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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, 2025

    Polar 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, 2025

    An 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

    portrait photo Nora Dunder
    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, 2024

    Nora 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

    Nora Dunder presenting at lectern.
    “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, 2024

    A 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 David Sigge and an employee at the coffee farm
    Filip Borgström (center) and David Sigge (right) together with coffee farmer Aphiwat Sukphong's employee.
    Published Jun 21, 2023

    KTH 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

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    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, 2023

    Expanded opportunities for students and researchers in Berkeley agreement with Sweden’s leading technical university.

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