Skip to main content
To KTH's start page To KTH's start page

Process description: industrial doctoral student agreements

Here you will find a step by step guide to the industrial doctoral student agreements.

Agreement without adjustments

  1. The supervisor obtains the industrial doctoral student agreement template from the contract coordinator.
  2. The supervisor and the company fill out the marked fields in the template and return the digital draft to the contract coordinator.
  3. The contract coordinator checks that the draft does not deviate from the template.
  4. The head of school, the company, and the doctoral student sign 3 sets of the agreement.
  5. The school, the company, and the doctoral student receive one original agreement each. The contract coordinator assigns the agreement a W3D3 number and sends a copy of the agreement to the supervisor, HR, Finance and PhD-Admin.

Agreement with adjustments

  1. The supervisor obtains the industrial doctoral student agreement template from the contract coordinator.
  2. The supervisor and the company fill out the marked fields in the template and return the digital draft to the contract coordinator.
  3. The contract coordinator checks the draft and notes that the draft has been altered.
  4. The contract coordinator forwards the draft to the KTH legal office for review/negotiation.
  5. The KTH legal counsel contacts the supervisor and the company for discussion and possible negotiation.
  6. When the parties have agreed, the legal counsel emails the approved agreement to the contract coordinator.
  7. The head of school, the company, and the industrial doctoral student sign 3 sets of the agreement.
  8. The school, the company, and the industrial doctoral student receive one original agreement each. The contract coordinator assigns the agreement a W3D3 number and sends a copy of the agreement to the supervisor, HR, Finance and PhD-Admin.