The course will be organized in 6 seminars with lectures and presentations. It will be composed of inspirational lecture by KTH-staff and external professionals and presentations by the doctoral students. The inspirational lectures target opening perspective and provide tools to identify and understand societal challenges, technical needs and innovative science. Doctoral student presentations will complement the course and will consist of 3 presentations for each group of 4 or 5 students.
These presentations have different objective and will focus successively on
- reviewing litterature for the field and prepare a 10 min online presentation.
- choose a societal challenge and present an analysis with adequate support, exemples and argument/facts. The students will chose a societal challenge to examine, find and present data to define the challenge and set ground for addressing the challenge
- relate technical solutions and research challenges. The doctoral students will identify technologies and research bottlenecks that are relevant to the challenge presented earlier. Theses technologies will be presented critically and the students will examine the potential of better understanding for empowering innovation and erase bottlenecks.
The course output (selected presentations by the doctoral students) will be in form of presentations and digital material. The latest can be presented at different events organised by KTH, e.g. KTH sustainability days, KTH Energy Dialogue.