LTU has eight projects on IVA's 100 list

Luleå Luleå University of Technology has eight research projects on the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences' (IVA) list of the 100 most interesting projects in innovation through interdisciplinary science.

The 103 research projects on the IVA-list are expected to have great potential to benefit society through commercialisation, business and method development, or social impact. With eight projects on the list, LTU occupies fourth place among Sweden's universities.

“At Luleå University of Technology, research is conducted that shapes the future and creates societal benefits. The fact that eight projects this year are included in the 100 list is proof of that,” says Birgitta Bergvall-Kåreborn, Vice-Chancellor at Luleå University of Technology.

On this year's 100 list, which is the sixth in the order, IVA (Kungliga Ingenjörsvetenskapsakademien) highlights research projects in society and welfare, infrastructure, deep tech, smart industry, circular economy, resource and energy efficiency, green and blue industries and business models. A total of 103 research projects from 22 universities have been admitted to IVA's 100 list 2024.

The eight projects at LTU are:

Development of novel self-lubricating polymeric composites with application in hydropower bearings. Nazanin Emami, Jan Ukonsaari.

Read more about the project here: New technology can extend the lifetime of turbines

An energy-efficient way to reduce society's climate impact, development of a new concept for Supplementart Cementitious Material, cement replacement.

Åke Roos, Anders Öhrvall, Magnus Ek, Peter Johansson, Linus Brander, Katarina Malaga, Urs Mueller, Bo Björkman, Caisa Samuelsson, Jenny Isaksson, Andreas Lennartsson, Anton Andersson, Fredrik Engström.

Read more about the project here: A greener cement future

MdT_sampler - A new process for faster and cheaper development of new metallic materials.

Jan Frostevarg

Read more about the project here: Breakthrough technology opens up for sustainable materials

Fossil-free, water-soluble and non-toxic lubricants.

Yijun Shi, Pontus Johansson, Jan Jonsson.

Read more about the project here: Fossil-free and non-toxic lubricants can transform industry

Reconfigurable 6G Quality of Service (QoS) and Edge Integration for Robotics and Automation. Gerasimos Damingos, Achilleas Seisa, Sara Sandberg, George Nikolakopoulos.

AI enabled Data Driven Change Detection.

George Nikolakopoulos, Ilias Tevetzidis, Nikos Stathoulopoulos, Christoforos Kanellakis, Anton Koval.

Collaborative Large Scale Autonomous Task Allocation for aerial multi-robots based Mine Inspections.

Niklas Dahlquist, Aksit Saradagi, George Nikolakopoulos.

Advanced Multi-modal Perception System for Precision Autonomous Scrap Classification.

Anton Koval, Jakub Haluska, Rucha Sawlekar, Yosri Fersi, Fernando Labra Caso.

The 100 list is produced by IVA's Research2Business, R2B, which works to ensure that Sweden is a leader in transforming academic research, in technical and economic sciences, into innovation and competitiveness in business. IVA's 100 list was launched in connection with IVA's 100th anniversary in 2019, hence the name. The selection committee consists of more than 60 people from IVA's network of representatives from academia, business and the public sector. IVA's R2B is run in collaboration with Vinnova, Sting, the Swedish Patent and Registration Office, Voima Ventures, the Knowledge Foundation, the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise, Teknikföretagen and Sweden's universities and colleges.

Lennart Håkansson

editor@northswedenbusiness.com