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  • She wants to replace fossil-based binders at an industrial level

    Researcher in lab coat.
    Maria Wennman. Photo: Hans Erik Nygren
    Published Jan 04, 2024

    Maria Wennman's thesis is about bio-based and biodegradable binders for paper and the textile material nonwoven, which can replace several types of the plastic-based binders currently used commerciall...

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  • Self-driving vehicles - Are we ready?

    Self-driving bus on a busy street
    A self-driving bus travelling a route in Barkaby, northern Stockholm (Photo: Mostphotos).
    Published Dec 20, 2023

    With more autonomous vehicles on our roads, road deaths are predicted to decrease. At the same time, the risk of both increased emissions and seriously impaired public health rises. A new KTH study of...

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  • Student kicks off urban planning career with AI solution for cities

    Woman standing on roof of KTH architecture school, with city in background
    “I gained trust in myself to find new knowledge," says Linn Nordlund, who graduates this winter from the master's programme in Sustainable Urban Planning and Design.
    Published Dec 15, 2023

    Even before her winter graduation, Linn Nordlund has scored a big success in her chosen career of urban planning. Working in a local municipality, she developed an AI tool for digitalizing city planni...

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  • Frauke Urban in panel discussion at COP28

    Two women i TV sending, interview.
    Professor Frauke Urban discussed the role of technology for achieving sustainable development.
    Published Dec 12, 2023

    Frauke Urban from KTH’s Department of Industrial Economics and Management (INDEK) participated in a panel discussion at the recent COP28 climate summit to discuss the interaction between academia and ...

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  • “Grateful to work on sustainability”

    Eva in front of the blackboard in the classroom.
    “Throughout my professional life I have been interested in teaching, perhaps because I am a teacher's child”, says Eva Liedholm Johnson, winner of the KTH Pedagogical Prize. Photo: Magnus Glans
    Published Dec 12, 2023

    Eva Liedholm Johnson receives KTH's Pedagogical Prize 2023 for her persistent work on integrating sustainability and gender equality in the Civil Engineering and Urban Management programme. “For me, ...

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  • “Students' ideas can become spin-off companies”

    Farazee Asif leaning against a railing
    “An important component of my teaching is that the students see a common thread in terms of what, why and how it is taught,” says Farazee Asif, winner of KTH's Pedagogical Prize. Photo: Magnus Glans
    Published Dec 12, 2023

    The course in Circular Manufacturing Systems (CMS) is described as unique in its kind. Now Farazee Asif, who developed it, has been awarded KTH's Pedagogical Prize 2023. “I feel happy and proud to b...

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  • New professor improves biomaterials by looking at the nanolevel

    Man with glasses outside.
    Professor Stephan Volker Roth. Photo: Jon Lindhe, KTH
    Published Dec 07, 2023

    Stephan Volker Roth is a new professor for scattering-based characterisation in fibre and polymer technology at KTH. He shares his position between the Division of Fibre Processes at KTH and DESY in H...

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  • KTH climbs QS sustainability ranking

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    KTH jumps from 98th place to 58th in the latest QS World University Rankings on sustainability. Photo: M. Glans
    Published Dec 06, 2023

    KTH Royal Institute of Technology is now ranked 58th best university in the world in tackling environmental, social and governance issues, according to QS World University Rankings.

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  • Challenge of living without a car

    A box bike in front of a bicycle garage, next to it several people are listening to speakers.
    Electrically powered cargo bikes were used by citizen scientists to replace cars. The picture is from a start-up event organised by the research project (Photo: Magnus Atterfors).
    Published Dec 04, 2023

    How hard can it be to live a car-free everyday life? Quite problematic if you have to juggle work and leisure activities. This was demonstrated when a number of households in southern Stockholm were c...

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  • Report published - KTH and the UN Sustainable Development Goals

    Published Dec 04, 2023

    Every year, the KTH Sustainability Office compiles a report with KTH activities that contribute to each of the UN's Sustainabile Development Goals (SDGs). The report is used as a basis for the THE Imp...

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  • Reduced climate impact on the menu

    Food and an eating.
    From next year, KTH will introduce a new food standard for meals ordered through catering (Photo: Mostphotos).
    Published Nov 28, 2023

    From next year, the food ordered for meetings, events and representation will have WWF's One Planet Plate labelling as standard - this is to reduce KTH's climate footprint per meal in line with KTH's ...

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  • New research film highlights the environmental crisis from a post-colonial perspective

    The Lindeka
    Published Nov 23, 2023

    On 14 November, visitors got a sneak premiere of the film "The Lindeka: When a Book Ate a City" at Accelerator, Stockholms Universty —addressing the environmental crisis through the active remains of ...

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  • Researchers: Metal extraction in the Baltic Sea inappropriate

    A sandy beach with water and reeds
    ew research from KTH shows that metal extraction in the Baltic Sea is a bad idea from a sustainability perspective. Foto: Foto Irina Shishkina / Unsplash
    Published Nov 21, 2023

    As the demand for different metals such as silicon and cobalt increases, so does the need to extract them in different ways. One method is to 'vacuum the seabed'. New research from KTH Royal Institute...

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  • Get on top of KTH's sustainability effort

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    The staff training programme has been developed by the Sustainability Office. The aim is for everyone to gain basic knowledge to be able to contribute in their daily work to achieve KTH's sustainability and climate goals. Photo: Magnus Glans
    Published Nov 17, 2023

    A new sustainability course for staff is available in Canvas. The aim is to help them contribute to reach KTH's sustainability and climate goals. "I am impressed by how much is being done and that th...

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  • Researchers are granted 2.6 million SEK for project on recycling systems for solar panels

    Published Nov 14, 2023
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  • "We Swedes need to get our house in order"

    Flooded car park with parked cars.
    Floods in Sweden are causing more and more damage. The picture shows an incident in Hallsberg in August this year (Photo: Mostphotos).
    Published Nov 10, 2023

    Embankments and motorways collapse. Damage from extreme weather events is getting worse while knowledge of how to protect ourselves from them is lagging behind. Johan Silfwerbrand, professor in concre...

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  • Funding boost on blood clot prevention

    Group photo of project members.
    Members of the project team. From left to right: Saul Rodriguez (KTH), Johanna Flodin (Muscle Matrix Support AB - MMS), Paul Ackermann (MMS), Malin Otter (KTH, degree project at MMS), Robin Juthberg (MMS), Nelida Aliaga (MMS), Jafeth Lizana (MMS), Bashar Jamal Pati (KTH - degree project at MMS).
    Published Nov 08, 2023

    Vinnova grants 4 MSEK for the development of next-generation Venous Thromboembolism prevention.

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  • KTH Railway Group's goal: Increase train traffic in Sweden

    Train on rail in landscape
    As the number of train journeys on several high-traffic railway lines through the country is reduced due to maintenance work, the KTH Railway Group is working to get more traffic on the available railways. “This can be done, for example, by increasing the speed of some freight trains to 140 km per hour, with the help of technological improvements, and by introducing new signaling systems, the trains will be able to follow each other more closely," says Sebastian Stichel, director of the KTH Rail
    Published Nov 06, 2023

    One of the goals of ongoing research projects within the KTH Railway Group is to densify train traffic on Sweden's existing railways. "The biggest problem for the country's train traffic is the limit...

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  • MULTICLIMACT: A European initiative to protect built environment against natural and climate threats

    A picture from the MULTICLIMACT launch
    Published Nov 01, 2023

    25th of October 2023 marks the unveiling of an ambitious and innovative European project, MULTICLIMACT, designed to revolutionize the protection of the built environment against locally relevant natur...

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  • Stockholm first to get the EU Mission Label

    Photo: bruev / iStock
    Published Oct 31, 2023

    In October, it was announced that Stockholm is one of the cities to have its climate plan approved by the EU, making it the first city to receive the EU Mission Label. KTH was one of the organisations...

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