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Mitigation of browning of lake waters
Browning of surface water, rivers and lakes is a major problem that affects the ecosystem and the water quality.For example, increasing browning reduces biodiversity in lakes by di...
Towards coordinating national marine research data for universal interoperability
The project goal is to build a national coordination framework for marine research data.Networks, institutes, including private companies, in Sweden who collect and manage marine r...
Biomimetic SARS-CoV-2 receptors as host cell models, diagnostic tools and for antiviral research
This project will exploit a new biomimetic approach (reversible self-assembled monolayers - rSAMs) to SARS-CoV-2 receptor design inspired by the multivalent interactions that engag...
Effective reduction of water use in households
The drinking water industry in Sweden has historically not focused on measures to reduce water use, but the ongoing climate changes have led to water shortages during hot summers a...
The roles and opportunities for businesses to prevent water shortages in the Kalmar region
Companies consume 70% of the water in Sweden and consume more water than their counterparts in southern Europe.This resource inefficiency must end, since limited water supply is st...
Network for Maternal and Neonatal Health in Resource Limited Settings
Sepsis, premature delivery, still births and newborn deaths are very high in Kenya.A strong contributing factor are sexually transmitted infections (STIs), such as gonorrhoea, chla...
Building a Research Network on the UN Security Council´s Elected Members to Enhance Africa´s Peace and Security Architecture
In 2021, 60 percent of UN Security Council meetings focused on Africa and 84 percent of its peacekeepers were deployed on the continent.However, non-permanent or elected ten (E10)...
Strengthened quality midwifery care as a tool for sustainable development. A reciprocal capacity building partnership between The Gambia and Sweden
Quality care with professional midwives regulated according to international standards is vital for improved health outcomes in sexual and reproductive health and a sustainable soc...
Overcoming barriers for a One Health approach to water, sanitation and hygiene (WaSH) interverventions in Burkina Faso, Kenya and Mozambique
The role of animals and animal excreta in the spread of zoonotic disease and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is increasingly recognized but is still under-researched.Sanitation inte...
Alternative binders for blocks used im residential building in Sub Saharan Africa - opportunities for reduced climate footprint, lower costs and increased employment
Concrete it the most produced material in the world and is essential for moderna societal development. Currenlty there are no realistitic alternatives for substituting concrete. Th...
The challenge of localizing public services – equal access to public services and democratic governance in the whole of Sweden
Access to high-quality public services throughout the country is a prerequisite for ensuring a vibrant business community and sustainable living conditions in Sweden´s countryside....
Integrated planning – municipalities’ and regional actors’ roles and collaborations for resilient regional food systems
The project contributes to research on food security and rural development with focus on regional and local planning, policy and practice. The project explores how municipalities w...
Facilitating a new rurality beyond GDP through a Community Operating System (COS)
This project aims to empower Swedish rural communities towards an alternative development model beyond GDP through social, technical and ecological transformation processes in favo...
MECHANISTIC STUDIES OF THE INTRAVASCULAR INNATE IMMUNE SYSTEM (IIIS) IN COVID19 AND ARDS OF OTHER ORIGIN
The aim of this application is to characterize the generalized intravascular innate immune system (IIIS) activation in COVID-19.The rationale for this is to identify the mechanisms...
Towards precision medicine for heart failure and myocardial disease: myocardial genomics, single cell transcriptomics, and plasma profiling
Myocardial diseases are leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the population, ultimately by resulting in heart failure (HF).Improved strategies for etiological assessment, p...
Towards individualized treatment of uterine fibroids
The goal of this project is to improve the management of uterine fibroids (UFs).These benign tumors, found in up to 70% of women, have been understudied and insights into their pat...
GreenLeaFood - Added food value from green leaves
GreenLeaFood aims to characterize compounds and evaluate opportunities to valorize high value food components from green leafy biomass.Simultaneously, side-streams will be evaluate...
Development of a unique food biodiversity database
The link between climate impact and food production is well established.For other environmental impacts and biodiversity in particular, there is almost no readily available informa...
The most severely affected in the COVID-19 pandemic: older adults’ risk profiles, medications, long-term consequences and vaccination in large nationwide data
We urgently need research on the most severely affected in the COVID-19 pandemic – older adults. In Sweden, ~90% of the deaths have occurred in people aged >=70-years. Still...
Dendritic cells in the induction of protective versus pathologic immune memory to pulmonary viruses
Months into the COVID-19 pandemic we have neither fully satisfactory therapeutics nor a vaccine. This is no surprise as immune responses to pulmonary viruses are notoriously diffic...