Study at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Stockholm, Sweden
| Programme details | |
|---|---|
| Degree: | Master (Master) |
| Discipline: |
Health Informatics
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| Duration: | 2 years |
| ECTS points: | 120 |
| Study modes: | full-time |
| Delivery modes: | on-campus |
| University website: | Innovative Technology for Healthy Living (Joint EIT Health) |
The master's programme in Innovative Technology for Healthy Living focuses on technical solutions for wellness and active lifestyles.
Big data obtained by sensors and wearables from regular citizens and professional athletes is translated into contributions to healthy living, boosting public health initiatives and wellness innovations. Graduates are R&D specialists with vital entrepreneurial skills, able to bridge human science, technology and health.
The master's programme in Innovative Technology for Healthy Living is a collaboration between academia, research centres and industry. The programme fosters a new generation of master's graduates with advanced skills and approaches to health-related engineering and innovation.
The programme equips you with the skills to develop technical and business solutions for healthy living and active ageing. Your future work will encourage good health habits in the general population and promote the future wellness of all citizens. A major goal of the programme is to enable future scientists and entrepreneurs to create engineering and business solutions allowing the citizens to monitor and manage their health by being informed and skilled in making wellness-driven choices.
The curriculum includes traditional theoretical and practical training and courses that implement active learning and teaching strategies, team collaboration, aligned teaching, ideation, project management and entrepreneurship skills gained outside the university setting. Challenges within the multidisciplinary areas associated with healthy living and active ageing, and that relate directly to innovation and entrepreneurship, include personalised lifestyle plans. The programme combines advanced scientific education, entrepreneurship training, learning-by-doing pedagogical approach and innovation workshops and round tables.
On successful completion of the programme, the graduates should be able to:
Each student is encouraged to spend their third semester at another university to gain other I&E experience and take courses not available at KTH. For example you might intern at other university's premises or through clinical, SME or industrial placements.
Academic exchange can proceed, but is not limited, to these five highly-ranked partner universities:
Universidade de Lisboa
The master's programme in Innovative Technology for Healthy Living is a collaboration between partners from academia, research centres and industry to create a new generation of students with multidisciplinary research skills capable of translating research outcomes into innovation and entrepreneurship initiatives and business opportunities. Graduates will lead the creation of new devices, services and professions for a healthier Europe.
Keeping in mind that the topic of the final master's degree project is industry and clinically motivated, a natural step further is to explore the commercialisation and business potential of this topic.
Graduates from the programme are qualified to join innovation projects at KI/KTH (for example, We@Work and POSITIVE), and leading industrial companies (for example, Philips, Maquet Critical Care and ContextVision), and have the potential to contribute to, for example, regulatory institutions and governing bodies.
Graduates may also be eligible to continue studies at the doctoral level at KTH or another university worldwide. KTH has a joint PhD programme with Karolinska Institutet (KI), one of the world's foremost medical universities also located in Stockholm.
Visit the website of KTH Royal Institute of Technology to find out how to apply and start your study-abroad adventure in Sweden! 🙌