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Film and research converge at festival
Published Apr 01, 2014Some of the most celebrated documentaries to explore environmental issues in recent years will be showcased at an international film festival April 9 to 12, arranged by KTH Royal Institute of Technolo...
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NASA probe will help reveal how sun and planets interact
Professors Göran Marklund, left, and Tomas Karlsson. (Photo Håkan: Lindgren) Published Mar 31, 2014Beginning this year, NASA will launch four satellites equipped with technology from KTH Royal Institute of Technology. The mission: to study the microphysics of magnetic reconnection, the fundamental ...
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Innovative student aid program taps grassroots support
Published Mar 26, 2014Crowdfunding isn't just for bands and filmmakers anymore. A new student-run organisation in Sweden is supporting 21 Tanzanian university students while earning high marks for transparency.
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Omanis look to strengthen higher education at home
The delegation led by Oman's minister of higher education with their KTH hosts. Published Mar 26, 2014Tuesday’s visit to KTH Royal Institute of Technology by Oman’s Ministry of Higher Education was somewhat of a study in contrasts. Seeking to build up its relatively-young public university system, off...
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Education seen as centre of innovation collaborations
Margareta Norell Bergendahl at yesterday's PISI 2014 forum at KTH. (Photo: Adam af Ekenstam) Published Mar 20, 2014Closer external collaboration and development of competence were two of the themes recurring yesterday during the European Commission’s conference on the Entrepreneurial University, hosted by KTH Roya...
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Forum at KTH focuses on growth, innovation
Published Mar 18, 2014Europe faces profound socio-economic, demographic, environmental and technological challenges, and higher education has a key role to play in meeting them. That role will be the focus of a two-day Eur...
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A winning attitude
Peter Gudmundson, President of KTH Royal Institute of Technology, in the university library. (Photo: Published Mar 18, 2014In a time when being seen and heard is a priority for many, Peter Gudmundson is focused on performance and results.
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Rocking robot pays tribute to Robyn
Published Mar 12, 2014When a team of mechatronics students built a robot dedicated to Robyn, they didn't expect the pop star to become personally involved. The dancing "Robyt" makes its world debut this week and earns prop...
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Trapped by avalanche – saved by an app
Published Mar 05, 2014Save your friend who is buried in an avalanche while waiting for the rescue team to arrive. An app developed at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, makes it possible for skiers with smartphones to find...
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New centre to be hub for space research
Published Feb 27, 2014Technologies for extreme conditions, rocket experiments and studies in space tourism. These are some of the activities in store for the new space centre that opens at KTH Royal Institute of Technology...
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Cities open up to traffic congestion charging
Stockholm’s congestion charging program has gained greater public acceptance since it was implemented. (Photo: Vichaya Kiatying-Angsulee) Published Feb 26, 2014Congestion zone charging is a proven technique for reducing traffic in crowded cities, but such proposals frequently meet with stiff public resistance. Recent studies at KTH Royal Institute of Technol...
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Four subjects ranked in the world’s top 50
Published Feb 26, 2014Four subjects at KTH Royal Institute of Technology are ranked among the top 50 worldwide in the latest ratings by QS.
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Teaching development aims for open dialog
Some of the teachers who helped develop the new concept (from left): Dan Borglund, Ulf Carlsson, Stefan Hallström and Mikael Nybacka. (Photo: Marc Femenia) Published Feb 25, 2014A new initiative at KTH Royal Institute of Technology aims for more individualized teacher development, by building on evaluations by their students.
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Lightning harnessed to protect grid components
Published Feb 24, 2014The foes of power grids everywhere, lightning and other high voltage currents now can help utilities track the health of components throughout their systems.
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Platform would outwit cyber criminals
Products with verifiable security claims will be more highly valued as mobility increases. (Photo: Frank Gärtner) Published Feb 24, 2014As smartphone use surges, consumers are just beginning to realise their devices are not quite as secure as they thought. A Swedish research team is working on a way to secure mobile operating systems ...
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Sandvik and KTH deepen, expand cooperation
Sandvik CEO Olof Faxander and KTH President Peter Gudmundson at the signing of the strategic partnership agreement. (Photo: Jann Lipka) Published Feb 23, 2014KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Sandvik have deepened and broadened their cooperation through a recent strategic partnership agreement. The aim of the agreement is to achieve enhanced capacity f...
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Mathematician sees tie between knots and cyber security
The directions for knot L-583, pictured, are written as "WTTWTWWUTWWWU" in the formal language of the Tie Knot Generator, created by KTH mathematician Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson. (Photo: Yi Qing/Creative Commons Attribution 2.0) Published Feb 19, 2014Bored with the Windsor knot? It turns out there are 177,147 alternatives for knotting a necktie, according to a formula created by a mathematician from KTH Royal Institute of Technology. What began as...
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Researcher helps characters get their lines right
A still from a demonstration movie made with Plotagon, an animation app for desktop that uses speech technology from KTH Royal Institute of Technology. (Photo: courtesy of Plotagon) Published Feb 10, 2014A new movie-making app uses technology developed at KTH to literally put the words in the characters’ mouths.
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Deans Forum focuses on the future
At the Deans Forum hosted by KTH Royal Institute of Technology, leaders from the world's top technical universities gathered to exchange ideas about meeting society's challenges in the future. (Photo: Håkan Lindgren) Published Feb 07, 2014How do we together create engineering that can meet the challenges of the future?
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KTH is 27th most international university worldwide
Published Feb 04, 2014KTH’s international profile is among the strongest in the world of higher education, according to a prestigious ranking that was just released.
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