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KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm is one of Europe’s leading technical and engineering universities, as well as a key centre of intellectual talent and innovation. We are Sweden’s largest technical research and learning institution and home to students, researchers and faculty from around the world dedicated to advancing knowledge. KTH is working with industry and society in the pursuit of sustainable solutions to some of humanity’s greatest challenges: climate change, future energy supply, urbanisation and quality of life for the rapidly-growing elderly population. We are addressing these with world leading, high-impact research and education in natural sciences and all branches of engineering, as well as in architecture, industrial management, urban planning, history and philosophy. Our educational programmes foster a new generation of engineers, architects, teachers and undergraduate engineers. The five KTH campuses in Greater Stockholm, gather more than 13,000 full-time students, more than 1,700 PhD students and approximately 3,600 full-time employees. For contact information, please see https://www.kth.se/en/om/kontakt/kontakt-kth-1.1947 Communications and Business Liaisons is responsible for this page. Terms of use for KTH's accounts in social media: https://www.kth.se/en/om/kontakt/anvandarvillkor-sociala-medier-1.987747

We excel and make breakthroughs in and across science, art, technology and business. We renew our society with research-based knowledge, creativity and entrepreneurial mindset. Aalto University has been ranked the 7th best young university in the world (Top 50 under 50, QS 2018) and one of the world’s top technology challenger universities (THE 2017), thinking outside the box on research collaboration, funding and innovation. Aalto has six schools with 20 000 students and 5 000 employees of which close to 450 are professors. Our campus is located in Espoo, Finland. With over 50% of our academic faculty coming from outside Finland, we are a highly international community with strong academic standing. At Aalto, high-quality research, art, education and entrepreneurship are promoted hand in hand. Disciplinary excellence is combined with multidisciplinary activities, engaging both students and the local innovation ecosystem. Our main campus is quickly transforming into an open collaboration hub that encourages encounters between students, researchers, industry, startups and other partners. With an exceptionally strong entrepreneurial community, 70-100 new companies are born in our ecosystem every year. Aalto University was founded in 2010 as three leading Finnish universities, Helsinki University of Technology, the Helsinki School of Economics and the University of Art and Design Helsinki, were merged to strengthen Finland’s innovative capability.

We train students to become experts in climate, Earth science, nature conservation and spatial analysis. Physical geographers and ecosystem analysts are specialists in the interaction between atmosphere, soil, water and life. Bachelor´s and Master´s programs offer opportunities to work with environmental and conservation issues in a global world in which the Earth´s resources need to be managed in a sustainable manner.