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Meeting Notes: February 2025

Place: C3 Corridor, Roslagstullsbacken 21

Time: Monday 24 Feb, 12:08 - 13:05

Opening formalities (5 min)

  • Meeting opening at 12:08

  • Choice of meeting chairperson – board suggests: Maria

  • Choice of meeting secretary – board suggests: Sai

  • Choice of meeting minutes checker – board suggests: Ozan

  • Approval of agenda and meeting procedures.

Council had no objection to the above suggestions and procedures.

Reports & updates (20 min)

  • Update from PADs

    • Teodor: Discussed suggestions for FoA meeting

    • Louise: Meeting with PhD students and Jonas. Meeting with PA, PADs should gather information regarding problems faced by PhD students

    • Victor: FoA is involved and motivated. Teaching load for PhD students discussed with studies director.

    • Sai: Will have a conversation with Karl to have a meeting with PhDs

    • Erik: Collecting information about election of new FoA

  • Update regarding shirts (Sai)

    • Spoke with the treasurer and the person who has the template. Will send out form for Tshirt sizes. Will fix the ordering of Tshirts soon.

  • Update regarding posters (Sai)

    • Will update the poster using the template from Ebba and add it to the PADs onedrive folder.

  • New PADs APT meetings (Maria)

    • Should encourage PADs to attend the APT meetings and talk with HoDs to conduct them regularly and involving PADs in it. This will make the PADs more visible to PhDs and other faculties.

    • Ask in Ledningsråd meetings about the APT meetings?

  • Information from Zoe (Nils)

    • The council agreed that language is not hindering their ability to put their points forward in the meetings. Informed the council on KTH hallen events and informed about the doctoral education survey that is about to be released.

Discussion points (25 min)

  • FF errands (5 min)

    • Excel sheet

    • Conflict of interest

      • Mar 13th Oscar will join the FF errand and the one on 18th Nils will cover. Sai will send a mail to Sebastian to see if a meeting can be arranged to inform what the FF errands are. Maybe ask Zoé if Sebastian is still the person in charge.

  • Remissvar KTH Career system points (Nils) (5 min)

    • The council agreed that we do not have any feedback on this at this point.

  • License to serve alcohol in KTH (Sai) (5 min)

    • Informed the council about the possibility to take the STAD and FEST license from KTH to serve alcohol during school events. Sai will get more details about this and send to the council.

  • FOA Committee for Math and Applied Physics (Sai) (3 min)

    • Teodor will get the KTH form from Ozan and Erik and use that to gather nominations on new FoA in Math.

  • Recurring points: (12 min)

    • FA-PA meeting

    • FN meeting

    • Equality at KTH

      • Council will discuss if there are any points to ask in FA-PA and FN meetings. PADs will ask their PAs about gender ratios in their program and gather information on this.

Development of Current Events/Initiatives (5 min)

  •  March event (Maria)

    • Maria will try to plan an event with WOP, see if they can have a joint event, otherwise will plan some other event.

Additional issues and information (5 min)

  • Next meeting location and date

    • Next meeting is OB18 on 24th March at 12:00

Actions required

  • Sai will send information on Tshirts and poster, talk to Zoé about FF errands and STAD/FEST license. Teodor will get form from Ozan and Erik to gather nominations on new FoA for Math program.

Meeting closed

  • Meeting closed at 13:05