The Knowledge Foundation is awarding just over SEK 40 million to eight projects within the SPARK research and education environment at Jönköping University. This gives the university new opportunities to advance its cutting-edge research to support the business sector’s development of knowledge-intensive products, services, and processes.
“This means that we can continue to build knowledge and develop skills that are relevant to the industry’s competitiveness,” says Kerstin Johansen, Associate Dean of Research at JTH and Programme Manager for SPARK.
The initiative is part of the ten-year programme KK-milöer, the foundation’s most powerful programme for developing and profiling academic environments and entire universities. The programme targets universities that have made significant progress in building strong research and education environments in collaboration with the business sector.
“Over the past nine years, the Knowledge Foundation has had the pleasure of supporting and closely following SPARK’s progress. We are pleased to continue to contribute to the development of SPARK by funding a number of new projects at JTH that build on strong research and high industrial relevance. It is also very gratifying that SPARK chooses to invest in further education for professionals — something that is becoming increasingly important for the business community’s skills supply,” says Eva Schelin, CEO of the Knowledge Foundation.
Distributed between all research environments
The eight JTH projects supported by the Knowledge Foundation are spread across all six of the school’s applied research environments, which Kerstin Johansen sees as particularly gratifying.
“This indicates both the breadth and depth of our research, and we are very pleased with the constructive collaboration we have with the Knowledge Foundation, where we must constantly demonstrate a forward-looking approach and strategic development together with industry,” says Kerstin Johansen.
