Kungliga Tekniska Hoegskolan – WATCHPLANT Partner

Kungliga Tekniska Hoegskolan (KTH).

KTH Royal Institute of Technology is responsible for one-third of Sweden’s capacity for engineering studies and technical research at post-secondary level.

KTH was founded in 1827 and is the largest of Sweden’s universities of technology. Since 1917 KTH has been housed in central Stockholm. KTH is also located in Kista and in Haninge, Flemingsberg and Södertälje.

Our university has over 12,000 undergraduate students, 1,400 active postgraduate students and a staff of 3,100 people. KTH conducts top-notch education and research of a broad spectrum – from natural science to all branches of technology, including architecture, industrial economics, urban planning, work science and environmental technology.

Apart from research performed at our departments, a large number of national Centres of Excellence are located at KTH and we contribute to another three national ones. Strategic research foundations contribute other research programmes and graduate schools.

The division of Micro and Nanosystems at KTH (headed by Prof. Göran Stemme) is one of Europe’s leading groups in MEMS (MicroElectromechanical Systems) technology with a broad experience on miniaturized biomedical systems. An international evaluation board report described the group as: “application in medical diagnostics is pioneering”, “a leading university group on MEMS in Europe … it has for around one decade out-performed some larger European efforts both in terms of impact on MEMS and value for money. In fact, its performance is more comparable to a US MEMS center such as UC Berkeley, U Michigan or MIT”.