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Delayed and more costly Christmas presents for Swedish consumers is one of the consequences of the world’s container crisis. Daniel Ekwall, Professor of Textile Management, explains the situation.

The University of Borås is the node in a new EU project within Resource Recovery. The purpose of the project is to create and promote collaboration and the exchange of knowledge among Eur...

In September, the final round of the prestigious Dorothy Waxman Textile Design Prize competition took place. Three of the finalists came from the Swedish Sc...

The textile and fashion industry faces a large number of significant challenges. Opportunities for global collaborations in which innovations, different ways of ...

Long-term pain is perhaps the single most important factor that reduces quality of life for older people. New technology based on therapeutic smart textiles can make it easier to manage pain. ...

Last week, new exchange students from the East African School of Library and Information Science (EASLIS) at Makerere University in Uganda were welcomed to the University of ...

In her doctoral research, Rebecca Gmoser has investigated how fungi can be used to refine residual and waste products. The result is natural pigments and sustainable animal feed and food products.

What happens if a future employer reads your old posts on Facebook? A new study sheds light on how members of a private Facebook group relate to the risks involved in posting under their own names.

Region Västra Götaland has announced that students who received their first dose of a vaccine against COVID-19 in another region will be able to book an appointment for their second dos...

A garment that perceives the environment, translates it to a special language, and communicates the information to the user with vibrations: that is the fantastic result of the resea...

The lack of clean drinking water and the release of toxic wastewater into the environment are some of our biggest global problems. At the same time, the purification process is often complicated, expensiv...

How do young people use social media to present their identity? That question is addressed in a new doctoral thesis by Amira Sofie Sandin, doctoral student and lecturer in Library and Information Science, w...

The European Commission has approved the application from the University of Borås for the award "HR Excellence in Research.

The research group in Industrial Engineering and Management has received a donation of a graphics card from the company Nvidia Corporation. The graphics card has a large computing capacity and is used i...

On Friday, 4 June, the most digital EXIT ever was held! This year, students in Textile and Fashion Design at the Swedish School of Textiles presented their degree projects digitally – but there were no co...