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Swedish universities develop comprehensive framework for their climate work
Published Jun 26, 2019A collection of 36 Swedish universities and colleges have created a combined climate framework to serve as the basis for individual climate strategies, with the goal of coming into line with the Paris...
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Spotlight on Research
Published May 24, 2019Who has received what when it comes to funding? What findings and results are being published in academic journals? Under the heading Spotlight on Research, we present the latest news about KTH resear...
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Newsmakers at KTH
Published Apr 11, 2019Which people have received an award for their research or an interesting assignment? Which successful student projects currently in progress at KTH are worthy of extra attention? Under the heading New...
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Spotlight on Research
Published Mar 28, 2019Who has received funding for new research? What findings and results are being published in academic journals? Under the heading Spotlight on Research, we provide a selection of the latest news about ...
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Powerful near real-time monitoring tool enables response to Mozambique floods
Published Mar 26, 2019Flooding and damage from the tropical cyclone Idai is being tracked in near real time in Mozambique with a method developed at KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
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Well-visited workshop on sustainable food
Published Mar 21, 2019On March 14, the network KTH Food Sustainability arranged a workshop with speeddating at KTH’s library. It attracted great interest. The organizers had planned for 30 participants, but twice as many c...
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KTH and MIT in research collaboration
Researchers on both sides of the Atlantic, together, will exchange ideas, decide and build the research that will be conducted based on what Stockholm city and other collaborative actors need Published Mar 05, 2019KTH together with MIT, one of the world’s highest-ranking universities, are now entering into a research collaboration around urban planning and development where Stockholm city is the focus. The hub ...
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Newsmakers
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Grön BoStad Stockholm granted an additional 15 million SEK
Published Dec 11, 2018The Grön BoStad Stockholm platform is working to strengthen sustainable urban development in the housing sector. The Structural Funds Partnership Stockholm have now decided to invest another 15 millio...
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Teamwork lifts research
Annika Stensson Trigell, vice president for research at KTH. (Photo: Håkan Lindgren) Published Nov 27, 2018Team work, cutting-edge research and interdisciplinary science; these are fundamental pillars in KTH's research, and determiners of its reputation.
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This gold-winning team at iGEM created a way to prevent pharmaceuticals from washing into waterways
The iGEM Stockholm team brought home two gold medals for its water treatment innovation, Biotic Blue. Published Nov 20, 2018A team of students has won gold medals in a major global competition by developing a method for cleaning antibiotics and drug residues from wastewater – before it’s released into rivers and seas.
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Strengthen your company's cyber security with KTH's Online Course in Ethical Hacking
Published Oct 24, 2018Apply to the Online Course in Ethical Hacking open for businesses by December 15.
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KTH hosts international Music Tech Fest in September
An exhibition at MTF in Berlin in 2016. (Photo: @PeterKolskiArt) Published Aug 22, 2018The international festival of music ideas and innovation, Music Tech Fest (MTF Stockholm), is coming to KTH in September. During the week Sept. 3-9, a global array of artists, researchers, creators, i...
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ERC grant to Environmental Historian Sverker Sörlin
Published Apr 20, 2018Sverker Sörlin, Professor of Environmental History at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, is one of ten Swedish researchers receiving a grant from the European Research Council’s ERC Advanced Grants, w...
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Next-generation, hormone-free contraceptive for women
The distribution of chitosan over a mucin drop is shown in flourescence. (Image: Thomas Crouzier) Published Mar 28, 2018A hormone-free women's contraceptive with no side effects is one promising use for a new technique developed by researchers in Sweden to tighten up the mucous membrane – the body’s first line of defen...
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Hydrogen extraction breakthrough could be game-changer
Published Feb 23, 2018Researchers at KTH have successfully tested a new material that can be used for cheap and large-scale production of hydrogen – a promising alternative to fossil fuel.
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Wave energy device tests begin in North Atlantic
From KTH to the North Atlantic, a new wave energy conversion system is installed in the waters off Orkney, Scotland. (Photo: Colin Keldie) Published Feb 13, 2018Europe is on a quest to make renewable energy available to remote coastal areas and islands. That’s the motivation behind the testing of a powerful Swedish-designed wave energy conversion system in th...
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Anniversary week kicks off in Dome of Visions
President Sigbritt Karlsson, His Majesty The King of Sweden, Her Majesty Queen Silvia of Sweden, Göran Cars and Karolina Keyzer in front of the fountain by sculptor Carl Milles on KTH’s campus. Photo: Marc Femenia Published Oct 18, 2017Yesterday marked the start of the seminar marathon, the highlight of the anniversary week in which KTH’s campus is celebrating 100 years. “The laying of the foundations of the KTH campus and the unive...
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Switching to off-peak delivery times reduced city congestion
Night deliveries were found not to be as disruptive as expected, in most cases. (Photo: courtesy of ITRL) Published May 23, 2017In some businesses – like supermarkets and restaurants – local restrictions on nighttime deliveries leave distributors no choice but to dispatch trucks during morning rush hours. But lifting these rul...
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Strongest artificial spider silk synthesized with cellulose from wood
“The strength of the fiber is significantly better than any man-made, silk-based material to our knowledge, and on the same level as what can be found in nature from spiders,” says Daniel Söderberg, a researcher with the Wallenberg Wood Science Center at KTH. Published May 16, 2017The strongest yet hybrid silk fibers have been created by scientists in Sweden using all renewable resources. Combining spider silk proteins with nanocellulose from wood, the process offers a low-cost...
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