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Is it enough for children to spend time in a stimulating environment where people are talking and reading, or can even more structured support i...

On 10 November, the Swedish School of Library and Information Science celebrates its 50th anniversary. In 1972, five years before the University of Borås was founded, the Swedish School of Libr...

A new process for digital printing on textiles, developed within a research project at the University of Borås, can now be an important part of the solution for the textile industry...

Last week, researchers from France and Sweden gathered at the Textile Fashion Center for two days of lectures and discussions, networking and tackling this year's theme, Textiles – Designing the f...

Last week, the Swedish School of Textiles launched a new hub for sustainable textile production – the Swedish Textile Machine Expo.

Swedish hemp could replace fibreglass insulation or oil-based textiles in cars. “By using industrial hemp, we can actually earn money for something that would otherwise be thrown away, and t...

Over a six-year period, all environments and programmes at the university will be evaluated. At the moment, the evaluation model for quality assurance work in education...

During the science festival ForskarFredag, or Researchers’ Friday in English, students from all over Sweden met a researcher from the University of Borås, and unsuspecting customers at ICA...

The market for collecting personal information online is growing and people can have different reactions to this. For companies and businesses that do not take p...

Last spring, a new research project was launched – DigiSmartTech. The project is a European collaboration between academia and industry to innovate textile education using digital technologies.

Equality, democratisation, and social inclusion: those are the goals of the EU project MuseIT. In the project, new technology and methods will facilitate and enable access t...

Collaboration with the business community is important to the University of Borås. In the Knitting Technology Lab at the Swedish School of Textiles, the vehicle comp...

What is the most suitable place for production and how do you get the most sustainable supply chain? What factors influence these decisions? These are questions ...

The university is launching a new research centre, INCLUDE, for research on inclusion and accessibility. This idea came about in con...

Does the design of food packaging play a role in consumers’ waste sorting behaviour? Yes, that's what has been shown in a new doctoral thesis, recently presented at the University of Bor...