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Today, more than 32 Indian students were welcomed at BTH. The students come from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad and Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Kakinada – two universities that BTH has a long standing integrated educational cooperation in India. The students started their studies in their home country three and half  years ago and will […]

The spring semester has started and we welcome all new students to Blekinge Institute of Technology – both Swedish and international students. Today we welcome our nursing students. BTH has admitted 90 students in the Bachelor of Nursing Science programme. We also welcome our European students. BTH has exchange agreements with a number of universities […]

BTH professor of health science, Johan Sanmartin Berglund, is appointed member of a new national board established by the government. The board consists of researchers with special expertise in the elderly. The board will promote dialogue between the government and researchers in the field. – I believe that I will be able to contribute with […]

The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) strengthens its competence and expertise with 12 new members. Among those elected are Johan Eklund, professor of industrial economics at BTH, who is elected to the Department of Economics. IVA brings together the expertise and experience of more than 1,200 elected academic members and 250 companies. BTH professor […]

Researcher Charlotte Romare recently received a scholarship for her research project “smart glasses”. With the help of these special glasses, healthcare staff can directly see a patient’s different values, which facilitates both monitoring and treatment decisions. Researcher Charlotte Romare is developing and testing a special type of glasses; glasses with built-in prism, showing the patient’s […]

A new software lab with cutting-edge technology for students is inaugurated this week. Here, BTH students can invent new technology and test their boundaries. The lab will also serve as a meeting place for students, researchers and companies and has become a reality thanks to Ericsson in Karlskrona. BTH was first in Sweden to offer […]

BTH researchers Emilia Mendes and Claes Wohlin received the Best paper award at the Euromicro Conference Series on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA). The paper “Search Strategy to Update Systematic Literature Reviews” by BTH researchers Emilia Mendes and Claes Wohlin and co-authors Marcos Kalinowski and Katia Romero Felizardo from Brazil, received the Best paper […]

Nail Ibragimov, professor emeritus of mathematics, is honored for his outstanding efforts in mathematics. An education room has been named after him and for two days an international workshop in modern group analysis and applications has been carried out in his memory. Nail Ibragimov (1939–2018) is widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost experts […]

Four BTH researchers are included in the list of the 100 most cited researchers, according to a survey made by the Swedish magazine Fokus. Associate professor of computer science, Johanna Törnquist Krasemann, comes first among the four BTH researchers. The ranking of individual researchers is made based on how much they are quoted and there […]

Swedish ice hockey are now taking the step towards becoming one of the first leagues in the world to focus on sustainability. This is partly due to the collaboration with BTH’s sustainability students. BTH’s students in strategic leadership towards sustainability have worked with Swedish national ice hockey for six months. Among other things, the students, […]