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Project unites construction titans to revolutionize shared housing
During the workshop, participants discussed, among other things, regulatory changes to facilitate shared accommodation. Published Jan 10, 2024In a series of workshops, the Delbo project will bring together influential actors in the construction sector to open up more shared housing in Sweden.
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KTH secures funding for Climate Compatible Growth
Participants from a CCG workshop in Kenya about “Whole energy system model” in May 2023. KTH’s Agnese Beltramo and Roberto Heredia lead it together with two colleagues from the University College London. Published Jan 08, 2024KTH has secured extended funding for the Climate Compatible Growth (CCG) project*. The collaborative initiative, targeting effective energy sector policies in countries of the global south, has alread...
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Self-driving vehicles - Are we ready?
A self-driving bus travelling a route in Barkaby, northern Stockholm (Photo: Mostphotos). Published Dec 20, 2023With more autonomous vehicles on our roads, road deaths are predicted to decrease. At the same time, the risk of both increased emissions and seriously impaired public health rises. A new KTH study of...
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Frauke Urban in panel discussion at COP28
Professor Frauke Urban discussed the role of technology for achieving sustainable development. Published Dec 12, 2023Frauke Urban from KTH’s Department of Industrial Economics and Management (INDEK) participated in a panel discussion at the recent COP28 climate summit to discuss the interaction between academia and ...
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11th Scandinavian Conference on System and Software Safety
Published Dec 11, 202360 participants, mainly from Swedish industry, gathered in Stockholm on 21-22 November for SCSSS 2023, co-organised by MMK's Fredrik Asplund.
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"Unleashing society's innovation capacity"
“Sweden's economy is characterized by successful entrepreneurship and innovation. This is thanks to a reform agenda that has been gradually rolled out since the mid-1980s. The Swedish experience provides useful lessons for other nations, but now we need political measures to attract more talent,” says economics professor Pontus Braunerhjelm. Published Dec 11, 2023Keeping the entrepreneurial spirit in society requires new thinking in politics and business. So says KTH professor Pontus Braunerhjelm, who, with co-author Magnus Henrekson, has published a new book ...
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KTH dES publishes a new groundbreaking open-access course on clean cooking access modeling
Published Dec 08, 2023OnStove, the revolutionary geospatial clean cooking tool developed by the division of Energy Systems (dES) at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, takes a giant leap forward with the release of an open-...
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KTH Japan Day builds bridges through language, culture, and collaboration
Per Lundqvist, Pär Jönsson, Akiko Shirabe and other participants at KTH Japan Day. Published Dec 06, 2023When KTH Language and Communication together with the Embassy of Japan in Sweden arranged KTH Japan day November 27, a wide audience joined up – from fresh students to senior professors.
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Henrik Henriksson's visions form course at KTH
Henrik Henriksson. Published Dec 06, 2023In 2021, former Scania CEO Henrik Henriksson initiated a course at KTH in Sustainable Industry. Following the success of the course in the spring of 2023, which featured influential business leaders a...
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Researchers at INDEK granted SEK 5.9 million for project on circular economy
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Challenge of living without a car
Electrically powered cargo bikes were used by citizen scientists to replace cars. The picture is from a start-up event organised by the research project (Photo: Magnus Atterfors). Published Dec 04, 2023How hard can it be to live a car-free everyday life? Quite problematic if you have to juggle work and leisure activities. This was demonstrated when a number of households in southern Stockholm were c...
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INDEK shines at the ScAIEM annual conference
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Money to digitize the industry
Published Nov 29, 2023Vinnova grants KTH and three other universities SEK 25 million for ADAPT – a new business model for industrial skills development.
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Project to boost machinery components' life
Published Nov 29, 2023A new project aims to improve the lifetime of machine parts by utilizing advanced surface functionalization of components. Researcher Robert Tomkowski from the Department of Production Engineering is ...
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Researchers are granted 2.6 million SEK for project on recycling systems for solar panels
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New Doctoral Position for Innovative Climate-Land-Energy-Water Systems Modeling
Published Nov 14, 2023The Division of Energy Systems within the Department of Energy Technology at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), opens new Doctoral position focused on advancing integrated Climate-Land-Energy-Wa...
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In case you missed it: Cokitchen presented at SVID
Published Nov 10, 2023Sara Ilstedt, KTH, presents results from the project Co-kitchen sustainable co-living for students. The project has focused on the shared kitchen and bathroom in collective housing. The kitchen is a c...
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Our Sara explores "home"
Photo: Stockholms Akademiska Forum Published Nov 10, 2023As part of STOCKHOLM EXPLORATIVE TALKS 2023, Sara Ilstedt and fellow explorers ventured into the murky waters of academia's role in bridging perspectives and making our world, specifically in relation...
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Patent pending and Start-up from a Mechatronics Bachelors Thesis Project
The bed bug device has been tested in a lab with a handful of bed bugs. [Photo: David Callahan] Published Nov 10, 2023The bedbug invasion has been big news recently! KTH students Maja Åstrand and Simon Lilja, who took the FiM course in Spring 2022, may have found a solution.
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INDEK starts a debate forum on research and education
Published Nov 06, 2023Weak performance and a skewed distribution of Swedish professors' societal impact, according to a recent study. Listen as Fredrik Sjöholm debates the topic with KTH's Deputy President Mikael Lindströ...
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