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Research partnerships and collaborations

With a wide range of academic and industrial projects, collaborations and partnerships across the world, Scania is a dynamic and highly accessible research partner.

Scania has a broad and deep research portfolio, investing in pioneering and emerging technologies for the future transport ecosystem that have the potential to impact our customers and society for many years to come.

 

Our research activities are conducted in several different strategically important themes, ranging from Vehicle Design (aerodynamics, weight reduction, and circular design), to Software & Connectivity (including AI and cybersecurity) and Sustainable Production.

But while we carry out world-class research and development, Scania has always been clear that we cannot achieve our vision of a sustainable transport system by ourselves. To really drive forward new technologies, we work with various academic and research institutes and other partners to see how the latest theories or design possibilities can have an impact in the real world. In this way, Scania is a true partner in innovation and research.”

Our engagement with external researchers and partners can take different forms:
  • Fixed-term research projects with several external actors (academia, city, customers, etc.), which seeks to find a technological or system solution to a particular problem or need, or collaborations with a particular university or research institution that can help us boost knowledge, competence or address specific technological requirements within a certain field.
  • Strategic, long-term partnerships with academic or other research institutions to meet ongoing knowledge and technological needs.

An overall goal of engagements with external researchers and partners is to build deep knowledge, both internally but also externally, to secure access to competence and the future supply of skilled engineers.

Short-term projects and collaborations

Scania has hundreds of different research projects ongoing at any one time, including scores of examples that involve external funding and external collaborators.

 

Our work here ranges from short-term projects including HITS, E-Charge, TREE to participating in technological and industry research groupings such as AI Sweden, Digital Futures, Swedish Electromobility Centre and Software Centre, just to mention a few.

Strategic, long-term research partnerships

Academia has a vital role to play in coming up with new innovations to create the transport system of the future. Scania has long had strategic partnerships with leading academic institutions, especially in Sweden. We also offer our talented staff the chance to study for a PhD while also being employed as industrial students.

“Our industrial PhD students constitute an important bridge to new knowledge,” says Anders Berglund, Head of External Cooperation at Scania’s Research and Innovation office. “These are insights we presently need but primarily need for the future.”

As industrial PhD students, they attain a deeper understanding of the research area in question and can later contribute to the organisation with this expertise. Meanwhile, they’re also a link between Scania and institutions of higher learning, thereby contributing to attracting new students and new collaborative projects between Scania and academia.

 

Here are two of Scania’s most prominent long-term, strategic academic partnerships:

Scania and KTH

Scania has had a partnership with KTH, Stockholm’s Royal Institute of Technology, since 2011. In fact, KTH is the main supplier of the technological skills for Scania in the form of recruitment and PhD students, who are playing a key role in Scania’s development of crucial technologies such as connectivity and electrification.

 

At the institute’s Integrated Transport Lab, a joint initiative between KTH, Scania and Region Stockholm, researchers conduct tests in the following key areas: “connected, automated, and supervised transport”, “fossil-free and clean transport”, and “efficient transport, logistics, and mobility concepts”.

Scania and Stockholm School of Economics

It’s not only about technological skills. We need other competencies in economics and the humanities too. In 2018, Scania formalised a partnership with the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE). The Scania Centre of Innovation Operational Excellence, part of SSE’s institution for innovation, is led by Associate Professor Martin Sköld, a lecturer and author with a profound knowledge of the automotive industry.

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