VIPP stands for Values created In fibre-based Processes and Products and is a multidisciplinary industrial graduate school in Karlstad/Sweden. It is based on a close collaboration between companies mainly involved in the forest industry,  Chemical Engineering,  Energy and Environmental Technology as well as the Service Research Center (CTF) and the Paper Surface Center (PSC) at Karlstad University.

Research
The uniqueness of VIPP was characterized by the multitude of research areas that it combines, including pulp, paper and graphic technologies, energy and environmental techniques as well as service-oriented customer research and value creation.

Education
18 doctoral students worked at either Karlstad University or one of the collaborating enterprises, where they specialized in one of the areas mentioned above.