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On May 16th, there will be a lot of interesting China Themed activities going on! It is definitely a great opportunity to learn about China. More importantly, you will meet representatives from Atlas Copco, Finnair and Geely- might be your future employers. So do not miss out and be there to enjoy!

Free breakfast and lunch will be serviced. Please register and you are all welcome to join!

Some fun activities:

Feng Shui –  how to improve your everyday life, reduce stress and perform better! 9:00-10:00 at D2.

Try out Qigong - Why not start your day and load yourself with energy on this Qigong class? 11:00 – 12:00 at KTH-hallens entrance.

Geely lunch lecture – 13:30 – 14:30 at E3.

Crash course about China and Chinese - This course will be held by the China expert Nils Olof Ericsson, a professor at the University of Gothenburg with over 40 years of experience in China. 15:00 – 16:30 at E3.

Company Fair – with other fun games, chances to win price as well! 10:00 – 16:00 at KTH Library.

Looking forward to seeing you there

Geely is collaborating with Swedish top universities for the first time ever. This Thursday, May 16th, Geely will hold a lunch at KTH main campus during the China Week.

The Chinese car manufacturer Zhejiang Geely Holding Group is best known for the acquisition of Volvo Cars in 2010. The company, with headquarters in Hangzhou, was founded in 1986 by Li Shufu and has over 18 000 employees today. Since entering into the car market in 1997, Geely has been developing rapidly through flexible management and unremitting independent innovation. Further, Geely and Volvo Cars will establish a new Research and Development Centre in Gothenburg, developing a new modular architecture and set of components for future C-segment cars, addressing the needs of both Volvo Cars and Geely. The new R&D Centre will employ approximately 200 full-time employees from Sweden and China by the end of 2013.

Now they are here reaching out to you, so do not miss the chance to get to know Geely!

The lecture will be held in English. Lunch will be served, so please click HERE to register

Schedule for the China Week, do not forget to sign up :)

In one of my earlier post Project China – Do you know about Project China has introduced that the Project China is the largest student project with international focus in Sweden. It was established in 2003 with the purpose to discover more about the development of modern China and encourage further collaboration between Sweden and China, for students as well as businesses.

The biggest events coming up is the China Week: May 13th to May 17th. The week will consist of a series of China‐themed events, where the highlight of the week is a career fair on May 16th at KTH. The winner of the Geely Car Competition will be announced during the fair!

We warmly welcome you to explore the China week. There are a lot of fun activities, lunch lectures and another side of China that you may not know! Hopefully you will enjoy the activities and find good opportunities for your future career! 

For more detailed information, please visit the Project China website: http://projectchina.se

After a long period of admission and selection process, it is time to start to prepare your trip to Sweden! Still, I would like to share some information and my experience that hopefully you will find useful. 

1: Pay the tuition fee: Unlike the application fee, which is paid to University Admissions in Sweden, tuition fees are paid directly to the university the student plans on attending. For more information, please click HERE.

2：Accommodation:  It is very difficult to find an apartment in capital cities like Stockholm. But KTH gives a great offer to tuition fee paying students that they can rent the apartments from KTH.  And now it is time to apply for an apartment. Tuition paying Master´s students and Master´s students holding a scholarship need to  submit your application to KTH Accommodation before 31 May

3: Estimate your living costs in Sweden: Here are some information you can check to estimate your living costs in Stockholm: KTH official detailed information  and one of my old post Living expenses.

5: Residence permit for studying: If you have decided to come to Sweden for your master’s studies, then after paying the tuition fees, it is time to apply for a residence permit for studying. Detailed information from Swedish Migration website.

6: Checklist: KTH provides you a very clear checklist for newly admitted students, check it out!

It is very difficult to find an apartment in capital cities like Stockholm. But KTH provides a great offer to fee-paying international students that they can have the apartments for two years.

The new students for autumn term are coming in the August. Welcome!

For students who need to find an apartment, now is time to make sure that you have got an apartment. If not, I suggest you to contact the accommodation office of KTH and ask them if there are ways to get help in later time.

Meanwhile, help yourself out by searching from some of the students’ accommodation companies. Contact with them and ask them if they can provide you any accommodation.

http://www.sssb.se is the most popular student accommodation and it is not easy to get an offer from them. The waiting time is high for this company. However, I recommend you to register in their website, because it will help you to get a good accommodation later on.

Links below are some of the students’ accommodation companies:

Campus Roslagen: http://www.campus-roslagen.se

Huddinge kommuns fastighetsbolag: http://www.huge.se/student/index.asp

Kista studentbostäder: http://www.kistastudentbostader.se/

Proventum: http://www.proventum.se/

Ekenman Fastigheter: http://www.ekenman.se/

studentlya.nu: http://www.studentlya.nu/

Svenska Studentbostadsföreningen: http://www.sokstudentbostad.se/

Studenthemmet Tempus: http://www.studenthemmettempus.se/

Vasakronan: http://www.vasakronan.se/sv/Bostad/Studen-flats/

Most of the above mentioned companies have their home page in English and you should contact them personally if you want to rent an accommodation or have information.

You may also sublet accommodation from private persons. The advertisement for subletting and second hand accommodation can be found at,

http://www.kth.se/student/studentliv/bostad/formedling

http://www.blocket.se

http://www.studentlya.nu/

For the second hand contact or sublet accommodation, DO NOT pay before you get the key. There has been a lot of fraud regarding this.

Good luck!

Known for the acquisition of the former Swedish Volvo Car Corporation, Geely is one of the leading car manufacturers in China. I have introduced Project China in my previous posts: the largest student project with international focus in Sweden. It was established in 2003 with the purpose to discover more about the development of modern China and encourage further collaboration between Sweden and China, for students as well as businesses.

This year, Geely is holding in cooperation with Project China launches a car design competition where you can present your ideas on what future cars could look like — design a next generation car! Geely wants to find  the creativity of the students at one of the best technical universities in Sweden which comes to KTH students! Competing teams may consist of up to 4 people and is only open to students at KTH

In doing this, the top prize is a trip to China for everyone in the team including visa fees, airplane tickets and living in a nice hotel. You also get to visit the Headquarters of Geely to learn about their company hands on.

Do not miss the good opportunity and take part in the coolest car design competition ever!

For more information, please click HERE. Good Luck!

Each year a select group of students studying mechanics at KTH build a robot together. This year the students decided to dedicate the robot to indie-superstar Robyn (who´s one of the most famous artists in Sweden). The reason for this is Robyn’s obvious love for robots for writing several songs about them, such as ”Fembot”, ”Robot Boy” and ”The Girl And The Robot”. The main goal for this project is for Robyn to embrace and interact with the robot, both physically and digitally.

She came to KTH last Friday and all the students got really excited. Have a look at the film of pop star, our beloved Robyn!

Check out more information about the PROJECT. Also take a look at what Robyn says on the blog!

In one of my previous posts, I have mentioned that I had a chance to make a new blog film and here you are: this short film gives you some basic information about the KTH Innovation Department.

The KTH Innovation Department aims to connect research and ideas to business and industry. One of the ways they can do this is by fostering entrepreneurship among students and organizations.

In the blog film, you will be able to see an example from a start up company from Student Incubator that supported by the KTH innovation department, as well as different offers that you can get as a student from KTH.

I hope you find it interesting and get some useful information from this video. More importantly, I hope you like it! 

Did you know  that our beloved president Peter Godmundson starts blogging now? Yes, you hear me right, President writes on current issues and events concerning KTH. Updated on Mondays (except public holidays, during school terms)

There are 5 posts on his blog now and they are all quite interesting to read. Let’s go and have a look: The President’s Thoughts – http://www.kth.se/blogs/president/