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Strategic partner universities

KTH has entered into strategic partnerships with a number of leading technical universities. These partnerships span several sectors and can cover traditional student exchange, research collaboration, joint PhD programmes, joint Master's programmes and staff exchange. The strategic partner universities strengthen KTH's research, education and cooperation. They are an important part in the work to achieve KTH's vision and a powerful tool in building a global brand.

​KTH has several in-depth collaborations both regionally and globally with strategic partner universities. Collaborations with strategic partner universities are characterised by a wide range of different activities within internationalisation, for example:

  • Collaboration at the management level.
  • Joint supervision (through cotutelle agreements) or joint doctoral programmes.
  • Joint master's programs that either provide a double degree or a joint degree, as well as the development of courses.
  • Various forms of mobility, not least student exchange.
  • Joint seed funding.

The Nordic Region

Within the Nordic Region, KTH has in-depth collaboration with the universities within the Nordic Five Tech network. The network includes:

  • Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
  • Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark
  • Norwegian University of Technology and Sciences (NTNU), Norway
  • Aalto University, Finland

Read more about Nordic Five Tech

Europe

Within the EU, KTH's focus is on collaborations within the European university alliance Unite!, which consists of nine prominent European universities of technology. The goal is to create a new European university model with common educational programs, virtual and physical mobility, innovative pedagogical methods and harmonised governance models. Within the alliance, KTH also collaborates in research and innovation.

The alliance includes:

  • Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
  • Aalto University, Finland
  • Grenoble INP graduate school of engineering and management, University Grenoble Alpes, France
  • Politecnico di Torino, Italy

  • TU Graz, Austria

  • Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech (UPC), Spain
  • Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
  • Wroclaw Tech, Poland

Read more about Unite

Globally

KTH has long worked globally with a number of strategic partner universities and regions, where KTH has established strategic partnerships with the following universities in Asia:

  • Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
  • Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
  • Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
  • University of Tokyo, Japan

Learn more on KTH's strategical partnerships in Asia

KTH's ambition is to increase the number to broaden the geographical spread, with the USA and South Korea being priority areas. Africa is also a region where development is very fast, and where KTH has developed a special strategy for collaborations in education, research and innovation.