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The stock market makes a contribution to climate action
The diploma session was an opportunity for the three organisations to meet each other and the responsible for the initiative at Nordnet. Foto: ITM. Published Apr 04, 2022KTH Climate Action Centre, The Keep Sweden Tidy Foundation and The Baltic Salmon Foundation have each received a third of a donation from the digital bank Nordnet and its customers. On April 1, it was...
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We know what we should be doing to solve the climate crisis, why are we not doing it?
Figure: Synergies and trade-offs between climate action and the SDGs Targets. (Source: Fuso Nerini et al, Connecting climate action with other Sustainable Development Goals, Nature Sustainability 2019) Published Apr 04, 2022Today, April 4, IPCC Working Group III has released its long-awaited Sixth Assessment Report. The report urges for system-level climate action and focuses on the transformative changes needed to achie...
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Ethics are important when working with smart cities
Stockholm Heat is one example of a smart city project that is being implemented within the parameters of Stockholm Senseable Lab. Researchers in the project are using a method, City Scanner, where low cost sensors that measure the ambient and ground temperature, are fitted to pod taxis. Photo: Susanne Kronholm Published Mar 30, 2022One key to achieve Stockholm’s vision of being the world’s smartest city by 2040, is the use of digitalisation, sensors and artificial intelligence (AI), to analyse huge volumes of data that are gener...
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Stainless-steel slag treat acidic wastewater
Photo: Jernkontoret Published Mar 23, 2022Slag from stainless-steel can substitute the use of lime to neutralise industrial acidic wastewater. This way part of the CO2 emissions derived by the extraction and processing of lime can be avoided,...
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Four KTH projects win big EU grants
1) Four research projects from KTH have been awarded ERC Consolidator Grants. Photos in the collage: upper left image: National Cancer Institute, upper right image: Raghavendra V. Konkathi, lower left image: Paul Vincent, lower right image: This is Engineering. All photos from Unsplash. Published Mar 22, 2022The recently published European Research Council list of European researchers who will receive 2021 ERC Consolidator Grants, contained the names of 313 researchers who will each be awarded a grant. Fo...
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How AI can improve elderly care
Published Mar 21, 2022Researchers are looking to AI solutions to help geriatric multimorbidity patients avoid too much unnecessary shuttling between home and hospital stays. “Health problems can often be prevented by mor...
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Autonomous vehicles en route to the city
Future 5G Ride is a development of the 5G Ride project. Since 2020, researchers have been working with 5G and remote monitoring of vehicles via a traffic tower, something that will contribute to a smooth introduction of self-driving buses in an urban environment. Photo: 5G Ride Published Mar 14, 2022The automobile with a mind of its own is a recurring fantasy in TV and film dating back to the 1960s. But it’s nearly time for KITT, Christine and Herbie the Love Bug to pull over and let some real-li...
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SEK 99 million to small lead-cooled nuclear reactors
“We are performing all the research that is needed before the construction of a lead-cooled nuclear reactor. The aim is to build an electrically heated pilot plant that can be used to prove the viability of an actual reactor,” says Professor Pär Olsson at KTH. Published Feb 21, 2022Researchers and industry in Sweden are working closely together to realise fourth generation lead-cooled nuclear power plants. Testing and preparatory work is in progress at KTH ahead of production of...
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Europe doesn’t realize full extent of threat to Mediterranean soil
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, 2022Europe’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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'I want to at least contribute toward equality'
"There has to be a match between the scholarship and the person who gets it," says Valerie Babkina. (Photo: Margarita Babenko) Published Feb 10, 2022Valerie Babkina is determined to stop gendering in mass communications, particularly in her native Russia. That vision of sustainability has guided her in earning three successive scholarships, beginn...
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Céline Montanari, Biocomposites
Céline Montanari. Photo: Gabriella Mastantuoni, KTH Published Feb 02, 2022In recent years, the development of transparent wood biocomposites derived from delignified wood substrates have gained interest because they combine attractive structural properties with optical func...
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Research in between educational and technical history
Lina Rahm researches critical pedagogy and environmental humanities at the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment. Photo: Hanna Kalla Published Feb 02, 2022Lina Rahm is a new Assistant Professor at the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment. Her research focuses on the intersection between sociotechnical and educational imaginaries.
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He maps out urban activity and unequal living conditions in cities
Chen Feng is a postdoctoral fellow in Applied Urban Design (Tillämpad stadsbyggnad). Photo: Pixabay Published Jan 26, 2022Measuring urban forms and understanding how urban design can affect ways of living in the city are of great interest to Chen Feng, a postdoctoral fellow in Applied Urban Design. He is currently studyi...
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Growing ratio of women to men in master's programme recruitment
The trend of diversification amounts to a 2-point year-over-year increase since 2018. (Photo: David Callahan) Published Jan 20, 2022Female enrollment in the master’s programmes at KTH Royal Institute of Technology has been steadily rising in recent years.
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“Healthcare and welfare services should be accessible to everyone”
“It is unacceptable that healthcare personnel in Uganda have to spend 16 minutes of their valuable time with each child that is to be vaccinated on administration, instead of teaching the parents about diet and how to care for the child instead. Our technology reduces this administration time to 4 minutes,” Nabiev says. Published Dec 16, 2021Rustam Nabiev, the recipient of the KTH Innovation Award for 2021, grew up in the shadow of civil war in Tajikistan. When he was 12-years old, he supported his family by collecting PET bottles. Today...
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KTH to host the THE Innovation & Impact Summit 2022
26-28 April next year, Times Higher Education's conference, THE Innovation & Impact Summit 2022, is to be arranged at KTH. Published Dec 15, 2021Stefan Östlund, Vice President for Global Relations and project manager of the THE (Times Higher Education) Innovation & Impact Summit 2022 that will be arranged at KTH from 26 – 28 April next year. C...
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Initiatives aimed at reversing deterioration of the Baltic Sea
Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden participated in a Baltic Tech Initiative seminar at the KTH Library where she was joined by, from left, KTH Deputy President Mikael Östling, Development Office Director Philip von Segebaden and David Nilsson, scientific coordinator of the Baltic Tech Initiative. Published Dec 02, 2021The marine environment is worsening at a fast rate and KTH researchers are now working to reverse the trend in the Baltic Sea. “We want to solve the problems by, among other ways, electronically mon...
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The unit for combustion engines closes down
Published Dec 01, 2021The Department of Machin Design (MMK) is closing down the Internal Combustion Engine unit. The underlying reason is that fossil-fueled vehicles are on their way out of society.
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Researchers experiment with future of sustainable student housing
Roommates gather in the kitchen of an experimental apartment designed for research in sustainable co-living for university students. (Photo: Fredrik Persson) Published Nov 17, 2021A new, eco-friendly student residence project indicates that students in Sweden can expect a different kind of housing in the future.
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He examines adaptations in society to climate change during times of deep uncertainty
Per Wikman Svahn undersöker risker och däribland hur vi kan anpassa samhället till de stigande havsnivåerna. (Foto: Hanna Kalla) Published Nov 17, 2021Per Wikman Svahn is a researcher at the Division of Philosophy and examines, among other things, decision-making strategies during times of deep uncertainty, philosophical aspects of worst-case scenar...
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