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A new way to stop global spread of pathogen once linked to Ireland's Great Famine
A comparison of two potatoes inoculated with Phytophthora infestans. Seven days after inoculation, the untreated potato (left) shows the characteristic late blight symptoms, while the potato treated with the peptide CS5 (right) shows no symptoms. Published Apr 23, 2026Research at KTH has taken an important step toward fighting potato late blight, a plant disease that once triggered an historic famine in Ireland and now threatens to spread globally due to climate ch...
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KTH ranks high on list of world’s most international universities
KTH is Scandinavia’s most international university, according to THE (Photo: Jon Lindhe, KTH). Published Apr 17, 2026Times Higher Education (THE) Student has published its 2026 list of the most international universities in the world, in which KTH ranked 25th – the highest among universities in Scandinavia. “It...
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GDH Partner Days at KTH: Strengthening Challenge-Driven Education and Collaboration
Published Apr 14, 2026From 2–6 March, partners from African partner universities in the KTH Global Development Hub (GDH) network gathered in Stockholm for a week of exchange, learning, and strategic discussion. The Partner...
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KTH ranked 33rd worldwide in Engineering
Among universities in the EU, KTH's Engineering ranks fifth. Photo: David Callahan Published Mar 24, 2026KTH Royal Institute of Technology shows solid performance in the newly released QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026.
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Nordic cooperation stands strong in uncertain times
Sylvia Schwaag Serger—one of the speakers at Nordic Five Tech's anniversary seminar—spoke about the new world order. Published Mar 18, 2026“Technology and geopolitics are becoming increasingly intertwined in the new world order. We must prepare ourselves to deal with this. A crucial factor is the role we assign to technology.” Sylvia Sc...
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From Canada to KTH – An International Leap to a New Life
Published Feb 18, 2026Curiosity about the world and a strong desire for an international perspective led Samantha Arpas to leave Canada for studies at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. – I was drawn to the university’s c...
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Top universities launch network for aspiring entrepreneurs
Lisa Ericsson, Head of KTH Innovation. Published Jan 28, 2026KTH and other leading European universities and innovation hubs, including ETH, Oxford, TUM and CDTM, have launched a new, cross-border programme called Relativity Collective – to unite the continent’...
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KTH joins forces with leading universities connecting top entrpreneurial students
Oxford, ETH and KTH are three of the founding hubs behind the initiative. Published Jan 28, 2026KTH Innovation, together with leading European universities, is launching a new founder program for Europe’s most promising student entrepreneurs. Through Relativity Collective, top students from KTH,...
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KTH maintains top 100 ranking in engineering, computer science
KTH’s rankings in engineering and computer science top the list of Swedish universities. Photo: Martina Frick Isberg Published Jan 21, 2026KTH stands out as the top Swedish university for engineering and computer science in the latest Times Higher Education (THE) Rankings by Subject.
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Female enrollment in master’s programmes hits all-time high
“Given the numbers of qualified students, KTH is in higher demand – it’s more competitive to get in,” says Åsa Andersson, who leads the university international student recruitment team in the Education Office. Published Nov 28, 2025Enrollment figures for 2025 show the KTH master’s programme has increased female enrollment by 10 percentage points over the last seven years, while becoming even more attractive in terms of the numbe...
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KTH partners with Singapore on quantum technology
The agreement was signed in Singapore by Camilla Johansson, QSIP, and Ling Keok Tong, NQO, and witnessed by ministers Ebba Busch from Sweden and Jasmin Lau from Singapore. Photo: EnterpriseSG Published Nov 03, 2025Sweden and Singapore are stepping up their collaboration in quantum technology to speed up research and innovation in an area expected to underpin future technologies. A newly signed Memorandum of Und...
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KTH professor receives prestigious geoscience award
Prosun Bhattacharya (centre) works at the Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering at KTH. Photo: R. Olsson KTH Published Oct 29, 2025Thanks to research developed by KTH, more than one million people have gained access to safe drinking water with life-saving health benefits. Professor Prosun Bhattacharya has now been awarded one of ...
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KTH strengthens collaboration with university in Hong Kong
The presidents Anders Söderholm and Nancy Ip signs a memorandum of understanding to strengthen the collaboration. Published Sep 15, 2025Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and KTH have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to confirm their strategic collaboration.
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KTH and Institut Polytechnique de Paris strengthen their collaboration
Mikael Lindström, KTH Deputy President, and Thierry Coulhon, President of Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris), sign a memorandum of understanding to strengthen collaboration. Far right: Thierry Carlier, Ambassador. (Photo: Magnus Atterfors) Published Sep 08, 2025KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Institut Polytechnique de Paris have signed a memorandum of understanding with the aim of strengthening and deepening their collaboration in research and educatio...
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Arctic offers new perspectives for students from California and Sweden
This group of Cal State Fullerton students arrived last week for the KTH summer course, Environment and Society in a Changing Arctic. (Photo: David Callahan) Published Jun 21, 2025Polar bears, abandoned coal mines and a deserted Russian settlement await 16 students from California who arrived at KTH last week to prepare for a unique field study course in the high Arctic, from J...
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KTH Field Studies students won a prize for the best thesis in their subject
Published Feb 24, 2025An idea that started with a newly purchased shirt led master's students Sean Meyer and Shimanto Goswami to a field study on the recycling of textiles in Bangladesh connected to the global fast-fashion...
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KTH student enhances technical preparatory year with new educational content
KTH student Nora Dunder has developed a method for translation that takes cultural differences into account. The result: a course in KTH's educational programme. Photo: Peter Asplund Published Sep 19, 2024Nora Dunder travelled to the U.S. for a summer internship at the University of California, Berkeley. She returned to KTH with new content for the "Mathematics for Preparatory Year II" course, part of ...
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KTH and UC Berkeley students switch places for eight-week research internship
“This research will hopefully make life easier for students in Sweden,” Nora Dunder says of the project she is working with in California this summer while enrolled in the Digital Futures Summer Research Internship. Seen here presenting her project to other students in the programme, Dunder is one of six KTH students at Berkeley for the summer. At the same time, six UC Berkeley students are working on research at KTH. Published Jun 19, 2024A dozen students from Sweden and California switched places last week for summer research internships focused on digital transformation, kicking off a new exchange between KTH Royal Institute of Techn...
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Student field study: how coffee beans can lift farmers out of poverty
Filip Borgström (center) and David Sigge (right) together with coffee farmer Aphiwat Sukphong's employee. Published Jun 21, 2023KTH students David Sigge and Filip Borgström spent two months in Thailand as part of their degree project in industrial economics. They looked at if and how farmers could increase their income in a su...
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Agreement between KTH and UC Berkeley to extend close cooperation
KTH President Anders Söderholm and UC Berkeley Vice Provost for Academic Planning Lisa Alvarez-Cohen shake hands after signing an historic agreement between the two leading universities.. (Photo: David Callahan) Published May 11, 2023Expanded opportunities for students and researchers in Berkeley agreement with Sweden’s leading technical university.
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