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An international VIP visit from young innovators focuses on water
Students representing 35 countries got to meet KTH researchers and students during the Stockholm Junior Water Prize on Wednesday, August 28. (Photos by David Callahan) Published Aug 29, 2019KTH’s Water Centre hosted finalists in the Stockholm Junior Water Prize on Wednesday, August 28, for a full day of innovation coaching and discussions with leading researchers.
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Will procurement requirements be the solution for carbon reduction in infrastructure projects?
Published Jul 08, 2019Are procurement requirements the answer to carbon reduction in infrastructure construction projects? The recently finalized research project Impres has the answer and gives its recommendations on how ...
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Sverker Sörlin appointed to the FWF Scientific Advisory Board
Published May 15, 2019The Austrian Science Fund (FWF) has established an international Scientific Advisory Board to challenge its funding activities with state-of-the-art expertise from world-renowned researchers. One of t...
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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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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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Interested in the methodology of science? Sign up for our MOOC!
Published Dec 18, 2018What is good science? How is scientific research carried out in the best way? And what is the best way to communicate your findings? KTH has just launched the new MOOC course Philosophy of Science f...
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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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Exploring the use of circular public procurement to promote a circular economy
Photo by rawpixel on Unsplash Published Nov 16, 2018Public procurement accounts for about one fifth of Swedish GDP and is thus a very powerful tool for helping to transform our society in a more sustainable direction. A new project is being started on...
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KTH and Värmdö municipality start test bed in water supply
Published Nov 16, 2018Watercentre@KTH has been awarded SEK 500,000 from Vinnova for a water supply test bed project together with Värmdö municipality. The aim is to develop new sustainable and small-scale solutions for saf...
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Large portion of Amazon rain forest could lose legal protection
Large areas of the Amazon rain forest in Brazil are facing destruction if provisions of Brazil's law are invoked. Published Nov 14, 2018Nearly 150,000 square kilometers of the Amazon rain forest in Brazil is at risk of losing its legal protection, according to a new Swedish-Brazilian study involving KTH.
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RSA Best Book Award 2018 to Tigran Haas and Hans Westlund
Published Oct 30, 2018The Regional Studies Association has awarded Tigran Haas and Hans Westlund the Routledge Best Book Award 2018 for their recent book "In the Post-urban World: Emergent Transformation of Cities and Regi...
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FORMAS funds new project on disruptive wastewater and heat recovery!
Published Oct 18, 2018Recently FORMAS decided to award close to 9 million SEK to the project "Ensuring sustainability and equality of water and energy systems during actor-driven disruptive innovation". The project is coor...
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KTH part of the new Mistra programme ‘Smart Infrastructure Maintenance’
David Nilsson, WaterCentre@KTH, with KTH's President Sigbritt Karlsson Published Jun 19, 2018Mistra's board just decided on a new research programme that will lead to smarter methods of planning, financing and organising the maintenance of municipal infrastructure focusing on water, sewers an...
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KTH alumni named among the world's most promising lighting designers
Published May 22, 2018The Lighting Design Awards have announced the 40under40 of the year to celebrate and acknowledge young prominent lighting designers in the world. One of the winners is KTH's Federico Favero.
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Plots Prints Projections - exhibition in conjunction with La Biennale di Venezia
Published May 18, 2018Plots Prints Projections is an exhibition curated by Ulrika Karlsson as part of the collateral event Greenhouse Garden – Reflect Project Connect, in Serra dei Giardini in conjunction with La Biennale ...
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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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Save food at KTH
Vishal Parekh, Ph. D. student, at the department’s lunch table along with Kristina von Oelreich, head of sustainability, Linus Hasselström, researcher and Jannica Häggbom, environmental coordinator. (Photo: Håkan Lindgren) Published Mar 08, 2018Would you like to help make sure less food is thrown away? KTH Royal Institute of Technology’s campus has the potential to become best in the world at reducing food waste. A group of researchers led b...
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Freer examinations inspire students
Åsa Svenfelt (left) and Ulrika Gunnarsson Östling encourage more teachers to try out freer examination formats. (Photo: Marc Femenia) Published Feb 23, 2018New knowledge via podcasts and brochures – instead of traditional reports. This was the result when a group of Master’s students got to choose the form in which to present their project work.
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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, 2017Deal 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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Student awarded best degree project by Bo Rydin Foundation
Published Nov 24, 2017Archana Ashok from Master's Programme Sustainable Technology has been awarded a grant for Best Degree Project 2017. The award comes from Bo Rydin Foundation for Scientific Research.
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