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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 ...

Anne Ludvigson, Chair of the Board of TEKO, and Eglė Ganda Bogdanienė, Professor at the Vilnius Academy of Arts, have been named honorary doctors for their contributions to resear...

Could polymer composites be the solution to a lighter and more environmentally friendly battery box for electric cars, ...

Much of the food waste generated at street markets in Brazil is thrown away unnecessarily. Through a collaboration between Sweden and Brazil, projects have been ongoing since...

Is it possible to create textiles from old bread? This was something that Akram Zamani, Associate Professor of Resource Recovery at the University of Borås, sought to investigate. The research project, which has been...

The growing mountain of clothing waste must be dealt with – and urgently. Researchers, policy makers, businesses and industry, and society are now coming together to solve the chal...

In what ways are the artistic expression of textile-form affected by processes of interdependent form-giving and surface-crafting? This question is approached through practice-led ar...

The Swedish Research Council has now granted funds for a doctoral programme in Library and Information Science to be coordinated by the University of Borås. This will mean a ...

A major challenge for process industries is to switch over from a linear economy, where various residual products arise at the end of the chain, to a circular economy. Here, refini...

Rachma Wikandari is a former student and doctoral researcher at the university who is from Indonesia. We met up with her when she made a quick visit to Borås and asked her about her time her...