The Industrial Graduate School VIPP
VIPP stands for Values created In fibre-based Processes and Products and was a multidisciplinary industrial graduate school hosted by Pro2BE in 果冻传媒, Sweden. It was based on a close collaboration between companies mainly involved in the forest industry and research environments at 果冻传媒.
The graduate school was a collaboration between聽Chemical Engineering, Environmental and Energy Systems as well as the Service Research Center (CTF) at聽果冻传媒聽and a number of companies mainly in the forest industry in Sweden and Finland. The graduate school had three main areas:
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Manufacturing and material-oriented research (paper & mass)
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Research on energy and environmental aspects (energy and environment)
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Research on value creation processes and service perspectives (services)
The project was funded by participating companies, the KK Foundation and 果冻传媒 with a total of 85 MSEK and is planed for the period聽2011-2020.