Editing Blekinge Institute of Technology

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| name = Blekinge Institute of Technology
| native_name = Blekinge Tekniska Högskola
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| established = 1989
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| type = Public Research University
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| chairperson = Peter Örn
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| vice_chancellor = Mats Viberg
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| faculty = 276 (2017)
| administrative_staff = 174 (2017)
| students = 5,900 (2020)
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| city = [[Karlskrona]] and [[Karlshamn]]
| state = [[Blekinge]]
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| country = [[Sweden]]
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| campus = Urban, 2 campuses
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| footnotes = BTH is a member of EUA - European Universities Association
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The '''Blekinge Institute of Technology''' ('''BTH'''; {{langx|sv|Blekinge Tekniska Högskola}}) is a public, state funded [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[institute of technology]] in [[Blekinge]]<ref>[http://www.hsv.se/highereducationinsweden/highereducationinstitutionsheis/listofhighereducationinstitutions.4.28afa2dc11bdcdc557480002332.html List of higher education institutions] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120524171510/http://www.hsv.se/highereducationinsweden/highereducationinstitutionsheis/listofhighereducationinstitutions.4.28afa2dc11bdcdc557480002332.html |date=2012-05-24 }}, [[Swedish National Agency for Higher Education]], accessed 2010-11-22</ref> with 5,900 students (part-time, full-time) and offers about 30 educational programmes<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bth.se/valkommen.nsf/sidor/e441199b2e774bc0c1256e4b00394911!OpenDocument |title=Fakta om BTH |access-date=2009-04-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090218024408/http://bth.se/valkommen.nsf/sidor/e441199b2e774bc0c1256e4b00394911!OpenDocument |archive-date=2009-02-18 |url-status=dead }}</ref> in 11 departments at two campuses located in [[Karlskrona]] and [[Karlshamn]].

BTH was granted university status in engineering in 1999. Among the many programmes and courses taught in Swedish, BTH offers 12 Master's programmes in English.

The university focuses on ICT [[information technology]] and [[sustainable development]]; additionally also offers programmes in industrial economics, health sciences and spatial planning.

Blekinge Institute of Technology is located in the [[Telecom City]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.telecomcity.org/in-english.aspx# |title=Telecom City |access-date=2010-07-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527181009/http://www.telecomcity.org/in-english.aspx# |archive-date=2010-05-27 |url-status=dead }}</ref> area and works with telecommunications and software companies including [[Telenor]], [[Ericsson|Ericsson AB]] and Wireless Independent Provider (WIP).

==Campuses==

The university has two Campuses in [[Blekinge]]:
*Campus Gräsvik in Karlskrona, from 1989
*Campus Karlshamn, from 2000

The Soft Center Campus in Ronneby existed from 1989 and was integrated in 2010 in the Campus Gräsvik, Karlskrona.

The university had been between 2006 and 2008 included in a strategic alliance with [[Växjö University]] and [[University of Kalmar]] under the common name of the Academy of the Southeast. The Board, however, decided February 15, 2008 not to join in the fusion the other two parties, which resulted in the founding of [[Linnaeus University]].

Blekinge Institute of Technology is a member of the [[European University Association]], the European Society of Engineering Education and the Association of Technical Universities in Scandinavia (NORDTEK).{{citation needed|date=May 2018}}

==Academics==

===Applied Information Technology===
The institute offers Bachelor, Master and PhD programmes oriented towards applied [[Informatics (academic field)|Informatics]]. BTH has been ranked 6th in the world in Systems and Software Engineering research.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bth.se/com/com_eng.nsf/pages/top-ranking |title=School of Computing Research Ranking |access-date=2011-12-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111128100510/http://www.bth.se/com/com_eng.nsf/pages/top-ranking |archive-date=2011-11-28 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Admission to graduate programs is among the most competitive in Sweden due to having the highest number of international applicants.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bth.se/com/com_eng.nsf |title=School of Computing |access-date=2010-06-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100702151128/http://www.bth.se/com/com_eng.nsf |archive-date=2010-07-02 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The faculty of the School of Computing consists of 11 full professors and 50 PhD students, among those are high-profile researchers such as
*Claes Wohlin,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bth.se/com/com_eng.nsf/pages/d53469a9ee098556c1256f56003c578c!OpenDocument |title=Awards and visibility |access-date=2010-07-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100721001314/http://www.bth.se/com/com_eng.nsf/pages/d53469a9ee098556c1256f56003c578c!OpenDocument |archive-date=2010-07-21 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*[[Nail H. Ibragimov]], widely{{citation needed|date=May 2018}} regarded as one of the world's foremost experts in the field of symmetry analysis of differential equations.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bth.se/ihn/alga.nsf/pages/8d8fff15fe7d3743c1256ab60034134e!OpenDocument |title=Nail H. Ibragimov Homepage |access-date=2011-02-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110930225251/http://www.bth.se/ihn/alga.nsf/pages/8d8fff15fe7d3743c1256ab60034134e!OpenDocument |archive-date=2011-09-30 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

A [[European Master on Software Engineering]] program is given in collaboration with [[Technical University of Madrid]] (Spain), [[University of Kaiserslautern]] (Germany) and [[Free University of Bozen-Bolzano]] (Italy).<ref>[http://www.bth.se/emse European Master on Software Engineering] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100702164240/http://www.bth.se/emse |date=July 2, 2010 }}</ref>

===Sustainable Development===
The Institute uniquely offers two Masters programs<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.bth.se/ste/tmslm.nsf/pages/other-sustainability-education-at-bth |title=Sustainability Education at BTH |access-date=2013-06-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131205053743/http://www.bth.se/ste/tmslm.nsf/pages/other-sustainability-education-at-bth |archive-date=2013-12-05 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and a PhD program<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.bth.se/ing/spirit.nsf/attachments/General%20Curriculum%20-%20SSD%20-%202013-05-16_pdf/$file/General%20Curriculum%20-%20SSD%20-%202013-05-16.pdf |title=GENERAL CURRICULUM FOR EDUCATION AT RESEARCH LEVEL IN STRATEGIC SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT - 2013-05-16 |access-date=2013-06-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131111140714/https://www.bth.se/ing/spirit.nsf/attachments/General%20Curriculum%20-%20SSD%20-%202013-05-16_pdf/$file/General%20Curriculum%20-%20SSD%20-%202013-05-16.pdf |archive-date=2013-11-11 |url-status=dead }}</ref> in [[Strategic Sustainable Development]] (SSD), a scientifically robust and strategic framework to systematically contribute to [[sustainable development]] through trust-building, purposeful practices. The Blekinge Institute of Technology contributed significantly to the development of [[Strategic Sustainable Development]]. Leading figures of the Scandinavian sustainability movement, such as [[Karl-Henrik Robèrt]], teach and research at the institute. In cooperation with [[Lund University]] the [[Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the Learning Economy]] (CIRCLE) was established in 2004. Today CIRCLE is the largest national research Centre of Excellence by the [[Vinnova|Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems]].<ref>[http://www.circle.lu.se/upload/CIRCLE/ActionPlan.pdf Circle Plan of Action] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717233128/http://www.circle.lu.se/upload/CIRCLE/ActionPlan.pdf |date=2011-07-17 }}</ref>

The latest (2008) report from the Engineering Education for Sustainable Development Observatory ([[EESD-Observatory]]) ranked Blekinge Institute of Technology's programme on [[Strategic Sustainable Development]] as the best among Swedish technical universities and third among the 56 evaluated European universities, with a grade of 8.4 out of 10.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bth.se/ste/tmslm.nsf/pages/c8da93f7eaa7cce8c12575b5004ea785 |title=BTH top ranked regarding Sustainable Development |access-date=2013-05-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160125113644/http://www.bth.se/ste/tmslm.nsf/pages/c8da93f7eaa7cce8c12575b5004ea785 |archive-date=2016-01-25 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Through a planning grant from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), BTH and NJU explored the possibilities for cooperation in the field of sustainable development.

==See also==
* [[ESDP-Network]]
* [[List of universities in Sweden|List of colleges and universities in Sweden]]

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