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  • KTH's President visited SEED

    Published Oct 05, 2023

    On September 20th, SEED had the pleasure of hosting a visit from KTH's President, Anders Söderholm, Deputy President Mikael Lindström, and Björn Berggren, Head of school for Architecture and the Built...

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  • Ready, set, go for the "Over & Oat" project

    Published Sep 15, 2023

    New research project aims at innovative food ingredients and focuses on creating high-value residual products that today is used as animal feed and fertilizer.

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  • KTH FOOD on the Circular Gastronomy Challenge jury

    Smiling woman.
    Rebecka Milestad. Photo: Fredrik Persson
    Published Sep 01, 2023

    Rebecka Milestad, deputy director of KTH FOOD, has been appointed as a jury member for the sustainability award Circular Gastronomy Challenge. The prize is awarded to people or organizations within th...

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  • SEED Day 2023

    Published Jun 15, 2023
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  • Fieldwork with local fishing communities in Colombia to co-create more sustainable futures

    Published May 30, 2023
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  • Massoud Behboudian recieves internationalization award

    Published May 17, 2023

    The UT-TUMS International Festival 2023 has awarded Massoud Behboudian as best researcher within the Internationalization strategic objective.

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  • AI to help Stockholmers with their energy use

    Inner courtyard in Norra Djurgårdsstaden, Stockholm.
    Inner courtyard in Norra Djurgårdsstaden, Stockholm. Photo: City of Stockholm
    Published Apr 28, 2023

    Over the course of two years, KTH researchers will build a digital platform, a chatbot and an advisory function based on AI that can help individuals and property associations in their efforts to curb...

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  • Nils Johansson posts on DN Debatt

    Glas bottles
    Refillable glass bottles used to be standard.
    Published Apr 26, 2023
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  • Tune in for pod talk on Future Education with Luigia Brandimarte

    Pod talk on Future Education
    Published Apr 11, 2023

    SEED's Luigia Brandimarte, winner of KTH Pedagogical Prize 2022, has been invited as a guest speaker at the next episode of Fikasnack: om framtidens utbildning, a KTH podcast series about education of...

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  • Taking learning out of the classroom

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    Luigia Brandimarte winner of this year’s KTH Pedagogical Prize. Photo: Magnus Glans
    Published Feb 01, 2023

    “Be creative, cross discipline boundaries and take learning out of the classroom”. This sums up KTH Associate Professor Luigia Brandimarte’s outlook on education methodology. And that outlook helped h...

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  • Olga Kordas is among this year's most powerful in sustainability

    Published Apr 13, 2022

    The year's most powerful in sustainability has been named. This year, the jury has selected 101 people who all make significant contributions to make Sweden more sustainable. One of these is Associate...

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  • Prosun Bhattacharya awarded the George Burke Maxey Distinguished Service Award 2021

    Photo: Private
    Published Apr 13, 2022

    Professor Prosun Bhattacharya has been awarded the George Burke Maxey Distinguished Service Award 2021. Presented annually, the award recognizes exemplary service "to the hydrogeology profession and t...

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  • Europe doesn’t realize full extent of threat to Mediterranean soil

    a vineyard in Italy with a farmhouse in the background.
    Mediterranean region has the overall highest soil erosion rates within the Europe, the lowest levels of soil organic matter and severe salinisation problems. Pictured: a vineyard in Italy. (Franco Volpato, mostphotos.com)
    Published Feb 16, 2022

    Europe’s Mediterranean countries produce a significant portion of the world’s wines, olives, nuts and tomatoes. But research shows that the region’s farms and orchards are the most susceptible in Euro...

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  • The pandemic made her join the circus

    Published Nov 24, 2021

    Like many others, Luigia Brandimarte was forced to teach online when the pandemic struck. Being used to interactive teaching in classrooms, she found it difficult to explain complex concepts to her st...

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  • New paper on international diplomacy for responsible development in the Arctic

    Published Nov 02, 2021

    A new paper with authors from Sweden, Canada, Greenland, Denmark, Russia, the United Kingdom, and Finland is looking at the importance of healthy ecosystems for human and animal health and the need fo...

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  • New docent among the foremost in social life-cycle assessment

    Foto: Maruf Rahman / Pixabay
    Published Oct 27, 2021

    After fifteen years as a consultant in sustainability and an academic plunge in social sustainability, it’s easy to see that Elisabeth Ekener, new Docent at the Department of Sustainable Development, ...

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  • Anna Björklund promoted to Professor of Environmental Strategic Analysis

    Published Jul 05, 2021

    Congratulations Anna Björklund to your promotion to Professor of Environmental Strategic Analysis!

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  • Learning sustainability by doing - Collaborative, active and reflexive learning

    Foto: Kaleidico / Unsplash
    Published Jun 16, 2021

    Kateryna Pereverza and Oleksii Pasichnyi are researchers and teachers at the Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering (SEED). With a strong interest in teaching, co...

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  • Collaborations to understand and manage water

    Wetlands
    Fornik Tsai / Unsplash
    Published Apr 21, 2021

    Zahra Kalantari is an early-career scientist and new Associate professor at the Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering (SEED), with her main competence in Geoscie...

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  • Getting minerals from water is as important as hydrating, says researcher-author

    A person holds a glass under a tap with running water.
    Drinking water should contain the right balance of the vital minerals, according to KTH guest researcher Ingegerd Rosborg. Photo: Lars Owesson/Scandinav
    Published Mar 22, 2021

    The water we drink should contain more than 20 vital minerals, which are needed to protect against various diseases, says KTH guest researcher Ingegerd Rosborg. She co-authored a book that has become ...

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