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  • Report from workshop on transformative partnerships

    Group photo from the workshop
    Group photo from the workshop
    Published Sep 01, 2025

    From 18 to 19 August 2025, KTH hosted the workshop “Transformative Partnerships in International Research Collaborations: A Nordic–African Perspective”, co-organised with HUMA – the Institute for Huma...

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  • Workshop on Transformative Partnerships in International Research Collaborations

    Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, from above
    Published Jun 26, 2025

    The KTH in Africa Workshop team is happy to invite KTH staff and partners to this workshop on Transformative Partnerships in International Research Collaborations: A Nordic–African Perspective at KTH...

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  • Tanzania is a model for a new educational initiative

    Portraitp photo Faith Hungwe
    Faith Hungwe is one of the twelve exchange students who participated in this year's Maggan Hub. Photo: Peter Asplund.
    Published Jun 26, 2024

    The need for new sustainable solutions to societal problems is great, and time is short. In a new initiative, the Maggan Hub, KTH students get the chance to engage in complex societal challenges linke...

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  • Graduation ceremony at Rwanda Polytechnic

    Lena Gumaelius, Parfait Yongabo, International advisor, Sylvie Mucyo, President of RP.
    Lena Gumaelius, Parfait Yongabo, International advisor, Sylvie Mucyo, President of RP.
    Published May 21, 2024

    From 6 to 14 May, GDH Director Lena Gumaelius visited Rwanda as a part of GDH. The purpose of the trip was to visit our partner universities and, together with the Elekta Foundation, visit Karongi, a ...

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  • Food at KTH Africa Days

    Published Jan 17, 2024

    During KTH Africa Days, collaboration in and with Africa for KTH's faculty members and students was highlighted. On Tuesday the 16th the conference focused on food systems with two seminars focusing o...

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  • KTH's commitment in Africa grows

    A map of Africa
    KTH is working in more collaborations in research, education and innovation in eastern and southern Africa. (Photo: Fernando Barozza)
    Published Oct 10, 2023

    KTH is investing in further developing its collaborations in education, research and innovation with universities in eastern and southern Africa. "We work for collaboration on equal terms that will ...

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  • Lena Gumaelius appointed as the new manager of the KTH Global Development Hub

    Lena Gumelius leaning against a KTH building
    Published Sep 19, 2023

    Lena Gumaelius has recently been appointed as the new manager of KTH's Global Development Hub (GDH). This is an initiative created at KTH to promote education and innovation in a global context. The m...

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  • Great interest in KTH in Rwanda

    “Rwanda has a young population that wants to do a lot,” says Sebastiaan Meijer, who participated in KTH's delegation together with Peter Nilsson and Gunaratna Kuttuva Rajarao.
    Published Apr 28, 2023

    At the end of March, a delegation from KTH led by the President, visited several higher education institutions in Rwanda, including the University of Rwanda in Kigali. From the CBH school, Professor P...

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