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University of Gothenburg
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Some features:
• The city University – almost all parts of the University are
situated in central Gothenburg.
• Arvid Carlsson – Nobel Prize winner in Medicine in 2000
• Around 20 of the University’s programmes are ranked in the
top 5 in the country in their areas (Swedish National Agency
for Higher Education assessments).
• A clear presence in the city and region, for example through
lectures and other events open to the public. This earned us a
pro-democracy award from the Swedish National Agency for
Higher Education in 2005.
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Many colleges became a university
1891
1949
1954
1967
1971
1977
Gothenburg University College opened
Gothenburg Medical School opened
Gothenburg University College and Gothenburg
Medical School became the University of
Gothenburg
Faculty of Odontology was established
The School of Business, Economics & Law
became part of the University of Gothenburg
Several independent teacher training institutions
became part of the University
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Five profile areas:
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Health
Culture
Environment
Democracy and Social Development
Knowledge Formation and Learning
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Strong research environments – some
examples:
• LinCS (The Linnaeus Centre for Research on Learning,
Interaction and Mediated Communication in Contemporary
Society)
• Marine research
• Department of Political Science: voters and elections, political
institutions
• Odontology – world-leading research in its field. Close
collaboration with the public dental care provider
Folktandvården Västra Götaland.
• Epilife – Gothenburg Center for Epidemiologic Studies on
Mental and Physical Health Interacting over the Lifecourse
• Obesity research – brain mechanisms, nutrition, prevention
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Research in numbers:
• 1 990 active doctoral students
• 292 newly enrolled doctoral students
• 307 doctoral degrees
• 30 licentiate (midway doctoral) degrees
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Priority research areas
1. Patient-centred research on heart and
vascular disease including obesity,
biomaterial and vaccine
2. Learning
3. Language technology
4. Democracy and opinion
5. Marine ecology
6. Cultural heritage
7. Globalisation
8. Culture and health
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Education at first- and second-cycle level
• 39 000 students
• 27 411 full-time equivalents
• 22 475 annual performance equivalents
• 150 programmes
• 2 500 courses
• 5 437 degrees awarded in 2009
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Cooperation
• Dialogue forum – where politicians and researchers meet to
discuss current research issues.
• GU Holding – promotes the utilisation of research results from
the University of Gothenburg. Has invested 70 million SEK in
55 new business ideas.
• Students engaged in for example placements and degree
projects, industry-employed doctoral students etc.
• Private/public sectors participate in the educational process by
providing lectures, serving as mentors and supervisors,
participating in seminars etc.
• Private/public sectors participate in research projects
• 12 000 alumni – can strengthen the quality, development and
professional relevance of the University’s education
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Popular science
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Dialogue forums with politicians
Networking with the University – good for business
Jonsered Manor
Almedalen
Popular science programme – concerts, lectures,
exhibitions
The International Science Festival in Gothenburg
The Alltinget radio show
The Grundtvig Institute
The research magazine GUspegeln
Research blogs
University TV
“Academic quarters” at the Bokia bookstore
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Centres of expertise and research – some
examples
• The Sven Lovén Centre for Marine Sciences
• Centre for European Research at the University of Gothenburg
(CERGU)
• Centre for Environment and Sustainability – GMV
• The Swedish NMR Centre
• The SOM Institute
• NORDICOM
• Göteborg Organ Art Centre – GOArt
• Centre for Finance
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Cooperation across faculty boundaries
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CEFOS – research on the public sector
Museion
National Center for Mathematics Education
NORDICOM – Nordic Information Center for Media and
Communication Research
Centrum för tvärvetenskaplig forskning om funktionshinder
(centre for interdisciplinary disability research)
CFK – Centre for Consumer Science
Centrum för arbetsvetenskap
Genusforskning
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For the sake of sustainable development
• The University of Gothenburg works actively to introduce the concept of
sustainable development into the educational process in all disciplines.
• Cutting-edge research in the field of environmental economics
• Environmentally certified according to ISO 14001 and EMAS
• Environmental research in a ’popular science’ manner at the environmental
web portal – miljoportalen.se
• A large share of Sweden’s environmental and sustainable development
research is conducted in Gothenburg
• The Centre for Environment and Sustainability, GMV, where more than 400
researchers from a range of departments cooperate for the sake of
sustainable development
• Environment and Health is an interdisciplinary graduate school that
develops products and strategies for environment-related health problems
• Over 350 courses and more than 30 programmes that address the topic of
sustainable development
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Finances – revenues
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Revenues in SEK
5 165 million SEK in total, of which
3 518 million SEK in direct government funding
1 647 million SEK in external/other revenues
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Revenues in percent
Direct government funding
Fees and remunerations
Contributions
Financial revenues
66 %
10 %
24 %
4%
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Finances – expenditures
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Expenditures in SEK
4 785 million SEK in total, of which
2 817 million SEK in personnel costs
616 million SEK in costs of premises
1 162 million SEK in other operating costs
190 million SEK in capital costs
Expenditures in percent
Personnel costs
59 %
Costs of premises
13 %
Other operating costs
24 %
Capital costs
4%
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University of Gothenburg
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Where research and education meet
Open minds, open doors
Midtown – midstream
Many disciplines in creative interaction
Committed to a sustainable society
A major European university
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University staff
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5 700 employees
4 978 full-time employees, of which
2 628 are teachers/researchers/doctoral students
477 are professors and
1 873 are administrative/technical personnel
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Currently in progress
• Red 10 – evaluation of the University’s
research
• Blue 11 – review of the University’s
academic programmes
• Strategies for research and education
2009 – 2012
• Plan for 2011 – 2012
• Long-term strategy: Vision 2020.
University of Gothenburg 2013 – 2020
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It is the University’s ambition to...
• Support the commercialisation of ideas and research results
from the University of Gothenburg.
• Develop an organisational structure that facilitates further
improvement of the University’s research and education.
• Achieve more and better interdisciplinary collaborations
• Increase cooperation with business, industry, public sector,
alumni etc.
• Increase cooperation with Chalmers University of Technology
• Promote sustainable development.
• Increase the share of the underrepresented gender in
connection with hiring of new staff members.
• Increase the share of students at the advanced level.
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Compared with other higher education
institutions…
• We advanced in Times Higher Education’s yearly ranking
of universities, from 258th to 185th place. Another four
Swedish universities placed in the top 200.
• The University of Gothenburg and Linköping University
were awarded the highest grade in the Swedish National
Agency for Higher Education’s assessment of the quality
control work conducted at Sweden’s six large universities.
• The study ‘Best Green University Practice’ carried out at
the University of Oslo placed the University of Gothenburg
as number one.
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Internationalisation
• The University of Gothenburg shall promote a clear
international profile, and the international perspective shall be
considered in all research and education.
• The University of Gothenburg shall actively promote
international recruitments of researchers and teachers.
• There are currently 2 300 international collaboration projects in
progress.
• The University networks the most with partners in Germany,
France, the U.K., Spain, Italy and the Netherlands.
• Cooperation agreements with 320 universities linked to the
large European student exchange programme Erasmus.
• Outside Europe, the University networks the most with
partners in the U.S., Australia, Japan, Canada and Russia.
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Gothenburg University Library
• Seven libraries (Central Library,
Biomedical Library, Botanical and
Environmental Library, Economics Library,
Earth Sciences Library, Education Library,
Undergraduate and Newspaper Library)
• E-books and e-journals. E-loans are now
more common than loans of printed
material.
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Eight Faculties
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Sahlgrenska Academy
Faculty of Science
Faculty of Social Sciences
Faculty of Arts
School of Business, Economics and Law
Faculty of Education
Faculty of Fine, Applied & Performing Arts
IT Faculty
Board of Teacher Education – LUN
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Central administration
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Human Resources
Analysis and Evaluation
The Vice-Chancellor’s Office
Division of Buildings and Services
IT-service
Office of the CIO
The Environmental Unit
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