The four areas designated as profile areas in research are Life Science Technologies, Materials Science for Sustainable Technologies, Societal Transformations, and Visual Digital Futures.
The decision on profile areas is based on the governments research policy bill that clarifies the investment in quality-based resource allocation by requiring higher education institutions to define profile areas that can be used as part of future resource allocation. The profile areas should be strategic research initiatives of high quality, initiated and driven by the institutions themselves.
The decision was preceded by an internal process in which researchers were able to freely nominate proposals, which were then evaluated according to the requirements that these are areas with a clear profile where LiU already has or may be taking a leading international position. In addition to having great future potential, they will also demonstrate LiU’s breadth in terms of interdisciplinary science, innovation and focus on societal challenges.