Campus Piteå – a space for the future of learning
Campus Piteå is a meeting place for culture, creativity, and innovation. Apart from the wide range of programmes available it also houses businesses, research actors and enablers cooperating with the university and other educational actors. You can enjoy a large variety of events on campus: from concerts and performing arts to workshops, meetups, lectures, and business breakfasts.
There are also two business incubators on campus – Arctic Business and Go Business – as well as the business development company LTU Business, for those who have a business concept they would like to develop, or those who want to do some freelancing on the side while studying.
Studio Acusticum
Studio Acusticum is regarded as one of Europe’s most multifunctional concert halls, with world-class acoustics, technology, and service. It offers concerts with width, height, and depth, and has facilities available for meetings and other events. The concert hall is also known as home to one of the world’s most modern organs, Orgel Acusticum. Studio Acusticum is the home stage for students at Piteå School of Music at Luleå University of Technology.
Close connections in an amazing setting
As a student at Campus Piteå you will be near talented musicians with all that entails in the form of amazing concerts, interesting areas of cooperation, and meetings with conductors, composers and world-renown artists. Studio Acusticum is where you find Norrbottensmusiken with its ensembles Norrbotten Big Band, Norrbotten NEO, Norrbottens Kammarorkester and Piteå Kammaropera. Apart from producing concerts with their own orchestras, Norrbottensmusiken also hires many freelancing musicians every year for concerts representative of every genre, for children, young people and adults.
Norrbottensmusiken also works to support, strengthen and develop music life in various ways – for example through the nurseries Norrbottens Ungdomssymfoniker, AYJO (Arctic Youth Jazz Orchestra) and the vocal ensemble Arctic Light, and through cooperation between professional musicians and students. Do not miss out on Norrbottensmusiken’s Showcase, for example, where all those who are developing a musical production for children and young people can participate – we produce more than 250 concerts for children and young people every year.
Would you like to manage your own business while studying?
Through the years many students at Campus Piteå have chosen to run their own business while studying, to be able to freelance as musicians, singing teachers or audio technicians at the same time. At Campus Piteå you will find Go Business, managed by Piteå Science Park, helping creative and innovative entrepreneurs to move forward with their businesses. Participating in the Go Business programmes Hangout or Inkubator lets you develop your knowledge in areas that are important when running your own business, such as marketing and sales. You also get individual business coaching, and an extensive network of other creative entrepreneurs in the north of Sweden. This is all done digitally, and participation is free of charge.
Breathe life into your business idea
At Campus Piteå you will also find Arctic Business, Sweden’s northernmost university-affiliated incubator, ranked 7th in the world. You can turn to Arctic Business if you have a business idea you would like to develop. You could be a student, a researcher, or an innovator, or perhaps you are working for a company, but would like to use one of your ideas for a spin-off?
LTU Business
As a student at Luleå Technical University you have free access to idea coaching, workshops, seminars and development programmes on the basics of idea implementation, access to a skilled innovation community and much more. Diversity is the best breeding ground for ideas, and all students are welcome at LTU Business – no matter what programme you are enrolled in and whether you have an idea already or just thrive in a creative and innovative context.
BD Pop loves local music
BD Pop is a development company for popular music from Norrbotten tasked with supporting regional artists and music productions. BD Pop provides knowledge, contacts, and human and financial resources through support or co-production efforts. We market regional music life on the internet and in the media, create contacts and build networks. If you have a project involving artists or bands, or if you are a songwriter or producer – get in touch and book a meeting so we can get to know each other and find out how we might be able to help you and work together. Sign up to BD Pop’s mailing list and get notifications about different projects, lectures, calls for applications and other things happening at BD Pop.
Challenge the future with Piteå Science Park
Piteå Science Park works in close co-operation with research institutes and academia to further develop Piteå’s strong profile areas: cultural and creative sectors, cleantech and high-tech material. Within the company’s three activities – the innovation arena, the incubator Go Business, and the concert hall Studio Acusticum – different perspectives and skills come together to generate new ideas, solutions, and experiences making Piteå and the north of Sweden stronger and more interesting. Piteå Science Park also manages the development of Campus Piteå.
