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A year ago, Maria Brovall began her role as a professor of caring science at the University of Borås. Caring for cancer patients, particularly those with breast cancer, has bee...

From 2025, municipalities will be required to collect and manage large volumes of textiles, following the EU's new waste directive. The project "Remake Textile" is preparing for this b...

The health sector faces major challenges in meeting the growing need for care in society as more and more people grow older. Emergency care is one of the areas under constant...

A new project at the Swedish School of Textiles, University of Borås, aims to educate women and increase the number of women in leadership positions within the textile industry. With more women in...

In a research project at the Swedish School of Textiles at the University of Borås, wet spinning of fungal cell wall material has shown promising results. In the project, fungi were grown on bread waste to produce textile fibe...

The Borås region will have even more and better opportunities for companies, researchers, and students to collaborate. Last week, Techarena Borås was visited by colleagues at the Queensland Universi...

The music is pulsing in the Borås Congress Centre. It's packed. The audience sits opposite each other in a square so that an aisle is formed between them. The models will soon come out dressed in the graduating st...

Circular business models are often promoted as the solution to an unsustainable fashion industry. An important nut to crack is how these models can be scaled up – something that re...

From Dior to Borås. The Swedish School of Textiles at the University of Borås will be the first higher education institution ever to design and develop a new collection of guide clot...

Half Swedish, half another nationality? How do young people identify themselves today? This is now highlighted by a study within the research project "The Whole School: School and social service-ba...

Recently, the conference Dialogical Bodies was held at the Swedish School of Textiles at the University of Borås. It was an interactive conference focusing on artistic research.

Juliana Aristéia de Lima, researcher at RISE and a new Associate Professor of Polymer Technology at the University of Borås, wants to connect the research groups in polymer te...

His main research area was initially automation and data analysis, but later he became interested in artificial intelligence. Now he wants to promote sustainability and digitalisation i...

His keen interest in technology and flair for business took him on an amazing journey among the greats of the business world. In recent years, he has been focusing on get...

Ingvar Carlsson has been appointed Honorary Doctor of Library and Information Science at the University of Borås. He is as forthright and determined today as when he held the post of P...