults Kyrka: wikipedia
 Scensommar: smp
 Målerås Glassworks: www.pinterest.com
 Huseby Bruk: DutchScenery / Shutterstock.com
 Helgasjön: Shutterstock
OUT DOOR ACTIVITIES

 It’s impossible to state just how much water there is around Växjö.
 And where there’s a lake there are beaches and swimming piers.
 In the vicinity are scores of designated bathing areas, at least one at every
lake.
 So if you’re going to Helgasjön, Lädjasjön, Barnsjön, Åredasjön or one of
countless more, there will be somewhere to swim, change and relax by the
water.
 Canoe and kayak rentals are available in Växjö, while the low terrain is easy
to cover on two wheels.
 You can hire a bike and head off on any number of excursions.
  If you have time the Åsnen Runt, a four-day trail around the extremely
indented shore of Åsnen, beside strawberry patches and apple orchards.

Kingdom of Crystal
15 Best Things to Do in Växjö (Sweden)
Couched in a landscape of infinite lakes , Växjö is a small, forward-thinking city in
the Småland Province. In this beautiful setting, Växjö has taken the mantle as
Sweden’s greenest city. Here CO2 emissions have been cut by half since 1993 and are
now less than a third of the EU average.

For culture, Växjö is in the Kingdom of Crystal, and its glassblowing heritage is
recounted at the Swedish Glass Museum. To know more you can call in at
glassblowing workshops in the region and witness more than 300 years of knowhow
in action. Växjö also has a beautiful twin-spired cathedral, an inviting lakeside park
and has endless inspiration for quick days out and excurdsions into its wonderful
countryside.

Let’s explore the best things to do in Växjö:

1. Swedish Glass Museum
Despite the name this attraction is also a county museum, dedicated to Småland and
established in the 18th century.

There’s still a sizeable exhibition about the county and its culture and history.

But since the 1930s it has turned its focus to Sweden’s glass industry, appropriate as
Växjö is billed as the capital of the Kingdom of Crystal.

2. Växjö Cathedral
The story of the city’s red brick and ashlar cathedral begins in the 13th century, when
a masonry church replaced a wooden structure that burnt down.
Fire has a big role in the cathedral’s past, and a lot of the architecture is from a
restoration in the middle of the 19th century following a blaze in the century before.

In the whitewashed interior, seek out the Gustavian organ case, dating to the 18th
century.

The altar, pulpit and baptismal font are all the work of the modern sculptor Jan
Brazda, who also had a hand in some of the brightly coloured stained-glass windows.

A Viking runestone was unearthed in the choir during excavations in the 1800s, and
this has been placed against the cathedral’s eastern outer wall.

3. Swedish Emigrant Institute

Between 1843 and 1930 there was an exodus of around 1.3 million Swedes to North
America.

This was an enormous event considering the population of Sweden today is just shy of
10 million.

The Swedish Emigrant Institute researches this wave of emigration, and has a
museum with exhibitions charting the causes and consequences of the exodus.

There’s background on some of the more famous settlers and what they accomplished
in places like Minnesota.

You can also get to know the works of Vilhelm Moberg, a Swedish writer who
produced a series of historical fiction novels on emigration after travelling around
America’s Swedish communities.

4. Linnéparken
Curling around the north shore of Växjösjön is the city’s main park.
You could come to relax by the water, or head off on a wander to see what you can
find.

Because there’s interesting history in the form of the Karolinerhuset.

This building dates to 1715 and was a high school up to 1850. Its most famous student
was none other than the world-changing taxonomist Carl Linnaeus.

To honour Linnaeus there’s a garden planted with species from each of the 24 classes
in his Sexual System.

There’s also a summer cactus garden with a theme that changes by the year.

5. Kronoberg Castle
On an island in Helgasjön lake are the ruins of a 15th-century fortress.

For around 200 years this stronghold was on the border between Sweden and
Denmark and duly bore the brunt of serious fighting.

7. Teleborg Water Tower

9. Växjö Konsthallen
10. Little Rock Lake Zipline
13. Kingdom of Crystal
Little Rock Lake Zipline
 Journey north into the Småland wilderness and before long you’ll come to a
new adventure centre.
 This is a group of zipline courses raised high above the forest floor by
towers.
 There are three routes: Light Green/Blue, Black and Kamikaze.
  As you may gather, these vary in length, difficulty and speed.
 But all will provide you with astonishing panoramas of the four surrounding
lakes and unending expanses of coniferous woodland.
 The shortest takes around two hours to complete and the longest up to five
hours, and you’ll be accompanied by a trained guide the whole time.
 The most memorable part is the line crossing “Sawcreek Canyon” on the
Black and Kamikaze route, passing over a fast-flowing stream between two
cliffs.

Teleborg Water Tower

 Just past the city’s southern limits is a nondescript-looking water tower that
is more fun that it might seem at first glance.
 That’s because the vaults in the tower produce the most amazing, sustained
echoes, and people make their way from the city just to hear their voices
bouncing off the walls.
 Naturally the tower is no more than a cheerful detour, but it promises a bit
of free entertainment, more so if you have children with you.
 On a clear day you can get there on foot, and it’s well worth the walk as on
the way you’ll get a good look at the Växjösjön and Trummen lakes.

Kronoberg Castle
 Swedish Emigrant Institute
 The Swedish Emigrant Institute researches this wave of emigration, and has
a museum with exhibitions charting the causes and consequences of the
exodus.

Växjö Cathedral
 The story of the city’s red brick and ashlar cathedral begins in the 13th
century, when a masonry church replaced a wooden structure that burnt
down.
Swedish Glass Museum
 Despite the name this attraction is also a county museum, dedicated to
Småland and established in the 18th century.
 There’s still a sizeable exhibition about the county and its culture and
history.

Entrepreneurship, Master
Programme
Learn to develop businesses and societies by identifying, implementing and analyzing
entrepreneurial projects together with practitioners.

The program syllabus includes courses which provides a theoretical depth in

business development respectively different perspectives on entrepreneurship,
specially emphasizing Scandinavian perspectives. The first semester a course in
methodology provides knowledge and skills in interactive methods (action research)
and in parallel a development project is identified and initiated together with a
business, an organization or a local community. The project is implemented during
the second semester. The project work provides skills to take on qualified project and
process leadership roles and to be practically useful for the organization or the local
society which has been chosen. The program will therefore provide both theoretical
depth as well as high practical relevance as acquired knowledge is applied on real
cases. By the thesis work at the end of the program theory and practice is integrated.

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Business Administration with a minimum of 90 higher education credits in Business
Administration or the equivalent – English B/6 or the equivalent.
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School of Business and Economics

 Career
Organizations in need of renewal demand entrepreneurially oriented employees. The
program educates and equips qualified project and process leaders for businesses
and organizations as well as provides a good ground to start your own venture either
directly after completed education or later in life.

Växjö is a modern city with more than 80,000 inhabitants. The city has been declared
"the Greenest City in Europe" because of its focus on environmentally sound
solutions and the environmental programs implemented.

Being a student in Växjö you have easy access to everything – the city centre, the
woods and the lakes. The pedestrian path from campus around Lake Växjösjön
reaches almost all the way to the city centre and is perfect for jogging or taking long
walks.

Campus Växjö is modeled along the lines of an American campus university and is
the natural meeting place for students in Växjö. Campus is always bustling with life,
and students move between lecture rooms, the University Library and the
restaurants, pubs and outdoor recreational areas.

Entrepreneurship, Master
Programme
120 credits

To develop businesses and societies by identifying, implementing and analyzing

entrepreneurial projects together with practitioners.
The program syllabus includes courses which provides a theoretical depth in
business development respectively different perspectives on entrepreneurship,
specially emphasizing Scandinavian perspectives. The first semester a course in
methodology provides knowledge and skills in interactive methods (action research)
and in parallel a development project is identified and initiated together with a
business, an organization or a local community. The project is implemented during
the second semester. The project work provides skills to take on qualified project and
process leadership roles and to be practically useful for the organization or the local
society which has been chosen. Methodological skills are deepened during the last
course during the second semester to enable a capacity to relate projet work to
development of theory. The second year consists of a study abroad semester and is
completed by a master thesis during the last semester. The program will therefore
provide both theoretical depth as well as high practical relevance as acquired
knowledge is applied on real cases.

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Basic eligibility for second level studies and special eligibility: – a degree of Bachelor in
Business Administration with a minimum of 90 higher education credits in Business
Administration or the equivalent – English B/6 or the equivalent.

Alternative selection: The selection of students who have applied is partly based on a statement
of purpose and cv.

42,500.00 SEK170,000.00 SEK

School of Business and Economics

The degree programme has a clearly defined connection with the community as
development projects are carried out in close cooperation with actors within the
business, public or civic sectors of the society. Projects are implemented and
evaluated from the point of their usefulness for actors involved.

The first year consists of two courses focusing deepened theoretical knowledge
within business development and entrepreneurship and two methodological courses
focusing project work and action research. The first methodological course is
integrated with the planning and initiation of a larger societal entrepreneurship
project. This course is followed by a course on implementation of the project. The last
course is a methodological course on how to relate project results to contemporary
research in order to contribute to generalized knowledge development.

The second year starts with a semester in a foreign country including theoretical
courses on and advanced level as well as project work in this context. The students
are offered to locate their study abroad to universities that the School of Business
and Economics have a close collaboration which enables further deepened
collaboration with businesses, public and civic sector in an international context.
Further there is a master degree project finishing the programme. All courses are at
second level and given in English.

Study abroad
The third semester is designed for studies abroad. The students are encouraged to
study at universities where the School of Business and Economics have developed
education exchange and research cooperation within the area of entrepreneurship.
The students can also, if requested, make use of existing agreements with
international universities maintained by Linnaeus University or to find universities
outside the existing contracts as well as identifying, formulating and implementing a
project abroad.

Career
Organizations and communities (urban and rural) in need of renewal demand
entrepreneurially oriented employees and networking. The program educates and
equips qualified project and process leaders for businesses and organizations as well
as provides a good ground to start your own venture either directly after completed
education or later in life.

Degree
Master of Science or Master of Science in Business and Economics (120 credits)with
specialization in Entrepreneurship(Main field of study: Business Administration)

Entrepreneurship Theory And Practice

New Venture Creation And Development

Entrepreneurial Behaviour