Delegation of authority for agreements
Overview of the most common types of agreements and who signs what.
Funder agreements
| Agreement type |
Signed by |
| Funding agreements from public research funding agencies in Sweden. |
Amounts up to a value of 5 MSEK: Head of department
Amounts over 5 MSEK: Head of School |
| Funding agreements from industrial partners, other companies, economic associations, non-profit associations/organisations, foundations or other private law entities. |
Head of the Research Support Office (RSO) |
| Funding agreements from funders outside the EU and EEA (but not Switzerland and the UK). |
Vice President for Research |
| Financing agreements from financiers within the EU and EEA, Switzerland and the UK. |
Head of the Research Support Office (RSO) |
Collaborative research agreements: project agreements and consortium agreements
| Agreement type |
Signed by |
| Project agreement with a party under public law in Sweden, e.g. a higher education institution or public authority (but not if the project is fully or partly funded by the EU, or if two or more schools at KTH are involved). |
Amounts up to a value of 5 MSEK: Head of department |
| Letters of intent, confidentiality agreements, data sharing agreements, agreements regarding joint personal data responsibility and data processor agreements within the framework of the above delegation. |
Amounts over 5 MSEK: Head of School |
| Sub-delegated to Head of Department |
| Agreement on a project with a party under public law in Sweden, e.g. a higher education institution or authority if two or more schools at KTH are involved. |
Head of the Research Support Office (RSO) |
| Agreements on projects with higher education institutions under private law in Sweden, e.g. universities run as foundations or research institutes that are state-owned limited companies (but not if the project is wholly or partly funded by the EU, or if two or more schools at KTH are involved). |
Amounts up to a value of 5 MSEK: Head of department |
| Letters of intent, confidentiality agreements, data sharing agreements, agreements regarding joint personal data responsibility and personal data processing agreements within the framework of the above delegation. |
Amounts over 5 MSEK: Head of School |
| Sub-delegated to Head of Department |
| Agreement on projects with private-law higher education institutions in Sweden, e.g. university that is run as a foundation or research institute that is a state-owned limited company (but not if the project is fully or partly funded by the EU, or if two or more |
Head of the Research Support Office (RSO) |
| Project agreements or consortium agreements with industrial partners, other companies, economic associations, non-profit associations/organisations and foundations (but not higher education institutions operating in foundation form) in Sweden. |
Head of the Research Support Office (RSO) |
| Project agreements or consortium agreements with both public and private parties outside the EU and EEA (but not Switzerland and the UK). |
Vice President for Reserach |
| Project agreements or consortium agreements with both public and private parties in the EU and EEA, Switzerland and the UK. |
Head of the Research Support Office (RSO) |
| Project or consortium agreements with funding in whole or in part from the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation and other EU research and cooperation programmes (but not training agreements such as Erasmus+). |
Head of the Research Support Office (RSO) |
Collaborative research agreements: Research centre agreements and intra-centre project agreements
| Agreement type |
Signed by |
| Research centre agreement |
Vice President for Reserach |
| Project agreement or consortium agreement within the centre with an institution under private law in Sweden, e.g. a university run as a foundation, or a research institute that is a state-owned limited company (according to approved/attached agreement template to the centre agreement). |
Amounts up to a value of 5 MSEK: Head of department |
| Amounts over 5 MSEK: Head of School |
| Project agreements or consortium agreements within the centre with a higher education institution under private law in Sweden, such as a university run in the form of a foundation, or a research institute that is a state-owned limited company (without an approved/attached agreement template to the centre agreement). |
See Section: Collaborative research agreements: project agreements and consortium agreements |
| Letters of intent, confidentiality agreements, data sharing agreements, agreements relating to joint personal data responsibility and personal data processing agreements within the framework of the above delegation. |
Sub-delegated to Head of Department |
Commissioned Research
| Agreement type |
Signed by |
| Commissioned research with a value of up to 5 MSEK that only refers to staff within the own school. |
Amounts up to a value of 5 MSEK: Head of department |
| Letters of intent, confidentiality agreements, data sharing agreements, joint personal data responsibility agreements and data processing agreements within the framework of the above delegation. |
| Commissioned research with a value of more than SEK 5 million. |
Amounts over 5 MSEK: Vice President for Research |
| Commissioned research involving several schools. |
Vice President for Research |
Material and data transfer
| Agreement type |
Signed by |
| Material Transfer Agreements (MTA) or Data Transfer Agreements (DTA). |
Head of School |
Intellectual property rights
| Agreement type |
Signed by |
| Research agreement with school employee or pre-transfer agreement with school employee and KTH Holding. |
Head of School |
Export control
| Agreement type |
Signed by |
| Decide on matters relating to the approval and signing of applications for authorisations, agreements and other documents with legal effect that specifically relate to the export control of dual-use items in school activities and where the end-use is not known to relate to weapons of mass destruction, military purposes or cyber surveillance. |
Head of Department |
Other agreements
| Agreement type |
Signed by |
| Agreements on contract education |
Head of School |
| Agreement for employment as adjunct professor |
Head of School |
| Agreement for affiliation as affiliated faculty. |
Head of School |
| Agreement on industrial doctoral student/industrial licentiate. |
Head of School |
| Decision + agreement on sponsorship funds. |
Under 50 000 SEK: Head of School |
| Over 50 000 SEK: President |
| Agreement on professor emeritus. |
Head of School |
| Agreement between departments and schools at KTH regarding distribution of research grants. |
Head of Department |
