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The recruitment of international students and researchers has become critical for Swedish organizations. This is due to the growing need for competent talent mostly in knowledge-intensive industries. However, the vast majority of competent international talent leave Sweden after finishing their studies.

What is Switch to Sweden?

Explore, learn and find your perfect match!

In Switch to Sweden, we focus to improve the match between international academic talent with companies based in Sweden. 

 

Why is this our main goal?

The constant growth of tech industries has created a new challenge: Attracting and retaining talent mostly in knowledge-intensive industries. By 2024 more than 70.000 people will be required to work in tech industries making this challenge critical for the business development of Swedish industries. 

 

Today, we want to make that change

We invite all Swedish companies and international academic talent to take the first step, meet and learn from one another. Connect, expand your network and create new relationships based on talent skills.

 

Get onboard and let the AI magic tool be your matchmaker

Before meeting your perfect match, we can help you out by learning how to get prepared to give a great first impression. Both companies and international talents that would like to fine-tune their talent skills can do so by sharing all the good things they can bring to the table.

Then our powered-AI matchmaking tool will do the rest of the work and suggest who you could meet to explore future collaborations.

News within Switch to Sweden

Save the Date – 16 oktober

26 March, 2024

International matchmaking at the Sweden Innovation Days

13 March, 2024

Bridging Academia to Industry: Marie Curie Fellow Mujtaba Hassan Embarks on a New Chapter in the Biotech Industry in Sweden

8 March, 2024

Turning challenges into solutions and how to navigate the Swedish tech market

7 March, 2024

Acorai’s Ongoing Success Story: Bridging the Gap Between Academia and Business Through Marie Curie Fellows

22 February, 2024

A Perfect Match: MIMSI Materials Expands Team through Switch to Sweden Matchmaking

13 February, 2024

Read the International Talent Map Report!

12 December, 2023

Succékväll på Science Park by Night 2023

31 October, 2023

Switch to Sweden – A halftime review

26 October, 2023

Science Park by night: En upptäcktsresa i Linköping Science Park

23 October, 2023

Brilliant Mentors of the Future: apply to our reversed mentorship program!

26 September, 2023

Internationella talanger leder till ökad tillväxt!

3 July, 2023

Summer Party of 2023

29 June, 2023

“Om du vill förändra världen måste du tro på vad du gör!”

25 June, 2023

Softube får nya perspektiv med hjälp av internationella talanger

16 June, 2023

Dazoq drar sig inte för att rekrytera internationella talanger!

7 June, 2023

Acorai arbetar framgångsrikt med specialiserade internationella talanger

25 May, 2023

Switch to Sweden is launching a European benchmark study on international talents and companies!

28 April, 2023

Introducing our AI-powered chatbot to help newcomers in Sweden

6 April, 2023

MSCA Fellow Johannes Gladisch was successfully matched with a med-tech company in Sweden

30 March, 2023

Dazoq: “If you don’t get hired, start your own company!”

24 March, 2023

Switching career paths: A physicist’s journey from academia to private industry

15 March, 2023

Grafren: “If you want to change the world, you have to be a believer”

8 March, 2023

Softube: Working successfully with international talent

1 March, 2023

Switch to Sweden - improve the match between highly skilled international talent and Swedish organizations

These are the main objectives of the three-year project that works as a facilitator and enabler between Swedish organizations and international talent.

 

  1. Carry out analyses of needs and opportunities to increase the successful matches between international talents and Swedish organizations.

 

  1. Promote the AI matchmaking tool and further develop it, for qualified matches between international talent and Swedish employers including business, public sector, and research institutes.

 

  1. Develop a soft transit program to source cutting-edge expertise from international businesses and drive innovation in Swedish companies. At the same time, the creation of a “plug and play” activity between international organizations and Swedish companies will be made.

 

Main activities

These are specific efforts for the continuous improvement of matches between international talent and Swedish organizations. Each activity has the capacity to be scaled from a regional to a national level on the following focused areas:

Research, analysis, and information dissemination

Mapping and research of international talents’ needs located in Sweden mostly from the knowledge-based sector. 

Mapping and research of the business community and employers’ needs in their recruitment of international talents.

Communicating and sharing of main findings and results with all the interested parties, collaborators, and main project stakeholders.

AI matchmaking tool development

Connect academia, international talent, and the business community actively and engagingly to share knowledge and create potential collaborations.

Facilitate encounters and network processes between talents and companies.

Soft landing and transit

Facilitate the innovative collaboration among international and national businesses during knowledge-exchange activities from visiting companies or talent during specific periods of time.

Invite regions to learn best practices and develop strategic programs in order to ensure the supply of skills of international talent for limited time periods.

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Global goals contribution

Some of the 17 global goals in the 2030 agenda are of greater importance in this project:

Goal 8:

Promote sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all

Increasing the working conditions opportunities for a greater scope of talent that currently is not being employed in the country, even with high demand for talent supply.

 

Goal 9:

Sustainable industry, innovations, and infrastructure

With adequate talent in innovative industries, the sustainable development of new infrastructures and technologies can be possible.

 

Goal 10:

Reducing inequality

By using AI in a matchmaking tool, there are opportunities to work with an equal and equal match. In the tool, participating talents and companies will also be able to choose which goals best suit their values. With this, we can match talent and business around certain challenges and work together for solutions.

 

Goal 17:

Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development

The importance of collaboration between diverse organizations, industries from a local to a national and international level is key to supporting the business sustainable ecosystem in Sweden. 

 

Switch to Sweden in numbers so far

More than 80 international candidates have participated

More than 16 successful matches between candidates and companies have been made

More than 10 candidates have continued in a recruitment process

Anna Broeders

Contact

Anna Broeders, Project leader

anna.broeders@linkopingsciencepark.se
+46(0)725-74 37 00

Switch to Sweden is a project funded by Vinnova

Vinnova is Sweden’s innovation agency. They help to build Sweden’s innovation capacity, contributing to sustainable growth. Their vision is that Sweden is an innovative force in a sustainable world.
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