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May 25, 2012
This year’s mentor and protégé appointed
On 9 May the Career Plaza arranged an end-of-year evening for the employers and students who have participated in this year’s mentor programme. During the evening the titles of Mentor and Protégé of the Year were awarded to those who have had the most successful cooperation.
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May 16, 2012
HSV has evaluated MDH’s Business Administration programmes
Today the Swedish National Agency for Higher Education (Agency) presented its quality evaluation for the country’s study programmes in Business Administration. MDH’s programme for Business Administration at first-cycle level was awarded the grade of high quality. However, the Agency sees certain deficiencies in the second-cycle programme. MDH is now to begin work to look over these deficiencies with a view to submitting to the Agency within a year a list of measures to be taken.
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May 16, 2012
New research institute inaugurated at MDH
SICS, the Swedish Institute of Computer Science, in cooperation with Mälardalen University (MDH), has established the first research institute in Västerås. The purpose of this venture is to strengthen Mälardalen’s innovation systems by offering contract research to companies in the region.
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May 14, 2012
MDH student appointed Global Swede by the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Batu Akan, a doctoral student in computer science at Mälardalen University, has been appointed Global Swede by the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
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Apr 27, 2012
MDH students won first prize in international project competition
Four students from Mälardalen University have won the first prize in an international project competition at Euroweek in Holland. Altogether 118 students from 19 countries took part and the students from MDH came first in two out of three heats in the competition.
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Apr 26, 2012
Inconsistent regional policies complicate work practices
The character of regional development policy has largely changed in recent times, with a shift from central management to increasingly greater regional autonomy. Economic growth is often emphasised but other values are also highlighted as being of importance. The belief that one can steer societal development through state intervention is strong, but at the same time the logic behind how it is thought that these efforts are going to work is, in principle, never made clear.
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Apr 26, 2012
Eskilstuna and Västerås awarded the title of Sweden’s best student cities
Since 1999 the Swedish National Union of Students, SFS, has been awarding the title of Student City of the Year. This year the award goes jointly to the cities of Västerås and Eskilstuna.
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Apr 23, 2012
Students from MDH reach final in design competition
Students from Mälardalen University have been nominated for a place in the final in the design competition Wonderful Garden, a competition about designing a garden product in plastic. The competition is arranged by The Swedish Plastics Industry Association, SPIF.
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Apr 13, 2012
MDH in team to lead a new project for developing energy-smart cities
Mälardalen University, together with Eskilstuna Municipality and Eskilstuna Energy & Environment, are to run an EU-funded project to develop energy-smart cities in Europe. The aim of the project is to reduce energy consumption in society by a combination of new technology, societal structures and changed behaviour. Altogether this will concern six medium-sized cities and a total of 18 partners involved in a project that will have a turnover of four million Euro.
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Mar 27, 2012
Regional Council Sörmland invest 2.5 million in MDH
Regional Council Sörmland has now given its approval to co-finance Mälardalen University (MDH) with SEK 2.5 million. The money will be used for ensuring that MDH retains its degree-awarding powers for courses and study programmes in Health, Care and Social Welfare – gratifying news for a region in need of nurses.
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Feb 28, 2012
Jonas Stier new professor of sociology
Jonas Stier has been promoted to professor of sociology, specializing in the social psychology of crossing boundaries and creating identity.
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Feb 16, 2012
Multi-million bid at MDH strengthens Swedish manufacturing industry
A new research school called Innofacture at Mälardalen University (MDH) is to cooperate with eight of the country’s biggest manufacturing companies. The aim is to give a boost to Swedish competitiveness on the global market. The entire project is unique in that it focuses on both innovation and production in order to develop production processes at the companies.
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Feb 10, 2012
MDH researchers as experts in Högskoleverket’s quality review
Following a commission by the Government, Högskoleverket [‘the Swedish National Agency for Higher Education’] carries out nationwide evaluations of university programmes leading to at least a bachelor’s or a professional degree. Two professors from Mälardalen University have been appointed as experts in this context, namely Sture Packalén (German) and Eva Sundgren (Swedish/Nordic Languages).
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Feb 10, 2012
MDH research to be used in intermission of Melodifestivalen
At the second competition of Melodifestivalen in Göteborg, on 11 February, the intermission featured electronic music created on a new musical and video instrument developed by Håkan Lidbo, the Quantum White company and Rikard Lindell from Mälardalen University (MDH). The instrument made its first appearance on TV that day.
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Feb 10, 2012
MDH personalities behind book on management and IT
Recently, Routledge published “Management and Information Technology: Challenges for the Modern Company”, edited by Peter Ekman and Peter Dahlin. Peter Ekman is a senior lecturer of marketing and IT at Mälardalen University (MDH) and Peter Dahlin a former MDH doctoral student who received his degree in industrial management in 2007.
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Jan 30, 2012
MDH alumnus wins prize for best promotional product
Christian Runius, a former student at Mälardalen University, recently won first prize for the best promotional product in the form of the credit card holder Thumb.
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Jan 24, 2012
MDH employee had the best idea in a national competition
Falbygdens Energi organized a competition last autumn where the participants’ task was to come up with the best idea for how companies can use energy more efficiently. As a part of the contest, Munktell Science Park in Eskilstuna called for an idea meeting where the participants were divided into teams. Sasan Shaba, lab manager at Idélab, was one of the contestants and won with a contribution called Genergy, together with the team members Therese Balksjö from The Interactive Institute and illustrator Johan Belking. The gist of the idea is that all employees at a company can see their energy consumption on a digital information board.
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Jan 24, 2012
The world’s youngest professor of mathematics education
On 17 January, Andreas Ryve was appointed professor of mathematics education at Mälardalen University. That makes him the youngest professor in the world in this subject area. Since research in mathematics education typically becomes better if one has worked as a school teacher for a number of years, professors are often somewhat older.
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Jan 19, 2012
Campus Telge’s newly- graduated teachers’ competence in demand
In January, 16 teacher students graduated at Campus Telge. The demand for their competence was very great and the preschools in Södertälje were quick in offering employment.
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Dec 30, 2011
Best paper award
A few weeks ago, Björn Lisper, a professor in computer science at IDT and Marcelo Santos, a PhD student at IDT received the Best Paper Award at the Conference Workshop on compositional Theory and Technology for Real-Time Embedded Systems, Vienna, for their article "Sequential composition of execution time distribution by convolution." Co-author of the article is Veronica Lima and George Lima.
