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Through various projects between Halmstad University, the innovation arena HighFive and the innovation centre Leap for Life, researchers, students and other experts want to help companies in Halland to start using and explore the possibilities of artificial intelligence in their work. It gives companies the opportunity to handle challenges in new ways and strengthens their competitiveness. So far, 25 companies have received help and there is still great interest to participate.

Ineffective and incorrect behavior of district heating substations causes unnecessary energy loss. In his recently published thesis, Shiraz Farouq proposes the use of models based on statistical and machine learning techniques as a possible solution to the problem. In this way, the substations can be monitored, irregular patterns can be identified, and operationally ineffective substations can be detected, without overwhelming their operators with numerous false alarms.

To create sustainable mobility solutions in the future, you need to understand how people think about digitalised cars. In his dissertation, Thomas Lindgren, is an industrial PhD student in Informatics and uses Design Ethnography as methodology, emphasizes that user experiences can be filled with hopes and fears. It affects people’s choices and the development of new products and services.

The past ten years, Halmstad University has been a Knowledge and Competence Centre with special support from the Knowledge Foundation to develop the University's profiling. The Knowledge and Competence Centre period has had many positive effects, including the two interdisciplinary focus areas that are now the core of the University’s research strategy.

When a deviation in a data set is found, it can implicate that something is wrong. It can, for example, be a machine part that does not work, a computer intrusion or a first sign of illness. By combining human knowledge and machine learning, the detection of anomalies will become more efficient and improved. Ece Calikus has recently published her PhD thesis on the subject.

After working with selection and interviews, the appointed group for recruiting the new Vice-Chancellor will let one final candidate proceed to hearings. Professor Susanna Öhman at Mid Sweden University, former Dean at Halmstad University’s School of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences, is now the only candidate left in the process.

Fab Lab Halmstad, the University's manufacturing laboratory and prototype workshop, hosted this year's edition of Fab Lab Nordic Boot Camp. During one week, Fab Lab participants from Denmark, Finland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands gathered at Halmstad University to network, solve problems, transfer knowledge and, above all, strengthen the Nordic co-operation.

The application period for the position as Vice-Chancellor of Halmstad University expired on April 4. Ten people have submitted applications. The appointed recruitment group is currently examining how well the applicants correspond to the recruitment profile and which applicants should proceed to the interviews.

In the next few years, Halmstad University will establish research programmes in order to further strengthen the University's profile. The programmes must clearly contribute to one or both of the University's two focus areas – Health Innovation and Smart Cities and Communities – be long-term, socially relevant and multidisciplinary. The first programme is about digitalisation and learning.

Halmstad University is recruiting new programme managers for the University's two focus areas. In addition to leading the work in the focus areas, the programme managers will also strengthen the University's research.