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Presentation 2014

Presentation 2014. BTH milestones. 1989, the University is founded 1999, the University gets the right to give doctoral degrees in engineering 1999, the University merges with The Baltic International School of Public Health 2000, the University opens Campus Karlshamn

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  1. Presentation 2014

  2. BTH milestones • 1989, the University is founded • 1999, the University gets the right to give doctoral degrees in engineering • 1999, the University merges with The Baltic International School of Public Health • 2000, the University opens Campus Karlshamn • 2000, the University is re-named Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH) • 2001,BTH is officially validateed to award the Degree of Master of Science in Engineering • In 2008, BTH becomesclimate neutral • In 2011, BTH receives the ECTS Label which is a quality stamp from the EU

  3. This is BTH Employees: 508 Turnover: SEK 456 million BlekingeInstitute of Technology, BTH, is one of the most distinctly profiled universities in Sweden, where applied IT and innovation for sustainable growth are in focus. BTH has the vision to conduct education and research where technology and IT also can be integrated with other subjects such as management, design, health and care and the humanities, to contribute to solving societal challenges. Everything we do at BTH has three distinct perspectives, innovation, sustainability and “in real life” which means cooperation and exchange with both business sector and society.

  4. Educational areas BTH’smain focus is IT, and the applied IT profilemeansthat IT is intergrated in all oureducation areas. 4 % Medicine 63% Engineering 9 % management 15 % Health science 9 % Natural Science

  5. Education • Approx. 22 bachelor’s level study programmes • Approx. 18 master’slevel study programmes • Approx. 5,100 registered students • Approx. 3,000 full-time students • Approx. 37% of the students are female • Approx. 440 foreign students • Bachelor’s- and master’s level education accounts for two-thirds of BTH’s activities.

  6. Research fields • Appliedhealthtechnology • Applied signal processing • Caring science • Computer science • Digital game development • Innovation • Interaction design • Mathematics • Mechanicalengineering • Public health science • Radio communication • Software engineering • Spatial planning • Strategicsustainabledevelopment • Telecommunication systems

  7. Research • 42 professors • 125 doctoral students within engineering • 15 doctoral students are registered at other higher education institutions • 15 doctoral level study programmesin engineering • Research accounts for one-third of BTH’s activities • BTH’s research in systems and software engineering as well as sustainability is consideredto be among the topsix in the world.

  8. Awards • BTH is rankednumbersix in the world, and numberone in the EU, among the topuniversities in the fieldof systems and software engineering by the “Journal of Systems and Software”. • BTH has beennamed the best university in Sweden, and third best in Europe, in sustainabledevelopment, by the EESD reportissued by the “Alliance for Global Sustainability”.

  9. International environment • Approx. 15programmes taught in English • Approx. 8% international students • Students and staff represent around 70 different countries • Approx. 70collaboration agreements within Europe • Approx. 30 bilateral university agreements including the United States, China, India, Brazil, Thailand and South Africa • Student- and Staff Exchange, Research Co-operation, Joint Programs and Distance Education

  10. BTH – in real life • BTH participates, in cooperationwithotheruniversities, in strategic research in the project ELLIIT – an investment in IT and mobile communication. • BTH cooperateswith Telenor in several areas such as joint research projects and in terms ofdevelopmentofskills. • BTH is a co-founder and leading partner of Green Charge South East – a collaborativeproject for electricvehicles in southern Sweden. • BTH cooperateswith the Swedish Transport Admini-stration in order toreducetraindelays. • BTH togetherwith Blekinge County Council, is involved in the projectPrimCareITdealingwithtelemedicine and howwecandevelopsustainable e-health services and products.

  11. BTH – in real life • BTH cooperateswith Sida on SICD (Scandinavian Institute for Collaboration & Development) with the mission to support social and economicdevelopment in Africa and South America. • BTH carriesout research on health and healthcare for the increasing proportion ofolderpeople in the population. This is done in the SNAC project in cooperationwith the Ministryof Health, Blekinge County Council and the municipalityof Karlskrona. • BTH has two research profilessupported by the Knowledge Foundation. Onefocuses on the developmentof support methods and toolstodevelop the next generation ofsustainableproducts in the manufacturingindustry. The otherfocuses on creatingresource-efficient systems for big data analytics. The research is carriedout in collaborationwithseveralcompanies for example Ericsson, Telenor and Volvo. • BTH collaborateswith Ericsson and Compuverde in the area of data storage in the cloud (Cloud Computing). The goal is todevelopvirtual server capacity for effective system testing.

  12. Followus www.bth.se/eng BTH presentation on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvP1Q2518bM

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