https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Sweden in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Name brand fashion designers may soon have a new tool in their fight against pirated knockoff garments thanks to an "invisible thread" developed at Chalmers University of Technology in western Sweden. https://www.thelocal.se/20130507/47760 Tue, 07 May 2013 13:08:00 +0200 47760 The European Commission announced on Monday that researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg would be granted 1 billion euros for their work in developing graphene. https://www.thelocal.se/20130128/45862 Mon, 28 Jan 2013 13:00:00 +0100 45862 A 21-year-old student from Gothenburg has drawn the adulation of Lord of the Rings fans across the world by plotting the entirety of the books' family tree, most recently adding a timeline and map to the “eternal” project. https://www.thelocal.se/20120718/42100 Wed, 18 Jul 2012 17:36:00 +0200 42100 Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg is seeking to distance itself from an annual student parade after the organizing committee gave the thumbs up to drawings deemed sexist and "totally unacceptable" by the university's president. https://www.thelocal.se/20100424/26262 Sat, 24 Apr 2010 12:53:00 +0200 26262 Several dozen university students occupied a brewery near Gothenburg in western Sweden on Tuesday in their long-standing effort to convince the brewery to build a pipeline to carry beer to the students’ union. https://www.thelocal.se/20100120/24490 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:36:00 +0100 24490 Iranian nationals have been banned from Swedish university programmes with ties to nuclear and missile technologies following a warning from the country’s Säpo security service. https://www.thelocal.se/20090721/20822 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:57:00 +0200 20822 More than half of first-year students on certain courses at Gothenburg’s prestigious Chalmers University of Technology did not pass their first maths exam – the worst result in the history of the university. https://www.thelocal.se/20060317/3306-2 Fri, 17 Mar 2006 11:34:00 +0100 3306-2