Living in Sweden

The Swedish MCFA offers an information document with all kind of technical information about "living in Sweden"

The Swedish fellow document

Revised 20/11/2001

To keep this document up to date we greatly appreciate any input from members!
Please contact the national coordinaters if you can contribute.

The document is available in PDF, HTML, and MS Word 95 format.

The document was written by the Marie Curie fellows Christina Kyriakopoulou, Winfried Meining, Antonio Miranda, Henry Moll, Hannes Ponstingl, Dirk Schmidt and Eric Hayman. 

From the foreword

"This document has been written in order serve as a guide for scientists that have just arrived in Sweden and that need help in formal matters. It covers topics like the application for a residence permit and the personal number, opening of bank accounts, health care, taxation and many other issues ..."

Other links

The following links complement the information given by the fellow document :

General - International - Moving abroad - Moving to Sweden - Stockholm links - Museums
Restaurants - Finding an apartment - Weather - Employment

see also the travelling page for a large collection of "travel" links

General

• sverigedirekt - the official searchable website with links to all government agencies in Sweden.
  Universities are also included, so this provides easy access to many pages for international students
• sweden.se - lots of links for culture, media, government organizations etc.

International

• Nummerupplysning - excellent source for telephone numbers worldwide

Moving abroad

Two excellent links with extensive information for everybody, that wants to move abroad

• http://citizens.eu.int/
• http://europa.eu.int/citizens/

Moving to Sweden

The Swedish immigration office provides extensive information on formal requirements for immigration to Sweden. Forms and information sheets for e.g. residence permits are available online.

• Main page : http://www.migrationsverket.se/ (in Swedish)
• The English version : http://www.migrationsverket.se/english.html

Stockholm links : 

• KTH international student service: http://www.ths.kth.se/internationellt/iss/
• Cultural events etc, mainly in Swedish: http://www.alltomstockholm.tv4.se/ 
• Cityguide Stockholm : http://cityguide.se/stockholm/en/ 
• Stockholm city - official web page : http://www.stockholm.se/english 
• Stockholm Information Service : http://www.stockholmtown.com/intro.html
• Studying in Stockholm pages:  http://www.stockholmacademicforum.org/study/student_life/index_en.html
• Local transport in Stockholm: http://www.sl.se/

Museums

Here are just a couple of Stockholm's museums. To get a full list with information concerning current exhibitions and opening hours, the Friday edition of "Metro" (the free newspaper available on the underground) is very useful.

• Wasa museum
• Museum for Natural History

Finding an apartment

http://www.bostad.dn.se/ 
http://www.bovision.se/
http://www.svd.se/magasinet/bostad/
http://www.bostad.stockholm.se/
http://www.bostad-direkt.se/
http://www.aftonbladet.se/bostad/
http://www.gulatidningen.se/

Weather in Sweden 

See the forecast for Sweden by SHMI (Sveriges meteorologiska och hydrologiska institut).

Other weather sites with forecasts for Stockholm (including links to other cities) :

• Intellicast
• The weather channel
• CNN

Employment 

• Arbetsförmedlingen Job information in Sweden and abroad from the Swedish employment agency. They also have pages in English and German
• See also our page of career links