Mikael about the summer pub and the KTH Baltic Tech Initiative

Finally! Yesterday, we were able to gather the CBH School to socialize for the first time since our summer party in 2019. Thank you to each and every one of you for participating and generously sharing your good mood. It feels like there is a pent-up need to socialize after the pandemic years and we are very happy to be able to welcome those who are new to our school. I want to express my appreciation to all of you who helped us make this summer pub a success: Marie Larson, Sabina Fabrizi, Kicki Holmberg and Viktoria Bylund! The evening also offered a surprise: Samba de Souza. A Stockholm-based percussion group that plays samba and where we got to see our HR manager Lena Birgersdotter as one of the members. They contributed with fantastic energy to our summer pub!

Last Thursday, Antonius Van Maris, Gunaratna Kuttuva Rajarao and I visited Utö. We were there to participate in a seminar on a cooperation project with the countries around the Baltic Sea to improve the water quality in our common inland sea. We also got to visit the wetlands that Utöborna has created to create opportunities for pike and perch to spawn and thus increase the number of predatory fish in our local environment (read more: initiativuto.se ). These predatory fish then eat small fish so that the herbivores can increase in number and thus take care of the overproduction of algae in the Baltic Sea. A project where we at KTH participate with measurements and ideas about how, for example, phosphorus can be extracted from the sediments. If you can, take the chance to visit Utö this summer and see all the initiatives that exist to improve the marine environment! This autumn, we will continue our Baltic Tech initiative  with the hope that we will be able to fund more research on the Baltic Sea issues.

Mikael