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  • KTH and MIT in research collaboration

    Researchers on both sides of the Atlantic, together, will exchange ideas, decide and build the research that will be conducted based on what Stockholm city and other collaborative actors need
    Published Mar 05, 2019

    KTH together with MIT, one of the world’s highest-ranking universities, are now entering into a research collaboration around urban planning and development where Stockholm city is the focus. The hub ...

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  • Interested in the methodology of science? Sign up for our MOOC!

    Published Dec 18, 2018

    What is good science? How is scientific research carried out in the best way? And what is the best way to communicate your findings? KTH has just launched the new MOOC course Philosophy of Science f...

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  • Grön BoStad Stockholm granted an additional 15 million SEK

    Published Dec 11, 2018

    The Grön BoStad Stockholm platform is working to strengthen sustainable urban development in the housing sector. The Structural Funds Partnership Stockholm have now decided to invest another 15 millio...

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  • Exploring the use of circular public procurement to promote a circular economy

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    Published Nov 16, 2018

    Public procurement accounts for about one fifth of Swedish GDP and is thus a very powerful tool for helping to transform our society in a more sustainable direction. A new project is being started on...

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  • KTH and Värmdö municipality start test bed in water supply

    Published Nov 16, 2018

    Watercentre@KTH has been awarded SEK 500,000 from Vinnova for a water supply test bed project together with Värmdö municipality. The aim is to develop new sustainable and small-scale solutions for saf...

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  • Large portion of Amazon rain forest could lose legal protection

    Large areas of the Amazon rain forest in Brazil are facing destruction if provisions of Brazil's law are invoked.
    Published Nov 14, 2018

    Nearly 150,000 square kilometers of the Amazon rain forest in Brazil is at risk of losing its legal protection, according to a new Swedish-Brazilian study involving KTH.

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  • RSA Best Book Award 2018 to Tigran Haas and Hans Westlund

    Published Oct 30, 2018

    The Regional Studies Association has awarded Tigran Haas and Hans Westlund the Routledge Best Book Award 2018 for their recent book "In the Post-urban World: Emergent Transformation of Cities and Regi...

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  • FORMAS funds new project on disruptive wastewater and heat recovery!

    Published Oct 18, 2018

    Recently FORMAS decided to award close to 9 million SEK to the project "Ensuring sustainability and equality of water and energy systems during actor-driven disruptive innovation". The project is coor...

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  • KTH part of the new Mistra programme ‘Smart Infrastructure Maintenance’

    David Nilsson, WaterCentre@KTH, with KTH's President Sigbritt Karlsson
    Published Jun 19, 2018

    Mistra's board just decided on a new research programme that will lead to smarter methods of planning, financing and organising the maintenance of municipal infrastructure focusing on water, sewers an...

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  • KTH alumni named among the world's most promising lighting designers

    Published May 22, 2018

    The Lighting Design Awards have announced the 40under40 of the year to celebrate and acknowledge young prominent lighting designers in the world. One of the winners is KTH's Federico Favero.

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  • Plots Prints Projections - exhibition in conjunction with La Biennale di Venezia

    Published May 18, 2018

    Plots Prints Projections is an exhibition curated by Ulrika Karlsson as part of the collateral event Greenhouse Garden – Reflect Project Connect, in Serra dei Giardini in conjunction with La Biennale ...

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  • ERC grant to Environmental Historian Sverker Sörlin

    Published Apr 20, 2018

    Sverker Sörlin, Professor of Environmental History at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, is one of ten Swedish researchers receiving a grant from the European Research Council’s ERC Advanced Grants, w...

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  • Save food at KTH

    Vishal Parekh, Ph. D. student, at the department’s lunch table along with Kristina von Oelreich, head of sustainability, Linus Hasselström, researcher and Jannica Häggbom, environmental coordinator. (Photo: Håkan Lindgren)
    Published Mar 08, 2018

    Would you like to help make sure less food is thrown away? KTH Royal Institute of Technology’s campus has the potential to become best in the world at reducing food waste. A group of researchers led b...

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  • Freer examinations inspire students

    Åsa Svenfelt (left) and Ulrika Gunnarsson Östling encourage more teachers to try out freer examination formats. (Photo: Marc Femenia)
    Published Feb 23, 2018

    New knowledge via podcasts and brochures – instead of traditional reports. This was the result when a group of Master’s students got to choose the form in which to present their project work.

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  • Researchers aim to reduce food waste

    Annika Carlsson Kanyama and Greger Henriksson inspect waste storage rooms at KTH Campus. (Photo: Marc Femenia)
    Published Dec 08, 2017

    Deal with the food that is discarded but ensure less food is wasted in the first place. Researchers Greger Henriksson and Annika Carlsson-Kanyama have lots of ideas about how KTH Royal Institute of Te...

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  • Student awarded best degree project by Bo Rydin Foundation

    Published Nov 24, 2017

    Archana Ashok from Master's Programme Sustainable Technology has been awarded a grant for Best Degree Project 2017. The award comes from Bo Rydin Foundation for Scientific Research.

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  • ARWU (Shanghai): KTH ranked 15th in the world in Transport Science & Technology

    Published Aug 21, 2017

    KTH is ranked 15th in the world in the field of Transport Science & Technology in this year's ARWU (Shanghai) Global Ranking of Academic Subjects.

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  • KTH Tech Talks: Algae farming – a sustainable solution

    Published Jun 09, 2017

    In this episode of KTH Tech Talks, Fredrik Gröndahl from the department of Sustainable development, Environmental science and Engineering (SEED) and Fredrika Gullfot, founder of Simris Alg, discuss gr...

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  • Students competed in bridge construction

    Published May 24, 2017

    Student competition BRICO 2017 - The Nordic Steel Bridge Competition took place 17-19 May 2017 in Tallinn with 16 teams. One of the competing teams was made up of students from Master's programme Civi...

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  • Demonstration in support of facts and science

    The spread of the resistance to facts threatens the democratic structure of society, according to Elisabeth Ekener, one of the organisers of the March for Science. (Photo: Håkan Lindgren)
    Published Apr 19, 2017

    Do you want to help counter the spread of fake news and resistance to facts? On Saturday, 22 April, people will gather in Stockholm and in other cities around the world to hold the March for Science, ...

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