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  • KTH’s Alum of the Year reshapes culture in the trucking industry

    Woman in the driver's cab of a truck.
    Karin Rådström is comfortable in the driver's cab, she has driven trucks from winter testing in Rovaniemi to Stockholm.
    Published May 21, 2025

    She can drive an 18-wheeler and lead 100,000 employees – Karin Rådström is the Swedish KTH engineer who heads Daimler Trucks, the world’s largest truck manufacturer. She is KTH’s Alum of the Year and ...

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  • KTH has Sweden's most popular programs

    Students at KTH campus.
    Every third prospective civil engineer applies to KTH in the first instance. Photo: Jon Lindhe, KTH
    Published May 21, 2025

    Of all first-choice applicants to engineering programs in Sweden, 28.8 percent apply to KTH. This makes KTH the most popular university in Sweden by a wide margin.

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  • The first milestone in KTH’s history

    The Swedish flag.
    Photo: Mark König, Unsplash
    Published May 13, 2025

    On Friday, 16 May, the flag will be raised high at KTH Campus to mark a significant occasion: it is almost exactly two hundred years since King Karl XIV Johan made the decision to establish the Techno...

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  • Survey on digital examinations at KTH

    Published Apr 29, 2025

    Have you participated in a digital examination during your KTH education? Help us make digital exams better! KTH is currently conducting a large survey to map out how we can make digital exams better ...

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  • The KTH spinoff in the midst of Silicon Valley's AI rush

    Screenshot of SuperAnnotate's tool
    Published Apr 25, 2025

    SuperAnnotate, an alumni company from KTH Innovation Launch is one of Silicon Valley’s fastest growing AI startups, finishing 2024 with raising 36 million dollars. We checked in with founder Vahan Pet...

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  • Axon Motion: The next generation of racing simulation

    Andreas and Henrik in the simulator
    Published Apr 16, 2025

    Based on research from KTH, Henrik Hvitfeldt and Andreas Fröderberg have built a driving simulator with the potential to challenge the leading players in the industry. "We want every driver and racin...

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  • Exhibition: The Role of Nuclear Energy in Decarbonising Our Society

    Published Apr 15, 2025

    On 15 April, the exhibition The Role of Nuclear Energy in Decarbonising Our Society was inaugurated. KTH Library is organising the exhibition in collaboration with KTH's strategic initiative NEXUS, an...

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  • The KTH Library in Södertälje will close on 4 June

    Published Apr 04, 2025

    KTH has decided to relocate all activities, including teaching, from the Södertälje campus to KTH Campus and KTH Flemingsberg. As a result, the library in Södertälje will close.

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  • The library highlights Week17 – Library Week for Sustainable Change and Development

    Published Mar 27, 2025

    During Week17 (April 22–26), we will highlight the UN’s Global Goals with a book exhibition and a seed library where you can exchange seeds with others.

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  • KTH researchers contribute to more sustainable student accommodation

    Student accommodation
    Students testing co-living in an experimental apartment at the Live-in Lab, KTH's residential lab. (Photo: Fredrik Persson)
    Published Mar 17, 2025

    More sustainability and less loneliness. This could be the result of the new building regulations for student accommodation that are proposed to be introduced on 1 July and where KTH has contributed w...

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  • Compete with your student project in the sustainability competition Green Challenge 2025

    Grön Dyst banner
    Published Mar 12, 2025

    Do you have a student project with a sustainability connection? Then you can present your project at the Technical University of Denmark's annual student conference and competition Green Challenge in ...

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  • CBH's former GA Mats Nilsson has passed away

    Mats Nilsson.
    Mats Nilsson was a well-known and much appreciated teacher, colleague and programme manager. Photo: Jon Lindhe
    Published Mar 11, 2025

    Mats Nilsson, a long-time Director of First and Second Cycle Education and key figure at the School of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health, CBH, has passed away after a long period of illness.

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  • The mysteries of space - the theme of Space Rendezvous in Kista

    Space. Photo: Jeremy Thomas, Unsplashed
    Published Mar 03, 2025

    Once again this year, KTH Space Centre, together with Smartare Elektroniksystem and Visit Kista, invites you to Space Rendezvous in Kista. This year's theme is the mysteries of space - from comets to ...

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  • KTH Innovation among Europe's best

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    “Many of Sweden's most promising startups emerge from KTH and it's great that this is being recognized” says Lisa Ericsson, head of KTH Innovation, next to Anders Söderholm, KTH's president (Photo: KTH)
    Published Feb 27, 2025

    Latest Financial Times ranking places KTH Innovation among the best startup hubs in Europe. Particularly good marks are given to the efforts in sustainability.

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  • KTH maintains high rankings in key subjects

    View of top roofline of Teknikringen, facing east from Vahallavägen, on the KTH Campus
    KTH’s Engineering ranking is ninth highest in Europe, and the highest among universities in Sweden.
    Published Feb 14, 2025

    In the latest university subject rankings from Times Higher Education, KTH placed high among the world’s top universities.

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  • Bridging continents: Interest in sustainability led student to Japan

    Man standing outside in front of building in Japan.
    KTH student Armin Moghiman represented Sweden and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in a prestigious exchange program in Japan recently.
    Published Feb 14, 2025

    KTH student Armin Moghiman represented Sweden and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Japan, by participating in a prestigious exchange programme aimed at empowering students to lead the global susta...

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  • Congratulations to the Olympic medallists!

    Två ungdomar med blommor i famnen.
    Olympic medallists and KTH students Jonatan Hellvig and Vilma Bobeck were celebrated at KTH.Två
    Published Jan 28, 2025

    Two of Sweden's eleven Olympic medals last summer were won by KTH students. Vilma Bobeck, silver in sailing, and Jonatan Hellvig, gold in beach volleyball, were finally able to celebrate their achieve...

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  • Paris Carbone is Teacher of the Year

    Man outdoors.
    “Students are really the toughest critics of every professor," says KTH Teacher of the Year Paris Carbone. Photo: Jon Lindhe, KTH
    Published Jan 24, 2025

    He was destined to go for a career in music, until he discovered programming and computer science. Now, the student union at KTH has awarded Associate Professor Paris Carbone the title as teacher of t...

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  • Kickoff for KTH Innovation Launch - meet the 15 latest KTH startups

    A man giving a presentation in front of a screen with the words #ItAllStartsHere
    Ngai Nam Chan is one of the founders of the spacetech startup AciSpace, one of the teams joining KTH Innovation Launch.
    Published Jan 22, 2025

    15 new startups founded by students and researchers at KTH are starting their journey in KTH Innovation Launch. From heat-resistant potato crops to more efficient e-bike propulsion – meet Batch 20!

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  • Course evaluations are being automated in Canvas

    Two students are sitting with a teacher at a table. They are talking and looking at a laptop.
    Published Jan 07, 2025

    Course surveys and course analyses will soon be published automatically in Canvas for all courses. This means that you will always have the opportunity to give your opinion on the course.

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