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KTH and Värmdö municipality start test bed in water supply
Published Nov 16, 2018Watercentre@KTH has been awarded SEK 500,000 from Vinnova for a water supply test bed project together with Värmdö municipality. The aim is to develop new sustainable and small-scale solutions for saf...
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Large portion of Amazon rain forest could lose legal protection
Large areas of the Amazon rain forest in Brazil are facing destruction if provisions of Brazil's law are invoked. Published Nov 14, 2018Nearly 150,000 square kilometers of the Amazon rain forest in Brazil is at risk of losing its legal protection, according to a new Swedish-Brazilian study involving KTH.
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RSA Best Book Award 2018 to Tigran Haas and Hans Westlund
Published Oct 30, 2018The Regional Studies Association has awarded Tigran Haas and Hans Westlund the Routledge Best Book Award 2018 for their recent book "In the Post-urban World: Emergent Transformation of Cities and Regi...
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FORMAS funds new project on disruptive wastewater and heat recovery!
Published Oct 18, 2018Recently FORMAS decided to award close to 9 million SEK to the project "Ensuring sustainability and equality of water and energy systems during actor-driven disruptive innovation". The project is coor...
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KTH part of the new Mistra programme ‘Smart Infrastructure Maintenance’
David Nilsson, WaterCentre@KTH, with KTH's President Sigbritt Karlsson Published Jun 19, 2018Mistra's board just decided on a new research programme that will lead to smarter methods of planning, financing and organising the maintenance of municipal infrastructure focusing on water, sewers an...
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KTH alumni named among the world's most promising lighting designers
Published May 22, 2018The Lighting Design Awards have announced the 40under40 of the year to celebrate and acknowledge young prominent lighting designers in the world. One of the winners is KTH's Federico Favero.
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Plots Prints Projections - exhibition in conjunction with La Biennale di Venezia
Published May 18, 2018Plots Prints Projections is an exhibition curated by Ulrika Karlsson as part of the collateral event Greenhouse Garden – Reflect Project Connect, in Serra dei Giardini in conjunction with La Biennale ...
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ERC grant to Environmental Historian Sverker Sörlin
Published Apr 20, 2018Sverker Sörlin, Professor of Environmental History at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, is one of ten Swedish researchers receiving a grant from the European Research Council’s ERC Advanced Grants, w...
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Save food at KTH
Vishal Parekh, Ph. D. student, at the department’s lunch table along with Kristina von Oelreich, head of sustainability, Linus Hasselström, researcher and Jannica Häggbom, environmental coordinator. (Photo: Håkan Lindgren) Published Mar 08, 2018Would you like to help make sure less food is thrown away? KTH Royal Institute of Technology’s campus has the potential to become best in the world at reducing food waste. A group of researchers led b...
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Freer examinations inspire students
Åsa Svenfelt (left) and Ulrika Gunnarsson Östling encourage more teachers to try out freer examination formats. (Photo: Marc Femenia) Published Feb 23, 2018New knowledge via podcasts and brochures – instead of traditional reports. This was the result when a group of Master’s students got to choose the form in which to present their project work.
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Researchers aim to reduce food waste
Annika Carlsson Kanyama and Greger Henriksson inspect waste storage rooms at KTH Campus. (Photo: Marc Femenia) Published Dec 08, 2017Deal with the food that is discarded but ensure less food is wasted in the first place. Researchers Greger Henriksson and Annika Carlsson-Kanyama have lots of ideas about how KTH Royal Institute of Te...
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Student awarded best degree project by Bo Rydin Foundation
Published Nov 24, 2017Archana Ashok from Master's Programme Sustainable Technology has been awarded a grant for Best Degree Project 2017. The award comes from Bo Rydin Foundation for Scientific Research.
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ARWU (Shanghai): KTH ranked 15th in the world in Transport Science & Technology
Published Aug 21, 2017KTH is ranked 15th in the world in the field of Transport Science & Technology in this year's ARWU (Shanghai) Global Ranking of Academic Subjects.
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KTH Tech Talks: Algae farming – a sustainable solution
Published Jun 09, 2017In this episode of KTH Tech Talks, Fredrik Gröndahl from the department of Sustainable development, Environmental science and Engineering (SEED) and Fredrika Gullfot, founder of Simris Alg, discuss gr...
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Students competed in bridge construction
Published May 24, 2017Student competition BRICO 2017 - The Nordic Steel Bridge Competition took place 17-19 May 2017 in Tallinn with 16 teams. One of the competing teams was made up of students from Master's programme Civi...
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Demonstration in support of facts and science
The spread of the resistance to facts threatens the democratic structure of society, according to Elisabeth Ekener, one of the organisers of the March for Science. (Photo: Håkan Lindgren) Published Apr 19, 2017Do you want to help counter the spread of fake news and resistance to facts? On Saturday, 22 April, people will gather in Stockholm and in other cities around the world to hold the March for Science, ...
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Making KTH buildings environmentally-friendly
Property owners benefit from taking a stronger interest in making a proper environmental investment in new buildings and renovations, according to Nils Brown. (Photos: Håkan Lindgren) Published Mar 15, 2017To construct environmentally-certified buildings with the least possible impact on the environment depends on the objectives of the property owners. But there is much to gain for all parties from buil...
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Daniel Svensson awarded ISHA award 2017
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Students examine KTH’s environmental track record
KTH has a long way to go, according to students Tevfik Ektas and André Wassberg, who cast a critical eye over the environmental work being done on campus. (Photo: Håkan Lindgren) Published Sep 05, 2016KTH’s work towards creating a sustainable campus has recently been analysed in essays by two students. In the essays Tevfik Ektas and André Wassberg examine KTH’s energy usage and put the institute’s ...
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