Culture at IceLab

Science is not an individual race but a collaborative human endeavour. We create conditions that allow all Icelabbers to experience inspiring and safe collisions of ideas. 

We equip young researchers with a collaborative, creative mindset by embedding them in the IceLab environment and culture in a way that closed-off departments cannot achieve.  

IceLab is open

IceLab is a physical hub between disciplines where researchers who look beyond traditional scientific boundaries can feel at home. We design IceLab to encourage cross-disciplinary conversations, with open office spaces and common areas that encourage interaction. Those conversations only occur when all Icelabbers feel comfortable with and even excited about their own ignorance, and feel safe expressing this.    

A group of people sitting around a wooden table sharing cake and talking

Ideas are welcome from anyone

We aim to be a place where the focus is on ideas, where anyone can contribute with a suggestion, a question, even a new project direction, and those contributions are received with open arms and are followed up. Icelabbers lead by example, showing other interested researchers how to be open and collaborative to help make new exciting research happen. We want to help each other be better researchers by providing the opportunities and guidance to learn how to reach out to each other and beyond and create and follow up opportunities.  

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Ask questions

In IceLab, we want everyone to feel like they belong and that their opinions and ideas are important. We want you to think it’s ok to ask a question when you want some more information, need help or are just curious. We realize that when you are new at IceLab, or when you have a setback of some kind, it can be challenging to feel this way, which is why we will keep working to create that sense of belonging and safety. We do this by aiming to follow IceLab's informal code of conduct.  

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Have fun together

We think science is seriously fun but we are also serious about having fun! It is important to take breaks and unplug from work. IceLab's members often do fun things together - hiking, ice dipping, cooking, to name a few. We currently hold the KBC Stafetten trophy for the 'slagskepp' category - four people to a pair of skis! 

A group of people in colorful clothes on skis in the snow

Latest update: 2025-01-29