Fundraising News

  • Private donation in use

    Published Jun 04, 2012

    The private donation of 70 million SEK that was received by the Royal Institute of Technology from Kerstin and Rune Jonasson is now being used for purchases of high-tech medical equipment in the imaging area.

  • 2012 donation scholarship students appointed

    Published Apr 25, 2012

    Via a private donation of SEK 5 million, KTH has been able to establish the Foundation THE KTH – INDIA SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION so that two scholars from India are able study at graduate level at KTH every year. Applicants must have at least a four-year Bachelor's degree from a technical university college or its equivalent in their native country.

  • Private Donation to Fund Medical Imaging Research

    Published Mar 21, 2012

    The Erling-Persson Family Foundation has donated SEK 22 million ($3.2 million) to help KTH expand research into medical imaging physics and computed tomography. The new funding will allow important new diagnostic tools to move out of the laboratory and into medical clinics.

  • Record KTH donation to support advanced medical imaging

    Published Aug 31, 2011

    A major private donation to KTH—one of the largest in the university’s history—will be devoted to development of a new centre for high technology medical imaging.

  • KTH Receives Major Private Donation for Medical Technology

    Published Jun 20, 2011

    KTH Royal Institute of Technology has received a donation from Kerstin and Rune Jonasson of SEK 70 million (€7.7 million; $11 million). The figure represents one of the largest private donations in KTH’s history.