FORIC (Forest as a resource industrial research college) is our industrial research school. Program manager is professor Per Engstrand. FORIC is financed by the Knowledge Foundation and a part of our research environment Transformative Technologies at Mid Sweden University.

FORIC is a graduate school in close cooperation with companies in Sweden where graduate students will increase their competitiveness. Academia and industry will benefit from interacting with each other.

Today biorefineries become an important way to refine forest resources and develop the industry in a sustainable direction. But not even the really big companies can handle themselves of all the processes around the technology used in a biorefinery. Optimizing the chain from forest to finished product therefore requires collaboration between different companies in the forest industry and also other companies close to forest industries, such as logistics, recycling, waste, energy etc.

Research funded by KK Foundation and the companies

30 researchers and professors from different disciplines at Mid Sweden University will be attached to the research school. Up to 50 percent of the research is funded by the Knowledge Foundation and the rest from the companies.

14 researchers start 2015

FORIC Phase 1 started in 2015 with 14 companies postgraduates and Phase 2, not yet approved, is starting in 2017, with further 15 Ph D Students. One goal is to get companies to interact with each other.

Read more about the research projects and the PhD Students here.