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20 Apr 2022

Read our Annual Report!

We have summarised everything that happened in 2021 by letting all parts of LIGHTer's operations describe what they did during the year. The annual report contains summaries from completed projects...

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13 Apr 2022

The Additive Intelligence 4.0 Conference

RISE is organizing the Additive Intelligence 4.0 conference together with partners for the third time on May 31 - June 1 in Gothenburg! The Additive Intelligence 4.0 conference aims to address various...

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08 Dec 2021

Modvion builds lighter, more climate-smart wooden wind turbines

Wood technology company Modvion has brought wood construction to the wind power industry. After erecting their first wooden wind turbine tower on the island of Björkö in the Gothenburg archipelago...

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11 Oct 2021

HYDROGEN-POWERED AVIATION: “No Nobel Prize discoveries needed”

The Swedish Energy Agency along with GKN Aerospace in Trollhättan and partners are investing a combined 24 million kronor to develop components for hydrogen-powered aircraft engines. We had a chat...

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24 Jun 2021

Our Annual Report available in English

You can now read our annual report for 2020 in English! We are summarising yet another interesting and fun year with all the people who have contributed to LIGHTer's work.

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14 Jun 2021

Loose weight and save energy!

No, in spite of the heading this is not an ad on personal health. Weight reduction and reduced energy consumption has rather been the overarching themes in a series of public lunch seminars arranged...

11 May - 2021

CIDETEC is open to international collaborations

27 Apr - 2021

Open Research Europe

28 Jan - 2021

Welcome to the third LIGHTer Academy Seminar!

27 Nov - 2020

LIGHTer represented Sweden at the first European Lightweightin Initiative

25 Nov - 2020

SIP LIGHTer verksamhetsberättelse

02 Sep - 2020

The fourth LIGHTer PhD Network Seminar