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• Omanis look to strengthen higher education at home

  Tuesday’s visit to KTH Royal Institute of Technology by Oman’s Ministry of Higher Education was somewhat of a study in contrasts. Seeking to build up its relatively-young public university system, officials from the desert kingdom visited an institution with a two-century tradition of fostering successful companies and research.

• Africa is 'continent of the future'

  Ebola, poverty and misery. The image of Africa is as perfunctory as it is misleading. Our perspective of the continent must be updated — not least for KTH's students and future engineers. "Africa's challenges represent a goldmine of possibilities for innovative solutions. Africa is the continent of the future," says Ramon Wyss, vice president for international affairs at KTH.

• KTH at Nordic Energy Outlook

  The KTH Energy Platform put the university’s research breadth on display in March at the annual Nordic Energy Outlook conference in Gothenburg. Staged by the Swedish Energy Agency, the conference brought together producers, consumers, regulators and academics for three days of exhibitions and presentations.

• Summer sessions bring together Chinese and Swedish students

  Almost 80 students and teachers from China and Sweden met at KTH in late August for a week of inspirational lectures on a broad range of interdisciplinary topics in biomedicine. The joint Swedish/Chinese summer school and workshop is held to motivate students to enrol in exchange programs and to embark on innovative biomedical research.

• KTH, Tsinghua Launch C-Campus Virtual Learning Collaboration

  The Royal Institute of Technology and Tsinghua University have jointly committed to building a novel online learning environment for students and researchers in Sweden and China. At ceremonies in Beijing on Sept 12, officials described the ambitious collaboration — known as C-Campus — as a substantial expansion of the two universities’ nearly 10-year-old relationship.