MALMÖ UNIVERSITY IN BRIEF

• The university was established on 1 July 1998

• 21 000 students

• 1 300 staff

• Six multidisciplinary schools of study and research

• Turnover 2005: SEK 936 million

• Located in a metropolitan city area of 3.5 million inhabitants

SCHOOLS OF STUDY AND RESEARCH

• Faculty of Health and Society

• Faculty of Odontology

• School of Arts and Communication

• School of International Migration and Ethnic Relations

• School of Teacher Education

• School of Technology and Society

ORGANIZATION

FACULTY OF HEALTH AND SOCIETY

• Programmes- Biomedical Laboratory Science- Public Health- Social Pedagogy with the elderly

- Nursing - Social Work, several specialisations

• and around 40 subject courses

FACULTY OF ODONTOLOGY

• Programmes- Dentistry (5 years)

- Dental Technology (3 years)

- Dental Hygiene (2 years)

SCHOOL OF ARTS AND COMMUNICATION

• Programmes - Interaction Design - Creative Producer- Physical and Virtual Design- Media and Culture Studies- Performing Arts Technology - Technical Communication

• and around 20 subject courses

SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION AND ETHNIC RELATIONS

• Programmes- Human rights- Language-Migration-Globalization, with communication in English or in Swedish

- Introductory course - Migration and Language

- Peace - Conflict - International relations• and around 40 subject courses

- IMER- Human Rights- Peace and Conflict Science and others

SCHOOL OF TEACHER EDUCATION

• Programmes- New Teaching Qualification (120-220 credits)- Careers Counselling- Special Education (remedial teaching)- Bachelor of Education for the Compulsory School (Theory and Practice of Teaching)- Masters of Education for the Upper Secondary School (Theory and Practice of Teaching)- Diploma of Education for the Upper Secondary School (Theory and Practice of Teaching)- Sports Sciences programme- International programme for European Studies- Natural Science Preparatory Course

• and around 75 subject courses

SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY

Programmes

Engineering Programmes:

- Construction Design

- Construction Engineering

- Graphic Arts Technology and Media Production

- Mechanical Engineering

- Product Development and Design- Media production

Other Programmes:- Arcitecture och cityplanning

- Environmental Sciences

- Intellectual Property

- Real Estate Agency

- Real Estate Management

- Entrepreneurship

- Urban development and planning

- Science/Technical Preparatory Course

and around 80 subject courses

PROGRAMMES AND COURSES

Academic year 2006/2007

58 programmes

460 subject courses

AREAS OF EMPHASIS

“Permeate education and research”

• Ethnicity – Migration

• Equality and Gender

• Nature and Resource Management

RESEARCH

• Areas of special importance

- Professional training and career lines- Migration and ethnicity- Culture, media and design- Learning for tomorrow’s society- Technology and human welfare- Health and welfare

RESEARCH

• New and existing research - 200 active doctoral students- 50 professors

Established research at the Faculty of Odontology and the School of Teacher Education. Newly established research within all fields.

THE THIRD TASK

Cooperation with the surrounding community

• Entrance/broker unit for companies, public administrations and organisations

• Regional Development Centre (RUC)Comprehensive contract teaching at the School of Education.

• Student co-operation:- The Näktergalen Mentor Project- Sponsor and mentor programmes, and others

LIBRARY AND IT

• Integration of library and IT services

• User-controlled: Collections of books, data bases etc. developed in co-operation with the schools.

• Education: Information retrieval on different levels.

• Student computer training (SDM)

• Helpdesk

THE ÖRESUND UNIVERSITY

• The fourth largest research region in Europe• 140 000 students• 12 000 researchers

THE ÖRESUND UNIVERSITY• Malmö University

• Lund University

• Kristianstad University

• The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences/Alnarp

• University of Copenhagen

• Technical University of Denmark

• Copenhagen Business School

• The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University

• Royal Danish School of Educational Sciences

• The Royal Danish School of Pharmacy

• Roskilde University

• The Royal School of Librarianship and Information Science

• IT University of Copenhagen

• Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, Copenhagen

INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE

• More than 110 international co-operation universities in 28 countries, mostly European.

• An increasing interest for exchange among teachers and students.

• ”Internationalisation at Home”:- A Malmö University European network initiative.

- 120 partners from all around the world.

- Aims at an international dimension for the 90% of the students not studying abroad.

- Closely linked to the IMER perspective.

THE CITY UNIVERSITY

University Island 1. Library and IT

2. Arts and Communication (K3)

3. Student Centre

4. Student union/External Relations

5 & 6 IMER

7. Technology and Society

8. University Administration

9. Teacher Education and Library (summer 2005)

THE CITY UNIVERSITY

Elsewhere in Malmö1 Faculty of Odontology

2 Health and Society

3 & 4 Teacher Education

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