Research

Within research, the Centre for Arctic and Antarctic at Luleå University of Technology will develop an excellent and innovative academic environment where researchers with a focus on the Arctic and/or Antarctic or who work with research of direct relevance to the Arctic and Antarctic, collaborate.

Researchers and doctoral students at the centre come from Luleå University of Technology, as well as from other universities with research and teaching relevant to the Arctic and Antarctic in Sweden. They can work on projects funded by research councils or other funders. The center also offers contract research for various social actors with a need for knowledge about the Arctic and / or Antarctica. Within the centre, researchers can meet in joint seminars and workshops as well as interact with stakeholders from different sectors of society that are connected to the centre.

Research project

At Luleå University of Technology, a large number of research projects are conducted in a wide variety of topics relevant to the Arctic and Antarctic. The list below includes both ongoing and completed projects.

• Mining industrial heritage as a resource for sustainable societies
• Dynamics of land use tensions in the Swedish Arctic – TensArc

• Ark 2024 – exhibitions

• Mining as a resource for sustainable societies

• ArcticHubs

• Ice safety in reindeer herding
  
• Arctic Tests – a sustainable testbed in an arctic environment

• CHAQ – cultural heritage in the Antarctic

• Energy efficiency in buildings in Arctic municipalities
  
• Ar2CorD – Low Carbon Concrete for Arctic Climate with Excellent Sustainability and Durability
  
• Sewage management in cold and sparsely populated regions
• Arctic satellite communication

• Sustainable Construction in Arctic Climate
  
• Improving green roof performance in demanding climates
  

• Electromobility, electric vehicle integration in the north
• NACCOP, Nordic Arctic Co-creation Platform

• Arctic 5G Test Network
  
• SAMHand
• Academic (un)employment and Mobility in the Arctic North

• OFFwind – Offshore Wind Turbine Farms
• Unique ice research in laboratory

• Arctic placemaking

• Innovation platform for sustainable attractive cities

• Sami traditional livelihoods, competing land uses, competing legal sources (SaCC)

• Adaptation of spatial planning in the Torneträsk area due to climate change

• Mining legacies and land use
• Comparing experiences of hydropower - history and memorymaking in southern and northern Sweden

• Ironworking in a hunting environment
• Scaling Up

• Blickar från periferin: När global energiomställning möter nordisk glesbygd
• Peripheral visions: When global agendas meet Nordic energy peripheries