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Malmö University | SE

Malmö University (MAU) is a public university located in south of Sweden. With over 24,000 students the university is one of the larger research institutes in the country. MAU was initially founded as a university college and gained full status as university as of 2018. A main research environment at MAU is urban studies: the university has a large urban studies department with graduate and postgraduate education as well as a university-wide research centre (IUR) that brings together all urban research at MAU. Among the research foci at the department and IUR are housing, urban ecology, and environmental studies.

MAU contributes to PREFIGURE with expertise and case studies from Scandinavia and specifically the Öresund region. MAU will also, together with BBSR, lead the analysis of European, national, and local dynamic of the housing and energy transition by coordinating the collection of qualitative and quantitative data across seven European countries.