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Investment in sustainable financial markets led by KTH
Nasdaq Stockholm, Stockholm Stock Exchange. Photo: Thomas Karlsson / DN / TT Published Jan 26, 2021The Sustainable Finance Lab consortium has been awarded financing of 47 million Swedish crowns (€4.7 million) over five years from Vinnova, with the option of a further five-year extension. Led by KTH...
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Several of the school's researchers amongst top 2% in the world according to new citation ranking
Foto: Pixabay / Pexels Published Dec 10, 2020Fourteen researchers from the School of Architecture and the Built Environment have been ranked amongst the world's top 2% in a new article from Stanford University, published in the journal PLoS Biol...
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“The sea is the key to a sustainable future”
Carp Bream is both a good and climate smart fish that unfortunately is often thrown back in the water when caught. Photo: Roger Turesson / DN / TT Published Nov 24, 2020Of the 240,000 tons of fish that are caught in Sweden annually, only 40 percent goes to food consumption. At the same time, Sweden imports three quarters of the fish and shellfish we eat. Blue Food, a...
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Sewage analysis shows sharp increase in COVID 19 virus in Stockholm
Published Oct 05, 2020The coronavirus is spreading again in Stockholm and surrounding suburbs, according to COVID 19 RNA measurements in local sewage, which are being conducted at KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
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Detection of COVID-19 in Stockholm sewage is first step toward early-warning system
Published May 05, 2020Development of an early warning system for COVID-19 outbreaks continues to move forward. Researchers at KTH reported they have successfully isolated and concentrated coronavirus RNA from wastewater sa...
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Researchers sample sewage to measure infections in six European countries
From two Stockholm water treatment plants, samples of sewage are collected at KTH Royal Institute of Technology for tracking the coronavirus and measuring the spread of COVID-19 in communities. KTH is also collecting samples in Italy, Spain, India, Netherlands and Turkey. Published Apr 16, 2020The spread of the coronavirus in Stockholm and in six European countries is being tracked through sewage samples by a research group at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, which will repor...
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Bacteria in the air visualised in hospitals
Published Mar 16, 2020KTH researchers are now using virtual reality (VR) to visualise bacteria in the air. “We visualise particle movement in indoor air and pollutants in operating rooms via so-called supercomputer simula...
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Many KTH research projects in IVA's 100 list 2020
Seafarm (Watercentre@KTH/KTH) Published Mar 10, 2020The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences' (IVA) latest 100 list highlights a variety of research projects from Swedish universities in the area of sustainability. The focus is on current re...
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Unpaid work stealing research time
Who is responsible for the service work that must be done? (Photo: Martina Holmberg/TT) Published Mar 06, 2020Who manages “academic housekeeping work” – tasks that have to be done, but you do not get credits for? These tasks are usually done by women, even though this affects their career.
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QS Subject Rankings: KTH in top 20 in Architecture/Built Environment
Published Mar 04, 2020In the latest QS World University Rankings by Subject and by Faculty, KTH Royal Institute of Technology has placed high in key areas. Architecture/Built Environment is in top 20 for the first time.
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KTH paper won TU Delft Global Drinking Water Best Paper Award 2019
Graphical abstract (From Sediment color tool for targeting arsenic-safe aquifers for the installation of shallow drinking water tubewells) Published Sep 19, 2019Prosun Bhattacharya and Mohammed Hossain have been awarded the TU Delft Global Drinking Water Best Paper Award 2019.
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Stockholm Junior Water Prize finalists visited KTH
Stockholm Junior Water Prize finalists from 35 countries at KTH. Photo: Timos Karpouzoglou/KTH Published Aug 29, 2019Read the article -
An international VIP visit from young innovators focuses on water
Students representing 35 countries got to meet KTH researchers and students during the Stockholm Junior Water Prize on Wednesday, August 28. (Photos by David Callahan) Published Aug 29, 2019KTH’s Water Centre hosted finalists in the Stockholm Junior Water Prize on Wednesday, August 28, for a full day of innovation coaching and discussions with leading researchers.
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Will procurement requirements be the solution for carbon reduction in infrastructure projects?
Published Jul 08, 2019Are procurement requirements the answer to carbon reduction in infrastructure construction projects? The recently finalized research project Impres has the answer and gives its recommendations on how ...
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Sverker Sörlin appointed to the FWF Scientific Advisory Board
Published May 15, 2019The Austrian Science Fund (FWF) has established an international Scientific Advisory Board to challenge its funding activities with state-of-the-art expertise from world-renowned researchers. One of t...
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Powerful near real-time monitoring tool enables response to Mozambique floods
Published Mar 26, 2019Flooding and damage from the tropical cyclone Idai is being tracked in near real time in Mozambique with a method developed at KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
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KTH and MIT in research collaboration
Researchers on both sides of the Atlantic, together, will exchange ideas, decide and build the research that will be conducted based on what Stockholm city and other collaborative actors need Published Mar 05, 2019KTH together with MIT, one of the world’s highest-ranking universities, are now entering into a research collaboration around urban planning and development where Stockholm city is the focus. The hub ...
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Interested in the methodology of science? Sign up for our MOOC!
Published Dec 18, 2018What is good science? How is scientific research carried out in the best way? And what is the best way to communicate your findings? KTH has just launched the new MOOC course Philosophy of Science f...
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Grön BoStad Stockholm granted an additional 15 million SEK
Published Dec 11, 2018The Grön BoStad Stockholm platform is working to strengthen sustainable urban development in the housing sector. The Structural Funds Partnership Stockholm have now decided to invest another 15 millio...
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Exploring the use of circular public procurement to promote a circular economy
Photo by rawpixel on Unsplash Published Nov 16, 2018Public procurement accounts for about one fifth of Swedish GDP and is thus a very powerful tool for helping to transform our society in a more sustainable direction. A new project is being started on...
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