Meeting Notes: January 2025

Place: Freja, Teknikringen 8

Time: Tuesday, 25-01-28, 15:35- 17:00

Opening formalities (5 min)

• Meeting opening at 15.35

• Choice of meeting chairperson – board suggests: Sai

• Choice of meeting secretary – board suggests: Nils

• Choice of meeting minutes checker – board suggests: Maria

• Approval of agenda and meeting procedures.

Council had no objection to the above suggestions and procedures.

Reports & updates (20 min)

• Introduction to council

  • Discussion regarding the FF suggestion to reduce the funding of the SCI council to 81%.

• Update from PADs

  • Physics: Will have a meeting with head of the department.

  • Engineering Mechanics: PA will have meetings each month, next one is February 5^th.

• FA-PA meeting (Victor)

  • Information regarding new electronic system to streamline registration of PhD courses

  • New “Expectation Form” created to help PhDs and supervisors to set expectations. The council discussed that feedback on this will be given.

Discussion points (20 min)

• Supervision Expectation form

  • The council will work through the document and provide feedback.

• Website improvement

  • Website was outdated before, but looks a lot better now. The council decided to regularly update the website and include notes from each meeting.

• Questions from the new council

  • No urgent questions.

Development of Current Events/Initiatives (5 min)

• Welcome and introduction event of new council

  • Introduction event to be held during week 19, theme not yet decided. The council will make an appearance and introduce themselves.

Additional issues and information (10 min)

• Next meeting location and date (Regular days)?

  • Lunch meetings to be held last Monday of each month. Next meeting 24/2 13:00.

• Kick off

  • SCI PhD Council kickoff will be held on a suitable date.

Actions required

• No actions required.

Meeting closed

• Meeting closed at 17.00