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More men at Teacher Education Programme

2017-09-20 Luleå University of Technology's Supplementary Study Programme in Education is popular – especially among men, who are in the majority of the new students in the autumn semester of 2017.

Safer road barriers with high strength steels

2017-09-13 By switching to high strength steels in road barriers, safety can be even better, while a smaller amount of steel needs to be used in the thinner beams. The results are presented in a three-year EU project that was recently completed, where Luleå University of Technology had an important role in mat...

Slope streaks signs of more water on Mars

2017-09-11 A step closer to answering the question about the presence of liquid water – and perhaps life – on current Mars has been taken. An article published in Scientific Reports written by the Atmospheric Science Group at Luleå University of Technology, points to the possibility that slope streaks, one of ...

Unique survey of temporary employments

2017-09-06 How are the conditions for learning and development at workplaces within the healthcare affected, when more of the staff are hired temporarily? That is the object for a study among nurses and midwives, done by Luleå University of Technology's researchers Åsa Engström and Anna Berg Jansson.

Cultural festival initiates research effort

2017-09-04 The artistic research environment at Luleå University of Technology will be made visible to a broad public through a series of events under the name The University presents. The initiative begins with a culture festival in Studio Acusticum 8-9 September.

They move their research to the municipalities

2017-08-31 Luleå University of Technology’s Catrine Kostenius and Ulrika Bergmark have been appointed to ”Flexit researchers”, which means that they will move their research from the university to organisations outside the academia.

New students welcomed to the university

2017-08-16 The expectations were high when the new students arrived at Luleå University of Technology for their study start. They were welcomed by Vice-chancellor Johan Sterte.

New cooperation for increased skills supply

2017-08-15 Luleå University of Technology and Norrbottens Kommuner have signed a joint letter of intent to strengthen, among other things, the digitization and future provision of skills for teachers and nurses in the county's municipalities.

Flaws in public procurement reviewed

2017-08-03 Students Linn Johansson and Louise Ramqvist have, as their degree project, examined public procurement projects. They have reviewed nearly 500 infrastructure projects, and the results show that the budget is exceeded by an average of 20 percent per project.
– There is a need for better accounting ...

Drones in the Swedish emergency services

2017-07-25 The interest in using drones in the emergency services is increasing. The drone technique can be used to search bodies at drowning accidents, forest fires or for overview images in major accidents. Fire engineer Alexandra Olofsson at Luleå University of Technology has examined the legal possibilitie...