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KTH President Anders Söderholm. Photo: Mikael Sjöberg
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Nordic alliance united in turbulent timesIn his new blog post, President Anders Söderholm highlights how the Nordic Five Tech alliance is responding to a rapidly shifting geopolitical landscape, and why shared values and strong partnerships matter more than ever. President Anders Söderholm's blog
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Nimali Gunasekara from the Department
of Energy Technology.
| Saman Nimali Gunasekara
to lead Digit-LabSaman
Nimali Gunasekara takes over as Director of Dig-IT Lab. Saman has been part of
the Dig-IT Lab since its inception. She brings experience in research, project management, and teaching across thermal energy
storage, district heating and cooling, and flexible sector coupling. | | | | | Emilia Bjuggren from Stockholm Stad, and Mikael Lindström, Deputy President at KTH. | KTH and Stockholm Stad advocates investment in STEM
"By investing in STEM, young people and new forms of collaboration, we are strengthening the city’s long-term development and Sweden’s role in an increasingly knowledge-intensive world", write, among others KTH, a politician in Stockholm Stad, Stockholm University and the National Museum of Science and Technology. Read more on Di Debatt (Swe) | | | | | Public defences of doctoral thesis | | |
Reminder: Meet visitors at the main entrance
As students and newly hired staff no longer have access to internal corridors, they cannot reach offices on their own. Please remember to meet students, guests, and new colleagues at the main entrance when inviting them to your workspace.
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Updated rules for remote working
KTH introduces new guidelines on remote working for the university administration staff, as well as for teachers, researchers and doctoral students. Remote working | |
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| | Survey: "Public Acceptance of Driverless Metro"
The students at the Division of Transport Planning at KTH are conducting a study to examine passengers’ perception of the driverless metro system. The results will contribute to getting a better understanding of the public acceptance of the driverless metro. Take the survey | | | | | | | Learn to use AI as a teacher How can generative AI become a concrete and meaningful aid in your teaching? Find out by listening to this recorded webinar by E-learning. You will meet two teachers who openly and reflectively share their experiences, insights, and new approaches to using AI in the classroom. Recorded webinar: Using AI in your teaching | | | | | Fika chat from KTH Open HouseWhat happens at the Open Day for prospective KTH students, where they can find out about KTH’s first-cycle education programmes and get to know the campus? Fika chat's podcast host Marcus Lithander and Future Education Programme Manager Anna Jerbrant visit the Open Day at KTH Campus. Fika chat #76 on Wed 1 April at 15:00
| | | | | New tool and updated features in CanvasCanvas now includes a number of new features: - Differentiation tags: Labels you can attach to students to, for example, facilitate communication and customized material assignments
- Template for an attendance quiz
- Surveys can now be created in New Quizzes
- Grades can be scheduled when to be published
- Login will be required for accessing file downloads.
Read about the new features in Canvas | | | The Group Web as a collaboration space will closes 1 OctOn 1 October 2026, the Group Web will close. After this date, you will still be able to retrieve material in PDF format, but it will no longer be possible to edit or publish content in the Group Web. We recommend that you review the content you have there as soon as possible and plan how you want to handle it going forward, in order to avoid a stressful situation during the phase-out. Read about the closure and solutions going forward | | | | | Naomi Oreskes: How climate change breaks the promise of progressNaomi Oreskes, leading voice on the reality of anthropogenic climate change and the history of efforts to undermine climate action, will visit Stockholm 24 April for an evening event at ABF-huset organised by the Centre for Anthropocene History and the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory in collaboration with ABF Stockholm and Arena Idé. Seats are limited. Information and tickets | | | | | What counts as responsible research in the age of generative AI?
Generative AI challenges established norms of research integrity, authorship, and accountability. Welcome to a Stockholm trio research ethics webinar where Karl de Fine Licht will
discuss principles that can guide institutional policy and good research practice.
There will be time for questions and discussions. | | | | | | Sahar Dalahmeh will tell you more about the facility aimed for wastewater and water treatment. | | SWIC – an infrastructure available for researchers
| SWIC is a research and demonstration facility dedicated to wastewater and water treatment, designed to provide access to different types of wastewater for experimental and applied studies. The aim is to make the facility an infrastructure available for use by KTH researchers. Come to a lunch seminar on 7 April and learn how! Read more about SWIC
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