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A delegation from BTH recently visited Ghana in West Africa. Niklas Lavesson, professor of software engineering at BTH, identifies several possibilities for collaboration regarding mechanical engineering, software engineering, and industrial economics and we will now lead the work to organise meetings between teachers and researchers from Ghana and Sweden. The BTH delegation visited Pentecost University, […]

Peter Zickerman, Executive Chairman of the Dubai-based seismic company PXGEO, visited Karlskrona and BTH recently. The company is about to be established in Sweden and is interested in collaborations with BTH. PXGEO is a company at the absolute forefront of sea-based marine technology and collaborates with, among others, SAAB Dynamics in Sweden. PXGEO CEO Peter […]

The organisation, The Swedish AI Society, SAIS, has its annual conference at BTH. Researchers and industry representatives will discuss AI and present new AI research for two days. Martin Boldt, docent in computer science at BTH, is one of the organisers: “It is an honor that the Swedish AI Society returns to BTH with its […]

BTH has four researchers on a recently published ranking list within the subject of computer science where over 14,000 researchers worldwide have been reviewed. Research.com recently published its ninth edition of the best researchers in the world. The ranking is made in several areas. In computer science, 14,402 researchers have been reviewed and the list […]

Today, hundreds of Master’s and Bachelor’s students celebrated that their studies have now come to an end.  At the graduation ceremony, the students are recognized with music and a speech by BTH Vice-Chancellor Mats Viberg. Students from the following Master’s and Bachelor’s programmes took part in the graduation ceremony today: Master’s Programme in Computer Science […]

A vaccine against Lyme disease is now being tested in Sweden, for the first time ever. A new vaccine will probably be on the market within a couple of years, says Johan Sanmartin Berglund, Professor of applied health technology at Blekinge Institute of Technology. Not all ticks carry Lyme disease, but about 20 per cent […]

SafeParasport, a web-based platform created to increase knowledge about safe exercise and health for para-athletes, has been launched. Thanks to five software engineering students at BTH, the unique platform is now accessible to all para-athletes. Although there are many exercise prevention programmes available for different sports today, most are not adapted or accessible to para-athletes. […]

The students from BTH’s distance Master’s programme in Software Engineering celebrated their graduation last Friday. It was the first time the graduation ceremony was held both digitally and on campus.   The graduating students from the distance Master’s programme in Software Engineering gathered to celebrate their graduation on campus for the first time. Around ten […]

More than 200 international students gathered in Multisalen on campus Karlskrona to listen to Vice-Chancellor Mats Viberg, who welcomed the students to BTH.   During the interactive meeting, Vice-Chancellor Mats Viberg held a speech in which he welcomed the international students to BTH and talked about the university and life in Karlskrona. Many of the students […]

Blekinge Institute of Technology and Associate Professor Henrik Ny have recently been appointed to organize the 26th International Conference on Magnetically Levitated Systems and Linear Drives, Maglev2024, to be held September 2024 in the cities of Malmö and Copenhagen. The International Conference on Magnetically Levitated Systems and Linear Drives is the world’s most prestigious academic […]