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‘I look forward to further developing the data protection work at KTH’
Gustav Malis is a business lawyer specialising in information security, with a particular focus on privacy and data protection issues. Photo: KTH. Published Feb 18, 2025On March 1, the Security Department will assume responsibility for data protection at KTH, taking over from the IT Department. As a result, the role of Data Protection Officer will be transferred to t...
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New support for managers in their work
Lena Niemi Birgersdotter. Photo: Åsa Karsberg. Published Feb 06, 2025A new manager support on KTH's intranet has been launched by the HR department. There, managers with personnel responsibilities can get information about what is involved in the managerial role and fi...
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Coordinated archive and registry management for higher quality
Anna Larssamils is group manager for the coordinated function for archives and registry at VS. Photo: KTH. Published Jan 28, 2025Since the start of the year, KTH has implemented a coordinated function within the University Administration for archives and registry management. The aim of the change is to ensure consistent managem...
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New system to store, share, and safeguard research data for the future
Rosa Lönneborg, Lina Andrén, and Mattias Vesterlund are three members of the support team at KTH Research Data. They work at KTH Library and assist with various questions regarding research data. Photo: Sara Lind. Published Jan 28, 2025On January 29, 2025, a new digital service will be launched, offering reliable and long-term storage for research data. The new platform, KTH Data Repository, is designed to simplify data management f...
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Seed Fund to Encourage Co-operation Between Unite! Universities
Published Jan 23, 2025The Unite! Seed Fund aims to help researchers initiate joint projects within the framework of Unite! to sow the seeds of further collaborations. Interest in the initiative has been strong at KTH, and ...
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Efforts for doctoral students honoured with JML award
Boel Berg Wincent and Andressa Mazur were awarded the President's Equality and Diversity Prize 2024. Photo: Kalle Börjesson/Studio Slakthuset Published Jan 13, 2025KTH’s 2024 President's Equality and Diversity Prize for staff and students has been awarded to doctoral students Boel Berg Wincent and Andressa Mazur for their efforts to raise doctoral students' awar...
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Would you like to be part of a film about KTH as a workplace?
Published Dec 12, 2024The aim with the film is to highlight our culture and sense of community at KTH through brief, personal statements from employees across different roles.
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Clearer responsibilities in new procurement and purchasing guideline
Holger Berling is Team Manager for the Procurement Group at KTH. Photo: KTH. Published Dec 06, 2024KTH has introduced an updated guideline for procurement and purchasing, replacing older governance documents. The reason for the update is that much has changed in legislation, the surrounding world, ...
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No new doctoral students within CSC
The agreement between KTH and the Chinese scholarship programme CSC is put on hold and will expire next year. (Photo:KTH) Published Nov 26, 2024KTH will not accept any new doctoral projects or visiting doctoral projects under the current agreement with the China Scholarship Council, CSC. The reason is that the transparency of the conditions ...
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Clearer career system proposed in new report
A clearer system can make it easier for those who want to pursue an academic career at KTH. Published Nov 06, 2024The review of KTH's career system has been completed and contains a number of different proposals to create a clearer, more long-term, competitive and transparent system for those who wish to pursue a...
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He will get KTH to keep better track of the organisation's data
Published Oct 14, 2024Carl-Niclas Odenbring is the new Information Security Specialist in the Security Department. His task is to introduce a management system with a framework, guidelines and various tools to support incr...
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Review of ITM Learning
A review of ITM Learning's activities has resulted in a report. Published Oct 01, 2024In a report, a review of the Department of Learning in Engineering Sciences at ITM School, has been carried out to get a comprehensive description of the department's activities.
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HR-plus replaced by new payroll and time reporting system
“It's important to remember that even though it's a new system and questions may arise, you have access to HR and you can turn to the same people as usual," says Annica Fröberg, Director of Personnel at KTH. Photo: Magnus Glans Published Sep 30, 2024On October 21, KTH's employees will get a new system for payroll and time reporting, called KTH-HR. “The system will be more modern, include controls and reminders and facilitate the daily work fo...
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Strategic mobilization for research
The Research Committee from left bottom Sophia Hober, Annika Borgenstam, Sofia Ritzén, Karl Henrik Johansson, Per Lundqvist. Top row Fredrik Oldsjö, Johan Shuber, Anna-Karin Tornberg, Lars Kloo, Mikael Lindström, Dan Henningson. Published Sep 20, 2024The Research Committee at KTH has been in place since the beginning of the year, and the work on how best to develop KTH's research is progressing. "There have been valuable discussions with differen...
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In-depth investigation of a new principal for Electrum
New principal and investment in semiconductors is the scenario being investigated further regarding the future of the Electrum Laboratory Published Sep 19, 2024Investment in semiconductor education and research and a new principal. This is a likely future scenario for the Electrum laboratory in Kista. According to a decision by the President of KTH, this arr...
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KTH in world class - in many ways
Published Sep 03, 2024Anders Söderholm, President, and Kerstin Jacobsson, University Director, welcome to a new semester and give a brief report on the autumn and its opportunities.
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Faculty boards take over recruitment matters
Sofia Ritzén, Dean of Faculty, has led the working group, which on behalf of the President, has been looking at a decentralisation of employment and promotion matters at the schools. Published Sep 02, 2024From 1 January next year, the faculty boards at KTH's schools will be responsible for managing the recruitment and promotion of teachers, affiliations and the admission of docents.
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Researchers wanted for total defence network
Any researcher with research or expertise that could be useful is welcome to apply for a competence network to strengthen total defence. Photo: Charles Deluvio Published Sep 02, 2024A collaboration to strengthen Sweden's total defence has been initiated between KTH Royal Institute of Technology, the Swedish Defence University and the Stockholm School of Economics. KTH is now l...
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KTH's career paths are being analyzed
KTH's career paths and how the could be developed is investigated right now. (Photo: Jann Lipka) Published Aug 27, 2024KTH's career system is being investigated. This was decided by the President in the spring and the result will be presented in October.
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Free text comments are tested in the KTH Employee Pulse Survey
"I hope that people will take the opportunity to write a comment if they have any particular feelings about any of the questions we open up the possibility for,” says Mikael Visén, HR specialist in labour law and work environment. Photo: Theresia Köhlin Published Aug 26, 2024KTH's Human Resources Department is trialling free text comments in the KTH Employee Pulse Survey. In the employee survey that goes out on 3 September, it will be possible to leave comments on two...
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