The University of Borås fosters learning, knowledge, and innovation of high quality in an international setting and with significant social relevance. We work together here–for the future and to make a difference!
Our research is organised in six areas:
We are entitled to award doctoral degrees within four of these areas; Library and Information Science, Resource Recovery, Textiles and Fashion (design and general) and The Human Perspective in Care.
Address:
501 90 Borås
Phone:
+46-33 435 40 00
Head of public authority (President/Vice-Chancellor/CEO/DG):
Mats Tinnsten
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7 July, 2016 - Högskolan i Borås
Mistra Future Fashion fortsätter att växa, och kan nu tillkännage att Internationella Miljöinstitutet IIIEE, vid Lunds Universitet, blir ny partner inom forskningen av styrmedel och riktlinjer för en hållbar modeindustri.
7 April, 2014 - Högskolan i Borås
With predictive modeling techniques, it is possible to predict anything from clients’ shopping habits and illnesses to a golfer’s handicap. The only prerequisite is to have enough examples. In a doctoral thesis from the University of Borås in Sweden, Rikard König has adapted the technique of genetic programming so it can be used for such purposes.
5 July, 2012 - Högskolan i Borås
In a study published in the revered journal Heart Johan Herlitz – professor of prehospital emergency care at the University of Borås, Sweden – reveals that women survive out-of-hospital cardiac arrest more often than men.
30 August, 2010 - Högskolan i Borås
The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in Bangkok is an English-language university which carries out high level education and research. The university also promotes peaceful development in the Asia-Pacific region. Sweden has played a role in the success of AIT, which last week received intergovernmental organisation status.
10 March, 2010 - Högskolan i Borås
In the future it may be considerably easier for orchestras to tour. Jeannine Han, who is in the second year of her master’s program in textiles and fashion design at the Swedish School of Textiles in Borås, Sweden, working together with technician Dan Riley, has developed clothing that plays music when touched.
3 December, 2009 - Högskolan i Borås
Orange peels lie behind the first patent application from the University of Borås in Sweden. It was recently submitted via Inicia AB to the Swedish Patent and Registration Office. Now Professor Mohammad Taherzadeh is hoping for a green light for a patent to cover part of his research.
2 September, 2009 - Högskolan i Borås
In September 12, 2009, an exhibition will be opened at the Shetland Museum and Archives in Lerwick, where both the original findings and the reproductions are displayed.
21 August, 2009 - Högskolan i Borås
YVON CHOUINARD, founder and owner of PATAGONIA, Inc. keynote speaker at THE DESIGN OF PROSPERITY 09 CONFERENCE of The Swedish School of Textiles, University of Borås.
30 June, 2009 - Högskolan i Borås
Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia, Inc. to lead the 2009 Design of Prosperity Conference
25 November, 2008 - Högskolan i Borås
First there was the glove that you could communicate through, then there were the tanktops and belts measuring heart rates and breathing frequency. The School of Textiles researcher Lena Berglin is getting attention for her smart textiles that combine design and technology. On Tuesday, November 25th, she is set to publicly defend her dissertation, the first on interactive textile structures, at Chalmers. A dissertation that will be a springboard for the new resource smart textiles that don’t even have to touch the body to give measurable results.
Expertsvar, The Swedish Research Council, Hantverkargatan 11B, Stockholm SWEDENPhone +46(0)8 546 44 000
P.O. Box 1035, SE-101 38 Stockholm, expertsvar@vr.se
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