External environmental re-certification Audit, 19-22 April In April a re-certification audit will be conducted which shall cover the entire KTH. The purpose is to assess how well the environmental management system is integrated and performing and progressing at KTH. Audits are conducted annually while re-certification audits are every third year. Previous certification audits have been in 2015 and 2018. KTH Sustainability Office is coordinating the audit together with the certification body Qualify and leadership at KTH to identify which functions and parts of KTH will participate. The 2021 re-certification audit will focus on: changes in processes and routines, leadership engagement, campuses and specific departments at KTH schools and GVS. New Vice President for Sustainable Development Per Lundqvist, Professor in Energy Technology, is KTH Vice President for Sustainable Development from the first of April.
Read “New Vice President for Sustainable Development” Webinar: KTH's new sustainability goals in everyday life: what should we do? Welcome to the start of a series of webinars on how we can together take the next steps for sustainable development at KTH. KTH's employees, students and collaboration partners interact and collaborate daily basis for a sustainable future. Every day many decisions are made where sustainability should be an important foundation. How we travel, what we buy and not least what we teach and conduct research about is important for how we promote sustainability both at KTH and in society. Our university wide sustainability objectives and climate objectives with associated action plans show us the way forward. They are the tools that ensure that what we do is effective and that our progress can be measured, evaluated and developed.
Time: Fri 2021-05-28 12.00 - 13.00
This webinar will be held in Swedish. The webinar will be published with English text afterwards. Please register here
External environmental re-certification Audit, 19-22 April In April a re-certification audit will be conducted which shall cover the entire KTH. The purpose is to assess how well the environmental management system is integrated and performing and progressing at KTH. Audits are conducted annually while re-certification audits are every third year. Previous certification audits have been in 2015 and 2018. KTH Sustainability Office is coordinating the audit together with the certification body Qualify and leadership at KTH to identify which functions and parts of KTH will participate. The 2021 re-certification audit will focus on: changes in processes and routines, leadership engagement, campuses and specific departments at KTH schools and GVS.
Experimentation with Circular Service Business Models, 21 April Preliminary results from the Circular X project (https://www.circularx.eu/en) CE@KTH is delighted to invite you to attend the webinar with Prof. Dr Nancy Bocken on 'Experimentation with Circular Service Business Models'. Nancy Bocken is a Professor in Sustainable Business at Maastricht Sustainability Institute, Maastricht University. She is also a visiting professor at Lund University, Sweden and LUT University Finland, and a Fellow at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership
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Network event: AI in the service of climate 2, April 21 Welcome to a network event to share ideas and meet partners for applying to the Vinnova call AI in the service of climate. This joint effort by Vinnova and Formas requires industrial partners in the consortium. Both researchers at KTH and external partners are welcome. Participants need to provide a project idea, a short description about her/his own expertise and what partner she/he is looking for in order to apply. This is done as part of the registration.
Time: Tue 2021-04-13 13.00 - 15.00
More information and registration Digital forskarnätverksträff om pågående forskningsprojekt om sexuella trakasserier 21 april 2021 Syftet med träffen är att presentera och diskutera pågående forskning i Sverige och internationellt, som ett led i utvecklingen av området. Träffen sker inom ramen för forsknings- och samverkansprogrammet som initierats av Karolinska Institutet, KTH, Malmö universitet och Nationella sekretariatet för genusforskning vid Göteborgs universitet. Målgruppen är forskare och övriga aktiva inom programmets områden. Mer information och registrering Call: Environment and sustainability without borders
The internal call for projects addressing environment and sustainability, MHU på tvärs, is now open: Call: Environment and sustainability without boundaries | KTH DL May 7.
And don't forget to regularly check the list of open calls within Environment and Sustainable Development. It is updated continuously via Research Professional and is only available if you have a KTH account.
Follow this link to access the list
ISCN 2021: Accelreating Climate Action and Sustainability, Virtual Conference 2-4 June 2021 The ISCN 2021 conference will provide a timely opportunity to exchange ideas on how climate action and sustainable development at universities can be fostered from an academic, operational and student perspective.
More information and registration here Forskningkommunikation - Skrivcoachning Text och stil är en satsning av Stiftelsen Natur & Kultur och Institutet för framtidsstudier, som under 2021 erbjuder alla svenska universitet gratis skrivcoachning med författaren Magnus Linton. Projektet riktar sig till både juniora och seniora forskare vid landets alla lärosäten. Under vår och höst ges 15 interaktiva workshops om skrivande, 30 inspirerande föreläsningar om textberättandets tekniker och utmaningar och under senhösten arrangeras en tvådagars skrivarskola i Stockholm.
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