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<DIV>GREXTE/ FCTUC<BR>Helena Azevedo Mendes</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----
<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=Elena.Vinci-Hytter@vxu.se href="mailto:Elena.Vinci-Hytter@vxu.se">Elena
Vinci-Hytter</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Friday, April 21, 2006 3:50 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Växjö University, Sweden, is searching new partner
universities</DIV></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #384a94; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"
face="Times New Roman" color=#384a94 size=+0>Dear Colleagues,<BR>My name is
Elena Vinci Hytter and I work as international coordinator at the School of
Technology and Design at Växjö University, Sweden.<BR><BR></FONT>
<DIV align=center><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; COLOR: #384a94; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"
face="Times New Roman" color=#384a94 size=+1><B>The School of Technology and
Design at Växjö University is looking for new partners <BR></B>at undergraduate
(mainly advanced) level for students' and teachers' exchange
(Socrates/Erasmus).</FONT><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #384a94; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"
face="Times New Roman" color=#384a94 size=+0><BR></FONT></DIV><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #384a94; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"
face="Times New Roman" color=#384a94 size=+0><BR>The School consists of 7
departments and the administration. We are about 120 people employed and educate
750 full-time students per year. <BR>The research is carried out with close
collaboration with the south Swedish corporations. <BR>The School of Tehnology
and Design is located at Campus and the main part of our activities take place
in the largest modern wooden house in Northern Europe: 11 400 square meters, the
“M-house”, or “Trähuset” as it is called in Swedish.<BR><B><BR>Expertice
offered: </B><BR><B>Bioenergy: </B>As a part of the School of Technology and
Design we carry out research in the area of Bioenergy technology. The group
consists of 15 people. Close to our research we run the undergraduate programme
in Bioenergy Engineering. It is a new education which brings the Universities
profile even further in the field of environmental concern.
<BR><BR><B>Chemistry:</B> We are about 15 people that work with undergraduate
education, alongside with our research. The department has a clear technological
approach. We also educate teachers in elementary school and high school in the
line of Chemistry, the teachers in preschool has possibilities to educate
themselves with us. The department works closely together with the Institute of
Glass Research that gives us unique competence in the Glass area. As far as the
undergraduate education is concerned we offer an engineering programme as well
as teachers training, and a 1-year Glass Design programme. In the fall of 2006
we start a new programme, that is an engineering programme in material
technique, focusing on Glass.<BR><BR><B>Forest and Wood Technology: </B>At the
moment a distinctive research endeavour is carried out in the area of Forest and
Wood Technology. Education and research is directed in four areas: The forest,
Wood as material, Construction and manufacturing, Economics/market and
trade.<BR>Research together with education forms Växjö University to a Wood
technological centre that is a gathering position for research, industry and the
general public in tasks regarding the forest-, wood- and construction industry.
~ <BR>The region around Växjö is one of Europe’s most important areas concerning
forestry and forest industry. Forest and Wood technology at Växjö University
works with a wide scientific area. Including the whole chain from forest to
manufactured products and the development of new wood products for construction
and interiors. <BR>The department educates engineers in the areas of forest,
wood and civil engineering. The programmes are three to four years and starts of
each autumn. We also give popular courses in the forest area via
Internet.<BR><BR><B>Mechanical Engineering:</B> At the department we have
started the important work of developing the research area Heavy Vehicles. It is
in close teamwork with the industry that the project has been launched and
started to move rapidly. <BR>We educate engineers and technicians that are
offered to spend a part of their education in some other country of their
interest. This is a way to make them fit for a future on a global industry. We
are proud to offer the possibility to study all the way to a master’s degree in
Mechanical Engineering. Three under graduate programmes are offered by the
department, in cooperation with the department of Design, and the School of
management and economics. We develop courses for international
students.<BR><BR><B>Terotechnology (Systems Engineering): </B>Terotechnology is
often met by a question –What is that? And we will try to describe the term. In
Swedish the name is “Systemekonomi” which if it were translated directly would
be System economics. But this subject is more multifaceted than just economics
even if that is, in the end, what it is about. We say that our students learn
how to take a product from raw material to trade in a proficient way. To do that
you need to know about economics, technology, people (workforce), mathematics
and computer science, al with focus on the companies production systems.
Together with those fundamentals they need to know logistics, product
development, project management and more, altogether this is Terotechnology.
<BR><BR>Within Fall 2007 we will start courses in English within Design and
Civil Engineering.<BR><BR><B>Expertice sought: </B><BR>Our School of Technology
and Design is looking for new partners in the above mentioned fields of
Engineering at an undergraduate level for students and teachers’ European
exchanges.<BR><BR>We would be very interested in establishing contacts with
European Universities in order to initiate Socrates actions like an Erasmus
programme which would include an exchange of teachers and students.<BR><BR>I
enclose to this message a publication containing the courses in English offered
at our School. <BR>For further information and interest in starting a
cooperation, please contact me!<BR><BR>With my best
regards,<BR>Elena<BR>_____________________________<BR>Elena Vinci
Hytter<BR>International coordinator<BR>School of Technology and
Design<BR><BR>Växjö University<BR>SE-351 95 Växjö<BR>Sweden<BR>Tel: +46
(0)470-70 81 53<BR>Mob: +46 (0)708-72 79 39<BR>Fax: +46 (0)470-76 85
40<BR>E-mail: <A
href="mailto:elena.vinci-hytter@vxu.se">elena.vinci-hytter@vxu.se</A><BR><BR><BR>Links:<BR>School
of Technology and Design: <A href="http://www.vxu.se/td/english/"
target=_blank>http://www.vxu.se/td/english/</A><BR>Växjö University: <A
href="http://www.vxu.se/english/"
target=_blank>http://www.vxu.se/english/</A><BR><BR></FONT></BODY></HTML>