Collaboration and innovation
Uppsala University is here both for you and for society. The knowledge, expertise and solutions we develop are for the benefit of all. Working together with you and others, we can come even closer to creating a sustainable society.
Is your organisation our next partner?
Find out about the latest findings within a specific subject area and leverage new findings and innovative solutions to help your organisation develop. Our goal is simple – it should be easy for you and your company or organisation to collaborate with our researchers. To this end, we offer support in each step of the process, from inspiration and matchmaking to sharing knowledge and full-scale, funded collaborations. What are you looking for?
Uppsala University Innovation Partnership Office – we help research and innovation do good
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Gain access to meetings and events where you can meet our researchers to establish contacts and share knowledge and ideas.
Find an expert on sustainability
Whether you are looking for an expert who can help your company, hold a leture or lead a project, we want to help you get in touch with the right person. Here we have gathered researchers at Uppsala University who are experts in different types of sustainability issues, as a resource for you and to enable the researchers to forge new connections and help their research results come to practical use for society.
News on collaboration and innovation
Precision medicine centre paves the way for more accurate diagnosis and treatment
28 June 2022. Precision medicine is gaining ground in the field of highly specialised care. More extensive use of ...
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New chemical biology method aims at more specific disease diagnoses
27 June 2022. Are there more effective ways to detect diseases in biological samples than the standard ones today? ...
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How innovation from Uppsala University can reduce antibiotic-resistant bacteria
23 June 2022. Treating severe infections with a combination of antibiotics has long been standard practice in Swed ...
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“Healthcare needs to undergo some pretty big changes”
14 June 2022. Hello to Eva Tiensuu Janson, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy. You’ll ...
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"It is now that we are seeing the benefits of biotechnology"
14 June 2022. Hello Margareta Krabbe, organiser of a panel discussion during Almedalen Week together with the Test ...
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Collecting recipes and the stories behind them
14 June 2022. Historical recipes and cookbooks abound to teach us about past foods and dietary habits. Less is kno ...
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Our largest collaboration
Uppsala University and Uppsala University Hospital together train more than 3,000 physicians, nurses and other medical staff a year. We conduct world-leading research to create new treatments and solve the puzzles of serious diseases.
More than 400 staff are employed by both the University and the University Hospital. Clinical research has a turnover of around SEK 500 million and generates approximately 1,500 scholarly publications per year.
Find out more about Uppsala University and Uppsala University Hospital’s long collaboration.
Innovation projects at Uppsala University
Take a look at some of the innovations currently being developed at Uppsala University. Here we present a selection of projects where new solutions are born out of research and education, to the benefit of society.
Vinnova competence centres
Vinnova funds a number of Swedish competence centres where universities, university colleges, research institutes, private companies and public sector actors conduct close cooperation on research within areas important to Sweden’s competitiveness. The following three competence centres are led from Uppsala University.
- BASE: Centre for Swedish Batteries
Research to create new types of light, cheap, environmentally friendly and safe batteries with ultra-high energy capacity. Project manager: Kristina Edström
- SweDeliver: Swedish Drug Delivery Centre
SweDeliver is a world-leading research centre focusing on new strategies for parenteral, oral and pulmonary drug delivery.
Project manager: Christel Bergström
- Competence Centre in Additive Manufacturing for the Life Sciences
Research and development of new technologies for 3D printing, including complex structures for improved bioprocesses, more reproducible 3D tumour models and quicker optimisation of medical treatments.
Project manager: Cecilia Persson
