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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...
5/2/2022 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...
12/9/2021 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...
3/8/2021 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...
5/27/2019 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 ...
2/27/2018 Imagine having the world as your work place, and you are able to do what you enjoy the most? For Yohannes Tadesse Aklilu, Senior Lecturer in Mathematics at the School of Engineerin...
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...