Halmstad University
Founded in 1983, Halmstad University in the Port city of Halmstad on the west coast of Sweden, located about midway between Gothenburg and Malmö, is a center of higher education, which offers bachelor's, master's and Ph.D. programs.
The research component of Halmstad University closely collaborates with the industrial sector and business houses in its commitment to enhance the general knowledge and community development of the country.
he University runs 4 schools that lay emphasis on this research program, viz. the School of Business, Engineering and Science, the School of Health and Welfare, the School of Information Technology and the School of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences, all within the two interdisciplinary areas of Health Innovation and Smart Cities and Communities. The research at HU is of highest quality and internationally renowned and forms the basis for the doctoral programs in Innovation Science, Information Technology and Health and Lifestyle.
Halmstad University offer 2 unique course packages for professionals – one is the Digibus package for Digitalisation of Business in a Global World, exciting mixture of modern information technology and business. The courses are developed for entrepreneurs, managers and business leaders as well as consultants within business management or the equivalent. Examples of courses: AI for Executives and Global Entrepreneurship. The 2nd one is taking cognisance of the current Covid pandemic is the RELIFE project, Remote digitalisation education to enhance the lives of industry workers affected by COVID-19 for professionals interested in developing within information technology, for example IT consultants, engineers and CTOs. Examples of courses under this package are Cybersecurity Issues of Distributed Workplaces and Applied Deep Learning with Tensorflow.
Halmstad University has more than 9 000 students, including 245 exchange students (2013) and 163 international programme students (2013). HU is supported by the Swedish Knowledge Foundation with its investment in professional development in several different areas of business and industry. The courses are at advanced level, free of charge and online based with a flexible pace of study.
The core areas of strength that the University boasts of are [i] research into innovation and entrepreneurship, societal change, the environment, learning, management and media, that augurs well for the Organisation, Region and the Society [ii] research into embedded systems, intelligent systems, machine technological product development, IT and applied mathematics and physics [Products Processes and Services] and [iii] research into the disciplines of educational science, health care, sports and health, the arts and culture, welfare and wellbeing. [Quality of Life, Welfare and Culture].
