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  • We-feeling was a success for the re-sit

    Published Feb 25, 2011

    ITM-school has found a successful concept for re-sits. 7 out of 10 students recently passed the acknowledged difficult mechanics exam when the new model was used. First they created an intensive course and then it was just hard work that was all that mattered. Easy? Yes, if you really believe that students can succeed.

  • "250 students gave spontaneous applause"

    Published Feb 25, 2011

    The teacher Hans Havtun has found a balance between structure and commitment. The desire to teach is his driving force. No wonder he finally won the award as the Teacher of the Year at KTH.

  • Fast track to better interdisciplinary science

    Published Feb 11, 2011

    A new partnership agreement with Sweden’s largest technological research institute, SP, will make it possible for KTH to step up international momentum. The agreement gives researchers at KTH and SP an open door to each other’s research environments, both for personal contacts and test equipment.

  • “We aim to double the number of business ideas”

    Published Feb 11, 2011

    It will now be easier for researchers to turn their research ideas into business ideas. With new funding of SEK 20 million and a stronger organization, business coaches at KTH Innovation will attempt to double the number of innovations coming onto market.

  • KTH’s foremost manager moves on

    Published Jan 27, 2011

    This month, KTH’s foremost manager Ingrid Melinder is retiring after 27 years as department head and dean. But does anyone believe that she will really retire to live the quiet life of a pensioner? Well not exactly.

  • Sophia Hober proposed as Dean

    Published Jan 21, 2011

    Professor of Biotechnology Sophia Hober has been proposed as the new Dean for KTH. If she gets the assignment, she wants to work for greater cohesion among teachers and researchers at KTH. It will provide strength to face future challenges, she says. The road upon which we need to travel in order to get there is called ‘more support and better information work’.

  • Fewer schools at KTH

    Published Jan 03, 2011

    The school organization is given a green light in the evaluation that has been carried out. But the investigators believe that there should be fewer schools and that what they offer should be more diverse. The first phase proposes a merger of the Schools for Chemical Sciences and Biotechnology. In addition, the office of Director of education should definitely be a full-time occupation, the investigators believe.

  • KTH’s decision-making organization is being re-thought

    Published Dec 21, 2010

    The faculty committee will become faculty councils with overall responsibility for establishing the collegial system at KTH. The school boards are being replaced by strategic councils. These are some of the changes proposed by the President in KTH’s rules of procedure. A somewhat more extensive reorganization however, is not on the agenda - the school organization shall continue.

  • Straighter communication routes for business contacts

    Published Dec 09, 2010

    It will be easier for companies to find their way in to KTH. And the needs of researchers for business collaboration are to be given some attention: How will they collaborate and what support do they need for it?

  • President moving to the Red Cross building

    Published Nov 24, 2010

    It is KTH’s management and administration that will be taking over the Red Cross hospital building on Brinellvägen. The move is expected to take place in March 2012.

  • 300 km per hour – greatest moment

    Published Nov 24, 2010

    He is certainly not a train fanatic, Sebastian Stichel, newly appointed Professor of rail vehicle dynamics. But he is certainly interested in trains. Not so much that he waits with bated breath every time an old steam train puffs away from the train station. But his interest is strong enough for him to get a dreamy look in his eyes when he talks about the 30 track wide railway lines in his native Germany.

  • Popular researchers have more success

    Published Nov 23, 2010

    Talk like people do, researchers. Those who present their research in an understandable way have everything to gain. It will provide more research funding and promotes fresh internal growth.

  • KTH’s environmental profile to be strengthened

    Published Nov 15, 2010

    Work on the environment and sustainable development at KTH can be significantly improved. This applies to the daily work on campus as well as KTH’s sustainability profile in research, education and collaboration. This has been demonstrated in a recent evaluation report in which a series of measures are proposed, including a new unit: KTH Sustainability.

  • More practical sessions for students

    Published Nov 15, 2010

    To educate engineers who have a holistic view of technology, communication and who can work together in teams. In short, engineers who are better prepared for today’s professional life. This is the objective of the new educational model to be introduced on all of the programmes provided by KTH.

  • Toxic professor wants to find the worst offenders

    Published Oct 28, 2010

    Christina Rudén is a researcher who is driven by a love for life and nature. Her interest in environmental issues was first awakened in primary school, and since then it has gathered speed. In March this year she became a professor of toxicological risk assessment at KTH.

  • Marcus takes KTH’s ideas to Munich

    Published Oct 27, 2010

    Student exchange and internationalisation have everything to gain from a more efficient administration in the European universities. During an exchange week at KTH, European administrators exchanged good ideas with each other.

  • E-mails not hitting the mark

    Published Oct 14, 2010

    A social platform has opened up the doors on KTH’s web. In the autumn, some 20 teachers will be testing KTH Social during their courses. Stefan Östlund, school director at EES, thinks that KTH’s social web can be a success for those who want to improve communication with their students.

  • Emelie’s studies abroad widened her horizons

    Published Oct 04, 2010

    Volunteer work in South Africa, skiing in the French Alps and nosediving into Japanese culture. Studying abroad can mean much more than just swatting, this was evident following a reunion at KTH Campus.

  • “Mathematics is art”

    Published Sep 23, 2010

    Sandra Di Rocco is a newly appointed professor of mathematics at KTH. When she speaks about algebraic geometry, she does so with a passion that sends shivers down your spine, and it even affects those who know very little about the subject. Mathematics is about feeling and about language, says Sandra Di Rocco. Mathematics is the exact language which cannot be misunderstood.

  • Get to know KTH’s latest professors

    Published Sep 23, 2010

    In a series of articles, Campi will be drawing attention to eight of this year’s new professors at KTH. The climax will be reached on 18th November when the event “Professors for the Future” will take place at KTH. This is when all employees will be invited to mingle and listen to what the professors have to say about their research areas.