Qian Jiang, master student in industrial design at Lund University, received the honour of Global Swede.
Photo: Archive/Thobias Bergström.
Global Swede is an award that is given by the Swedish Institute in cooperation with the Ministry of Enterprise and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to a foreign student that has studied entrepreneurship or innovation in Sweden. This year, it was Qian Jiang, who studies a master’s programme in industrial design at Lund University that received the award.
“It feels very surprising and exciting. It is special to receive such an award”, says Qian Jiang, who is originally from China.
Shared Knowledge
The purpose with the award is to encourage students to be good ambassadors for higher education in Sweden. Jiang, together with twenty other foreign students from other seats of learning in Sweden, received the award during a ceremony in Stockholm last week.
“It was fun to meet the others and share knowledge and experiences from what you have studied. Now, I feel that I want to develop a project which relates to the Swedish culture and Sweden”, says Qian Jiang.
Time for Freelance Projects
Right now, Qian Jiang works as an industrial designer for Electrolux through the company Semcon. He also gives advices to entrepreneur students at the University who are writing their papers. Furthermore, he has several own freelance projects in furniture design underway. The autumn of 2013 he designed glass lamps.
“What is so good about Sweden is that you can work fulltime and still have time for your hobbies, which in my case is to develop these projects”, says Qian Jiang.
Text: Carl-Johan Kullving
Translation: Viktor Jönsson
