Mikael on school dialogue one

On Tuesday last week, school dialogue one was carried out when KTH's heads of school inform the President about the situation in the schools. Each Head of School presented three points where their school is successful and three challenges for the future. One point was about the implemented quality dialogues. For the CBH School, we addressed the following success factors: 1) we are well prepared for the renewal of teaching programs in biotech, health and medical technology, 2) we have a very strong growth of external research funding with current external investments in, among other things, precision medicine, health data, materials research - which fits well into the school's strategy, 3) our staff is very committed and we have succeeded well with the new recruitments since the start of the CBH School in 2018.

The three major challenges for the CBH School are: 1) location and rental costs, the school is located on four campuses and three of these are handled differently than KTH's central model. We have a large increase in premises costs (AlbaNova), continued high premises costs (Flemingsberg) and lack of space (SciLifeLab), 2) we run a risk of all our strategic resources being consumed by demands for co-financing, 3) we also need to continue to strengthen MTH in Flemingsberg.

Feedback on the quality dialogue is that there are now action plans after the regular review of the university engineering programs. The school reports contain strengths to maintain and problems to solve. Here it is important that we work more with schedule, risk assessment and responsible functions.

Mikael