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KTH is choosing direction for the next 16 years
Published May 05, 2011What will the engineer of the future look like? Which fields of research should KTH concentrate on? And what role in society does KTH want to play? Today’s decisions will determine how well KTH will b...
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Why KTH is cooperating with Illinois
Published Apr 29, 2011Why the University of Illinois? Because it has many similarities with KTH, a good reputation and is placed high on the rankings. Moreover, there is a passion among their researchers for collaboration ...
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KTH more popular now than over the past ten years
Published Apr 26, 2011KTH’s educations are more popular now than they have been for over a decade. The number of applicants for the autumn courses is the highest since the years before the IT bubble burst in the late 1990s...
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A more personal attitude strengthens KTH
Published Apr 18, 2011Conveying a clear, accurate picture of KTH’s activities is becoming increasingly important as the competition for students and projects gets tougher. Therefore, the President has decided on a common c...
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Chance to resolve the teachers’ everyday problems
Published Apr 08, 2011With all due deference to course evaluations, the educational review EAE is something beyond the ordinary. All 90 educational programmes at KTH will be evaluated this year - by both teachers and stude...
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Extra everything for paying students
Published Mar 25, 2011More than 1500 overseas students have paid the registration fee. A decent figure, Tina Murray believes, Head of International Relations, together with Vice-President Eva Malmström. Now, one needs to k...
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Sophia Hober now the new Dean
Published Mar 23, 2011Biotechnology Professor Sophia Hober will become KTH's Dean over the next four year period. Strengthening the college and the provision of greater cohesion among teachers and researchers will be her m...
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We-feeling was a success for the re-sit
Published Feb 25, 2011ITM-school has found a successful concept for re-sits. 7 out of 10 students recently passed the acknowledged difficult mechanics exam when the new model was used. First they created an intensive cours...
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"250 students gave spontaneous applause"
Published Feb 25, 2011The teacher Hans Havtun has found a balance between structure and commitment. The desire to teach is his driving force. No wonder he finally won the award as the Teacher of the Year at KTH.
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Fast track to better interdisciplinary science
Published Feb 11, 2011A new partnership agreement with Sweden’s largest technological research institute, SP, will make it possible for KTH to step up international momentum. The agreement gives researchers at KTH and SP a...
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“We aim to double the number of business ideas”
Published Feb 11, 2011It will now be easier for researchers to turn their research ideas into business ideas. With new funding of SEK 20 million and a stronger organization, business coaches at KTH Innovation will attempt ...
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KTH’s foremost manager moves on
Published Jan 27, 2011This month, KTH’s foremost manager Ingrid Melinder is retiring after 27 years as department head and dean. But does anyone believe that she will really retire to live the quiet life of a pensioner? W...
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Sophia Hober proposed as Dean
Published Jan 21, 2011Professor of Biotechnology Sophia Hober has been proposed as the new Dean for KTH. If she gets the assignment, she wants to work for greater cohesion among teachers and researchers at KTH. It will pro...
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Fewer schools at KTH
Published Jan 03, 2011The school organization is given a green light in the evaluation that has been carried out. But the investigators believe that there should be fewer schools and that what they offer should be more div...
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KTH’s decision-making organization is being re-thought
Published Dec 21, 2010The faculty committee will become faculty councils with overall responsibility for establishing the collegial system at KTH. The school boards are being replaced by strategic councils. These are some ...
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Straighter communication routes for business contacts
Published Dec 09, 2010It will be easier for companies to find their way in to KTH. And the needs of researchers for business collaboration are to be given some attention: How will they collaborate and what support do they ...
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President moving to the Red Cross building
Published Nov 24, 2010It is KTH’s management and administration that will be taking over the Red Cross hospital building on Brinellvägen. The move is expected to take place in March 2012.
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300 km per hour – greatest moment
Published Nov 24, 2010He is certainly not a train fanatic, Sebastian Stichel, newly appointed Professor of rail vehicle dynamics. But he is certainly interested in trains. Not so much that he waits with bated breath every ...
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Popular researchers have more success
Communication is purely a matter of survival for many research areas. It generates money, both directly and indirectly,” says Kristoffer Gunnartz. (Photo: Christer Gummeson) Published Nov 23, 2010Talk like people do, researchers. Those who present their research in an understandable way have everything to gain. It will provide more research funding and promotes fresh internal growth.
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KTH’s environmental profile to be strengthened
Published Nov 15, 2010Work on the environment and sustainable development at KTH can be significantly improved. This applies to the daily work on campus as well as KTH’s sustainability profile in research, education and co...
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