4/18/2024 Staff from the INGENIUM universities in Germany, France and Italy have spent a week at the University of Skövde. The visit had a focus on mobility within INGENIUM, but the visitors...
4/18/2024 Furhoff's Rostfria in Skövde have been manufacturing products in the plumbing field for more than 100 years. But with the digital transformation, it was necessary to ensure that al...
4/15/2024 It is more important than ever to be able to deal with false information. Maria Wickenberg, librarian at the University of Skövde, is passionate about teaching students information...
4/10/2024 In a new study, researchers from the University of Skövde have examined whether the covid-19 pandemic really affected our dreams as much as the media highlighted. The answer is no....
3/19/2024 When Deborah Carlander decided to pursue a Master's degree in Game Development, some of her friends were hesitant and wondered where it would take her. The answer is Japan, Belgium...
3/18/2024 How we develop and interact with technology can have significant consequences for society. However, both development and interaction are influenced by our perception of technology,...
3/8/2024 Since February 1, 1985, Annica Sääf Andersson has welcomed visitors, new employees and students to the University of Skövde. She is now the person who has worked the longest at the...
2/26/2024 Local media would gain a lot of reader engagement by adopting principles from digital games. “Much that is obvious to other actors does not exist in the newspaper world,” says Torb...
2/13/2024 Butterflies in the stomach, heart rate increases, and suddenly you can't think of anyone else but the one you've fallen in love with. But what is love really? Katja Valli is a prof...
1/23/2024 Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) affects more than one in ten women. The condition is characterised by increased levels of male sex hormones, menstrual irregularities, and insulin ...
1/16/2024 Today, social robots cannot do everything we think they can. Our expectations of their abilities often come from indirect sources such as movies and television. Julia Rosén, PhD st...
12/19/2023 In a new research project, researchers from the University of Skövde together with Scania, Smart Eye, and Viscando are set to develop new AI systems for cars and trucks. These syst...
12/14/2023 The industry is constantly seeking efficiency improvements for increased profitability. But how can this be done without risking people's health? Aitor Iriondo Pascual, a PhD stude...
12/13/2023 Can we make the self-driving cars even smarter? Can we make them act appropriately even on unlikely events? Sara Mahmoud, PhD student in Informatics at the University of Skövde, ha...
12/11/2023 In October, the University submitted a self-evaluation to the European Commission regarding the internal work to improve and strengthen the researchers' work environment. The repor...
12/5/2023 In a new research project, scientists from the University of Skövde are set to develop an AI-based method aiming to predict the risk of graft rejection. The goal is to give patient...
11/30/2023 Alexandra Palombo has lived in Stockholm, Dubai, London and Italy. She has worked as a make-up artist on TV, as a film assistant and in the hotel business. At the University of Skö...
11/23/2023 It is finally here, the board game Sagospelet Skaraborg (The Fairy Game Skaraborg). The board game is based on the stories about Kira's and Luppe's adventures with the old Skarabor...
11/22/2023 Agnes Taripanah, student at the University of Skövde, went to Mozambique to do her thesis project in Public Health Science. Mozambique is a country affected by extreme weather and ...
11/15/2023 The international project “Clancy” is intended to find suitable strategies for combating the countless Chinese mitten crabs in Northern European river systems. The new project is l...
11/10/2023 It was mostly a coincidence that Alicia Larsson applied to INGENIUM Summer School. However, the week in Karlsruhe, Germany, brought many experiences and many new friends all over E...
10/25/2023 In the face of increasingly stiff competition, marketers have begun to see artificial intelligence (AI) as a road to success. Johannes Sahlin, PhD student, studying informatics at ...
10/24/2023 Annika Taylor, is an international student from Dubai. After studying in Ireland for a year, she found a sense of belonging at the University of Skövde during the introduction week...
10/23/2023 At this year's Sweden Game Conference 25-26 October, the Skövde Academic Game Award, SAGA, is awarded for the eleventh time. SAGA is Skövde municipality's prize for new gamedev tal...
10/18/2023 The University's five research environments are followed up within a six-year cycle. The six-year follow-up constitutes the basis for continued development of the conditions and qu...
10/17/2023 When it was time for the engineering students Björn Rehnberg and Vincent Vallin Sälle to do their thesis project, Aurobay had a suitable assignment. The duo was to research differe...
10/13/2023 Sophie Mårtensson, senior lecturer in Nursing at the University of Skövde, received an award for the best poster in the quantitative method category at an international conference ...
10/3/2023 In collaboration with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Professor Nikolaos Kourentzes from the University of Skövde has developed tools that can assist central banks in settin...
9/20/2023 Åsa Gamgam Leanderz has a background as a midwife and a painter. Now she is also the first PhD student to start the new postgraduate education at the School of Health Sciences at t...
9/19/2023 Finding a solution with multiple conflicting goals is tricky. This is the process that Henrik Smedberg, a PhD student at the University of Skövde, has delved into in his research, ...
9/12/2023 Representatives from nine universities around Europe will visit the University of Skövde on September 19–21. It's time for the kick off for the European University INGENIUM's work ...
9/7/2023 In a new research project, the University of Skövde collaborates with Kinnekulle energi and Götene Municipality to enhance biodiversity around power grid networks. This is achieved...
9/6/2023 When the students in the team Skamvrån won the award SAGA in 2020 for their game Die, Recompile, some of them decided to follow their dream of starting a game studio. As a part of ...
9/1/2023 Today's manufacturing industry faces tough competition. Producing high-quality products efficiently at a low cost is crucial, but it's also important to adapt manufacturing to chan...
8/17/2023 On Monday, 21 August, the international students who are now starting their studies at the University of Skövde will gather on campus. At the start of the introduction, 200 new int...
7/19/2023 As a newly graduated nurse from the University of Skövde, Ludwig von Knorring packed up and moved to the south of Sweden, where he now works at the emergency room at Helsingborg's ...
7/12/2023 For the second time in a row, an engineering student from the University of Skövde has won Best Contribution in Innovation at the Absolicons Solar Heat Innovation Week. This time, ...
6/20/2023 INGENIUM, as an alliance between ten universities, wants to use diversity to pursue excellence in European Higher Education. Embodying the diverse geography, cultural background, a...
6/14/2023 What was love, at first sight, became his calling. A super fascination for programming and later game development. Henrik Engström started working at the University of Skövde in 19...
5/30/2023 On Saturday 27 May, the Swedish Institute (SI) hosted a ceremony in Stockholm to celebrate graduating SI scholarship holders. Six international students from the University of Sköv...
5/23/2023 What is behind the hugely successful games from Sweden and Skövde? How does a game come to be and how much thought, planning, knowledge and hard work is required? These are questio...
5/17/2023 The Student Union in Skövde hands out their award, the Golden Apple, every year to five teachers who deserve a little extra attention. The award goes to one teacher per school at t...
5/15/2023 One could say that she creates the future – the Computer Scientist who became a Professor in Production Technology, and AI Expert. She also plays Bridge at the Swedish Championship...
5/12/2023 The touch of another human being can raise levels of the "feel good" hormone oxytocin. But the context plays a big role. The situation not only affects the oxytocin level in the mo...
5/10/2023 Pieces Interactive has chosen to fund a game researcher from the University of Skövde. As a Swedish entertainment game developer, this makes them unique so far. “The research creat...
5/8/2023 The European Union is investing nearly 2,8 million Euros in a research project on the Chinese Mitten crab, a species that does not belong in European seas and rivers. Sonja Leidenb...
5/3/2023 Fernanda Morales Peñaloza grew up in busy Mexico City. She decided to study Design Engineering at the University of Skövde for a year and found nature, peace and silence. Now, she ...
4/20/2023 At the University of Skövde, Frida Nordling and Agnes Fryklind, are studying the Product Design Engineering programme. They are in the middle of their final project and on behalf o...
4/20/2023 Anna Granath applied for the programme Game Development - Design several times. The fourth time, she was admitted to Game Development - Audio instead, and realised that it was the ...
3/31/2023 During the week, the University of Skövde was visited by 20 students from Howest University in Belgium, which is one of the University's partner universities. The Belgian students,...
3/30/2023 Love brought him to Sweden and since 2005 he has been working at the University of Skövde. Now the Dutchman is one of the country's foremost experts on crisis preparedness. He coll...
3/28/2023 All district nursing educations in Sweden has been controlled by the Swedish Higher Education Authority, UKÄ. The inspection is done on behalf of the government. The district nursi...
3/23/2023 Project manager and civil engineer Emil Pettersson’s working day is spent planning for the future of energy supply, specifically the manufacture of low and high voltage cables. Cab...
2/22/2023 The University of Skövde has appointed Deborah Lupton, Professor at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, its first Honorary Doctorate in the field of Health in t...
2/14/2023 Extensive patent coverage of video standards inhibits innovation, creates obstacles to competition and has serious implications for public data archiving. This is shown by research...
2/2/2023 Since the turn of the year, the University of Skövde is, together with nine other universities, part of the European university INGENIUM. Recently, the official start was held in O...
2/2/2023 The games industry is constantly developing and research in the field is becoming more extensive. Many different theories and areas of knowledge have been used to promote the devel...
1/23/2023 In a course at the Master´s Programme Serious Games, at the University of Skövde, the task is to develop a game in collaboration with a customer. Seven students have now ensured th...
1/10/2023 After two university degrees Fatime Toci decided to continue studying, but this time in another country. Her brother encouraged her to go to Sweden and a scholarship made the dream...
1/2/2023 Muriel Beser Hugosson has now taken over as Vice-Chancellor for the University of Skövde.
12/21/2022 Meet Natalia Sempere Maciá and Celia Redondo Verdú. They’ve been working on developing an accessible and easy-to-use interface for cobot programming. The work has been done within ...
12/19/2022 Ines Niksic grew up in Croatia. She speaks seven languages, is fluent in five of them, and has studied at universities in Italy, France and Sweden. She has worked at the EU Parliam...
11/23/2022 Student Huu Thien Nguyen traded two seasons in Vietnam for four in Sweden when he started studying the Master's programme Data Science at the University of Skövde. Now he studies a...
11/15/2022 There are several hundred international students at the University of Skövde. Students from all over the world who are eager to learn more about Swedish culture and language. Once ...
10/19/2022 After working a couple of years René Locher from Switzerland decided to go back to university. This time he wanted to study abroad and chose the programme Data Science at the Unive...
10/12/2022 At the University of Skövde, there are several different engineering programmes and courses. One of the courses focuses on electric motors and the participants are employed at the ...
10/12/2022 At this year's Sweden Game Conference in Skövde, a Swedish Game Development Teachers’ Symposium will be held for the first time. The purpose is to create a closer relationship betw...
10/11/2022 Society is becoming increasingly digital and we use the internet for more and more daily tasks. The downside of digitisation is that crime has also spread onto the internet, result...
9/29/2022 In recent years, there has been a dramatic increase in the amount of digital data. As a consequence, the demand for tools that can automatically learn, analyse, understand and pred...
9/29/2022 Professor Homa Tajsharghi and her research group have succeeded in identifying and characterizing several new diseases of previously unknown genetic causes for rare diseases. She i...
9/28/2022 From 9 to 13 September Solar Heat Innovation Week – an activity to learn about sustainability and solar heat, was arranged. 16 engineering students participated and developed ideas...
9/26/2022 The games industry is a global industry. This means that regardless of where in the world a game developer is based, they have a global playerbase and may need to adapt their games...
9/21/2022 In a new study from the University of Skövde, the University of Virginia, and Lancaster University researchers have developed a model that the computer game industry can use to pre...
9/16/2022 The Swedish Government has decided that Muriel Beser Hugosson will be the University of Skövde's next Vice-Chancellor. She takes the position on 1 January 2023.
9/12/2022 Technological development is advancing rapidly, but our expectations of it are advancing even faster. In the production industry, it is especially clear, as it becomes increasingly...
8/31/2022 Cyber security research is about protecting our systems against digital threats, like ransomware. By identifying system vulnerabilities, you can prevent this type of threat. But – ...
8/26/2022 Recently, the University of Skövde welcomed a visit from representatives from Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) in India. VIT has about 30 000 students and is a high ranked uni...
8/17/2022 On Monday, the introduction begins for the new international students who begin their studies at the University of Skövde. During the pandemic, the number of international students...
7/28/2022 Together with nine other universities in nine countries, the University of Skövde will form a new European university.
7/18/2022 Maud Contardo from France has been at the University of Skövde for a few months. Thanks to her receiving an Erasmus+ scholarship she has been able to carry out an experiment in cog...
6/28/2022 Bertil Thorvaldsson has devoted his life to the robotics industry. He has worked in Sweden, Germany and the USA, and created the RobotStudio software product. After many years at A...
6/21/2022 Already from a young age Leire Amenabar Echave knew she was going to study engineering. She began her studies in Spain and concluded them by studying at the University of Skövde. H...
6/7/2022 Neuroblastoma is cancer that primarily affects infants and young children. Low-risk variants have a high survival rate, but the high-risk variant has a mortality above 50 percent. ...
5/30/2022 Every year, the Swedish Institute holds a ceremony to present diplomas to international master’s students who have completed their education while receiving the Swedish Institute S...
5/24/2022 Skövde Municipality’s student health service is being assisted by experts in cognitive neuroscience at the University of Skövde in order to develop skills and strengthen its person...
5/17/2022 A new lab is under construction at the University of Skövde. It will combine psychological experiments in consciousness research with VR technology. Will the scientists succeed in ...
5/16/2022 The Italian philosopher Luciano Floridi was appointed an Honorary Doctorate in Informatics at the University of Skövde in 2020. On Friday May 20, he will come to Skövde and the Uni...
5/11/2022 Researchers at the University of Skövde have developed an indicator that shows how good a landscape is at supporting and enhancing biodiversity. The indicator provides people such ...
5/2/2022 When the amount of data and the use of Business Intelligence (BI) increases within an organisation, the BI Specialists do not have time to cover the needs of the business and the u...
4/26/2022 The University of Skövde gained knowledge about an attempt to spread harmful code in the University's IT-system. To prevent the IT-system, the University takes various protective m...
4/19/2022 Scholars at Risk safeguards academic freedom around the world and works to provide protection for researchers and teachers who cannot be active in their home countries. The network...
4/7/2022 The former Skövde students at PocApp Studios is proud to reveal that their new title, AlchiMerge, is currently soft launched in selected countries. The studio’s previous titles, Ca...
3/22/2022 On March 23, the Game Developers Choice Awards will be presented at the huge games conference Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco. Our former students at Iron Gate St...
3/18/2022 The University of Skövde is applying to form a European university together with nine higher education institutions in nine countries. The application will be sent to the EU shortl...
2/16/2022 Karoline Forsberg grew up in Stockholm. But her studies in game development took her to Skövde, and then out into the world. She has worked in the USA, Sweden, England and Iceland,...
2/1/2022 Seiedeh Nahid Moosavi grew up in Iran. After studying Software Engineering, she realised she wanted to work with games and applied for the Game Development Master’s Programme at th...
12/14/2021 Vascular diseases (i.e. conditions affecting our blood vessels) affect millions of people worldwide. The waiting time for a donor organ can be long. For the past two years, the Uni...
12/9/2021 Industry faces a major transition, placing tough demands on today’s leaders. To meet these challenges, Emmy Wixenius – a production planning manager at Scania – chose to study a co...
12/8/2021 Digital parenting support in the form of a game can help couples who are new parents get to know each other in a new way as parents. Research at the University of Skövde within car...
12/6/2021 Machine learning (ML) is one of the most common methods for analysing personal data. It is used in different domains such as e-commerce, health care and financial services. But res...
12/1/2021 Mikael Wickelgren is perhaps the University of Skövde's most media-savvy researcher. Officially he is a "Senior Lecturer in Business Administration" and "Head of School of Business...
11/15/2021 The University of Skövde’s research reaches out into the world, and has an impact. This is shown by the Swedish Research Council’s Research Barometer for 2021. According to the Res...
11/11/2021 As a Bachelor’s Degree Project in Production and Electrical Engineering at the University of Skövde, Lama Awawda an exchange student from Spain, designed an electric motor. The res...
11/3/2021 Researchers from the University of Skövde have worked with Nordens Ark to investigate honey bees’ weight loss during the winter. This weight loss was generally low, and was compara...
10/28/2021 For the first time, Sweden Game Conference was held both on-site at Arena Skövde and online on October 14-15. More than 600 participants visited the conference on-site and 200 part...
10/27/2021 Employees of Swedish companies in Thailand were recently invited to participate in a three-day online course in Simulation for Decision Support at the University of Skövde. The cou...
10/26/2021 The University of Skövde has conducted a pilot study to establish the population of the non-native Chinese mitten crab in Lake Vänern. In the study, it emerged that, in recent year...
10/25/2021 This spring, Josefin Kristensen was awarded the University of Skövde’s Diversity Scholarship for her thesis “Sustainable Accessibility from a User Experience Perspective”. But that...
10/22/2021 On Thursday 21 October, Sweden’s Minister for Culture, Amanda Lind, visited the University of Skövde. The visit was part of a visit to the Skaraborg region, and in Skövde, games we...
10/12/2021 Europe's leading conference for future and professional game developers and startups, Sweden Game Conference, is back on October 14-15 – both online and in Arena Skövde. This year'...
10/7/2021 Gender equality in the gaming industry is an important issue. This is evident not least in the number of applications for DONNA DAY – two days where female game students and game d...
9/15/2021 Ricardo Parizotto Ribeiro from Brazil is studying Bioscience – Molecular Biodesign at the University of Skövde. He chose the University of Skövde because he instantly fell in love ...
9/13/2021 Luciano Floridi is a philosopher and co-founder of the research fields known as the philosophy and ethics of information. He works at the University of Oxford as Professor of Philo...
8/31/2021 Boushra Dalile is from Syria and studied Cognitive Neuroscience: Mind and Brain - Master's Programme at the University of Skövde. She is now a PhD researcher at KU Leuven, Belgium.
8/24/2021 Faith-Grace Ameku grew up in the United Kingdom, with Ghanaian parents. For the last couple of years, she has been studying Biomedicine at the University of Skövde. Her favourite t...
8/18/2021 On Monday, the introduction starts for the 160 new international students who will begin their studies at the University of Skövde this autumn. – We are very happy that so many hav...
8/16/2021 Harmful cyber-attacks on electricity networks can have devastating effects on socially important functions. Researchers at the University of Skövde are therefore developing a proto...
8/10/2021 Ahmed Mohamed from Egypt studied the Master´s programme in Molecular Biotechnology at the University of Skövde. During his two years in Sweden as an international student he was aw...
8/2/2021 Trinidad Sánchez Montoya came to Skövde as an exchange student for half a year. After one semester she decided to extend her stay in Sweden and continue to study at the University ...
7/26/2021 Paula Camargo Romera from Spain was supposed to study at the University of Skövde for one semester, but extended her stay in Skövde to a whole year. – The lifestyle here and the c...
7/19/2021 When students go overseas to study they usually do it for a semester or for a year. But that is not the case for Kaiyuan Yang from Shanghai. She is back at the University of Skövde...
7/15/2021 Sergey Redyuk studied Data Science Master´s programme at the University of Skövde and was awarded University of Skövde´s Global Swede in 2018. He now lives in Berlin and looks back...
6/23/2021 Lena Mårtensson, professor at the University of Skövde, becomes an adjunct professor at the University of Queensland in Australia.
6/23/2021 Veera Jokinen from Nokia in southern Finland has studied at the University of Skövde for the past three years. – I chose to study Biomedicine in Skövde due to the interesting cours...
6/21/2021 On June 27-30, a large, international conference on forecasting is taking place. A key figure behind the conference is the Skövde professor Nikolaos Kourentzes who wants to help co...
6/8/2021 Within businesses and organisations, there is a major need for governance and strategies in order to successfully engage in open source software projects. The LIM-IT research proje...
6/2/2021 Hybrid education until October 3. Then regular teaching on campus for the rest of the semester. This is the University of Skövdes' plan for the autumn semester 2021.
5/25/2021 Christian Norrie from Canada is studying the final semester of the Master’s programme Data Science at the University of Skövde. On 28 May, he will receive the Global Swede award fr...
5/5/2021 By allowing artificial intelligence (AI) to mimic the reasoning employed by human experts, AI methods can be improved and their acceptance broadened. This is seen in new research f...
4/29/2021 With the goal of becoming part of the startup program at Science Park Skövde, Adam Wallberg and Sanna Wallberg Ylvén moved to Skövde and started studying game development at the Un...
4/22/2021 Sweden Game Conference catched Lisa Kolfjords interest regarding Skövde’s growing game development community. After her studies at the University of Skövde, she began the journey t...
4/14/2021 Daughters of women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) are more likely to be diagnosed with the same syndrome. It can cause several health problems and make pregnancy more diffic...
4/8/2021 In today’s manufacturing industry, there is a lot of talk about Industry 4.0, smart manufacturing and digital twins. The role of virtual models has been highlighted with the emergi...
4/6/2021 There are more than 7,000 different species of marine invertebrates worldwide, of which around 250 are found in Norway. But there are large gaps in our knowledge of these, not to m...
3/31/2021 The nation’s electricity market has long been the subject of a vociferous and impassioned debate in Sweden. Escalating electricity prices in the north, very low prices in the south...
3/25/2021 At the University of Skövde, we are very proud of the developer Iron Gates' enormous success with the game Valheim. Several of the people behind the global success have studied Gam...
3/11/2021 Many of the species in our forests are currently under threat from modern forestry techniques. The University of Skövde and the County Administrative Board are now working together...
3/8/2021 The game industry is a male-dominated industry. The DONNA network, founded at the University of Skövde, works for equality in the game development educations and the game industry....
3/4/2021 Large amounts of data are constantly being collected, with the intention of understanding the world and, quite often, to make predictions about it. Elio Ventocilla, PhD Student at ...
2/10/2021 An international collaboration in which the University of Skövde has participated has led to publication in the prestigious magazine Brain. The research presented highlights, among...
2/4/2021 The innovation project Studio Ludum has, with computer games as its driving force, supported young gaming-interested people, who neither work nor study, to start or resume studies ...
1/26/2021 New virus variants of Covid-19 are reported daily in the media. But how dangerous are the new virus mutations and how afraid should we be of them? Kristian Vlahovicek, visiting Pro...
1/21/2021 Henrik Engström, Professor of Informatics at the University of Skövde, recently published the book Game Development Research. In this book, he compiles and describes research on ga...
1/21/2021 Researchers from the University of Skövde will do a feasibility study with the aim of taking an inventory of invasive alien crustaceans in Lake Vänern, the largest lake in the Euro...
1/13/2021 Sweden’s manufacturing industry has a long history, but today’s existing factories find it difficult to compete with new factories that are being built, such as those in China, for...
12/22/2020 The Covid-19 situation forces the University of Skövde to limit the opening hours of the University Library and and Student Affairs Office.
12/15/2020 A more sedentary life and a diet high in sugar have created public health problems in low-income countries - heart disease has become increasingly common in the population. To help...
12/10/2020 Karoline Forsberg studied Game Development - Design at the University of Skövde during 2010-2013 and works as a Senior Gameplay Designer at the British game studio nDreams. She rec...
12/8/2020 In 2016, Juhee Bae from South Korea came to Sweden as a post-doc to apply visualisation in AI. Her goal is for people to understand machine learning better by explaining data model...
12/4/2020 Susanne Durst, professor of Business Administration at the University of Skövde, has received international attention for her research. “How far have we come with the study of know...
12/3/2020 Benyapa Tangruksa is doing her Master’s in Infection biology at the University of Skövde and is a part of an important collaboration project that hope to find new therapeutic tools...
11/18/2020 The University of Skövde has students from all over the world. One of those who traveled the farthest to study is Vaina Castagnino, who in 2018 moved from Peru to Skövde to study t...
10/26/2020 The international conference RO-MAN recently awarded Erik Lagerstedt, doctoral student in informatics at the University of Skövde the RSJ/KROS Distinguished Interdisciplinary Resea...
10/22/2020 Human-robot collaboration – it may sound like science fiction, but it has now become a reality. Patrik Gustavsson is a research student at the University of Skövde, and has develop...
10/20/2020 Karoline Forsberg studied Game Development - Design at the University of Skövde during 2010-2013 and currently works as a Senior Gameplay Designer at the British game studio nDream...
10/19/2020 This year's Sweden Game Conference will be held in a slightly different format. The event has been slimmed down, and most of it will be digital. Much focus is on game development s...
10/16/2020 On October 21, it's time for the fourth annual DONNA DAY – a network meeting for female game students and developers. As networking is central to DONNA DAY, the day will be held as...
10/13/2020 It has become common for many people to use their mobile phone for both private and work purposes. This can pose risks for companies, as it becomes less clear who owns what informa...
10/6/2020 All organisations possess large amounts of information. However, without knowledge of how information is to be classified, there is a risk that information will fall into the wrong...
9/7/2020 During the spring, the university teachers Charlotta Göthe and Cinikka Arthursson left the lecture hall for work in intensive care during the pandemic. They are now back at the Uni...
8/31/2020 The virtual human is central at DHM2020, Digital Human Modeling Symposium, which is now taking place in Skövde. The virtual human is used, among other things, to evaluate workplace...
8/21/2020 On Monday August 24, the University introduction for this autumn's new international students will begin. But there will be no regular introduction at the start of this semester. T...
7/9/2020 The University is going back to campus based education from this autumn, after the Swedish government lifted the restrictions (introduced in March, due to Covid-19), in June. We h...
6/9/2020 How have the new studying arrangements worked for students at the University of Skövde? Over the course of a few weeks in May, the University conducted a survey to find out how the...
6/2/2020 Victor Igelmo, a student at the Intelligent Automation Master's Programme, received the award "Industrial Engineering Student of the Year" on May 28 during Production Engineering D...
5/28/2020 This year, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Global Swede Award goes to Lizzy Okogie at the University of Skövde. Lizzy Okogie, from Nigeria, is studying her last year on the Infect...
5/5/2020 Every year, The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education, STINT, produces an index that shows how international Swedish universities are. T...
4/29/2020 Homa Tajsharghi, Professor of Biomedicine at the School of Health Sciences at University of Skövde is focusing on rare diseases & neurogenic disorders in her latest publication in ...
4/22/2020 Robots are becoming increasingly important in our daily lives. Robots are commonly used, for example, to cut our lawns and to clean the floors in our homes. Maurice Lamb is a Senio...
4/1/2020 Three years ago, Lissa Holloway-Attaway, Associate Professor in Media Arts, Aesthetics and Narration, and Björn Berg Marklund, Senior Lecturer in Informatics, both at the Universit...
3/16/2020 Kristian Vlahoviček is a new international guest professor at the University of Skövde, financed by The Knowledge Foundation. During two years, he will be working part time at the ...
3/12/2020 The University of Skövde has, due to the government’s decision regarding major gatherings, decided to cancel the Open Day at the University on Saturday March 14.
3/4/2020 Recently the Minister of Higher Education and Research in Sweden, Matilda Ernkrans, visited the University of Skövde. During the day the Minister visited the University’s technolog...
1/16/2020 This week we welcome new international students to the spring semester at the University of Skövde. The students come mostly from Asia, the USA and Europe.
12/17/2019 A research project at the University of Skövde devoted to future sepsis diagnostics has been awarded SEK 2.6 million by the Knowledge Foundation. "This is great news, and it means ...
12/12/2019 On 1 December, the Swedish Game Awards were held as part of Dreamhack at Elmia in Jönköping. As in many previous years, students from the University of Skövde were nominated in sev...
12/11/2019 Congratulations to Joakim Kävrestad, Lecturer in Information Technology at the University of Skövde, who has won the 2019 SISA Educational Award for his textbook.
12/3/2019 Daughters of women with polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) are five times more likely to be diagnosed with PCOS as adults, and the generational transmission is driven by high andro...
12/3/2019 Jonas Christoffersson is a postdoc in Bioinformatics at the University of Skövde and is currently working in Canada. Working together with a team of researchers in Vancouver, Jonas...
12/2/2019 The University of Skövde's research has received two awards at the American Heart Scientific Sessions in Philadelphia. At their conference, research conducted by us together with c...
10/15/2019 The University of Skövde and Sweden Game Conference celebrates women in game development. On October 15 and 16, the DONNA network welcomes over 50 gamedev students to workshops, le...
9/25/2019 Wei Wang, Associate Senior Lecturer in Automation Engineering at the University of Skövde, has been awarded the Best Paper Award in ICMR 2019 conference in Belfast. – I feel proud,...
8/27/2019 On Monday, August 26, the new semester started for all new international students at the University of Skövde. This year, about 200 new international students are beginning their s...
8/8/2019 For the first time, the University of Skövde has given a summer course in game development together with two Chinese universities. In just a few weeks, this cooperation has resulte...
5/28/2019 Researchers who engage with the wider community are able to facilitate an exchange of knowledge that can have a major impact on society. Gustav Holmgren at the University of Skövde...
5/27/2019 Mobile integrated care is a care model developed in Skaraborg, and it has become a national role model. In the research project "Mobile integrated care in Skaraborg", researchers w...
5/22/2019 Ahmed Mohamed from Egypt is studying the final semester of the Master's programme in Molecular Biotechnology at the University of Skövde. Yesterday, he was in Stockholm to receive ...
5/17/2019 A game that is playable for everyone, designed in a way that even visually impaired can play it. That is the concept behind the game app "Frequency Missing", developed at the Unive...
5/10/2019 Now the Smartdiagnos instruments POC and LAB for rapid sepsis diagnostics are installed in the molecular lab in Skövde. A pilot study on whole blood will be performed now in May.
4/16/2019 Researchers have identified a pattern of brain activity that reflects anger experienced during dreaming, according to a new study of healthy adults published in The Journal of Neur...
2/13/2019 The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency has issued a grant to Senior Lecturer in Ecology Annie Jonsson at the University of Skövde for 4.8 million Swedish kronor for her projec...
2/12/2019 IPSI, the industrial research school at the University of Skövde, had the pleasure of hosting Professor Enrique Alba of the University of Málaga. For half a day, Professor Alba spo...
1/23/2019 TorTalk lets you listen to all text you can see on your computer screen. The text-to-speech application is now available for download for students and employees at the University o...
1/9/2019 With the tool “Let´s have a walk” it is possible to take an indoor walk, and at the same time get the feeling of grass or snow under one´s feet. The tool has been tested on seniors...
12/7/2018 A magic mirror, custom handles, an assistant robot and indoor walking on snow and grass. These were some of the prototypes tested during the BaltSeanior field tests in Finland, whe...
11/13/2018 Researchers at the University of Skövde have “trained” a neural network that can detect the emotional state of a person playing a computer game with the help of an ordinary web cam...
10/25/2018 The University of Skövde, Sandvik, and SSAB are involved in a new research project, with financial support from the Knowledge Foundation and support from the Swedish steel producer...
10/15/2018 What does gaming and politics have in common? A lot! It is time for one of Sweden's largest gaming conferences and exhibitions in Skövde – Sweden Game Conference. This year's theme...
10/10/2018 The New Honorary Doctors of the University of Skövde, Anna Rosling Rönnlund and Ola Rosling, have been awarded their honorary doctorates at the University of Skövde.
10/8/2018 Last week, the University of Skövde hosted a visit by the Mexican ambassador Agustín Gasca Pliego. – I am impressed to see that a municipality with 50,000 citizens is able to offer...
10/2/2018 The self-rated personalities of men and women differ more in more gender equal countries, according to recent research from the University of Gothenburg, University West and the Un...
9/24/2018 For the longest time, it looked as if this year's Skövde Pride would be cancelled. Fortunately, Hanna Forsling, a student at the University of Skövde, wanted that to change.
9/24/2018 New avenues are now being opened for future treatment of Laing distal myopathy, a rare disorder that causes muscles in the feet, hands and elsewhere to atrophy. In a study publishe...
9/17/2018 The university's gaming research stands out and gets attention from western France. When Etienne, a student of engineering, was looking for a traineeship, his choice fell on the Un...
9/14/2018 The University of Skövde has conducted successful research in open source software and open standards. EU is investigating these fields and Björn Lundell, Professor of Computer Sci...
8/30/2018 The progression of sepsis, or blood poisoning, is very quick. A person's condition can become life threatening in just a few hours. Today, blood culture is the method used to diagn...
8/27/2018 On Monday, the international students at the University of Skövde start their fall studies. 150 students from all over the world have gathered in their new home town of Skövde. Rea...
8/24/2018 A new study by researchers from the University of Turku, Finland and the University of Skövde, Sweden shows that people with more peace of mind in the waking state have more positi...
8/13/2018 On Wednesday, the University of Skövde hosted a visit by the Ethiopian ambassador, Professor Merga Bekana. The programme included a presentation of the University and the present c...
6/13/2018 In a new collaboration with the University of Illinois, College of Medicine, in Rockford, IL, American medical students will get an opportunity to learn more about the Swedish welf...
6/11/2018 Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, has called their book Factfulness one of the most important books of our times. And the book is at the top of the sales charts in Sweden. The auth...
5/28/2018 When developing new products there are usually an array of specifications to be met. For example, maximum measurements, weight, and shape. The challenge is often how to optimize on...
5/16/2018 Industry production can be complicated and many factors are in play, for example, when some machines stop working. But a better decision support system, where multiple sources of i...
5/9/2018 Sergey Redyuk, student of Master’s programme in Data Science, is University of Skövde’s Global Swede for 2018. The annual recognition of Global Swede is a joint initiative by the M...
5/9/2018 During May 5 - 9, Skövde Municipality joins in on the European Week. During the week, the international students at the University of Skövde will visit several schools and other pl...
5/2/2018 Just a few years ago, gaming was an interest of a select group in the world’s largest country. But with the arrival of the cell phone in combination with a change of attitude, Chin...
3/9/2018 Researchers at the University of Skövde work in close collaboration with the vehicle industry to develop a software that assists design engineers to improve physical ergonomics in ...
2/19/2018 Why do some businesses and organizations survive and evolve through crises, while others fold? This question is asked by Stefan Tengblad, Professor of Business Administration at th...