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Halmstad University is part of the national collaboration Health Data Sweden, which the EU Commission recently appointed as one of Europe's new digital innovation hubs. The focus will be on using data to improve health care. The innovation centre Leap for Life will lead Halmstad University’s part of Health Data Sweden.

Halmstad University has appointed Lennart Andrén as a new Honorary Doctor in Innovation Sciences. Lennart Andrén has for the last four decades been a driving force in making technical and scientific knowledge from the University commercialised and useful for the society in the form of innovations.

CatFish, the solar-powered water drone which has been developed at Halmstad University, will support decision-making on actions for water conservations. The University has in collaboration with Halmstad Municipality been granted SEK one million from LOVA – local water conservation allocations – for improving and preserving the bodies of water in the municipality. A larger amount of the allocation goes to the development of the drone, in regard of materials and equipment.

We are faced with numerous healthcare challenges in the coming years that will require an improved quality of care without increasing costs. Part of the solution is to take advantage, in new ways, of all the health-related data that is collected every day. This data can, with the help of AI, give us more detailed information about certain patient groups to predict the care and resources needed. An extensive research collaboration between Region Halland and Halmstad University has resulted in unique prediction models, based on AI. The research is presented in a recently published PhD thesis within the area of information-driven care.

Last week was the final week of the semester at Halmstad University, and, in the best way possible, graduation week was wrapped up last Friday, with festivities and joy during a grand graduation ceremony in the University Hall.

The sun, a DJ and an ice cream truck brought that early summer feeling to Halmstad University when Utexpo took place, for the fortieth year in a row. For the first time in three years, campus was once again filled with innovation driven students – eager to display their thesis projects. This year, as tradition has it, the innovative students were showered with scholarships and awards – to a value of SEK 300,000.

It is the fifth year in a row that Halmstad University awards Alumna/Alumnus of the Year, and this year to a person who has brought knowledge from their studies at the University all the way into the Swedish men’s national football team. Alumnus of the Year is Daniel Ekvall, advisor in sports psychology for the men’s national team and IFK Norrköping.

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, who 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.