SWEDEN: Mälardalen University and Alstom have renewed a long-standing strategic partnership for collaborative research and education.
This is designed to provide students with early contact with industry, professionals with lifelong learning and to enable insights from research to be applied in industrial environments.
‘To ensure the continued competitiveness of the Swedish industry, we must sustain strong core capabilities while also creating conditions to work in an agile way and build competencies in such areas as AI, cybersecurity or circular design’, said Maria Signal Martebo, Managing Director of Alstom in Sweden, on February 20. ‘The strategic partnership with MDU contributes in helping us move fast. With a continuous flow of new talent, a growing portfolio of joint research projects and employees participating in lifelong learning programmes, this collaboration delivers clear strengths.’
MDU Vice-Chancellor Martin Hellström said the collaboration ‘is a clear example of how academia and industry strengthen one another. By working closely with a world-leading company in railway technology, the university’s students and researchers gain access to concrete applications in areas such as embedded systems, software development and production engineering. This provides unique opportunities to develop relevant competencies, ensure that our programmes remain aligned with industry needs and translate research into practice.’
