External review, impact committee and assistant professor in entrepreneurship financing
From the Faculty Board meeting 28 August 2025
At the autumn's first faculty board meeting, topics discussed included an upcoming review of educational programs, the composition of the new impact committee, and a new position as assistant professor in entrepreneurship financing.
KTH's quality work in education includes program follow-up every other year and evaluation with external collegial review of programmes at least every sixth year. 2026 and 2027 are the time for the next collegial review. At least one teacher from another higher education institution shall assess each program's relevance, based on assessment criteria that KTH develops. The faculty board will work on preparing the review during the autumn so that the work can be carried out in a structured way during the next two years.
"The collegial review will require some work, but it will give us a foundation to review and update the programs," says Johan Spross , acting vice chair of the faculty board.
The faculty board's new impact committee will consist of one teacher member from the board and three representatives from the collegium. One of them will be the school's new impact officer, appointed by the head of school, and the other two will be appointed later in the autumn. In addition, the two external representatives on the faculty board, Karin Ekdahl Wästberg from the City of Stockholm and Johan Dozzi from the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency, will be co-opted as needed.
"The group is relatively small to be more operational," explains Johan Spross. "For impact work specifically, it is particularly valuable to be able to benefit from our external representatives' expertise."
The board approved that the Department of Real Estate and Construction Management can begin a recruitment process for a position as assistant professor in financing of entrepreneurship, a sub-area within business economics that deals with how a startup creates a sustainable financing strategy that as efficiently as possible provides conditions for survival and growth.
"The new assistant professor will, among other things, strengthen the teaching capacity in the department's bachelor's programs – Property Development and Agency and Real Estate and Finance – as well as the Degree Programme in Civil Engineering," concludes Johan Spross.
