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The digitization of schools and new expectations for knowledge about for example media, entrepreneurship and problem-based teaching create challenges for the way we organize and implement learning and teaching. A new thesis from University West describes how teachers ca...

Interest in the Technical Foundation Year Programme has increased steadily since University West started the program in 1994. More and more foundation year students also choose to study further in one of the university's engineering programmes. "I am happy about this de...

A new dissertation from University West studies how social workers understand and use reflection and the role of reflection in professional learning and knowledge development. The results show that reflection is important for enabling professional learning and knowledge...

Ten households in the residential area Granngården in Trollhättan will share electric cars with each other for one month as part of a pilot study. Behind the study are University West through the research project SESMA, together with NEVS and Eidar. An important goal is...

University West is together with SJ starting a joint research project. The focus is on studying how Virtual Reality, VR, can best be used to train the employees at SJ.

Swedish care is unequal, and surveys show shortcomings in nursing education when it comes to equal treatment and equal care. University West has been working systematically for a few years to change its nursing programmes and improve the ability of students to work in a...

In the project The Life of A.R.T, the goal is to develop an artificial influencer that will attract more young people to a future in technology. The project is based on data generated by young people on social media. The ethical rules of data collection have been debate...

It is an uncertain time in many ways. The start of the semester at University West is different than usual. With a difficult planning and great uncertainty, however, the international students are starting to come now. The university estimates that around 200 students w...

In just three years, University West’s research team has built up cutting-edge expertise in additive manufacturing with powder bed fusion for the superalloy 718. “This is a strategic investment of great interest for the aerospace industry and for manufacturing industrie...

According to GKN Aerospace in Trollhättan, long–term research and development work is vital in closing new business deals. The company invests heavily in research collaboration with University West and several other universities. At present, about 60 doctoral students w...

How can European cities become more innovative, green, and able to offer an even higher quality of life? These are topics that 126 cities will tackle over the next two years in the European Commission initiative Intelligent Cities Challenge (ICC). University West will p...

Dr. Maureen Drysdale, Professor of Psychology and Adjunct Professor in Applied Health Sciences at St. Jerome's University and the University of Waterloo in Canada, has been awarded an honorary doctorate at University West in Trollhättan, Sweden for her work with work-in...

On Thursday, May 28, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in collaboration with the Swedish Institute, organized the diploma ceremony called Global Swede for the tenth year in a row. Swarnarenu Saha from Bangladesh, who is studying a Master of Finance at University West, re...

In the future, damaged bones can be re-built with 3D-printed implants that have thermal sprayed surface layers so that they are more readily accepted by the human body. University West has started a new exciting research project together with Vellore Institute of Techno...

Tahira Raza's research opens up entirely new opportunities to make air- and spacecraft engines more environmentally friendly. She is one of the few in the world to study the weldability of components produced by additive manufacturing with powder bed. It is an important...