The patient’s first point of contact

In Swedish primary care, over 36 million health visits are made annually, and more than 10 million of these are visits to nurses. For many patients, nurses are their first, and sometimes only, primary care contact.

Organisational capability for delayed retirement

The purpose of the research project is to investigate and analyse how organizational conditions, processes and norms in the workplace affect individual employees' decisions to extend or not extend the working life.

Weafing

The goal of this project is to develop novel, unprecedented garments for haptic stimulation comprising flexible and wearable textile actuators and sensors, including control electronics, as a new type of textile-based large area electronics.

Waste2Taste - pilot study

This project is about food wastes to fungal products such as animal feed, human food, ethanol etc. The aim of this project is to identify several companies in the region of West Sweden that owns a waste stream suitable for fungi production, want to apply fungus in their process, or have an interest in fungus products such as ethanol, feed or pigment. These companies together with University of Borås and other reseach Institutes and Universities will make a consortium to develop fungal-based biorefineries in the region for developing value-added products from wastes.

Research on water absorption of recycled concrete

The ongoing research at the RE:Concrete lab aims to improve the workability of the concrete produced from recycled concrete aggregates

PhatherTex

PhatherTex: Biobased and biodegradable textiles from bioplastics and feathers

Computational studies of Polymer-water interactions

Creating meaning on the climate crisis

This project examines how Google, Facebook et. al. contribute to creating meaning on the climate crisis. These algorithmic information systems are invisible but omnipresent communication participants in today´s society. They filter, select, and sort information, making decisions about visibility and relevance.

SusTexEdu - Nordic and Baltic Educational Roadmap for sustainability in the Textile and Clothing Sector

The SusTexEdu project investigates in the Nordic and Baltic countries the higher education of textile materials, responsibility and circular economy and how the education answers to the requirements of sustainable development in working life and the EU's carbon neutrality goals. In the project workshops held in each participating country, experts, teachers, students and working life representatives discuss, network and analyze the education.

MedTech West

MedTech West is a network and collaborative platform for research, education, development and evaluation of new biomedical concepts and technologies. We initiate, facilitate and promote increased research collaboration between the health care sector, industry and academia. Our focus is on addressing actual clinical needs in collaboration with relevant clinical staff.