KTH’s Vision and Strategy for
China Cooperation
June 2014
The KTH-China group:
Ramon Wyss, director international affairs China
Urban Westergren, deputy director international affairs China
Xun Wang, regional advisor China
Yingfang He, research office
Xintong Zhang, student recruitment China
Strategy for Sino-Swedish cooperation
• From individual researcher to strategic university cooperation
• Develop joint programs to meet global challenges for the
benefit of mankind
• Integration of research, education and innovation –
Cooperation within the knowledge triangle
partnership with society
• Enable a new generation of researchers to meet societal
challenges from a global perspective
• innovation driven research and education
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Sino-Swedish Research Cooperation:
From IVA-Vinnova report “Sweden’s
global connectivity in research”
“KTH’s dominance of Sweden’s presence in China in Physical and
Engineering Sciences is indeed striking, with KTH’s share of
Sweden’s co- publications with China ranging from around
40 percent in Engineering and Materials Science to
70 percent in ICT, with Chemistry at close to
50 percent and Physics at just under 60 percent.
Sweden’s relatively strong presence in China compared to many
other European countries, as discussed previously, is thus largely
an effect of the strong presence of KTH in China.”
Sino-Swedish Research Cooperation
Strategic Partnerships
more and better with less
• Cooperation along KTHs broad areas of research:
to meet global challenges – Asian dimension
• Tsinghua University – C-Campus @ Tsinghua&KTH
• Shanghai Jiatong – strategic partner – physical center for
Sino-Swedish Cooperation
• Joint research centers and joint educational initiatives:
Fudan University: Joint research and BSc program within ICT
Dalian University of Technology: Joint Research Center on
Molecular Devices
Zhejiang University: Joint Research Center in Photonics
Summary of KTH-China cooperation
Name
Tsinghua University THU
Peking University PKU
Beijing Jiaotong University BJTU
University of Science and Technology,
USTB
Beijing
City
MSc student
exchange
Joint Research Centers
(28 total)
Beijing
4 full year
Beijing
Beijing
2 full year
2 full year
Beijing
--
Shanghai Jiao Tong University SJTU
Shanghai
4 full year
Fudan University FDU
Dalian University of Technology DUT
Zhejiang University ZJU
Harbin Institute of Technology HIT
University of Science and Technology of
USTC
China
Shanghai
Dalian
Hangzhou
Harbin
2
2
4
4
South East University SEU
Hefei
Nanjing
full
full
full
full
year
year
year
year
Nuclear and Sustainable
Energy
--Genome of Engineering
Materials
Medical and Biomedical
Technology + Energy
Platform
ICT
Molecular Devices
Photonics
--
--
Bio and Nano-Materials
4 full year
Sustainable Urban
Development and
Architecture
Sino-Swedish Research Cooperation
KTH's Professor Börje Johansson,
once taught the former President of
Tsinghua University, Gu Binglin, and
is currently an honorary professor
at Tsinghua.
Former Chairman and currently
Honorary Chairman of CAE,
Kuangdi XU, was once a visiting
researcher at KTH. He was also the
Vice Chairman of the National
Committee of the Chinese People’s
Political Consultative Conference.
KTH alumni
KTH graduates find careers in international companies like
Ericsson, IBM, ABB, Astra Zeneca and Microsoft.
An example is Chunyuan Gu who has been
appointed head of ABB business in China
and the North Asia region as of Jan. 1, 2014.
Gu has a degree in Engineering from
Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China,
and a PhD in Engineering from KTH.
He worked as a research fellow at KTH before joining ABB.
C-Campus
The C-Campus is a new cooperation platform empowered by cloud
and virtual technologies developing global excellence in education,
research and innovation in Engineering and Science.
C stands for Cloud as in Cloud learning, Cloud research and Cloud
Innovation; Cyber as in Cyber based means and resources; Co- as
in Co-operation, Co-learning, Co-sharing, Co-working; Cross as in
Cross culture and Cross discipline, etc.
The development of C-Campus has had economic support from
STINT
C-Campus
Inauguration Sept 11, 2012
C-Campus Course on
Future Highway Design
The first course at C-Campus,
teachers and students from
both KTH and Tsinghua
Niki Kringos
Associate Professor Highway and
Railway Engineering
Vice-Chair Transport Science
Department
Director Road2Science Center
KTH Student05
TsingHua Student02
TsingHua Student01
KTH
Teacher
dent03
TsingHua
Teacher
KTH Student04
KTH Student03
C-Campus Course on
Future Highway Design
TsingHua Student05
TsingHua Student04
Tsing
KTH Student01
KTH Student02
TsingHua Student05
C-Campus energy course
• KTH and Tsinghua University have established a
common course in the field of energy systems in the
period March-May 2014.
• The course discusses challenging issues in energy
supply and conversion including control of air
pollutants during combustion, energy storage, security
of energy supply, development of low carbon cities,
energy storage as well as modelling and optimization
of energy systems.
• Course responsible: Liu Pei, Marianne Salomón
Course plan
• 2 lectures per week. Each lecture of 90 min via
videoconference
• Lecturing approach: 1 side teaches and the other act
as support and moderator. Roles are exchanged for
the next lecture
• Projects are suggested by teachers and students for
each course block.
• At the project end (4 weeks in total) students send a
report and present in front of the other groups
You are cordially invited to attend the
Opening Ceremony for Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Swedish Center
4 PM – 8 PM, August 27, 2013
Location: Third Floor, Wenxuan Building, SJTU Minghang Campus
Contact: Ms. Yan Wang (yanwang316@163.com)
Program: Speeches by the representatives from SJTU,
Swedish Consulate General in Shanghai,
KTH and other organizations
Reception and Dinner Party.
JORCEP – Joint Research Center of Photonics at
Zhejiang University in Hangzhou since 2003
Sino-European Engineering Education Platform:
SEEEP
• Discussion on cooperation between European
Universities in Science and technology,
CLUSTER network and Universities from
China
• Template for education cooperation between
European and Chinese universities
• Annual Sino-EU workshop on Innovation in
Engineering Education since 2010, switching
each year between Europe and China
• MoU between CLUSTER and Chinese Ministry
of Education
Tuition fees: a challenge
• Application and tuition fees have been introduced for
non-EU/EEA/Swiss citizens from the autumn term 2011
for 1st and 2nd cycle (BSc and MSc)
• The tuition fee is SEK145k (about RMB136k,
Architecture ca 70% higher) for one year of full-time
study
• Scholarships are available, for example:
- KTH tuition fee waivers
- SI: the Swedish Institute
- Erasmus Mundus
- EIT: European Institute of Innovation and
Technology
KTH – CSC Program
• Thanks to an agreement between KTH and the
Chinese Scholarship Council, a number of scholarships
can be offered to Chinese citizens applying to KTH.
The scholarships available are aimed for Master
students, PhD students, Postdoc Researchers and
Visiting Scholars.
• 90 scholarships per year at KTH of which 50 for PhD
See more:
• www.kth.se/int
• china.kth.se
Thank you for your attention