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The purpose of the project is to examine how research orchestration affects innovation in manufacturing SMEs.

The project takes a comprehensive approach on sustainability to provide a pathway that could contribute to the climate target through development of advanced thermal spray (TS) coatings for application in diverse sectors.

The project aims to spread knowledge among smaller companies about the need for future control of consumption and how financial control tools optimally utilized can provide great financial benefits.

There is a clear need to strengthen knowledge in applied industrial algorithm design, as it is one of the key factors for increasing automation levels and achieving sustainable production in the manufacturing sector.

The project intends to recruit an assistant senior lecturer to secure resources for the newly started master's program in AI and automation and to strengthen the research group in process monitoring and control, primarily in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning.

The collaborative venture AURA.I. AUgmented Reality utilizing Artificial. Intelligence. aims to improve user interactions in Augmented Reality (AR) technology through the creation of an AI toolkit.

The BEWBU project strives to enhance institutional capacities and elevate pedagogical competencies in higher education across Western Balkan universities.

The specific purpose of this strategic recruitment is to strengthen the research group within Plug & Produce in the area of multi-agent and AI.

The aim of the project is to produce improved capacity for norm awareness and norm critical education in HIE´s Health care programs and by doing so provide better quality of care in Europe.

As a result of the ongoing climate transition, extensive electrification is underway to reduce the use of fossil fuels, where the electrification of both vehicles and industry will play an important role.

Young people engage in social media every day, and those between the ages of 17-18 in Sweden have screen time for up to seven hours a day, not including the time they use screens at school. Social media refers to various platforms where one can communicate both verbally and visually with others.

The project hypothesizes that advanced materials, additive manufacturing, and repair techniques can significantly reduce waste, lower costs, and extend the lifespan of critical aircraft components, contributing to reduced emissions and improved fuel efficiency.

The overall aim is to develop a research line that takes a system approach on child (0-18 years) mental health and mental health inequality by targeting policy on local level, actions on national and local level, and by assessing the collective effect from national and local promotion/preventive initiatives.

The CIRCUMET initiative has the ambition to develop and implement tailored and concise need-motivated continuing education courses (80-90 credits in total) related to relevant topics for the metal component manufacturing sector, with the fight against climate change as a core concept.

How do preschools foster young children's engagement with books? This research project explores how preschools promote younger children's play and interactions with books, as well as the emotions that are encouraged or restricted during these interactions. The study investigates how the physical presence of books and book-filled environments are discussed and valued within preschools.

CLOUDS develop an AI based sustainable production system which is capable of handling the process planning, virtual commissioning, optimizing the production schedule, addressing the bottleneck issues in mixed model assembly and balancing the production line with human workload.

This research project investigates new approaches and practices for sustainable transformation of the leather industry value chain. Special focus is on traceability and transparency in the leather industry.

The aim of COMEJOIN is to investigate green and sustainable joining technique i.e., Friction Stir Welding (FSW), specifically focusing on high-strength aluminium grades used in airframe structures.

The aim of the project is to produce a Guidance for practical support and transnational parenting in preventive social work at a family center that addresses families in so called temporariness,

The project provides the opportunity for research to follow a unique project from the start, a project that has great social relevance as well as meeting needs in the institution's operations.

PhD studentship in Work-integrated Learning with focus on occupational health, risk- and change management in Industry 5.0 (Jubileumsdoktorand KK-stiftelsen)

Directed Energy Deposition for Industrial Competitiveness in Additive manufacturing Technologies.

The overall scope of the project is to determine the threshold for when internal AM defects affect the fatigue performance using conventional NDT equipment like computed tomography, ultrasonic and liquid penetrant as well as data from in-process control.

In this project, the relation between digital stress, well-being and sustainability, more specifically, leadership in the hybrid workplace is in focus.

The project proposes DIPy-AI, an agile AI architecture based on the data-knowledge-information-wishdom (DIKW) pyramid, for processing sensor data in production environments. It aims to address challenges related to data assimilation, quality detection, and modular information extraction.

The project is a continuation of the ongoing E-Drive project, which focuses on building a full-scale electric powertrain with world-leading research focused on electric motors with alternative magnetization including control systems.

The purpose of this project is to create collaborations and find synergies between the two institutions of higher learning, University West and Uppsala University, as well as relevant industry partners regarding the definition of skills shortages and the development of educational materials for independent courses in electrical engineering, aimed at professionals.

This project aims to explore how online education for professionals can better meet the needs of continuous professional development by learning from the Indian partner's successful combination of full-time work and study.

The initiative "Early crime prevention parental support in preschool" has been prepared locally in Trollhättan and is based on theme meetings/courses at preschool for parents with a foreign background who live in social vulnerability and have children in preschool.

The competence development initiative ExSus2 aims to support companies to meet the rapid technological and societal development required to address the challenges facing society.

The project contributes to technology maturity of manufacturing method and components for fossil-free propulsion and energy supply through improved and validated predictive ability in modeling L-PBF (Laser Powder Bed Fusion) of titanium to enable manufacturing of large complex components with high quality.

The project seeks to enhance material processing techniques, contributing to the aerospace industry's efficiency, sustainability, and competitiveness.

The project aims to explore the individual biographical experiences of female immigrant students in higher education and the (often critical) turning points on women's paths to graduation.

Electrification and the flexible electricity system of the future have many different applications and applications. In this project, we want to highlight three that have high relevance for society in general and the local power grids and energy systems in particular.

The purpose of the study is to gain in-depth knowledge about the links between gaming and mental health.

The project focuses on integrating greenery and building structure to improve urban environments, supported by visualization tools to facilitate understanding and collaboration among various stakeholders.

This project aims to increase understanding of how, and why, hydrogen embrittlement and its various mechanisms occur.

This project investigates the development and change in school-level determinants of health and their associations to later employment, income, and health in a representative sample of Swedish young people.

WAAM (wire arc additive manufacturing) is a manufacturing method that combines traditional welding with additive manufacturing.

The purpose of this implementation project is to promote and contribute to effective integration and social inclusion of third-country nationals through the development of immersive (enhanced) civic orientation in Virtual Reality (VR).

Immersive Virtual Reality (IVR) technology provides pedagogical benefits for simulating realistic training purposes in a practical way, at a low risk/cost, and in a safe and sustainable manner.

The overall purpose of this project is to enhance the understanding of the microstructure evolution in the Ni base superalloys Mar-M-247 and Haynes 282, respectively, during additive manufacturing (AM) by powder bed fusion-electron beam (PBF-EB).

This project is about examining politically initiated measures forincreased equality (top-down measures) and local initiatives to strengthen the school's compensatory capacity (bottom-up initiatives).

The project aim to study and compare initiatives for improvement in schools with low academic achievement, examining how they are initiated and implemented and the extent to which they both contribute to students' knowledge development and create conditions for more-equal life opportunities.

The aim of this project is to investigate experiences of being included and/or excluded at University West.

Electrical engineering has been identified as a critical area for the regional growth. The transformation towards a fossil free vehicle fleet (electrical cars) is a direct huge challenge for the Sweden and West Sweden’s automotive sector, but also indirect a huge challenges on the electrical power grid due to the rapid increase of electric energy consumptions.

Electrical engineering is a critical area for regional growth since both the transformation towards a sustainable energy production and a fossil free vehicle fleet (electrical cars) is a huge challenge for Sweden and specifically west Sweden’s automotive sector. This area is thus of strategic interest for University West both regarding education and research.

The research project sets out to explore challenges to linguistic justice in Nordic welfare state institutions in a context of global migration.

This project advances Integrated Structure, Materials, and Production Technology by developing methods to combine and validate FE analyses of Direct Energy Deposition Laser Beam wire (DED-LB/w) and local inductive pre-heating to minimize shape distortions in titanium processing.

MAXBATT develops and mobilizes sustainable battery production competencies and technologies with a focus in West Sweden and by extension Sweden as a whole to promote development and competence building in the area.

The purpose of the network is to be a forum for researchers from different disciplines to identify frameworks for problems, state of knowledge, and the need for theory development of the welfare society’s collaboration challenges.

In the project, opportunities and challenges with neurological diversity will be studied.

The project explores human-centric aspects, where humans and technology are put at the core, to explore how the ability to strategize organizational capabilities can be enhanced in contemporary manufacturing industries.

The purpose of the project is to explore immigrant women's paths to and through higher education and to highlight how different events can affect their paths through higher education and their view of the future.

The purpose of the project is to examine how perceptions of progress can influence persistence beyond the early stages of language learning.

Powder bed fusion additive manufacturing of metal (PBF-AM) is an important research area for the manufacturing industry. This form of additive manufacturing makes it possible to manufacture components with complex geometries in a more efficient way. Among other applications of interest are components for gas turbines and aircraft engines.

The PROWIL project develops sustainable smart automation integrating human centric perspectives towards I5.0, reducing changeover times, and achieving production goals.

The initiative aims to establish sustainable structures to increase the use of research results and to strengthen the capacity for innovation and change in small and medium-sized enterprises.

The PhD project will focus on the development of monitoring possibilities of additive materials to enable sustainable processing.

The focus of this study is a collaborative project between the police and social services that goes by the name Rätt kurva. The objective of Rätt kurva is to prevent children from becoming involved in so-called "gang crime".

READY2´s purpose is to create sustainable, robust and resource-efficient wood manufacturing focusing on the entire value chain. This will be achieved with new innovative human-centered, dynamic resource-efficient maintenance ensuring operational reliability through technology that promotes a socially sustainable work environment.

The recruitment aims to develop knowledge and skills in how to use, integrate and interact with digital tools and methods that support production control processes and deal with future trends and requirements.

The project aims at strengthening the transfer of knowledge between industry and academia through both teaching and research activities by recruiting Dr. Alireza Javidi Shirvan as an adjunct senior lecturer (20%) at the Division of Welding Technology.

The goal is to reuse end-of-life large-scale pipe blanks from the energy sector, which are then repaired with AM and adapted for circular design. This creates a significantly more sustainable cycle, where several tens of tons of steel parts are reused instead of recycled. The circular design creates the possibility for recurring repair and thus planned ageing.

REPAM aims to include the circular thinking during the whole material chain in the improvement of material design, use and recycling.

The project aims to offer a sustainable and energy efficient solution for responsible extraction and processing of Titanium.

The Department of Engineering has decided to build an education and research platform within production management. The goal is that by 2024 there will be undergraduate education, two international master's programs, PhD education and a research group in the field.

Swedish health care is facing several challenges and increase in healthcare costs combined with limited resources. We need a transformation to sustainable healthcare that is closer to the citizens: comprehensive care.

SEXIT (SEXual health Identification Tool) is a scientifically developed method that aims to identify and offer relevant care and support to young people who are sexually at risk or vulnerable and/or people with experience of violence. The method can be used as part of the student health staff's health talks with students in junior high and high school, but also by other activities that meet young people.

The project aims to develop actionable knowledge to strengthen the resilience of the Swedish food retail sector (FRS) under uncertain and high-risk conditions, such as the threat of war, armed conflicts, and warfare.

This project aims to develop a rapid yet facile method for developing high entropy oxide (HEO) coatings using novel thermal spray approaches.

The aim is to hire an associate professor in logistics.

University West has been engaged in research in Additive Manufacturing for more than 15 years, and one of these processes involves a laser beam that melts a metal wire layer-on-layer (called Laser Directed Energy Deposition with wire, L-DEDw), which is the process that this project is focused on.

The project aims to enhance companies' ability to commercialize new knowledge through workshops, seminars, and focus groups.

The project focuses on initiating energy renovations in buildings owned by organisations with limited energy expertise, using the Church of Sweden as a case study.

The goal of COMEJOIN is to investigate green and sustainable joining technique i.e., Friction Stir Welding (FSW), specifically focusing on high-strength aluminium grades used in airframe structures

The purpose of the project is to strengthen the competitiveness of GKN Aerospace in Trollhättan with SMF partners by participating in an international demonstrator engine with leading OEMs.

The aim of the project is therefore to investigate factors of importance for implementation of systematic follow-up within social services work child and youth services in relation to the new proposed regulations through work with the evidence-based parent support model Family Check-up (FCU), with its implementation framework and associated Information Support System Registry.

The purpose of TEAM is to apply a transdiciplinary approach to study the complex interaction between linguistic, cognitive, neurological and social prerequisites that underpin language acquisition and multilingualism at the level of the individual and of social interaction.

The project aims to increase knowledge about how the energy transition with new production sources, new consumption, extended networks and varying power flows will affect the voltage stability in the power system and how the new production sources can actively contribute to increase the voltage stability.

The project aims to investigate both organizational and professional conditions for using existing communication support methods and materials that can strengthen children's participation in LSS investigations.

The project aims to increase knowledge about how the changes of the components in the grid, extended networks and varying power flows will affect the transient stability in the power system and how the new production sources can contribute to transient stability.

The overall aim of the project is to identify the challenges that the City of Trollhättan is facing as they launch a restart strategy for the city centre, as well as lead change and initiate collaboration with the private business community.

The project aims to describe and analyze the phenomenon of undue influence and by whom and how it is carried out, as well as how it is perceived and responded to by social workers who investigate the care needs of children and young people.

UNPEACE investigates challenges and potential of agonistic disagreement in international relations in terms of conflict between legitimate adversaries as opposed to enemies that are to be destroyed.

The project aims to shed light on the short-term and long-term processes between young people's computer games and mental illness, as well as to increase understanding of the central mechanisms that may play a role in these connections

The aim of the project is to develop a new research-integrated education model, which provides the conditions for strengthened research competence in both academia and industry. The goal is to attract more, better prepared, researchers, who more accurately reflect the Swedish population both in terms of gender and academic background, and who continue to work within the Swedish sustainability and green transition sector.