Richer Business and Genovate Toolkit aim to analyze and improve diversity, equity, and inclusion, and particularly gender equality, within work environme...
2021-06-18 Social entrepreneurship in Sweden has performed relatively well during the pandemic. But companies need more support from umbrella organizations and policy makers. These are the conclusions in an inte...
2021-06-13 Sweden has a long tradition of civil society developing innovative solutions to societal challenges. But public investments in innovation go mainly to commercial actors.
– A national investment fund ...
2021-05-21 Researchers at Luleå University of Technology have initiated a project that aims to develop an economically sustainable business model that contributes to the circular in the food industry. For compan...
2021-01-26 To stimulate and enable collaborative projects aimed at solving societal challenges, the Innovation Office is now announcing collaborative checks within the theme of social innovation.
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2020-10-28 Dialogica is an application that is developed to help people with speech difficulties to express themselves in in-depth conversations via graphic avatars.
2020-10-21 The Innovator of the Year 2020 Employee of the Year award goes to Ulrika Rova, Professor of Biochemical Process Engineering. The Innovator Student of the Year award goes to David Sundvall and his brot...
2020-09-17 One day three years ago, when Tommie Lögdahl was standing in the shower, it struck him how much plastic packaging that is consumed in the bathroom. "It's not sustainable," he thought, and began to pon...
2020-09-15 The goal of the WalkAbout project is to investigate opportunities to help children in vulnerable groups communicate more easily and better via computer game-like environments in 3D.
2020-08-19 Luleå University of Technology has conducted a study on social innovation for an inclusive working life, based on lessons learned from the European Social Fund. The study includes an overview of past ...
2020-07-02 The project Active school transport at Luleå University of Technology has been awarded a total of SEK 15.8 million. With 17 collaborative partners and funding from, among others, Vinnova, researchers ...
2020-05-20 In a new project within Interreg Sápmi, an innovative education is being developed to make small businesses in the reindeer industry more competitive and attractive.
2020-02-28 The inauguration of this year's igloo building, designed and built by students at Luleå University of Technology, attracted both students and the general public. The igloo will now be open and availab...
2020-02-12 In order to provide an overview of current research on social innovation in Sweden, an anthology is written by researchers from different universities and disciplines.
2020-01-22 Researchers in Industrial Design at Luleå University of Technology are developing a digital service that will motivate people to make climate-smart choices in everyday life.
2019-08-28 Maria Larsson- Lund, professor of Occupational Therapy at Luleå University of Technology, has been awarded SEK 4, 5 million from the Kamprad Family Foundation. The funds will be used for a research pr...
2019-06-13 This research project aims to increase knowledge about efforts by Swedish civil society organizations to promote an inclusive working life, in terms of social innovation. This includes novel methods a...
2019-04-25 How can we create sustainable innovations that solve societal challenges? It was the focus when 140 participants met at Luleå University of Technology during the conference Social Innovation in North ...
2018-11-07 – Studying space engineering at Luleå University of Technology is the best thing I have done. Dare to follow your dreams and your heart!, said a proud Ella Carlsson Sjöberg when she accepted the award...
2018-06-29 The project develops a model to verify and visualize the social, economic and environmental value that social innovations create for people, organizations and society. It is jointly developed by inn...
2017-12-15 Luleå University of Technology is one of five Swedish universities in a new collaboration for creating a national knowledge platform for social innovation.
2017-11-26 The project explores how a technological university can develop knowledge and innovation that enhances a socially sustainable society. A selection of practical examples from the university's various i...
2017-11-26 The project Identifies and analyzes practical examples of social innovation in Norrbotten, developed by organizations, companies or public authorities. These innovations consist of new goods, services...
2017-04-19 The project "Attractive city center through place-innovative synergies" aimed to develop new knowledge and concepts about existing and potential synergies between place-based components, processes and...
2016-11-18 Transformative Innovation Support is a guide to support social innovations/innovators and improved social sustainability of all kinds of innovations. It can be used by all kinds of innovation promoter...
2016-09-25 Luleå University studies social innovation in the Church of Sweden, on the local, regional and national levels. The aim is to identify and analyze examples of social innovations and their potential to...
2014-12-15 The project aimed to explore and develop place innovation as a theoretical and practical concept to further develop tourism destinations and the tourism industry in northern Sweden. The project was ma...
2014-12-11 In the subject of Design at Luleå University of Technology social innovation is studied and supported - i.e. novel ways to meet societal challenges and to improve people's wellbeing, inclusion and emp...
2014-01-19 The project explores methods for gender-equal social innovation, i.e. innovative solutions for improved gender awareness and gender equality in organizations and society.