Malmö University's strategy 2030
Our community and place
Our University will be inclusive and open to the world around us, at a local, regional, national and international level. The University will offer places to work, learn and meet in which staff and students can develop and contribute with their knowledge and commitment. Our community and place in the world will continue to develop through academic values, collegiality, cooperation, innovation, and culture.
Priorities 2026-2030
- To safeguard academic freedom at our University, in Sweden and globally and, in collaboration with others, strengthen the role of universities through open, critical and research-based dialogues on the challenges we are facing
- To strengthen an academic identity and sense of community among staff and students and create well-designed, creative and inclusive places to work, learn and meet
- To ensure a good work environment for staff and students through systematic management of the factors that promote good health
- To develop strategic recruitment and create clear and gender equal career paths by focusing on the provision of skills, career development positions, as well as positions for senior lecturers and professors, and professional development
Our education
At our University, education and research will be inseparable and mutually enriching. We will offer diverse and societally relevant programmes and courses of the highest quality and strive for excellence. We will equip our students for the labour market of the future and lifelong learning with in-depth subject knowledge, the ability to think critically and the wider skills that enable them to engage as active citizens (bildning). Education will continue to develop through its basis in research, teaching and learning in higher education, internationalisation, collaboration and innovation.
Priorities 2026-2030
- To strengthen the research basis of education and its development by close interaction between education, research and wider society, increasing the proportion of students pursuing second-cycle programmes and supporting student participation in research projects
- To integrate internationalisation into education through active participation in strategic international collaborations, increased student and teacher mobility, additional courses taught in English, and English-language elements in all programmes.
- To strengthen integrated student influence and active student engagement by developing the joint quality assurance processes, actively supporting the work of the student unions, and creating places to meet and interact
- To support widened recruitment and widened participation by anchoring our education to students’ future careers, and providing pedagogy and support to strengthen their academic literacy and subject knowledge
- To further work on digitalisation and AI in education through critical, responsible and innovative approaches and methods
Our research and doctoral education
At our University, education and research will be inseparable and mutually enriching. We will offer diverse research and doctoral education of the highest quality and with significant scientific and societal impact and strive for excellence. Research and doctoral education will continue to develop through multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research environments, internationalisation, open science, collaboration and innovation.
Priorities 2026-2030
- To increase the extent and impact of research through increased external funding, scientific publication, research infrastructure and communication, collaboration and innovation, in national and international contexts
- To work to ensure that all research and teaching staff are part of creative and inclusive research environments through strengthened research leadership and a focus on academic citizenship
- To integrate internationalisation into research and doctoral education through active participation in strategic international collaborations, increased international recruitment, more international research collaborations and increased mobility of doctoral students and researchers
- To strengthen doctoral education through collaboration between subject areas, faculties, higher education institutions, and partners outside academia, in national and international contexts
- To further work on digitalisation and AI in research and doctoral education through critical, responsible and innovative approaches and methods
