The years 2000 - 2009

2009

• The number who want to study at Luleå University of Technology increases by 500 people
• 200 high school students from across the country visit the University's mini-courses to try out life as a student at Luleå University of Technology.
• Pia Sandvik Wiklund, leaves her post as Vice Chancellor of the university and is replaced in September by Johan Sterte.
• Yukigassen, organized snowball fights in teamformation,  premieres in Sweden. The competition is organized by students at Luleå University of Technology. Swedish championships in the sport for the coming year are planned.
• The division between male and female students at Luleå University of Technology is one of the most evenly in Europe.
• The programme Political and community development starts at Luleå University of Technology.

2008

• LTU get licensing for business degree
• After hard work internally manages the university to reverse the trend and reported positive financial results for the basic training
• University Board decides that a review of educational provision to be implemented
• A model with measures to get students to stay on their programs implemented during the year and gives quick positive results
• A Career Centre is inaugurated at LTU in order to increase students' work-linked and facilitate labor market entry
• A new research center, the Center for High Performance Steel, starts its operations and aims to create new niche products based on high performance steel

2007

• LTU Innovation is established to support the commercialization of ideas from the university
• Bologna adjustment continues and all programs have been partly revised courses
• The number of courses is increasing as a result of the Bologna alignment, master's degrees become bachelor's and master's degrees
• New research and education strategy for 2009-2012 developed
• Management decides on a new strategic map for research and education
• External funding continues to increase
• Total number of students continues to decrease with negative consequences for the economy

2006

• The Master programme in Fire Protection Engineer starts and becomes a huge success with a high number of applications
• Bologna alignment of basic education is taking off and new training and qualification structure introduced
• Centres of Faste Laboratory and Lean Wood Engineering started its activities with funding from Vinnova
• The number admitted to the PhD program will greatly increase, as well as the number of doctorates
• The number of students continues to decrease and new registrations fall by 10%

2005

• The University Board decides to relocate the Department of Health Science to Luleå
• The number of first-choice applications continues to increase. Applications for Master of Engineering courses are 40% higher than in 2004
• The Master’s programme in Architecture is established
• The University’s research in tribology, mining engineering/metallurgy and distributed engineering and other areas is among the most prominent in the world
• New research projects for the year include digital archiving systems of the future and in the field of security analysis
• Work begins on drawing up a new strategy for the University from 2006 to 2011
• Vice-Chancellor Ingegerd Palmér leaves the University and is succeeded in November by Pia Sandvik Wiklund
• The educational program Civil Engineering in ergonomic design &camp; production is selected as "Technology education of the year" by the Swedish Technology Companies association and receives a price of 1.5 MSKR

2004

• A concentrated effort on student recruitment and marketing as a result of the substantial reduction in the number of enrolled students in 2003. The aim is also to strengthen the University’s brand
• A turnaround in the number of first-choice applications. The figures are the highest in the history of the University
• A research centre for rock mechanics and mining engineering, the Hjalmar Lundbohm Research Centre (HLRC), and the Centre for Rock Material Research are set up
• Three new Professorships in media fields are founded
• Kulturuniversitetet changes its name to Popular Science
• Arena Risk &camp; Safety and Arena Space are established

2003

• A major project gets under way to reform the departments’ organisation and the University’s administrative organisation
• The NITS project begins, aimed at drawing up an IT strategy and a new university-wide IT organisation
• Significant drop in the number of students applying for places at the University
• Arena Networks changes its name to Arena Management &camp; Technology in Networks

2002

• Four new media courses and a course in dispensing pharmacy are introduced
• Arena Networks, Arena Innovative Engineering and Business, Arena Global Resources and Arena Lifestyle, Health &camp; Technology are established
• Unitas and the Pedagogue Union join to form Luleå Students’ Union
• Luleå University of Technology becomes the first university in Sweden to be connected to the new nationwide high-speed network Gigasunet

2001

• The University celebrates its 30th anniversary
• The Centre for Information Technology in Construction and Civil Engineering, eBygg, is set up
• The Aurora gallery is opened for art exhibitions
• Arena Media, Music &camp; Technology and Arena Learning are established
• Seven Nobel Prize Laureates visit the University and give open lectures

2000

• MRC (the Mäkitalo Research Center) opens, a new international research centre aimed at developing the distance-bridging mobile services
• Three students from Luleå University of Technology reach the summit of Mont Blanc, 4,807 metres above sea level. They took LTU’s flag with them all the way
• The University Board give the go-ahead for University 2006
• The King of Sweden opens the multimedia studio for distributed engineering, the only one of its kind in existence, on December 6th
• In the budget, the grants to the faculties of arts and sciences are raisd from 11 to 23 million SEK over a three-year-period