Göteborg University has approximatly 50,000 students and 5,000 employees. It is the largest university in Scandinavia. With its eight faculties and approximately sixty departments, Göteborg University is also the most wide-ranging and versatile university in Sweden, offering unique opportunities for cooperation and development.

The distinctive characteristic of university education at Göteborg University is the close interaction between teaching and research. Students are kept informed of the latest developments in the field they are studying and researchers gain inspiration from their students expectations and needs. At Göteborg University research and teaching are regarded as equally important, and there is ongoing pedagogical development work.

In an international perspective too, Göteborg University is unusually comprehensive, with cutting-edge research in a number of dynamic research areas. Cooperation with Chalmers University of Technology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, society at large and trade and industry has been consistently strengthened and intensified over recent years, as have international contacts and collaborative projects with partners abroad.

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Unique in width and depth
The Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts offers undergraduate and postgraduate education, as well as pursues research and artistic development work in a broad spectrum of disciplines. This breadth and depth makes the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts unique in Europe.

Extensive programmes of exhibitions and concerts
The collaboration with other organisations, authorities, centres of learning and businesses is equally unrivalled and can be seen at all levels, regional, national and international. The Faculty’s work on design and free art, boundary-crossing photography and film directing, regular exhibitions of painting, craft, sculpture and applied art, for instance, has received much attention.

An extensive programme of concerts, symphony orchestras, chamber ensembles, jazz groups, theatre, musical and opera performances and literary events are further examples of boundary-crossing collaboration.
Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts is also involved in international exchange with other universities. Examples include a research project in music pedagogy in South Africa, Palestine, and East Africa and digital development in the visual arts in Russia.