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UN Global Goals in focus when upper secondary school projects were awarded

Sustainable Generation 2025

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Published Jun 16, 2025

For the third year in a row, upper secondary school students have competed in “Sustainable Generation”, an initiative from KTH's School of Architecture and the Built Environment and the Företagsam Foundation, to increase young people's interest in important future issues and to stimulate schools' education on sustainability matters.

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The Sustainable Generation competition

By highlighting students' and teachers' work with the graduation project, which concludes the education in all upper secondary programs, the competition aims to contribute to stimulating interdisciplinary perspectives and working methods while simultaneously inspiring young people to future innovations and participation within the sustainability field.

Read more about the competition here (in Swedish).

The jury 2025

Björn Berggren, professor, KTH

Inga-Lill Söderberg, docent, KTH

Maria Malmström, docent, KTH

During the award ceremony at KTH Campus on 28 May, ten finalists were rewarded with 10,000 kronor each. Special focus was placed on projects with connections to the UN Global Goals.

Before the award ceremony, the winners participated in three mini-lectures that provided perspectives on various current sustainability issues. Annika Gram spoke about "Concrete and Sustainability," Milan Horemuz discussed "Geodetic Monitoring of the Vasa Ship," and Han-Suck Song addressed "Education for Sustainable Development in a World Full of Goal and Interest Conflicts."

Subsequently, the winners received diplomas from Erika Hann from the Swedish Construction Federation and Bo Sillén from the Företagsam Foundation.

The winning entries 2025

“How well can self-constructed water filters measure up to those offered by the market?”
Alex Navgren, Frida Lindgren and Linnaea Karlsson Henningsson, Procivitas privata gymnasium, Helsingborg

“Low fertility rates”
Amélia Ahlström, Procivitas privata gymnasium, Malmö

“The grass is greener on the roof”
Theodor Sellmark and Hannes Hammarsten, Norra Reals gymnasium, Stockholm

“An invisible treatment plant”
Kristoffer Björk, Nikolaj Tillberg Castenfors and Cyrus Zarrin, Värmdö gymnasium

“Gender inclusion in climate work”
Ella Esselström, Härnösands gymnasium

“Cultivation of Pleurotus Ostreatus on recycled substrate”
Abbe Sundberg, Global gymnasiet, Stockholm

“From water to weather: wave computers and weather forecasting”
Edblom Westerman, M., Mossbäck, N. & Norberg Jansson, M., Globala gymnasiet, Stockholm

“Marketed vitamin C-enriched products”
Ida Augustsson and Emma Holmquist, Nils Ericsongymnasiet, Trollhättan

“Climate messages for increased engagement among young people on social media”
Clara Nyström and Märta Månsson, Berzeliusskolan, Linköping

“An unsustainable Afghanistan”
Disa Tamsen, Saga Myhr, Saga Sundmark, Sara Snäll and Vilma Andrén, Rosendalsgymnasiet, Uppsala

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