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Gustaf Nelhans, Senior Lecturer at the Swedish School of Library and Information Science, has been selected as an expert in the National Library of Sweden’s reference group for work with the government's mis...

The Department of Information Technology at the University of Borås has a lot to celebrate! Both the Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth and Region Västra Götaland are granting i...

Smart textiles that can monitor the wearer's health and be used in the home have great potential to benefit society. This is the conclusion made by the Royal Swedish Academy of...

Innovation, collaboration, and… patience! The international conference “Leading the Transition to a Circular Textile Fashion Industry” set the agenda for the continued journey towards a...

On Friday, the university celebrated its Academic Ceremony with pomp and circumstance!

The climate students' (In Swedish Klimatstudenterna) annual ranking has arrived, and the University of Borås is in third place.

Tuser Biswas conducts research that aims to develop modern medical textiles that are good for both the environment and human health. Textiles with antimicrobial properties could reduce the use of antib...

With the research group Language and Literature Didactics (or SPLITT for its Swedish name, Språk- och Litteraturdidaktik), the University of Borås brings together r...

Ever since she became involved in the European network ArcInTexETN, textile artist Eglė Ganda Bogdanienė has played an important role in the university's internationalisation in the field of ...

We must move away from the mentality of seeing clothes as disposable and we must increase the skills within the textile industry – that is what the recently appointed honorary doctor Anne ...

Elisa Tattersall Wallin, Senior Lecturer at the Swedish School of Library and Information Science, was first runner-up for the iSchools prestigious “Doctoral Dissertation Award” in her...

Sawmills generate large amounts of by-products that are today considered to have a low value. Through a new process, these residual materials can become raw materials for valuable bio products,...

The university's successful research on fungi has now reached another milestone. A company will now use the findings to produce a completely new meat alternative. The hope is to see...

Food waste is a big problem, both in Sweden and in other countries. But what are we actually throwing away and why? A new research project at the University of Borås, Sweden, gets to th...

The 2022 Annual Report is here and when the year has been summed up, it is clear that the University of Borås is a high-profile and very strong university that contributes to ...