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  • Newsmakers at KTH

    Published Apr 27, 2020

    Who has received what when it comes to funding? What findings, results and researchers have attracted attention outside KTH? Under the vignette Newsmakers, we provide a selection of the latest news an...

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  • KTH ranked among world's top universities in sustainable development

    Published Apr 24, 2020

    KTH was ranked among the world’s top 100 universities for impact related to sustainability, Times Higher Education announced yesterday.

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  • Higher ed institutions’ climate initiative awarded

    The Climate Framework adopted by 37 institutions of higher education in Sweden is meant to permeate all operations of the university.
    Published Apr 17, 2020

    The 37 Swedish universities and colleges that have signed the Climate Framework have been awarded for their systematic work on driving the climate change adaptation while also reducing their own emiss...

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  • Researchers sample sewage to measure infections in six European countries

    From two Stockholm water treatment plants, samples of sewage are collected at KTH Royal Institute of Technology for tracking the coronavirus and measuring the spread of COVID-19 in communities. KTH is also collecting samples in Italy, Spain, India, Netherlands and Turkey.
    Published Apr 16, 2020

    The spread of the coronavirus in Stockholm and in six European countries is being tracked through sewage samples by a research group at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, which will repor...

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  • Many KTH research projects in IVA's 100 list 2020

    Seafarm (Watercentre@KTH/KTH)
    Published Mar 10, 2020

    The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences' (IVA) latest 100 list highlights a variety of research projects from Swedish universities in the area of ​​sustainability. The focus is on current re...

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  • KTH behind 17 of Sweden's 100 most innovative research projects

    Anna Kramers sitting in a staircase
    Anna Kramers is Program Director of Mista SAMS, one of the projects on IVA's 100-list
    Published Mar 02, 2020

    Seventeen of the most innovative research projects in Sweden have KTH origins. Today, the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) published their list of projects with large potential of c...

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  • Sustainable mobility in rural areas

    Published Feb 07, 2020

    Data gathered by Elisabeth Ekener and Niccolas Albiz through surveys and interviews with members of the online group "Bensinupproret 3.0", which gathers residents of rural areas who want to see an inc...

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  • KTH takes a lead in climate change

    UN´s Sustainable Development Goals.
    Published Jan 24, 2020

    KTH is taking the lead in climate change via its new climate targets and determination to be climate neutral by 2045. “KTH has made the assessment that the rate of change in climate work must be incr...

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  • KTH paper won TU Delft Global Drinking Water Best Paper Award 2019

    Graphical abstract (From Sediment color tool for targeting arsenic-safe aquifers for the installation of shallow drinking water tubewells)
    Published Sep 19, 2019

    Prosun Bhattacharya and Mohammed Hossain have been awarded the TU Delft Global Drinking Water Best Paper Award 2019.

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  • Funding for marine research and developing of marine infrastructure

    Published Apr 15, 2019
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  • Who owns the Brazilian carbon?

    Published Dec 20, 2017
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  • Researchers aim to reduce food waste

    Annika Carlsson Kanyama and Greger Henriksson inspect waste storage rooms at KTH Campus. (Photo: Marc Femenia)
    Published Dec 08, 2017

    Deal with the food that is discarded but ensure less food is wasted in the first place. Researchers Greger Henriksson and Annika Carlsson-Kanyama have lots of ideas about how KTH Royal Institute of Te...

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  • Trade-off analysis of forest ecosystem services – A modelling approach

    Published Nov 24, 2017
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  • KTH Tech Talks: Algae farming – a sustainable solution

    Published Jun 09, 2017

    In this episode of KTH Tech Talks, Fredrik Gröndahl from the department of Sustainable development, Environmental science and Engineering (SEED) and Fredrika Gullfot, founder of Simris Alg, discuss gr...

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  • Brazilian land use policies and the development of ecosystem services

    Published Jun 09, 2017

    Licentiate seminar

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  • Seminar: Urban systems science - from theory to applications

    Published May 11, 2017

    Seminar by Professor Brian Deal, Urban and Regional Planing, University of Illinois, USA

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  • Making KTH buildings environmentally-friendly

    Property owners benefit from taking a stronger interest in making a proper environmental investment in new buildings and renovations, according to Nils Brown. (Photos: Håkan Lindgren)
    Published Mar 15, 2017

    To construct environmentally-certified buildings with the least possible impact on the environment depends on the objectives of the property owners. But there is much to gain for all parties from buil...

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  • Book: “The Human Right to Water: From Concept to Reality”

    Published Nov 04, 2016

    A new book titled “The Human Right to Water: From Concept to Reality” has been written/edited by Docent Nandita Singh.

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  • SPEAK conference: Sustainable planning and environmental assessment

    Published Oct 19, 2016

    Welcome to the SPEAK conference!

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  • Geo-environmental considerations in transport infrastructure planning

    Published Oct 14, 2016

    Caroline Karlsson defended her PhD thesis

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