Collaboration is a crucial factor for our success and a means to make research and education even more competitive: it is a part of LiU’s soul.

Peter Värbrand, Deputy Vice-Chancellor for External Relations and Innovation

Collaboration at LiU

One of the foundations on which Linköping University’s success is built is collaboration with the society around us. It connects our education to the labour market, strengthens the relevance of our research, and makes it possible for the knowledge gained to benefit society and nurture positive social development.

This webpage presents some of the different ways in which collaboration with our surroundings bears fruit.

Examples include:

  • Ongoing research and development in collaboration with the business world and the public sector
  • Examples of how our research and education contribute to social development
  • The development of business ideas and research results from students and researchers at the university
  • Networking and the spread of knowledge
  • Collaboration with schools and student projects

News

Wapnö Gård

A dairy farm with its own climate-smart ecology

It is biogas that gets the ecological circulation going on Sweden’s largest dairy farm, Wapnö. “Using biogas is not a goal in itself: it’s a means to an end,” says Lennart Bengtsson, managing director at Wapnö. 

Alvesta biogas

Farmers unite to make biogas profitable

Eleven farmers around the town of Alvesta in Småland agreed in 2014 to build a joint biogas facility. The result is a profitable facility, 4,500 kg of biogas every day, and fertiliser with a nutrient content that is 10% higher for the fields.
Vallastaden from the north side

Vallastaden - potential for a smart city

Aspects such as efficient use of resources and social interaction have been included in the planning of Vallastaden. Malin Granath, researcher in information systems, believes that it may eventually be possible to achieve economic sustainability.