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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

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    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"

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    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

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    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

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    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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  • INDEK and EGI launch new PhD course on sustainable energy transitions

    Published Oct 27, 2023
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  • Six routes for the future of car transport

    Motorway with traffic jam.
    If Sweden is to meet its climate targets, car traffic must be reduced significantly, according to a study at KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Photo: Mostphotos).
    Published Oct 25, 2023

    Introducing electric cars and biofuels is not enough. Passenger car traffic must be reduced by at least 20 per cent if Sweden is to meet its climate targets. This is according to a study by environmen...

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  • New master's programme in sustainable digitalisation

    MSc Sustainable Digitalisation
    Published Oct 24, 2023

    High requests from both students and staff at KTH resulted in the new master's programme being established at record speed. It is now open for applications, with study start in August 2024.

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  • Climate change on equal terms?

    Kristina Nyström - INDEK/KTH
    Published Oct 23, 2023
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  • STRC 2023 Brought Together Transport Researchers from Across Sweden

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    Johan Olstam, VTI & Erik Jenelius, KTH. Photo: Albania Nissan, KTH
    Published Oct 19, 2023

    Since 2012, the Swedish Transport Research Conference (STRC) has been an annual gathering for transport researchers from all over Sweden. Participants have had the opportunity to gain insights into on...

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  • Transforming Science and Technology Education for the Anthropocene Era

    Published Oct 18, 2023

    Anne-Kathrin Peters, Associate Professor at KTH, has secured funding through the national HP-lyftet, funds for projects aimed at stimulating development and new knowledge nationally in the practice of...

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  • Process of recycling batteries about to become much easier

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    The study shows that very small additions of half a gram of cellulose fibers per liter of liquid lead to the formation of large tree-shaped dendrites, visible to the naked eye. The right image shows the dendrite formation.
    Published Oct 17, 2023

    Researchers at KTH managed to improve the process of recycling batteries with the help of ordinary cellulose fibres. This can separate battery metals from other materials.

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