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Educational pioneer named new Vice President
Per Lundqvist, new Vice President for Sustainable Development. Published Mar 29, 2021Per Lundqvist, Professor in Energy Technology, at the School of Industrial Engineering and Management will be KTH Vice President for Sustainable Development from the first of April.
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KTH gets a sense of the well-being of its employees
Annica Fröberg, Photo: Håkan Lindgren. Published Mar 16, 2021A study is underway to determine how employees cope with the ongoing pandemic and how the work environment has been affected. The method provides quick and continuous answers. Collaboration gets good ...
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Stubbornness and humility yielded success
Published Mar 09, 2021Working with students on gender equality, diversity, and equal treatment issues (JML) issues is not always easy. Viggo Kann, Professor and Course Coordinator at the School of Electrical Engineering an...
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On-site in the pandemic, part four
Published Mar 08, 2021For a year, we have been living with the pandemic that rapidly changed many of us' working lives. The day-to-day work on campus switched to working from home and remote teaching – but not for all KTH ...
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On-site in the pandemic, part three
Published Mar 01, 2021For a year, we have been living with the pandemic that rapidly changed many of us' working lives. The day-to-day work on campus switched to working from home and remote teaching – but not for all KTH ...
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New sustainability objectives for KTH
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals Published Feb 26, 2021Sustainable, equal and climate neutral. These three words summarise KTH’s new sustainable development and climate objectives.
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On-site in the pandemic, part two
Published Feb 23, 2021For a year, we have been living with the pandemic that rapidly changed many of us' working lives. The day-to-day work on campus switched to working from home and remote teaching – but not for all KTH ...
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The latest annual report out now
Published Feb 22, 2021The KTH Royal Institute of Technology 2020 annual report is now available for reading. It contains a comprehensive account of KTH’s operations for 2020, a year which was partly characterised by the pa...
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The distance learning technical foundation year programme promotes broadened recruitment
Students at KTH study together. Published Feb 18, 2021We are just over a semester into the new extra foundation year programmes in Flemingsberg and Södertälje that KTH developed quickly at the request of the government. Both programmes are based on dista...
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The plan for lifting KTH 2021
Sigbritt Karlsson, President of KTH and Kerstin Jacobsson, University Director talking about the annual business plan. Published Feb 17, 2021Education and learning of tomorrow, competitiveness and how cooperation is energising. These are a few of the things that come up for discussion when Sigbritt Karlsson, President, and Kerstin Jacobss...
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Five reasons for KTH researchers to join the KTH Innovation pre-incubator program
Published Feb 16, 2021Working on your research and a commercialization project at the same time can seem daunting. But with support from KTH Innovation and a spot in the KTH Innovation pre-incubator program it’s proven to ...
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Part one of the theme: On-site in the pandemic
Published Feb 15, 2021For a year, we have been living with the pandemic that rapidly changed many of us' working lives. The day-to-day work on campus switched to working from home and remote teaching – but not for all KTH ...
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Light-hearted talk about digital work methods
Patric Jansson is group manager for the development team and Johan Flid Fridell is a project manager working with system administration. Both believe that digitalisation leads to operational development. Published Feb 09, 2021It is valuable to disseminate good examples of how we can use digital tools in our work and learn from each other, say Johan Flid Fridell and Patric Jansson of KTH’s IT Office. Since last fall, they h...
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Energy and motivation dip during the pandemic
Teo Elmfeldt, chair of the School Council at the School of Engineering Sciences (SCI), feels it is important that teachers are attuned to student needs during distance learning. (Photo: Fysiksektionen) Published Feb 09, 2021What’s it like to be a student during a pandemic? Up and down. The greater distance between teachers and students has affected the quality of education, Master’s Student Teo Elmfeldt, believes. “It i...
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How will Swedish KTH students be affected by Brexit?
Published Feb 04, 2021What changes can students at KTH expect now Britain is no longer a member of the EU? We asked Åsa Carlsson, Head of Division at the International Relations Office, IRO, at KTH.
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Students and supervisors like clarity and deadlines
Anita Kullen Photo: Susanne Kronholm Published Jan 26, 2021Hello there, Anita Kullen. In addition to being an associate professor, you're also responsible for the bachelor's thesis course in the EECS School's program for electrical engineering. The course is ...
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He received the prize for transforming KTH’s teaching during the pandemic
Stefan Stenbom Photo: Susanne Kronholm Published Jan 26, 2021Hello there Stefan Stenbom, lecturer at the ITM School's Department of Learning. When KTH quickly switched from traditional education to digital teaching this spring, you were tasked with leading and ...
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About the salary process
Published Jan 18, 2021During 2020 the central agreements where postponed due to the current pandemic. However, the central and local agreements have now been negotiated and the salary review can therefore take place.
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Team IT Support won KTH Active Together
The training sessions were carried out during November and December and the participants posted pictures from their various activities in the competition app We +. Published Jan 15, 2021This autumn’s session of the KTH Active Together competition during November and December attracted 739 employees that carried out different types of exercises, either individually or in a team and as...
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Fun Zoom activities made Christmas less lonely
The invitations to the various activities that the students could sign up for. Published Jan 15, 2021Hello there Alexandra Leyton, communications officer at EECS. You were the project manager for social activities for international students at EECS during the Christmas holidays. What led you to launc...
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