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Karolinska Institutet is one of the world´s leading medical universities. Our mission is to contribute to the improvement of human health through research and education. Karolinska Institutet accounts for over 40 per cent of the medical academic research conducted in Sweden and offers the country´s broadest range of education in medicine and health sciences. Since 1901 the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has selected the Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine. Karolinska Institutet was founded by King Karl XIII in 1810 as an "academy for the training of skilled army surgeons". Today, Karolinska Institutet is a modern medical university and one of the foremost in the world. With our close relationship to the clinical milieu, a well established infrastructure and a stable financial situation, Karolinska Institutet has excellent prerequisites for sustaining high quality research and education.

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 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.