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The university’s research stems from six prioritised areas which are based on the needs of the educations as well as the surrounding society.

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Library and Information Science Business and IT The Human Perspective in Care Pedagogical Work Resource Recovery Textiles and Fashion

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2020-10-27

Unique study of publications in questionable journals

Between 2012 and 2017, researchers at Swedish universities published 1,743 articles in disreputable or predatory journals. Gustaf Nelhans, Senior Lecturer in Library and Information Science at the...

2020-10-21

How algorithms can help the clothing industry

Can big data and artificial intelligence (AI) improve the clothing industry's value chains, adapt products to customer needs, and help the industry keep up with how customer needs are evolving? Sheenam Jain,...

2020-10-20

New method can help industry choose the best location for production

The manufacturing industry is facing difficult decisions when it comes to living up to various sustainability goals and at the same time maintaining profitability. A new method has now...

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EU – Horizon 2020

This is currently the biggest EU Research and Innovation programme. The University of Borås participates in several of the projects. Read more.

Friday 30 October

10:00 13:00

Public defence of thesis: Lukitawesa

Welcome when Lukitawesa defends his doctoral thesis within Resource Recovery with the title: Methane and Volatile Fatty Acids Production from Toxic Substrate Link to the thesis: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:s...

Friday 6 November

10:00 12:00

Seminarium

Licentiate seminar: Anette Jansson

Welcome when Anette Jansson, doctoral student at Linnaeus University, presents her licentiate thesis within chemical engineering with the title: Dry Anaerobic Digestion of Food and Paper Industry Wastes- Effects of...

Monday 9 November

14:30 16:00

Seminar: Time and information – A research agenda for LIS

Jutta Haider, Veronica Johansson & Björn Hammarfelt What is time? And why is it interesting to think about information in relation to time? Time forms one of the most fundamental structuring...

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