The University of Skövde is a relatively young university, offering a range of subjects traditionally taught at universities as well as unique study programmes in a large number of fields. Many of our programmes combine several fields of study and the result is something quite new and exciting. Research at the University of Skövde The University of Skövde is one of the most profiled Universities in Sweden. We have decided to concentrate our efforts and resources on three research areas. By doing so, we can provide specialized, competitive research and highly skilled researchers to our partners within industry, academia and society in general. The University of Skövde has a strong research focus on the development and use of advanced software systems for a variety of applications. Within this general focus we have specialized in three important research areas: one with a focus on the core of information technology itself, and its development and use, and two characterized by extensive use of information technology for analysis, modelling and simulation. A guiding principle for choosing these particular areas has been to identify an external need for each of them. The research is conducted at our three research centres: * Informatics * System Biology * Virtual Engineering * Health and Learning * Entreprises for the future The research centres are made up of several research groups within related sub-areas who cooperate on research projects and research education. The University of Skövde aims to not only produce high quality research, but to provide research findings in a form that easily benefits our partners. We work closely with our partners, and often provide a demonstrator as a complement to a more theoretical result. We also supervise industrial PhD students employed by companies, which enables us to optimise the knowledge transfer between us and our partners.