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  • The major weather giants now facing a challenge

    Published Mar 26, 2010

    Vägverket and SMHI have had a monopoly on the supply of services for weather and accessibility on the country’s roads for a long time. This is now about to change. According to researchers at KTH, to...

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  • KTH tops the job and salary league

    Published Mar 25, 2010

    Educations at KTH hold seven places in the top 10 list for best starting salaries for students. This information has come from the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise’s annual survey Högskolebarometer...

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  • They will take the Swedish record from Chalmers

    Published Mar 18, 2010

    In 2006, the KTH vehicle Agilis participated in a European competition called the Shell Eco Marathon and drove 500 km on one litre of petrol. By doing this, KTH set the Swedish record. Chalmers’ contr...

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  • New method to prevent heart attacks

    Published Mar 17, 2010

    Cardiovascular disease is by far the absolute most common national disease in Sweden and a little more than 26,000 people are treated every year at hospitals due to acute cardiac infarction, according...

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  • KTH student, this year’s leading top talent

    Published Mar 16, 2010

    For the eighth year in a row, the talent network Nova 100 has elected the person they consider to be the country’s leading top talent. This year, she is called Claudia Olsson and will receive the awar...

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  • No more threat against KTH

    Published Mar 14, 2010
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  • Record player of great help for rehabilitation

    Published Mar 12, 2010

    The record player has been used in a creative manner for the creation of music for at least 40 years. Despite that, no research on the gramophone as a musical instrument has been carried out before. N...

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  • Tuition fees major challenge for KTH

    Published Mar 03, 2010

    When fees for foreign students are introduced in the autumn 2011, KTH could loose over SEK 100 million in revenue per annum. Aggressive marketing, commissioned courses and other efforts should mitigat...

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  • Lean can inhibit creativity

    Published Mar 02, 2010

    The main principle within the production philosophy Lean is to eliminate resource waste, and throughout the years, Lean has helped countless large and small companies to be more efficient in the produ...

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  • Cultural differences slow down building projects

    Published Feb 25, 2010

    Problems are concealed and decision-making takes longer. This is how some significant differences appear between Russian and Swedish project culture in the construction sector. KTH alumna Helga Persso...

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  • KTH beat MIT and Stanford

    Published Feb 23, 2010

    KTH have finally succeeded in winning a world championship medal again following four-year losing streak. After gold in 2004, silver in 2005 and this year’s bronze, KTH now has a medal in each denomin...

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  • KTH lecturer to become the EU’s expert for the electricity network

    Published Feb 11, 2010

    When the EU commission needed an expert on smart electricity networks, also called smart grids, Lars Nordström, university lecturer at KTH was the man chosen for the job. The reason for the EU commiss...

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  • Prestigious research grant for KTH professor

    Published Feb 04, 2010

    In tough competition with 1,583 other research projects, Ann-Christine Albertsson, professor of polymer technology at KTH succeeded in receiving funding for research on polymer materials. In total the...

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  • IT tools, weapons that fight musculoskeletal diseases

    Published Feb 03, 2010

    Musculoskeletal diseases are one of the work-related types of injuries that affect millions of European workers throughout all work categories and costs the European employer billions of Euro every ye...

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  • This is how runaway health care costs will be stopped

    Published Feb 02, 2010

    Statistics show that society’s costs for health care over the past 10 years have increased faster than both GNP and salary levels. The new technology which will contribute to the lowering of costs has...

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  • Demand for smart homes: safe and robust

    Published Jan 28, 2010

    The number of IT functions in houses is increasing. Research students at the KTH School of Architecture are now able to show that people who live in so-called Smart homes value increased comfort and s...

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  • Smite – a heavy blow for environmental villains

    Published Jan 26, 2010

    Cold winds may be blowing around the former Swedish car manufacturer SAAB, but in Sweden, completely new ideas and companies are developing regarding the future of passenger vehicles. One of those co...

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  • Fists of steel

    Published Jan 26, 2010

    Five percent of all people between the ages of 16 and 85 suffer from a weakened grip, and therefore have difficulties turning a tap, turning the key in a lock or carrying out other day-to-day tasks. H...

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  • “We are growing extremely fast, it’s hotting up”

    Published Jan 22, 2010

    These are busy days for the KTH alumni Erik Odén, who is at present the Managing Director of Mantex. This is not at all strange because the company sells products to a market that turns over thousands...

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  • Doctoral students from KTH in demand from trade and industry

    Published Jan 21, 2010

    A doctor’s degree from KTH opens up many exciting career routes, most of them in trade and industry. A survey was conducted among the doctoral students admitted to the research education during the ...

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