Urkund is a scandinavian service that has existed since the year 2000. The staff has both studied and taught at senior highschool, university and collage, and therefore possesses fine knowledge of how the regional educational organizations works and the special circumstances that governs them.

The Scandinavian connection entails that the Urkund system is primed for Scandinavian requirements. This is, among other factors, due to collaboration with the faculty of education at Uppsala University . Urkund is also co-operating with a number of central knowledge providers in Scandinavia and internationally, as for example ProQuest, DiVA, Iustus publishing house, The Swedish National Encyclopedia, Retreiver and more.

The regional presence also means that Urkund have the ability to take on an active roll in the implementation of the system. Training is provided on site and localized written documentation and support is available.

A large number of universities and colleges are in whole or in part (on faculty or department level), using the Urkund system. Among them are the Universities of Lund, Uppsala , Umeå, Stockholm , Malmö, Mälardalen, Jönköping, Linköping, Stockholm school of Economics , Södertörn University College , Karolinska institutet and more. There are also more than 400 schools, distributed on county and private schools, Komvux and folk highschools. For instance, all schools in Stockholm County are subscribers of the system through a central contract and this is true for schools in an additional ten counties.
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